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DECEMBER 06

SEASON'S GROOVINGS
DECEMBER'S TOP 12 MUST-HAVES MAKE THE HOLIDAYS HAPPENING


vuru







Healthy By Design

Taking vitamins—not so fun. Designing your own personal supplement packages, tailored to your every need, whim and want—awesome. Get back into pill popping—er, well, you know what we mean—with these high end, affordable custom supplement packs. (www.vuru.com)
Click here to win a $100 gift certificate to Vuru
  Pimp Their Ride
Über-hip design icon Cynthia Rowley and baby gear pantheon Graco let you take fashion to the street. Made specially to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS  Foundation, this limited edition Mosaic stroller in Be Fruitful (only 1000 available) is a marriage of Graco's noted safety and quality with Rowley's style and flair. So what are you waiting for? Stroll with it, baby!
($299.99, www.gracobaby.com)
Graco Mosaic stroller
rose hip seed oil Flaw Breaker
Whether it's a  c-section scar or just stress-induced blemishes gone
wrong (read in-laws staying with you for two weeks), Aubrey Organics' Rose Hip Seed Oil turns boo-booed skin beautiful again. If only it could
do something about your house guests.
($12.50, www.aubrey-organics.com)
Click here to win Aubrey Organics' Rose Hip Seed Oil
Ryan Seacrest card
Sit and Spin
Tired of the same old toys? So are we. That's why we're loving the Bilibo. Great for hand-eye coordination, motor skills, balance, imagination and mommy time, kiddies can play with this toy for hours, using it to sit, rock, spin, lie under, stand on, as a bed for their dolls, as a sled and so much more. We kind of wish they made them for adults, too.
($30, www.rompbklyn.com)
bilibo Message in the Stars
This holiday season send a card and make a difference. With artwork by some our favorites famouses (Teri Hatcher, Ryan Seacrest, Greg Grunberg, Sarah Jessica Parker, Leonardo DiCaprio and more), these greeting cards deliver your glad tidings to friends and family and a percentage of their cost to The Pediatric Epilepsy Project (www.4pep.org
(Set of 12 cards and matching envelopes, $29.95, www.kidsartinc.com)
Germ Guardian Guardian Your Angels
Wage a war on germs with this progressive room sanitizer that kills 99.9% of airborne germs and odors, allergens and mold spores without the chemicals. This health-helper makes safe a natural. (Germ Guardain UV-C Room Air Sanitizer, $199; Germ Guardian UV-C Plug-In Air Sanitizer, $69.99, www.guardiantechnologies.com)
Click here to win a UV-C Plug-In Air Sanitizer
plug in germ guardian
  Baked Beauties Bronze Age
Perfect a sunkissed glow right in time for the mistletoe with this kit (lipstick, eyeshadow, mascara, bronzer, touch-up compact and primer) from celebrity makeup artist Laura Geller.
($55, www.sephora.com or www.laurageller.com)
Click here to win Laura Geller's Baked Beauties Collection
Home Bike Velo Spin Control
Get on your bike and spin your way thin without ever leaving your house. With the Spinner® Velo and Spinning® DVDs you can burn up to 500 calories per 49-minute session—now those are some hot wheels!
(Spinner®  Velo $649; Johnny G DVD $24, www.spinning.com)
Johnny G dvd
Have Kid Will Travel
Introduce Junior to far off lands with this adventure series that teaches him all about new languages, cultures and countries. The unique and colorful scrapbook-style books is a tour de fun for any well-traveled—and not-so-well-traveled toddler.
(Ciao Bambino, $19.25; Bonjour L'Enfant, $16.95, www.amazon.com)
Click here to win Bonjour L'Enfant and Ciao Bambino
ciao italy bonjour france
Bulldog Gin Gin and Bear It
A good cocktail is one way to survive the holiday season. Imbibe in style with the liquor of the moment: Bulldog Gin. Made from exotic botanicals (including poppy and dragon eye), this gin's clean taste and citrusy kick will have blossoming in no time—now that's the spirit.
($29.99, www.astorwines.com)

Dirty Dog Martini
3 oz. gin
½ oz dry Vermouth
¾ oz. Kalamata olive juice
Ice
Stirred, not shaken—gin bruises
Strain into martini glass, garnish with three olives
dirty dog
  Sound Sleep
Stop losing when you're snoozing. Common amongst pregnant women and husbands (okay, and wives, too), snoring causes approximately 90 million Americans annually to lose sleep. The SnorEclipse, a small, discreet and comfortable product which gently applies pressure on the nasal septum, can help bring back the sounds of silence that once kept you lulled through the night.
($14.95, www.snoreclipse.com and CVS stores nationwide)
Click here to win a SnorEclipse
Snoreclipse
Batty Bubbles\




Bubblicious

Your kids will love this all-natural, effervescent shampoo, body wash and bubble bath in one. This skin-soother—it hydrates as it cleans and protects against rashes and germs—will leave your baby-bathing hands as soft as their little behinds.
(Batty Bubbles, $11, www.thebodyperfect.com)
Click here to win Batty Bubbles


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