Santa Barbara Black Friday Gift Card Spa Offer

See the AMAZING Black Friday Gift Card Offer going on this afternoon

Join Le Reve For Our Black Friday Event

Today 10am - 7pm

Le Reve Organic Spa & Boutique Gift Card

Give the Gift of Wellness and Receive $15 in Spa Bucks for the Le Reve Organic Spa 

*Offer Valid with Le Reve Organic Spa  Boutique Gift Card purchases of $100 or more

Le Reve Gift Cards purchased in house come wrapped and ready to gift!

See you at the spa!

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Le Reve Organic Spa & Boutique is located a 21 W Gutierrez St Santa Barbara Ca 93101

Call 805-564-2977 to speak with a Le Reve Spa Coordinator

 

 

Fabulous Place to Work Contest

Fabulous Place to Work Contest

How do you become the most popular person at work? Enter our company in Le Reve's drawing to win your entire staff VIP cards.  You VIP card will get you 10% off all spa treatments and 20% off all boutique purchases for the rest of 2010.
Your company will also be invited to an evening at Le Reve were you and your co-workers will enjoy champagne, chocolates and complimentary hand massages.

Tell us why your company is a fabulous place to work and you and your company could be reaping the rewards for the rest of 2010

Email Le Reve at info@le-reve.com your FABULOUS reasons why your work place should win. Contest winner will be announced September 30

Best wishes to you and your FABULOUS place of work!!!  

Le Reve encourages you to give a One Time Donation

Donate Today!

For every $1 you donate today to Soles4Souls, we can provide one additional pair of shoes to someone in need. $20 provides 20 pairs of shoes. $500 will change the lives of 500 people - maybe an entire community! Thank you for your support!

How is Soles4Souls Green?

We offer a simple way to help reduce the strain on our environment: donate your "gently worn" footwear to people in need instead of throwing them away. Last year alone, Americans discarded more than 300 million pairs of shoes. When these shoes break down in our landfills, the toxic glue that holds the shoes together can leak into our water supply and atmosphere.

Soles4Souls can save your shoes from early death by cleaning them and shipping them to needy people around the world, who will treasure the gift for years to come. Since its inception following the Asian tsunami, Soles4Souls has distributed over 10 million pairs to people in 125 countries, and our efforts have been publicized in thousands of articles, including the Green Guide by National Geographic and Runner's World.

Most of our closets are filled with shoes we rarely wear. Instead of dropping the unwanted pairs in the trash, consider stopping by a local shoe retailer in exchange for a discount on a new pair of shoes. In addition to this program, Soles4Souls hosts thousands of collection events across North America, including marathons, schools, churches and more.

Click here to donate $1 today and give an orphan a pair of shoes http://www.soles4souls.org/donate

Thanks for giving back, Shannon

Top things a Mother really wants

I read this and had to share. As a woman and now as a mama " I understand" and so must our husbands and children. Enjoy, and may you have a Perfect mama's Day.

There’s nothing I want less for Mother’s Day than the stuff I’m supposed to want (margin of error: 1 massage). I mean, roses? They’re fragrant and all, but guess who’s going to be in charge of changing the water and washing the vase? And yet, according to the National Retail Foundation, spending on Mother’s Day flowers alone this year could hit $1.9 billion.Hate to sound ungrateful, but, especially in lean times, who wants anyone to drop cash on stuff we don’t need or covet? Here’s a list of what moms really want for Mother’s Day (in handy print-and-happen-to-leave-on-the-bureau format!).

• You know where we keep the Snapea Crisps. Please get them yourself.

• 1 1/2 oz. tequila, 1 oz. lime juice, 1/2 oz. Cointreau. Dip moistened edge of glass in salt. Pour ingredients over ice. Stir. Serve. Repeat.

• Balls strung on yarn? We call that jewelry. And please do not forget the timeless, heart-melting classic: the homemade card.

• Better than flowers: a perennial for the yard, complete with hot gardener, er, husband to plant it.

• Help mothers who really need more than flowers. Donate a “Mercy Kit” through Mercy Corpsand help women worldwide start small businesses, get breastfeeding support, become community leaders, and provide their children with fresh food and clean water.

• I’m just gonna lie down for a second. OK?

• “I JUST. WANT IT. NOW!,” said my friend Nancy, a mother of two from Rapid City, SD, when I asked her what was on her Mother’s Day gift list. “Not ten minutes from now, now. Chop! chop! For this day, and moving forward, can we please get rid of the weird temporal lag between the time I say something like ‘Come to the table,’ ‘It's time to get ready for bed,’ or ‘Help me, the ladder has fallen and I'm dangling by my fingertips from the light fixture!' and the point where someone finally looks up and mumbles, ‘What?’ This is what I really want.”

• A federal law requiring one year of paid leave after you have a baby — for both parents. (9 to5 National Association of Working Women can have my Whitman’s Sampler money, too.)

• How about quality family-time Saturday, me-time Sunday. Deal?Make and serve me breakfast — anywhere but my bed. (Roomba does not remove blueberry syrup from pillowcases.)

• On that note, please skip the Mother’s Day brunch. “Every time my husband asks what I'd really like for Mother's Day, I feel so guilty that what I really want is a day to myself: at a spa or with other women who need time off,” says Kimberly Clayton Blaine, a child and family therapist in Pasadena, CA. “But when I ask for that he says, ‘You don't want to be with your family?’ Then I feel like a bad mom, so I say, ‘Why don't we all go to brunch at a family-friendly place?’” But what mom really wants to go to IHOP? So how about quality family-time Saturday, me-time Sunday. Deal?

• Or better yet: Me-time Saturday night and Sunday — as in, a hotel room. “My own hotel room,” says Paula Balzer, co-founder of AdHocMOM.com, a blog for mothers who work part-time and freelance. “One where everything is white, spare and has lots of hard angles — as kid-unfriendly as possible. I want to sit around in a white robe, order room service and watch television — the trashier the better — in complete silence. I am to be contacted only in extreme circumstances, and then only by courier or telegraph.” (If a hotel is too expensive, how about taking off with the kids and leaving me in the quiet, quiet house?)

• A day without poop. Dirty diaper? Your turn.

• No gift certificates! “I may never get to it — that’s happened before!” says Chicago-basedblogger Veronica Arreola. So book the massage or the mani-pedi “and drop me off!” If you get a gift certificate PLEASE pre schedule my appointments and include the date and time with my certificate

• Affordable (subsidized?!) childcare. (Skip the scented candle and give to MomsRising.)

• A thorough housecleaning by someone who is not me.

• And then there’s this: “All I ever want for Mother's Day, really, is for my kids and husband to say thank you and tell me they're glad I'm the mom. I don't need cards, flowers, gifts, anything. Just acknowledgment and love,” says my friend Laurie, a mother of two in Toronto. “You know how it goes. I mean they're all full of love for me all the time, but it would be nice to hear ‘You're a great mom. Thanks.’” Actually, it would be nice to hear on Monday, too.

  I do hope that your wonderful husband and or children purchased a Spa offering from Le Reve to show their appreciation and love for the great Mom that you are. We will take care of you just like you take care of your family. If for some reason you didn't receive that beautiful little Le Reve box that every girl gets excited when she sees DO IT FOR YOURSELF!! YOU DO DESERVE IT!! See you at the Spa, Shannon

  
  

Love is in the air at Le Reve and all over the world

Saint Valentine's Day ,commonly called Valentine's Day is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.

I love Valentine's Day but I have to say I haven't loved it every year. It's not quite as romantic if you don't have someone gazing in your eyes and locking lips with you at the end of the night. It can be slightly depressing if your not hooked up with the love of your life but you have to admit it's still a little hard to not get caught up in the fun and romance of this magical holiday. I mean who doesn't smile when they see a big red heart,or a chubby little cupid and then there are the love songs and the sappy love movies that are released on Valentine's Day. These things all remind you that If you don't have a sweetheart you can at least dream of one. I was and still am a hopeless romantic. Lucky for me my husband is beyond romantic so I of course now LOVE Valentine's day. In fact I can come home on any given night from a long day at work and walk in to a room full of candles,fresh flowers and as if it couldn't get any better he presents with me warm Bannas Foster. I mean really, could I be any more blessed.

So my point is, wether your in love or not get into it. Be a romantic, give from your heart every day, not just in February and to everyone...your friends, your family. Don't buy a card to say something nice, do like you did in the 1st grade and get out your glue and scissors and glitter and red paper. The smile that you can put on another persons face is pure crazy Valentine's Day kind of happiness all year long. Oh, and because after giving a handmade card the very next best thing to give is of course, A Spa Treatment at Le Reve. Give yourself a nurturing,aromatic healing Valentine gift of health. Bring your BF and Le Reve will treat you to champagne and chocolates. We Love you! Happy Valentines Day, See you at the Spa, Shannon

Just a month after her wedding, 31-year-old Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; two years later, she was bitter, isolated, and addicted to both pain medication and self-pity. In need of help beyond drug detox, Cami takes the advice of a South African healer: give away something every day, for 29 days. Walker soon learns that being mindful of giving also means being open to gifts from others, and that gratefulness and mutual generosity is the key to a better, more rewarding life. Glimpses into Walker's day-to-day difficulties-work, family life, constant therapeutic treatment and addiction recovery among them-crop up among the stories of her daily gifts, grounding the work (based on Walker's Web site) in personal details. But the meat, an admirable reworking of The Secret (in that it should actually help someone, at least gift recipients), speaks largely to those already initiated into the cult of positivity.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

I loved this book and gave it to my Le Reve staff. Anyone you ask will probably say they believe that the more you give the more you will receive. Don't you? It being the beginning of 2010 what better time to try it out! Give for 29 days!! Let me know what happens. XX Shannon

Go Green! Get Involved and Volunteer

1 hour: You could clean up a local park.
5 hours: You could help plant a tree.
5 days: You could organize a recycling drive.
1 month: You could volunteer at a nature camp.
1 year: You could adopt an endangered animal.

10 Great Reasons to Volunteer to help others

1. To make a difference
2. To connect with your community
3. To develop new skills
4. To meet new people
5. To expand your horizons
6. To contribute to a cause you care about
7. To impress yourself
8. To strengthen your existing skills
9. To feel good about the contribution you are making and yourself
   

Le Reve chooses to Give back through our non profit "Angels List"Angels List provides volunteers to give complimentary services to those fighting cancer. Please visit angelslist.org

"Featured Item" In Honor Of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In awareness of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month Le Reve has chosen our featured item to be Our Angels List Apparel. All of the proceeds will go to our Non-Profit Organization Angels List. Founded in 2006 by Shannon Neels, and inspired by countless earthbound angels that volunteer their time, energy, and love. So often we hear “it’s the thought that counts.” Angels List was created to put those thoughts into action. We are here to provide for those that are sick a variety of services free of charge that might make their day a little easier. At times, it’s hard to ask for on-going help from friends and family. We want to give you a list of angels who could be there for you in place or in addition to those closest to you.

Call to reserve your Angels List Item, or make a donation 805-564-2977

Le Reve Donates A Gift Basket Spa Package To MusiCares Foundation For Silent Auction

Le Reve has been selected out of all the spas in the Santa Barbara area for this prestigious event.


MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need

MusiCares services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.

The Foundation is the charitable arm of the Recording Academy, the group that gives out the Grammys.