50% off Halloween Items*

Hello Friends,
Don't miss out. We are selling all Halloween merchandise at 50% off starting today, Saturday, October 29th. *Handmade items are not included on this sale. We still have a lot of ghoulishly wonderful items to select from and have for your festivities or to just look at, like I do. I hope you can make it in.

An evening to enjoy the arts in the South Pasadena business district SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2011 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

On Saturday, October 22, 2011, hundreds of locals will enjoy South Pasadena Arts Crawl and support their local businesses and arts organizations. This is an evening event that will occur throughout town at galleries and studios, with live music by students and professionals, interactive art experiences at several spots and a “Trick or Treat” theme. Hosted by the South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, participating local businesses and arts organizations. Get into it!

Zinnia will be hosting a few local artists. We will be setting up a few artist in the Alley between us and Munch Company. Additional treats include Dia De Los Muertos face painting and yummy food trucks.

For more information and a list of the businesses that are participating go to:
http://www.southpasadena.net/

Come out for Arts Crawl.

Photo Magic... Tamara is trying to get into my haunted house.

Check this out...

I finished my haunted house. It is a kit that we sell at the store but I think we sold out. I put the landscape on an art board that I painted and fussed with for a few hours. Add some moss and and some stone and Wah-Lah.

This is an image I traced on 'Shrinky Dink" that was eight by four and a half inches and after baking it shrunk down to about half the size. Add black chain and red stones and Wah-La!

I am so lucky to be able to work at Zinnia. It sure is nice to work on art projects while chatting with the customers. We have been using Facebook to feature a new a project every Saturday. What we try to do is follow the process through the day. A few weeks ago I was playing with Shrink Plastic and was making a flower pendent. We never posted pictures of the completed project because we had, I mean an 'oh oh' moment. I had shrunk the piece and decided to gloss it up with Diamond Glaze... I had it on one off the counters in front of a small fan trying to get it to dry. I had a box in my hand as I walked by the project when a customer knocked his wheelchair into the Halloween display and some of merchandise tumbled to the floor. I went over to make he was okay and gather the merchandise. What I spaced-out on was that I dropped the box I was carrying… on top the flower pendent thing that had Diamond Glaze. Daaang! It was stuck to the bottom of the box and got messed up. Waaaah!

Okay friends, until next time... live in color!

Suki