ZINNIA - Your Space For Contagious Creativity

Waahhh, I've been trying not to get sick for a few days so I have majorly slacked on catching up with you all.

This week we were busy getting our Christmas merchandise out and pretty. The front of the store has fantastically whimsical PINK trees decorated with adorable glass ornaments of elves and pixies. When you drive by the store at night it looks like a box of jewels. In the store we have three themes featured in the gallery. A Peace Theme, a Traditional Theme and a Woodsy Theme. I will have pictures and details posted tomorrow.

Alley Update:
Alley went to the vet yesterday to get 'fixed'. Every thing went well and she was back today. She was super drowsy (drugged) and just took it easy. She should be back to her mischievous -self in a few days.

A few things caught my attention this week that I want to share.

First: RANDOM PICTURE OF THE WEEK

So I was driving up Pasadena Avenue, in Pasadena, CA (south of Bellefontaine Street) and out of the corner of my eye I see weirdest random thing. A fork in the road... ha ha I made myself laugh. Get it? Literally a giant silver fork stuck in the ground out of nowhere. I drove by the fork a few times every time getting irritated with myself that I for got to take a picture. Pasadena is a one-way street so it's not as easy as making a U-turn. Below is a picture I captured while I drove by earlier this week.. Notice no traffic, I was bring careful. The second picture is a close-up of the first. Come on, what the hell is a giant fork doing in the middle of the road. No seriously, I have been too tired to remember to try to find out. I actually forget about it until the next day on my way to work when I see it again. Besides who would I call? The Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk? Perhaps he dropped a fork. Crazy huh?

Second: 350 Success Story

As you know the 350 Project was a great way to get involved. We had artists from all over that included a range of well known, not-so well known and beginners. Some of our friends of the store submitted work after telling us that they had never done anything like that before. Lori Spotts is one of our friends. She painted beautiful portraits of dolls/girls and she blew everyone away.
This weekend Catherine Just stopped by the store to pick up her unsold panels. She shared with us that she had been so inspired by her participation in the project that she opened her Etsy store and is selling her artwork. Catherine describes her work as linoleum carving printed directly on wood panels, paper or blank journals. Her store is: catherinejust.etsy.com
Isn't that cool? Best of luck Catherine and any other artists that were inspired by the 350 Project and have taken their work to another level. Do you have a story?

THREE: Weekend Project

Tamara got busy and found, washed and dried a bazillion wool sweaters that she cut into squares. (Where she gets the energy I don't know) Our wool scraps inventory had been very low and it was time to replenish it. We cut squares 6x6 inches, 4x4 and smaller. After cutting the squares we found that we had a ton of odds and ends that we decided to string together into a cool assortment of scraps. Check it out.

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... finally this.