holidays on HOLLYWOOD! toy drive! tomorrow night!

the holidays on Hollywood toy drive is tomorrow night, Friday December 19th,
from 6pm -10pm.
Please join us for the holiday cheer and refreshments! and donate a toy to the kids at Children's Hospital!





Please join happy and the stores of the Los Feliz Arts and Design District for our Holidays on Hollywood Toy Drive!

The first 50 donations given at happy will receive a free gift. Donate 1 unwrapped new $10 toy for the Los Angeles Children's Hospital at happy on Friday December 19th between 6pm-10pm.

Live Acoustic Music with the band NODOI
Free Gifts with the First 50 Donations

All of our neighbors are participating too!

YUCA'S - Toy Drive for our neighbor Kaiser Permanente
Bring a toy for ages from preemie to 17 to receive a raffle ticket
Yuca’s will be treating everyone to hot ponche & champurrado and will also have tamales as well as music.

FRESH PRESSED - Cars, Creativity & Community
BYOT - Bring Your Own T-Shirt and print a limited edition Eastside Pride design FREE
Raffle Item - A free custom T-shirt designed and created by you!
Cool cars and cats right out front

SPRINGER CHIROPRACTIC - Appearance by Santa Claus Himself
Mingle with the big man himself (not Obama) in Springer's Lobby

KELLER WILLIAMS - Raffle Items
8 Passes to the Famed Magic Castle

OZZIE DOTS - Gift Wrapping
Free Gift Wrapping in front of the store

SWEENEY TODD - Raffle Items + Good Times
Annual Holiday Party

CONFEDERACY - Free Valet Parking

DISTANT - Raffle Items

Also we got these cute little salt and pepper shakers back in for those of you who were asking!
Hug $25

Los Angeles Times / California Local / Happy!

Is Hollywood Boulevard the new Melrose Avenue?

2:24 PM | December 2, 2008

Remember back in the day when Melrose Avenue was the bomb? (Before the Starbucks and gridlock?) Well, the Los Feliz Ledger has nominated a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard as "the new Melrose." The paper reports a growing number of hip shops are lining the street. One of the originals is the Soap Plant/Wacko, which used to be on Melrose. Details:

"The landlords have been really great about encouraging interesting business to move into the area," said Heather Arndt, owner of the home and accessories store Happy. Confederacy, a few doors from Happy, is one of them. It’s a high-end indie fashion store for men and women that opened in October. The owners, stylist to the stars Ilaria Urbinati and actor Danny Masterson, added a Euro-style coffee shop and vintage newsstand to the shop. Closer to Vermont Avenue is Maya, an exotic jewelry and gift store. Its sister store was one of the first shops to invade Melrose before it was "Melrose." Other stores are expected to follow these trailblazers in the coming months. Arndt says a denim store and a record store are moving in. Restaurants and bars are expected to follow as well, according to Jonathan Sample from Fresh Pressed, a custom T-shirt screen shop also on the strip. "For a long time this area was just a traffic conduit from Sunset to the West side," said Sample. "It's becoming a destination."

Curbed L.A. coins a term: "Melrosification."

-- Shelby Grad

Photo: LAT file of the Vista Theater

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/12/the-landlords-h.html

YAY! happy is on blackbook mag's shopping guide

http://www.blackbookmag.com/guides/details/happy

Yes We did!

Yes We Can!

Happy opens Friday

Hi friends,

Rob and I would like to invite you to the opening of our new boutique and art space "happy" this friday Nov 7th from 6pm - 9pm.

Happy is a new resource for well designed home and lifestyle accessories. Happy stocks items from boutique plants to vintage jewelry, with revolving art shows curated by and showing local and international artists, all edited down and staged to create a happy space full of inspiring gifts and thoughtful embellishments.

Also opening in our space this Friday is our first of many art shows at happy. This group show features works by Elisa Johns, Anya Smilanick, Devon Tsuno, Chelsea Dean, Ake Arndt, Brad Eberhard, and Jay Lizo.

Please stop by and celebrate the great works of these artists and our new space!

Thank you all for your support and we look forward to seeing you Friday!

We are located at 4675 Hollywood blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, in Los Feliz.


heather arndt
happy
4675 hollywood blvd
los angeles ca 90027
323.661.2200 ph
323.666.0300 fx
heather@happylosangeles.com

Silverlake Conservatory of Music Hullabaloo

Last night we went to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Hullabaloo at Union Station downtown Los Angeles. It was great fun. Co-founders Flea and Tree performed, along with students and teachers of the conservatory, and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic string bass quartet. There was a great auction, and lots of, obviously, great music.





Flea and Tree

otto heino and sam maloof

Earlier in the months I had the great opportunity to attend a panel discussion at Bonhams & Butterfields with the brilliant ceremacist, Otto Heino, and amazing furniture designer Sam Maloof.

Both are well into their 90's and were surprisingly funny. They shared stories and answered questions. Both are still actively working and, if you are ever in Ojai or Alto Loma, they welcome visitors at their studios. So worth the trip. I will be planning to visit each hopefully soon.



Here are some pics from the discussion and cool items from the 20th Century Decorative Arts featuring Contemporary Studio Works Auction.


Sam Maloof (American, born 1916)



Otto Heino (American, born 1915 - )

Almeric Walter pâte-de-verre glass beetle paperweights

Albert Cheuret silvered-bronze and alabaster table lamps


Murano amber glass birds



Shiro Kuramata acrylic and painted metal lamps


George Nelson rosewood and painted metal miniature six-drawer jewelry chest on stand
Got my signed poster!!


and of course a pic with them.
during the discussion

McCain Failin

My friend Alex made this a couple days ago and the response was so great he's moved it into sell-able ware. Love it! see below for details

http://www.cafepress.com/LetsVote08

here is a letter from Alex:

Friends and family,

Thanks to everyone who wrote back to me yesterday and this morning about the McCain Failin' image I sent out. It wasn't meant to be a major statement, just something funny to send around. Apparently my sister, Florencia, liked it so much she put up a shop on cafepress.com. Now you can get everything from a t-shirt to a doggie-shirt to a baby bib with the McCain Failin' slogan on it.

I promise to donate a portion of any proceeds I receive to the Obama '08 campaign.

Many thanks to Will, Shepard, and John (twitter) for posting it on their blogs-- and to anyone else who forwarded or posted it online.

Thanks a lot!

Alex

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Go Alex!
Obama -08!!

We got the keys!

Here are the original photos of our spot. before...before...before....