GREER’S BEST BUYS:

Don’t miss Studio Chameleon and Chameleon Design’s blow-out tent sale Wednesday through March 14.

You can save 50% to 75% on furniture, accessories, lighting, art, fabrics, lodge-pole furniture, mid-century modern and more. Studio Chameleon owners Eve Lowey, an award-wining interior designer, and partner Darsi Rubin mix fine art with the finest furnishings, accessories and gifts.

Along with Eve, the store’s talented staff is always available to share their gifts with customers. Studio Chamelion, 1733 Westcliff Drive, Newport Beach, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. For more, call (949) 650-7979.

 

Spa offers skin care

After 10 years of pampering Orange County, Spa Gregories just launched its own signature line of premium skin and body products and soy-based candles that are just the right price — $9 to $60.

Founder Angela Cortright’s longtime passion was to start her own line in keeping with the same high standards of Spa Gregories’ other innovative skin care lines that are luxurious and contain the most natural ingredients available. In the making of Spa Gregories Signature Line, Angela thought of everything: anti-aging, exfoliating treatments, moisturizers, body scrubs and lotions.

The products include a vitamin C serum meant to promote elastin and collagen building; there’s an instant eye makeup remover, smooth surface instant line filler; a skin-perfect tinted moisturizer; a botanical bio-peptide concentrate for the entire face and neck and more. Spa Gregories is at 200 Newport Center Drive, Suite 100, Newport Beach. For details, call (949) 644-6672. Spa Gregories is also at 22342 El Paseo, Suite F, Rancho Santa Margarita. For more information, call (949) 858-9455 or visit spagregories.com/ signature.shtml.

 

Fun, safe workouts

Not sure Orange County could handle a muscle beach like Venice, but I’m happy for its other import, the new YAS East Costa Mesa.

The original YAS Fitness Center in Venice Beach is so popular that it’s opening studios throughout Southern California. YAS (a hybrid of indoor cycling and yoga) provides a fun, safe and effective workout in one location — eliminating driving from one studio/gym to another. That sounds green.

And it’s exactly what we needed — a friendly, urban, edgy environment where you can get the maximum benefit for your body and mind. The YAS concept is the brainchild of Kimberly Fowler, a triathlete and health and fitness expert who set out to make yoga more relevant to athletes.

You’ve got choices here depending on how intensely you want to workout. There’s its signature YAS class — a combination of 30 minutes of intense cardio of in-door cycling, followed by a 30-minutes Yoga for Athletes class.

Or you can go for a Yoga for Athletes, a one-hour class to strengthen and stretch every area of the body; or a YAS indoor cycling, a 40-minute, high-energy cardiovascular class coordinated with music.

Take 10% off class package series (5 to 20 classes) when purchased on first visit to YAS! YAS class packages do not expire. Packages can be used for both Yoga and YAS indoor cycling. See its website for a complete schedule. YAS is at East Costa Mesa at 291 E. 17th St. in Costa Mesa. For more, call (949) 515-8888 or go to www.go2yas.com.

 

Super stationery

Now you can purchase chic and hip stationery and gifts at NewportPaperHouse.com, a new e-boutique from the Paper House in Newport Beach. Choose from modern and stylish custom invitations, top paper lines, stationery, wrapping paper and gifts — all high quality at lower prices.

Owner Andrea Young will add new products every day. It’s easy to create personalized stationery, calling cards, invites online — just select the design and colors and enter in your text and you’re good to go. Also, NewportPaperHouse.com accepts specials requests.

Choose from CSCP Collective, PSA Essentials, cute and racy O Plus D greeting cards, Snow & Graham of Chicago, Allie Munroe, luxurious Voluspa fragrances, gifts under $40, and much more. The Paper House is at 1719 Westcliff Drive, Newport Beach.

For details, call (949) 515-5177 or go to www.newportpaper house.com.

GREER WYLDER writes Best Buys, which runs Fridays. She’s the founder and president of www.greersoc.com, a free daily e-mail service that provides the latest in Orange County fashion, dining and trends.