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Bridal shower> baby shower ideas, gifts, places > Claremont, CA
Community Pick bridal shower, baby shower, girl’s day out, lady’s lunch, girl’s birthday parties, and other special events.
Tea Garden of Eve
Stop by our TEA ROOM, which is conveniently located at:
415 West Foothill Blvd (at Indian Hill)
Historical Old School Room 303
Claremont, CA 91711
For a relaxing cup of tea.
Planning special events whether it be a bridal shower, baby shower, girls birthday party, fundraiser or just a fun day out for the girls can be difficult to organize particularly if you have yet to find a venue.
Summer has arrived, which is typically the heaviest time for these types of events, particularly bridal showers. My wife and I were married in August 2006 on the beach. The beach was a phenomenal venue to exchange our vows. The guests really enjoyed it too, but there are so many other events prior to a wedding that are also fun, like the bridal shower.
My wife and her friends wanted something calm, relaxing and accommodating, a place where they could sit and talk, uninterrupted by outside distractions. They also wanted something unique that would really create a nice memory because you only get to do your bridal shower once.
After researching, my wife’s friends came across a true hidden gem, the Tea Garden of Eve in Rancho Cucamonga. This family owned operation is truly one-of-a-kind, a place for memorable experiences and quaint respites from a hard day’s work.
Obviously, the Tea Garden offers a fantastic variety of tea but also other beverages like soft drinks, coffee, juice and lemonade. The food menu we consider to be a lighter fare, perfect with a cup of tea and ranges from sandwiches to salads and a great dessert menu of cheesecake, scones, fresh fruit and more.
Although the Tea Garden has a great menu, the atmosphere is more like being at home with full service than being at a restaurant. That is, if your home has fountains, chirping birds, flowering lattice archways and a perfectly assembled dining area. The environment is a true escape for anyone that can easily consume half a day or more.
So, the first visit to the Tea Garden of Eve was for a bridal shower but since that visit we’ve connected with others in the community and had baby showers, girl’s day/night out, and even girls birthday parties.
The Tea Garden for a girls birthday party venue is a unique idea in that it is not your typical loud, running around type of event but rather, a place where young girls have the opportunity to dress up a bit, interact with their friends in a different way and even learn some proper etiquette. The Tea Garden offers classes specifically for table etiquette but also incorporates proper etiquette in their parties and other events. This is something rarely seen today and truly unique. We consider it to be one of those must-have kids activities for the Summer.
Beyond catering to events like Mother’s Day, fundraisers, church groups, bridal and baby showers, the Tea Room also creates special events throughout the year.
This Summer the Tea Room is working with Windsor Cottage in a special Webkinz Tea event, which is June 14 at Noon. Webkinz pets are very popular now and include a stuffed animal and access code to play educationally interactive games on the web. This event provides the opportunity for you and your kids to bring your webkinz pet dressed in its favorite outfit and enjoy tea and food at the Tea Garden.
Seating for this event is extremely limited though they are working on additional event times. If you can’t make it to this event the Tea Garden will be hosting Faerie Tale Teas Sunday, July 13 at 3:30pm. Again advanced reservation is necessary as seating is limited.
The Tea Garden of Eve in Rancho Cucamonga is our favorite pick for many events from Bridal showers to girl’s birthday parties but also to take a break and relax for a couple of hours.
Community Pick bridal shower, baby shower, girl’s day out, lady’s lunch, girl’s birthday parties, and other special events.
Tea Garden of Eve
Stop by our TEA ROOM, which is conveniently located at:
415 West Foothill Blvd (at Indian Hill)
Historical Old School Room 303
Claremont, CA 91711
For a relaxing cup of tea.
Phone: 909-447-4177 |
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Claremont, CA fun kids treats after Summer activities
Citizen Pick Summer Snacks for Kids:
From Claremont, it will take you approximately 10 minutes. Take the 210 freeway and exit campus. Be sure to sign up for the birthday and specials club. You’ll get a free yogurt on your birthday but they also send out other promotions.
Golden Spoon
1902 N. Campus, Unit B
Upland, CA 91786
p. (909) 985-1625
Summer is here, unofficially marked by Memorial Day weekend and blistering heat in many cities that exceeded 105 degrees.
Summer also marks the end of school and the beginning of the kids being at home full-time. This increased time at home means parents need to be prepared with a range of indoor and outdoor activities to keep the kids busy.
We always suggest that parents keep a short list of these activities, which range from indoor arts and crafts to sports camps that typically last 1-2 weeks. If you aren’t traveling this year, which most families are not due to the economy, you’ll need to pad your list a bit and come up with some more creative ideas for the kids.
This Summer we’ve planned on a number of set activities. Our son will be involved in a one week basketball camp. Our daughter is taking weekly piano and harp lessons. The two of them will also be taking kids gym classes for about a week.
With our current plan we’re consuming about 2 weeks of the Summer so there is much left to fill-in.
When I was young, Summer was a time for activities but some of my best memories were our frequent trips to the ice cream store. There was simply nothing better at the end of a hot day than some fantastic ice cream. It was also great bonding time for the family though I didn’t realize that until I had my own kids.
But things have changed significantly in the last 25 years when it comes to kid’s treats. Many companies have made moves to a lighter fare with less sugar and fat. The general consensus is that we (and our kids) just don’t need it. Our shopping habits are certainly consistent with this movement but the reality is that kids still want treats and there are options for healthy ones that also taste great.
Call it a guiltless treat, frozen yogurt has come a long way and re-emerged as the most popular Summertime treat. If you haven’t tried the new frozen yogurt stores, now is the time because the products today taste nothing like they did a decade ago. I will venture to say the frozen yogurt we now eat 2-3 times per week easily rivals in satisfaction to its fat and sugar laden counterpart, ice cream. Give me a choice between mint chocolate chip ice cream and mint frozen yogurt with chocolate sprinkles and I’ll take the frozen yogurt every time. Not only does it taste as good, you also don’t leave with a heavy feeling in your stomach.
You can also feel good about giving this frozen treat to your kids. Beyond the obvious reduction in calories fat and sugar, they also get the benefit of protein, calcium and better digestion from active cultures. We also started adding fresh fruit to our frozen yogurt orders. We’ll mix it up with strawberries, blackberries and pineapple. Occasionally we go for the yogurt chips or other fun toppings.
Our favorite frozen yogurt store is Golden Spoon and although we have another shop that’s closer it’s easily worth the 10-15 minute drive, plus our kids won’t eat anything else.
Frozen yogurt Summertime treats are great for rewarding the days activities and staying cool but also keeping healthy and creating memorable bonding time with your kids. We’ve made a habit of it.
Citizen Pick Summer Snacks for Kids:
Golden Spoon
1902 N. Campus, Unit B
Upland, CA 91786
p. (909) 985-1625
Rancho Cucamonga seo marketing, search engine optimization, business advertising…the how and why?
Search engine marketing has certainly changed over the years. I began my first website in 1997, only a year after Amazon came online. Websites were so archaic then but to make matters worse, connections were so slow that it made the experience of surfing a less than positive one.
Even still, our desire to gather information from other people’s hard drives drove us forward to improve the internet. If you have an hour or so to kill, check out a site called the waybackmachine. They keep ongoing copies of sites as they evolve. Taking a look at Google or Yahoo search engines when they were in their infancy is quite comical but it also gives you a very good idea of how quickly they have evolved…or have they?
As much as we’d like to think that the algorithms for Google and Yahoo (these 2 make up 75% of search so we forget the others), are perfectly brilliant, they just aren’t. How many times have you searched for something very specific and received every result but the one you needed, causing you to endlessly try other search phrases.
Even worse, how many times have you received results that have absolutely nothing to do with your search? Somehow they magically appeared on page one (the only page that really matters). Let’s go further. How many times do you think you have the right listing then you click on it only to find a maze of links? These sites try to hog the search engines somehow thinking that you’re going to give up and buy something from them just because you’re there. OR they get their money by signing up businesses then bundling them in their core site. The end result is the user has to dig deep to find what they really wanted when it should have only been one click away.
For me, if it’s not one click away, I’m not doing it neither are your potential customers.
So what do you do? There are thousands of companies offering this funny thing called search engine optimization or seo. They will promise you the world and charge you a fortune for it. Most will promise listings in the top 20 for your search terms.
Do you really know how your customers will search for you? You probably don’t and if you did what will 3 specific words or phrases bring you? What if your customers use different words, will they still find you? What if they’re not customers but rather, they’re looking for complimentary businesses, do they find you then? Do you go to a shopping mall with the intent of buying one item or do you look around to see what interests you?
The bottom line is that getting found on search engines is not terribly complicated and it doesn’t take long either. A 48 hour turnaround to get listed in the top 10 (that’s page one) is pretty typical. We have some really ridiculous listings where we have 6-7 of the top 10 listings, the record is 7, which was for an attorney service. On average 1-2 in the top 10 is standard, listings 11-20 are not relevant as far as we’re concerned.
Although it doesn’t take long to get listed, it does take time to craft the listing so it shows. It’s an art in itself because the goal is not only to get listed in the top 10 but also to get the searcher to click on the listing THEN, actually read the content and contact the advertising company. So, the job is hardly complete when a top 10 listing is achieved.
One must understand the business of the advertising entity. This understanding will lead to well crafted and relevant content that the reader actually will enjoy reading. How’s that for a change? The searcher will actually only be one click away from finding what they really wanted, what a concept!
We’ve done this for a while, in fact, Google did a case study on our contextual advertising efforts in 2004 prior to their IPO. They were so happy with us helping them in this case study that they sent a very nice, large Google beach towel! WOW!
If you’d like to read more on this case study or you have questions on getting your business found i.e. seo, search engine optimization send us an email.
We don’t publish our ideas and will only disclose fully what we can do for a business in person or by telephone.
For search engine marketing in Southern California, more specifically Rancho Cucamonga and surrounding areas
email: consultants.west@gmail.com
Search engine placement has changed drastically since our case study with Google in 2004. The problem with the vast majority of marketing is that it is not only too expensive but it also doesn't work. Our methods are radically different, an avant-garde approach that not only brings business to our vendors but also eliminates the confusion of on-line search results.