San Dimas Keepsake Ornamenteers’ In-Store Artist Signing Event
Event Date: Saturday, September 27, 2014
Location & Contact Information:
Amy’s Hallmark #895
870 W. Arrow Hwy.
San Dimas, CA 91773
(909) 394-5140
Attending Artists
Sharon Visker
Hotel Accommodations
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a discounted rate at:
Best Western/Comfort Inn Suites
501 W Bonita Ave.
San Dimas, California, 91773
(909) 592-0500
Reservations: 1 (800) 845-7080
Discounted rate of $112.49 by mentioning “Hallmark Ornament signing”. Hot Breakfast included.
Extended Stay America
601 W. Bonita Ave.
San Dimas, CA 91773
(909) 394-1022
$89.99 a night, no breakfast.
Holiday Inn
485 West Arrow Highway
San Dimas, CA 91773
Reservations: 1 (800) 315-2621
Front Desk: 1 (909) 305-2323
$15.00 off regular price by mentioning “Hallmark Signing”.
Hot Breakfast included.
Friday Night Dinner “With the Artist”
Date: Friday, September 26, 2014
Note: This is a San Dimas Keepsake Ornamenteers members-only event. If room permits, dinner may be extended to other California Local Club members.
Saturday Signing
- Artist will be available for signing from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- Tickets with specific times for a signing (at half hour intervals) will be distributed. Two signatures are allowed per ticket. You may request another signing ticket after your first time through the line.)
- Mrs. Claus sink will be available (one per person) while quantities last.
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Event Recap
At the Friday night dinner event in San Dimas, CA, Keepsake Artist Sharon Visker and Product Development Manager Charles Young gave a presentation followed by a Q & A session.
Sharon started out by giving an overview of the ornament development process. During the presentation she showed several ‘Sweet Skull’ (her favorite 2014 ornament) creative samples, including: her original sculpt, an epoxy, a prototype and a finished piece, to demonstrate the progression of the piece through the various stages.
She then went on to talk about a couple of ornaments that she has created for the 2015 Keepsake ornament line. First she presented a prototype of ‘Salty and Peppy’, 2nd in the ‘Tis the Seasoning’ series. She said the inspiration for this salt and pepper shakers came from real holiday ones from her childhood home.
‘Tis the Seasoning!
by Sharon Visker
Sharon then showed her final sneak peek for the evening, a prototype of ‘Holiday Hoedown’. For this the seventh installment in her unofficial musical animated series she revisited the dueling banjos theme she featured in ‘Jingle Jamboree’ from 2010. This time she has re-imagined the concept with a country and western Santa (playing a banjo), a squirrel (playing a guitar) and a beaver (playing a harmonica). All three characters move to Jingle Bells.
Holiday Hoedown
by Sharon Visker
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