Best Buys -- Greer Wylder

Trendy fashions for kids are in abundance at Children’s Place, a new

retailer at Fashion Island. The store carries its designs of affordable

casual T-shirts, jeans, pants, shorts, dresses, lounge wear, outerwear

and accessories for boys and girls. Clothing is organized well, so it’s

easy to find sizes for girls and boys sizes 4 to 14, babies 6 months to

4, and newborn sizes 0 to 12 months. The Children’s Place has more than

520 retail stores nationwide and is planning to have more than 600 stores

by the end of the year.

Fairview Developmental Center will have its annual Super Garage Sale

from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday outside the volunteer office at

Fairview Road, just follow the signs. Profits from the sale will go

toward special programs at Fairview, such as Special Olympics, Very

Special Arts and holiday parties, as well as Christmas and birthday

gifts. Fairview is home to more than 850 developmentally disabled people,

ranging from infants to senior citizens. Fairview is at 2501 Harbor

Blvd., Costa Mesa. (714) 957-5188.

Missys in Costa Mesa offers needlepoint classes that will begin today

and Saturday and run for a six-week session, on either Thursdays or

Saturdays. There’s also a workshop on learning how to apply stitches to a

painted canvas from 8:30 p.m. April 17 or from 1 to 3:30 p.m. May 15. The

workshops cost $15. On Monday nights, there’s a stitching workshop open

throughout the year from 6 to 9 p.m. Custom needlepoint designs are also

available. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday,

and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Missys is at 1500 Adams Ave., Suite

107, Costa Mesa. (714) 444-4210.

Macy’s at South Coast Plaza has invited Ernesto Esposito, stylist and

head designer of Via Spiga’s shoes, to its newly expanded women’s shoe

department from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. Espisoto’s shoes for Via Spiga

are known for their vibrant and sleek designs. He will be in the shoe

department meeting customers and showing the latest spring styles from

Via Spiga. The shoes range in styles from flats to stilettos in a variety

of colors.

The Golden Truffle has gone all out on its menu for wild

mushroom/truffle week, which will come to an end Saturday. If you’re

crazy about mushrooms, you’ll love the samplings of wild mushrooms that

include crimini, chanterelles, bluefoot, trumpet de mort, porcini,

hedgehog, enoki, matsutake, portabello, forest, button, morel, shimegi,

lobster mushroom, wood ear, oyster and shiitake. The menu is all about

mushrooms and is too long to list. A partial list includes crimini

mushroom soup, fricassee of wild mushrooms with truffles, scrambled eggs

with black truffles and wild mushrooms, assorted wild mushrooms tempura

with ponzu, wild mushroom ravioli with mushroom marinara, prime miyagi

steak with smoked shiitake mushroom sauce and wild mushroom fettuccine

alfredo. Fresh truffles are available on all dishes. The Golden Truffle

is at 1767 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa. (949) 645-9970.

Scandia Down, for the ultimate in bedding, is having a pillow sale

through Sunday. All down, feather and blended sleeping and decorative

pillows are reduced 25%. Scandia Down is on the second level of South

Coast Plaza, in the Crate & Barrel/Macy’s Home Store wing. (714)

549-9046.

A moving sale is in progress at Furnishings Direct in Costa Mesa. All

floor samples are reduced 25%. Items on sale include upholstery pieces,

slipcovered sofas, Craftsman furniture and accessories. Furnishings

Direct is moving sometime in May to a much larger location a block up the

street. The sale items are new from the factory and come with warranties.

Furnishings Direct is at 1925 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. (949) 515-4450.

* BEST BUYS appears Thursdays and Saturdays. Send information to Greer

Wylder at 330 W. Bay St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627, or via fax at (949)

646-4170.