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Are you ready to kick off the holiday shopping season? You can get a start at the Christmas Company shopping extravaganza happening through Sunday at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.

The signature fundraiser of the Junior League of Orange County celebrates its 33rd anniversary with the theme “A Holiday to Remember.”

Shop from more than 120 exhibitors and vendors. You can attend an Evening of Food & Wine ($75) from 6 to 10 tonight.

At the Christmas Company you’ll find everything from women’s fashions to children’s clothing and books, home decor, gardening items and gourmet foods, as well as holiday decor. Women’s clothing, jewelry and accessories include lines from Slater and Sloane, Sassy Stars, Shelleys Fashions, Accessor Eyes, Hippie Chix Studio, Little Miss Bling Bling, The Cherished Accessory, Lu Ping Pearls, Cookie Lee Fine Fashion Jewelry, Ronelle Designs, Safia, Kate Joiner, and Paco Soler. Children’s items such as books, clothing, toys and accessories come from A Whale of a Tale, Pizzazzing You, Dollites, Baby Ally, Bellas Dream, Hopscotch Designs, and Prima Collections.

Gourmet foods, dishes and cookware come from a Store For Cooks, Knife Nitch, Cherchies, Iveta Gourmet, and Davis Mountain Nuts. Home and garden items come from Lavender Blue, English Gardenstone and A Room to View.

General admission is $10. You can shop from 11 to 10 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at the door, online at www.jlocc.org or at (949) 263-3785. Orange County Fair & Exposition Center, at Fair Drive and the 55 Freeway in Costa Mesa.

Shop for a cause

Celebrate the holiday shopping season with a special charitable shopping event from 5 to 8 tonight at The Assistance League of Newport Mesa’s popular Thrift Shop and Treasures on Consignment store. Both stores are stocked with special holiday decorations, gifts and home accessories.

Treasures on Consignment offers upscale antiques and collectibles, vintage gifts and furniture while the Thrift Shop features gifts, toys, clothes, holiday decorations and household items. The event costs $5.

All proceeds benefit the Assistance League’s philanthropic projects, including the Cheri Harris Childrens Dental Health Center, Operation School Bell, Kids on the Block and their Community Outreach Program. The store is at 2220 Fairview Road in Costa Mesa. Call (949) 645-5477 or visit www.alnm.org.

Find your fabrics

You can find the exact couture fabrics you see in Vogue and on European runways right in Newport Beach! We can’t think of a better place in Orange County to buy exquisite fabrics than at Ansari Fabrix. And for the first time ever, Ansari Fabrix will sell these fabrics online.

Paris-trained designer Nasrin Ansari travels to Italy and France to purchase the finest fabrics that Giorgio Armani, Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Lacroix, and Christian Dior use in their collections.

Ansari Fabrix collections include rare French silks, three-layered silk from Switzerland, rare French wool, exotic French lace, hand-painted silk chiffon from England, gabardine and Italian cotton.

Prices range from $11 to $800 per yard. Fabric remnants are also available! You can pick up a few inches for fabulous trim, appliques, handbags or pillows, or three yards for skirts, pants, jackets, sarong and more.

Open by appointment at 3363 Via Lido in Newport Beach.

Call (949) 675-8200 or the design studio (949) 675-6614 or visit www.ansarifabrix.com.

GREER WYLDER writes Best Buys, which runs Fridays. She provides the latest in Orange County fashion, dining and trends.