Holiday Party!!!!

Church Mice by the amazing Auntie O

Downtown Holiday Activities, December 3, 3 – 5p.m.
Tree Lighting and Santa Arrival, 5 – 7p.m.

Kick off the holiday season with this annual downtown Renton community event at the Piazza in Downtown Renton.

At the same time, as always, happy delusions will join in the festivities with cookies, punch, and wine. Starting at 3, same time the carolers start their stroll down the block. So come down and enjoy the music, shopping, roasted chestnuts, and hot cider.

Olde Fashion Halloween Party!

It goes down tomorrow people! FREE games, prizes, popcorn, and trick or treating along the streets of Downtown Renton. Party goes from 1-4 in Main Street Square. Enter on Main between South 2nd and South 3rd streets. Basically just across the street from Uptown Glassworks and Venus Moon.

Come one come all. this will be our 5th year putting on this fabulous event for all in the community to come enjoy. Be sure to stop in happy delusions for some candy and to see my super sweet garden gnome get up.

For more information check us out on facebook.

Art Walk

Midnight Forest

The 5th Annual Downtown Renton Art & Antique Walk is finally here! Tomorrow, Saturday August 28th from 11-6. This will be my first time showing my felt creations in the event. I will be in front of happy delusions along with the very talented Jennifer Brooks-Owen. DJ Corporate will be spinning beats during the festivities, and a good time is sure to be had. Don’t miss out, the streets of South 3rd will be filled with Art and Artists, starting at Main Ave and continuing up all the way to Safeway! Then at 6 at the Renton Civic Theatre Rentons own EriAm Sisters will be performing. The whole event is FREE! Woo Hoo! although there is a suggested $10 donation to see the EriAm Sisters. Not bad for a Nationally known act.  For more information on tomorrows events go to arts unlimited website.

Grassroot poster creates a buzz!

Check out this cool poster handmade by Catherine Mill of Renton WA. It was done in an awesome grassroots effort to save our local library from KCLS (King County Library System). In a nutshell, and with everyone feeling the effects of the economy, so is dear ol’ Renton. A special election is being held Feb. 9 to annex or not.  Word got out and the people are talking. It’s been so neat to see so many residents get involved and make a difference. Renton, in my opinion, projects an image and displays banners to encourage work, live, play, within our city. I do this and love this. We are in support of the little guy. Heck, we are the little guy. Why would such an amazing city want to give up our local library when everything they are promoting says that they want us to be local and independent? This confuses me, and as a downtown business owner I would be personally effected if our library were to leave, and my taxes went up. So whats the deal? Something seems off, but I still believe in our city, I believe in the downtown, I believe amazing things can happen when people realize they matter and get involved, I believe issues like this enpower us to do more, and I believe that the people will VOTE NO ON PROP. 1 and keep our libraries in our own control. Ballots are out, and if you haven’t made a decision yet, or have voted yes and want to change, there is still time, please check out these sites for more accurate info.

No KCLS Takeover , Save the Renton Library , Vote No Til You Know ,

Poker Run!

Join us tomorrow for the city of Renton’s Spring Festival and Poker Run! This is your chance to come out, enjoy nice weather, meet your neighbors, get locally made goods, and locally grown foods, while collecting your best poker hand from downtown local businesses.

All activities start at the Renton Piazza (3rd & Burnett) at noon. The Spring Festival will continue until 5pm, and you can register for the Poker Run starting at noon and have until 4pm to get your winning hand back to the Piazza. Both events are free and the first 200 people to sign up for the Poker Run will receive goodie bags. There is a suggested donation of $1.oo or a canned food product for the Salvation Army food bank. With over 1,000 worth of prizes to be won how can you lose investing only $1.00. Anybody can play. No really. There is no knowledge required. Just the ability to go to participating locations throughout downtown and picking cards. It’s great fun for the whole family or a day with friends. You get the opportunity to see shops and discover things about downtown you never knew where there. So come down and rediscover downtown!

Poker Run!

Here are a list of participating businesses: A&M Stamps, American Drapery, Antique Country Station, Black Anchor T-Shirts & Printing, Black Chow Antiques, Calico Inc., CD Danza Salon & Spa, CK Nails & Spa, Comic Den, Common Ground Coffee & Cupcakes, Cugini Florists & Fine Gifts, DC’s Bar & Grill, Garland Jewelers, Girlfriends Antiques & Collectibles, Happy Delusions, Jet City Espresso, La Hacienda, Liberty Cafe, Merrill Gardens at Renton Centre, Renton Coin Shop Inc., Renton History Museum, Renton Laptop, Renton Western Wear, Sewing machine Svc Co Inc., Spotlight Dance Center LLC, St. Charles Place Antiques, The Met Coffee and Wine Bar, Tienda Mi Familia, Uptown Glassworks, Valley Community Players, Venus Moon, Wealth Acupuncture, Whites Metal Detecting.

Oh, and one more thing. Mention you read my blog while collecting your card in the Poker Run, and I’ll give you a prize!

The Picaroon

For all your Renton garrrr-sop.

If you live in or around Renton, or are planning a trip to the area you absolutely must check out “The Picaroon”. Lady P as she refers to herself is the “Mistress of the blog”. She’s very local and truly cares about the community and the people in it. Every time I visit The Picaroon (which, if you didn’t know as I didn’t, means pirate) there is a new post. Sometimes she post several times a day AND she has a second more personal blog that is also updated regularly.  Lady P takes beautiful photo’s and really gets in touch with the people. Her focus is mainly the downtown area, which makes complete sense for someone who lives and plays in our wonderful downtown. Although the very bouncy, cheerful, sunshine that is Lady P has requested that photo’s of her not be posted, but look out for her at the next city function taking pictures. She may even ask to use your photo in her very popular blog. And for goodness sakes, if you have an event coming up that you think us locals should know about please contact her. After all her info. is likely posted that day.

www.the picaroon.blogspot.com