The ZNE Scene

May 2 and May 2009 ~ This event is on its way!

Thanks Barbe, you put it best and I am copying your text and extending the same offer!

I'll be vending at Art, Paperie & Pleasantries next weekend. It's being held at the Alameda County Fair Building in Pleasnaton, CA. You can find more details here.

There will be lots of vendors, live music, book signings, make & take classes, coloring table for the kiddies and lots of pretties to buy!  Chel will be taking lots of new art, and The ZNE Store will have TONS of vintage and new art supplies, dolls, paperie, vintage doll clothes and miniatures, and more!

All the sparkly goodness happens Saturday May 2 & Sunday May 3, 2009 Noon - 5:00 p.m. both days, $3 admission, but get the dollar off coupon on the website.

Mention reading this blog and get 10% at the ZNE booth as well! Hope to see you there.

Barbe Saint John is doing the same, check out her blog - here:

http://tinyurl.com/dax38h

A Gift For You!

Have you signed up yet?  At only $15 per session, these fun make and take class sessions are geared toward everyone, and they all promise to be great fun!

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE REGALO PER ME SESSIONS BEING OFFERED, AND REGISTER TODAY!

Bella Galleria!

Our ZNE ConvenZioNE opening night reception, Bella Galleria, is going to absolutely wonderful!  Held at Pleasanton's Studio 7, with dessert, gifts, and gift certificates for all - this event is free for all registrants and promises to be absolutely wonderful!

 

To learn more and register for ZNE ConvenZioNE, click here!

To learn more about Studio 7, where the event will be held, click here.

Live music provided by Jon Troast!

Special thanks to:

American Harvest for helping to underwrite the cost of gift certificates for each event registrant, to their wonderful store.

Passionate Athlete for providing discount coupons to use at their store.

Murphy's Paw for providing bags of doggie cookies, for free, for every registrant to bring home to their furry friends after the event!

The Berry Patch in Pleasanton for donating discount coupons and providing delicious tea for all registrants.

 Woo Hoo!  If you haven't registered for ZNE ConvenZioNE yet- do so today!  We are planning for a wonderful week of creative celebration and fun!

Artist Bling is the thing at ZNE ConvenZioNE!

Celebrate creativity, and enhance the contents of your jewelry box in one fell swoop, by registering for any of the above wonderful classes, offeredat ZNE ConvenzioNE 2009!

http://www.ZNEcon.com

Simply Doll-lightful classes!

Incredible classes, incredible instructors coming in from all across the country. Incredible affordable registration fees. All these classes and MORE at ZNE ConvenZioNE, April 29 - May 3, 2009. Click here to learn more and register today! We have scholarships available as well as an amazing recession buster "pay what you can plan." Become a part of this amazing celebration of creativity, today!

   

Thank you Joshies Art Supplies!

 

ZNE Headquarters received a huge box of goodies including goody bag swag and a wonderful door prize from Joshie's Art Supplies, today.

 

ZNE ConvenZioNE registrants will sure be getting a lot of goodies in their goody bags!  Woo Hoo!

 

Thanks Joshies - everyone should take a moment to check out your wonderful website!

 

http://www.joshiesartsupplies.com/

Twisted Limb Paperworks is Totally Wonderful!

Big thanks go out to Twisted Limb Paperworks for donating bags of their 100% handmade paper remnants, for our ZNE ConvenZioNE 2009 event registrant goody bags. 

http://www.twistedlimbpaper.com/ 

What a fun Goody Bag stuffer!

 

Derrick Hayes has a gift to turn names into positive messages. For example D.E.R.R.I.C.K. means Daily Enrichment Reveals Ready Insight that Communicates Kindness. I call these Derricknyms.

Sample Derricknyms are available on Derrick's website for $15.  He is providing a gift certificate for a free Derricknym to every participant at ZNE ConvenZioNE 2009!  What fun!

Be sure and share your Derricknym with the rest of ZNE, through your ZNE Network blog, once you receive your special reply.

Thanks Derrick for helping to support our event!

To learn more about Derrick:  http://www.derrickhayes.com/index.html

Thank You ~ Thank You ~ Thank You!

We are starting to receive wonderful additions to our ZNE ConvenZIoNE 2009 (http://www.znecon.com) goody bags!

Extra Thanks go out to ConvenZioNE InstructorBrandie Butcher Isely for her contributions!

And also to Regalo Per Me instructor Donna Cook, who donated wonderful goodies in honor of Sawmill Strays.

 

And Finally, Miss Vicky from Cut-It-Up has been generous, as always:

  

Do Some Good!

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

 

 

We need donations!  Start sending them in!  Every donor will be acknowledged on the ZNE ConvenZioNE website (www.ZNEcon.com), and on the Art, Paperie and Pleasantries website (http://www.ArtandPaperie.com), as well as in print in the ZNE ConvenZioNE 2009 printed program.

These donations will be used to market YOUR business.  Include business cards or flyers with your donations.  They will also be used to fill goody bags and door prizes at the event.  A minimum of 10 bags of prizes will be sent out to the arts and local media along with a press release.  This is an amazing opportunity to get your product / gift / gift certificate in front of the exact targeted market you want to reach. 

Ready to participate?  Here's the deal:

You do NOT have to be a ZNE member for most donations:

Please send a product sample/s of any size and in any quantity (note that it behooves YOU to send as much as possible, so that as many people as possible are exposed to your product.)

Ensure that your name and email or website address are clearly printed on the product and/or include business cards and/or flyers along with your donation.

We are happy to accept gift certificates as your product "sample" - but they must be straightforward gift certificates (IE, not percentage off or buy-one-get-one free).

IF you are sending in a tangible product sample, you MAY also include a coupon for a discount "off" of your products.

Donations of promo postcards are fine if they have a blank space for writing, on the back side.

Donations of JUST coupons or promo flyers with discounts included are fine, but you MUST be a ZNE Member to donate just coupons/flyers with no tangible product.  (To join ZNE, please see our main website - http://www.ZNEart.com).

PLEASE SEND YOUR DONATIONS FOR ZNE CONVENZIONE ASAP TO:

ZNE

1152 Crellin Road

Pleasanton, CA  94566

Ensure that you label the packaging and/or include a note specifying that what you are sending is a GOODY BAG DONATION.

Thanks everyone!  I can't wait to start aknowledging all our wonderful gifts!

(Any questions?  Feel free to leave a comment below!)