There’s an exciting new television show set to debut next month on ABC. It’s “Pan Am” and it follows the lives of the classy, elite Pan Am stewardesses during the height of the airline’s popularity in the early 1960s.

Passion, adventure and espionage… They do it all – and they do it at 30,000 feet. The style of the 1960s, the energy and excitement of the Jet Age and a drama full of sexy entanglements deliciously mesh in a thrilling and highly original new series, “Pan Am,” premiering SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, on the ABC Television Network.

Welcome to the Jet Age. It’s 1963. WWII and Korea are history. A new kind of war, a Cold War, is underway. The world is poised on the brink of a cultural revolution, and everywhere change is in the air.

In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury, and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are sleek and glamorous, the pilots are rock stars, and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. Not only are these flyboys and girls young and good looking, but to represent Pan Am they also have to be educated, cultured and refined. They’re trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances – all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair. These pre-feminist women form a powerful sisterhood, as they enjoy the rare opportunity to travel outside the country — something most women in this age can only aspire to – and one of the few career options that offers them empowerment and respect.”

Pan Am will take flight on ABC Sunday, September 25 at 10 pm ET/PT.

On Saturday evening, Sony Pictures Television treated us, and several of our friends and colleagues, to a screening of the pilot episode of “Pan Am” at The University Club atop Symphony Towers in San Diego. We were greeted with flutes of champagne, scrumptious hors d’oeuvres, and a breathtaking view of San Diego.

Then we settled into comfy chairs and plush sofas to escape to the friendly skies full of romance, intrigue and espionage!  This show has fantastic casting including one of our faves Christina Ricci.  The premiere episode has lots of unexpected twists and turns so if it’s any indication of the rest of the series, we’re in for some fun!

When the screening was completed, we were directed to our dinner by two lovely ladies dressed as Pan Am stewardesses!

@busydadblog getting properly addressed by the Pan Am stewardesses

Dinner was buffet of culinary delights: gourmet salads, steak, lobster tails and sushi!

At the end of the evening, lovely PanAm bags w/goodies inside were distributed by our dinner/in-flight attendants!

O2O's own Barbara, Paula, Amber, Linda & Malia striking a pose.

Experiencing this fun event with great friends made it a fabulous evening!

The bulk of our gratitude extends to the wonderful people at Sony Pictures Television! Not only do they know how to make exciting TV shows (Pan Am, Community, Damages, The Big C and more) but they also really know how to throw a classy event!

Are you ready to board Pan Am this fall and see the world? We know we are!  Thanks for flying with us. Bye. Buh-bye now. B’bye.

(Follow @PanAmABC to get the latest news, pics and behind-the-scenes info and check out the trailer currently on our sidebar.)

Photo Credits: Jen Tilley & Malia Carden

See more photos (by Jen) here!

Last Friday night, over 300 of our friends and members descended on The Farrell Gallery of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art for the official launch party of the new website, Itemize.com! The party was called YOU-phoria and it was definitely you-phoric!

Along with Itemize.com (@itemizellc), we had the pleasure of co-hosting this fabulous party with MOMS & THE CITY (@momsandthecity) and PR Couture (@pr_couture)! Partying in an art gallery with all kinds of fun things to experience and super fun people to hang out with was definitely a highlight for us during our time in San Diego.

Barbara Jones (O2O) with Raina, Melissa & Denise from MOMS & THE CITY

YOU-phoria party guests had the opportunity to experience first hand how Itemize works:

Itemize will revolutionize how you shop – forever. It’s an intelligent app that works 24/7 to learn what brands, stores and products you love the most. Based on your unique shopping profile – your Shopping DNA – it scans thousands of sites to find you the most relevant deals and offers. Itemize lets you focus on the parts of shopping that you truly love the most, and saves you time and money, while giving you insights that help you become a much smarter shopper. Plus, it keeps you organized by keeping all of your itemized receipts in one place.

Guests discovering Personal Shopping DNA at the Itemize.com Launch Party

Want to find out how Itemize can map your shopping DNA? Head over to Itemize.com to see how the magic happens! There’s also a great interview by Denise Albert from MOMS & THE CITY with Itemize Co-Founder , Kristen Beveridge, on NYDailyNews.com about how Itemize came to be & the YOU-phoria launch party!

You-Phoria branded pedicabs by Travelzoo brought attendees to the party

Travelzoo was bringing guests to YOU-phoria!

You-Phoria guests made custom T-shirts (from Hit+Run) & custom fragrances (from Future:Standard)

Personalization at it's finest with self-made fragrances & live screenprinting!

And took fun photo booth pics with their besties

O2O members had a blast!

Inside the gallery, the walls were moving! Watch this GLMPS from Esther Crawford to see what we mean!

Check out the Itemize blog for a full list of event partners.  And Dana Kelly from (No Subject) Los Angeles (one of the event partners) also has a fun YOU-phoria party re-cap!

Thanks to Itemize.com for inviting us to be their co-host and to all of our O2O members who came out for YOU-phoria! It’s not a party without special guests and YOU helped make the night very special!

Last Saturday, I headed down to Franklin, TN, just south of Nashville, to the annual Franklin Main Street Festival. My objective was to seek out the Garnier Cleaner Greener World Tour bus so that I could see for myself what this tour was all about.

Found it!

And let me tell you, that place was hoppin’! They had people handing out samples, taking pictures and guiding guests through the tour. You see, the tour bus is actually a kind of mobile museum (and laboratory, as you’ll see later)! Inside the bus there is all kinds of information about Garnier and their new Pure Clean line of hair care products.

The Garnier Pure Clean Tour

After you go through the tour, you can make a Pure Clean Pledge and have your picture taken to go on the Garnier Facebook page.

My Pure Clean Pledge. Also, watch out for ginormous goldfish!

And you may remember from this post, that Garnier has teamed up with TerraCycle to give people ways to recycle used personal care and beauty products. There was a huge box set up in front of the bus for people to put items in for recycling.

Recycling Rocks!

I also got to meet-up with One2One Network member, Brigid!

O2O members are awesome!

And the probably the most ingenious part of the whole set-up was the the mobile laboratory inside the bus! Inside the laboratory, you could take hair samples and wash them using the actual Pure Clean shampoo and conditioner. Plus, a helpful lab assistant was on hand to give all the reasons why Pure Clean is good for your hair and good for the environment. (Just so you know, the video is completely unedited.)

Also, a goldfish mascot. Fun!

Goldy

The Garnier Cleaner Greener World Tour bus is currently in Ft. Worth, TX and will be continuing on to Detroit and New Orleans later this month! If you are in those areas, I would highly encourage you to head over there and see the tour yourself. It’s fun and informative!

One-third of all landfill waste is comprised of personal care and beauty products. One-third! Think about that, one-third of what is going into landfills is shampoo bottles, hairspray bottles, lipstick tubes, deodorant sticks, toothpaste tubes and more. Now Garnier, who is known for making quality haircare products, and TerraCycle, who is known for turning trash into treasures, are teaming up to help reduce the amount of personal care and beauty product packaging that finds it way into landfills.

We’re excited to bring news of The Cleaner Greener World Tour to you!

The Cleaner Greener World Tour will be making stops in several cities throughout the U.S. to collect personal care and beauty product packaging. The tour starts April 11 in New York City and will continue on to five more U.S. cities. The purpose of  The Cleaner Greener World Tour is to “educate consumers to think differently about waste, and to learn simple ways to make a positive impact on the environment”. At each stop on the tour, participants will have the opportunity to bring items for recycling, experience the interactive tour bus, try out Garnier’s new line of Pure Clean hair care and learn more about being part of TerraCycle’s Personal Care and Beauty Brigade.

The new Pure Clean line from Garnier

Last month, Garnier began the first phase of a two year initiative to bring environmentally sustainable products to their customers. Fructis shampoo and conditioner, Fructis Style grooming and style products, Nutrisse haircolor, HerbaShine haircolor and Garnier skincare will all be getting “green” makeovers.

The first product set to debut is Garnier Fructis Pure Clean. “Pure Clean shampoo (94% biodegradable) and conditioner (92% biodegradable) are non-ecotoxic and leave behind less residue and suds. The weightless formulas contain no silicone, paraben or dye. The shampoo and conditioner bottles are also made of PET, the most widely recycled plastic, and include 50% post consumer recycled plastics.” Additionally, the packaging includes tips on water conservation (shorten those showers!) and encouragement to recycle the bottles once they are empty.

Join the TerraCycle Brigade

The Personal Care and Beauty Brigade is a worldwide partnership of individuals and groups who collect packaging and ship it to TerraCycle. The brigade will also help recruit new members and educate their communities on the importance recycling this kind of packaging (remember that 1/3 number!) The benefit of being a brigade member is two-fold, “for every unit of waste collected, Garnier will contribute two cents to the charity of the individual’s choice. As part of a larger corporate responsibility program, TerraCycle will repurpose all collected personal care and beauty packaging, reusing it to build eco-friendly playgrounds across the U.S.”

The Cleaner Greener World Tour Cities and Dates

• New York, NY: April 11 – Times Square (Broadway btw 46th & 47th)
• Cincinnati, OH – April 16 - Earth Day Cincinnati
• Nashville, TN: April 30 – May 1 – Main Street Festival
• Fort Worth, TX:- May 5-8 – May-Fest
• Detroit, MI: May 13-15 – Green Living Festival
• New Orleans, LA:  May 20-22 – Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo

How you can help

First, if you are in any of The Cleaner Greener World Tour cities, please go by and support the tour by bringing in personal care and beauty product packaging to be recycled! Second, join the TerraCycle Brigade. And third, help us spread the word!

Between now and April 11th, tweet about The Cleaner Greener World Tour using the #PureClean hashtag, leave a comment here with the link to your tweet and you will be entered to win one of 10 fabulous Garnier gift baskets!!

Tweets you can use: (or write your own and include #PureClean)

Join @garnierusa & @terracycle for The Cleaner Greener World Tour starting April 11 in NYC #PureClean http://bit.ly/i197cJ

I’m getting Cleaner & Greener w/ @garnierusa & @terracycle How about you? #PureClean http://on.fb.me/eSBAUa

Contest ends at midnight, Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, April 11th. Winners will be chosen by Random Number Generator and contacted via e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to accept their prize; if a winner fails to respond to their notification within that time frame, another winner will be chosen.

Congrats to our winners! Bridgette S., Deb A., LaVonne L., Donna K., Libby N., Charity L., Miriam T., Jennifer G., Carol H., and Cole M.!!
And thank you to everyone who participated!

As we move into fall it’s time to change up the wardrobe, and a few of our members are sharing their purchases in a Fashion Haul video. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, woman and men are videoing their shopping “haul” piece by piece.This is  a relatively new craze on You Tube (the men’s version is called “unboxing”).

Please check out Valerie (@charmedvalerie) from Charmed Valerie’s haul for the Type A Mom Conference this weekend. Her video is adorable and I can’t wait to meet her at the conference!

Danielle (@DanielleSmithTV) from Extraordinary Mommy invited us into her closet to see her haul. I personally am eyeing that handbag collection!

Have you done a haul video we should see?  Link it in the comments so we can check it out!!

Want to be more eco-conscious in your wardrobe shopping?  The organic cottons out there are fabulous and there are so many options for your “green” wardrobe these days.  However, often being eco-conscious doesn’t mean shopping at all, but using what you already have!

Jen at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam treats us to her fabulous finds each week in her Frugal Fashionista post. This particular week she is shopping in her closet.

“This outfit was planned completely around this necklace. A few months ago, I picked up this brown, chunky, modern necklace for $1 at a yard sale, but I’ve never worn it. Every time I tried it on, I just felt it was too big. Often with large jewelry, we only stare right at the piece in the mirror and we don’t see the power of the outfit in its entirety. I think this keeps us from branching out and it kept me from enjoying this necklace earlier.”

via What Should I Wear? Shop Your Closet….

Jen found the perfect outfit to go along with that chunky necklace right in her own closet.  Do you have some treasures tucked back in your closet that you need to dig out?

Gidget at Gidget Goes Home has made a pledge to not buy clothes and use what she already has!

“I’ve been getting a lot more into repurposing/refashioning lately. So, I decided it was time to make a commitment. I headed over to Wardrobe Refashion and signed the pledge for four months. That means that from September until the end of 2010 I am pledging to not buy any new clothes. I will repurpose, refashion, and buy second-hand to my heart’s content instead.”

via Wardrobe Refashion: the Pledge

Are you a Goodwill shopper?  Yard sales? Hand-me-downs?  What are some of your tips to repurpose the clothes you already have?