Uncategorizedposted by arin! on 16 Jul 2010 09:10 am
Miss Ephemera was gifted with gumballs! Every color, every flavor, and only 1 penny a piece! Just a little reminder that life is, indeed, pretty darn sweet!
Green Wall Art for All!posted by arin! on 02 Jul 2010 08:05 am
Ephemera was so thrilled yesterday morning when Miss Emily Phipps and her very helpful father came equipped with: 72 paintings, a nifty laser leveling tool (aren’t dads just so GOOD to have around?!), a hammer, a tape measure, and a good measure of patience and BEDECKED her green wall. Yes, yes! Tonight, beginning at 6 PM, we’ll begin our first installment of our “Green Wall Art for All” series. Each of Emily’s paintings will be sold for $27 each (I betchya you can’t buy just one! These things practically BEG to go home with a partner!!!) on a first come, first serve basis. Better yet, the proceeds for the paintings will benefit the Iowa Coalition for Drug Endangered Children so, while you’re grabbing up little pieces of eye candy, you’ll be doing SUCH a good deed.
We absolutely can’t wait to see you!
Here’s a sneak peek:
Happy Days!posted by arin! on 30 Jun 2010 10:16 am
What is it about a canning jar full of fresh cut garden flowers?
Here’s something good to do today… Find a jar. Pick some flowers. Place in front of someone’s front door in a sneaky sort of way. Easy, easy, easy and absolutely guaranteed to make everyone involved feel really, really good on a Wednesday afternoon…
Green Wall Art for All! and eventsposted by arin! on 17 Jun 2010 10:43 am
It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?
Ephemera has been whiling away her summer hours plotting and planning and, at the tip-top of her list of accomplishments, is six months worth of new art for your viewing pleasure!
What’s this all about, you ask?
On July 2nd, we’ll begin a series called “Green Wall Art for All” which will take place on the first Friday of each month from 6-9 pm. The artwork will be hung all month, mind you, but on those first Fridays, we invite you to meet the artist, eat good food, and drink good drinks! We anticipate a Big Green Wall filled with the creative renderings of art created right here in your neighborhood and a back room filled with energy!
First up is Miss Emily Phipps on July 2nd. We are absolutely smitten with her work and absolutely can not wait to introduce you to it! Better yet, the proceeds from any artwork sold during her show will benefit The Iowa Alliance for Drug Endangered Children. Mark your calendar and join us!
events and shop storiesposted by arin! on 14 May 2010 08:01 am
Our friend Paige has been painting and painting and painting beautiful, light-filled, glowing masterpieces for quite some time. And, for quite some time, they have been hiding in her not-so-light-filled apartment. Yesterday afternoon, they came out of hiding and took their proud and dignified places on the sprawling and blank back-room walls of Ephemera. Tonight, our friend Paige will be showing them off to a small slice of the world.
This is Paige’s first art show, appropriately titled “My First Art Show.” Today, Miss Ephemera salutes Miss Paige because taking those things that you love the most (so many times those things that you love so secretly and quietly) and showing them off to the world can be such a scary and thrilling thing to do. “Hello, World! Here are my paintings all hung on this wall!” or “Hello, World! Here is the business that I’ve always wanted to start!” or “Hello, World! Here is my voice that I’ve always wanted to hear through a microphone!” Jump, jump, jump! Whatever it is! If for no other reason than the FEELING of DOING it. Show it and tell it (and I promise that your life will feel much more interesting!).
If you are in town, stop by tonight! We’ll be here admiring from 6:00 until 9:00 pm and would love to have you join us!
Happy Days!posted by arin! on 29 Apr 2010 01:05 pm
You know, the very best thing that can happen in a day is a surprise; don’t you think? Today, the largest, most beautiful bouquet of Springtime flowers made its way to our counter via an incredibly lovely new patron of ephemera. Happy day! Then, this afternoon, Megan from Peace Tree Brewery in Knoxville dropped off two icy cold samples of their newly-bottled brew which, as it turns out, is my very new favorite thing!
The world is good! We return the favor by handing out more and more Warbling Bird Whistles! Yes, yes! As of today, there are a few more people in the world with them in hand –we even got a phone call from Handsome Paulo from down the street demonstrating his newly-acquired Warbling skills!
Please enjoy the rest of yours as much as we have enjoyed ours!
Happy Days! and shop storiesposted by arin! on 28 Apr 2010 09:03 am
Is it naive of me to believe that if everyone carried a warbling bird whistle around in their pocket, the world would turn ’round just a little more gracefully?
REMEMBER THESE! Miss Ephemera practically DEMANDED that we hand these out as party favors at her 2nd Birthday Party so we got a very large, nonsensical bundle of them for the occasion. We, of course, had a bundle to spare when the big event was over and so our lovely customers were re-introduced to warbling bird whistles (I say RE-introduced as it seems that EVERYONE has a memory of these from their childhood…). Have you ever handed someone a Just-Because-I-Think-You-Need-One Warbling Bird Whistle? It is such FUN! So much fun, in fact, that we quickly ran out!
But today, dear friends, a whole new flock of ‘em have flown back in! Hooray! And this time, we’ve got ‘em in ORANGE!!! Come in! Trade one of your stories for on of our warbling bird whistles! Tell us about how, last night, your dog chewed up your favorite shirt or that it is your birthday or that you’re in love or that life is just plain and good or plain and not-so-good. We’ll make sure that you leave with a new friend to tell it all to.
classesposted by arin! on 14 Apr 2010 09:42 am
Yessiree!!! Last night’s class was just as perfect as I suspected. Exercising their best gluing and X-acto knife wielding skills, nine students walked away with really, really just plain GORGEOUS handbound journals (and felt pretty darn nifty about just how talented they really were!). A little bit of paper, a little bit of magic…
Letterpressposted by arin! on 12 Apr 2010 11:27 am
Around here, we believe in the power of letterpress and cotton paper to razzle-dazzle up your entire LIFE. No kidding. And really, there isn’t a better way to do this than to add some extra-fancy calling cards to your paper trousseau. Calling card?, you ask? Why on earth would I need one of those? For lots of reasons, Love! Calling cards, of course, can be used just as a business card would be–to make a mark! To leave an impression! To say to your new acquaintance, “I’m a put-together Lady in all her ladylike glory!” Hand a few of these out and soon, you’ll practically be dripping with diamonds as you sip your champagne and tend to your To-Do’s.
