New Magazines Arrived This Week

I have been gone for a week so I have not had a chance to sit and look through each magazine page by page, yet. At the store, Tamara, Joey and I can sit around and talk about our favorite things in each magazine for hours. Tam and I affectionately refer to the magazines as 'our porn'. Tee hee hee. The magazines we got in are listed below along with my 2cents. Enjoy.

Where Women Create... classic, love it, green with envy that my 'where I create' is not as cool as the ones featured in every issue.

Artful Blogging... always has gorgeous images and tons of inspirations

Somerset HOME... love all the cool ideas, in fact this issue has 'over 100 ideas to bring HOME'

Green Craft... soothes the hippie in me and provides lots of great ideas so I too can craft green.

Art Doll... always filled with the coolest creepy dolls sure to inspire the doll maker in all of us.

a litlle Friday inspiration....Vivian Maier

My brother is a big photographer. I realized once while going through family pics that he has been taking the majority of the pictures since the age of 10. He was good at age 10 - annoying.
Anyway, he sent me this link a little while back, and I found it absolutely AMAZING. Vivian Maier, a nanny, a hobbyist photographer who's work has recently been discovered and who is being touted as one of the most important street photographers in the 2oth century.
Take a few minutes and check it out- it is a great story.
http://www.wimp.com/photographernanny/

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/




She did loads of self portraits- these are just 2. Now get inspired, get your camera, get out and start seeing!

Michael DeMeng at Zinnia

Technical difficulties... this was suppose to have posted earlier in the week.

Whether you have stopped by the store, visited the website or received our weekly emails, you are aware that Michael DeMeng was in town this past weekend. What a nice human. It was wonderful to have his energy and the buzz it created at the store this weekend. Tamara and Joey joined the class on Saturday and created their Lonely Hearts. I on the other hand spent the day with Paul who filled in for Tamara. That was fun because he makes me laugh and since we go way back (over 20 something years) most of the laughs were from us reminiscing about our shenanigans over the many years. I captured a few pictures of the one of Michael's classes in progress and a few of some of his very special pieces of art he had available and for sale.
Thanks to Tyn for hosting a cozy dinner gathering to share with Michael and a few friends. When she said "shrimp boil" and added that she was just going to dump in in the middle of the table, she was not kidding. Freaked me out a little, since I honestly had never heard of it, yummy nonetheless. Thanks Tyn

Who knew? Now I know what to do with my old and tattered paint brushes.

Whether you have stopped by the store, visited the website or get our weekly emails you are aware that Michael DeMeng was

Fun Project~

Hey Zinnia fans- a friend sent this to me, and I have to say it sounds like lots of fun. It is called
the sketchbook project 2012. Go check it out and get inspired to be part of something!

Creative friends stop by Zinnia!!

Hey folks we had exciting visitors at the store on Friday. Artgirlz Allison Stillwell and partner Midge are on holiday from Florida, they stopped by Zinnia with friend Lisa Engelbretch. A crazy creative energy was buzzing through the store. Tyn was there to teach a class and was able to join Tam and I. Allison had her IPad and shared great pictures of what she has been up to. Midge recently took up sticking and she shared her what she's been up to. Lisa shared a beautiful fabric journal and we got to ooooh and aaaaw at her calligraphy and artwork.

This picture captures the energy... Midge, Tyn, Tamara, Allison and Lisa

It sure was nice to have these beautiful creative women at the store. It was a nice way to start my weekend. The next picture is a shot of Allison's jacket. Got to love it.

Cool Jacket

While this creative-fest was in progress I still needed my coffee fix so I took a minute and walked down to Buster's. I found this on my way... it's a pole cozy. I heard that it's called gorilla art. What ever it's called ... it was perfect... its knitted right onto the pole.

This weekend at Zinnia

Hey folks, Kelly posted about her class at Zinnia this weekend "Love Story", please scroll down for details.

Also, Friday Tyn will be teaching the Soldering Workshop. Come learn the basics of working with soldering or come to get a refresher and have Tyn answer questions or help problem solve any issues you have while crafting with a soldering tool. Tyn will walk you through the process at this workshop. Definitely a fun and inspiring class. With the holidays just six months away you might want to consider a beautiful soldered something for your special someone. 11:30 to 2:30pm $55.