Scentimental Gardens in Geneva, IL is hosting a workshop!

Come celebrate the abundant harvest of the season with a tabletop arrangement. Your creation can include, dried hydrangeas, leaves and berries, faux floral and fruits. Bring your own container or we have many to choose from. Recommended size of opening, minimum 12″ and Maximum 20″ and garden pruners.

Oct. 8th 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.

$42.00/person.

RSVP at 630-232-1303. Space is limited.

Our location is:
Scentimental Gardens
428 W. State Street
Geneva, IL 60134

We look forward to seeing you soon!!

Color Me Mine presents something special for every age this month!

Make special gifts for Dads and Grads.  Color Me Mine can share ideas and help you create that perfect gift.

PAINT ME A STORY-TEA PARTY
Tuesday June 16 • 10-11:30am

Children 2 to 7 years old will love the story and the beautiful illustrations of Miss Spider’s Tea Party. Juice and crackers will be served. $18 + tax-all inclusive. Make your reservations now.

PAINT ‘TIL YOU FAINT
Friday, June 19 • 9pm-Midnight

Are you a night owl? Paint from 9 pm to midnight, Friday June 19th. Special paint time rate of $5 with a minimum $10 pottery purchase.

CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC PARTY
Wednesday June 24 • 6-9pm

Watch the movie and enjoy our snacks while you paint. Make it a special Ladies’ Night out. Bring your own beverages. We’ll provide the snacks. Prizes. $15 per person plus pottery.

ADVENTURES IN ART
begins June 22

Painting, clay work and crafts. Sign up for a day or a whole week. See our classes page or call for details. Sign up early for extra savings.

KIDS PIZZA PARTY
Friday, June 26

Paint a balloon bank or your favorite character from the movie “UP” on a piece of pottery. We’ll teach painting techniques, eat pizza, play games. Call to sign up now.

Color Me Mine Geneva
in Geneva Commons
1432 Commons Dr.
ph:  630.845.0043

www.geneva.colormemine.com

After a lot of research, Kennedy chose Kiss The Sky as the representative for 700+ independently-owned record stores in America (and 300+ international) and spent two weeks working in the store, rolling up his sleeves alongside the owners and staff. He paints the picture that the once widespread independent record stores have gone away as a result of large retailers that only carry mainstream music. Kennedy writes, “But in Geneva, Illinois, Kiss The Sky is still here. In this tiny town, thirty-five miles outside Chicago, the neighborhood record store still lives. I’ve come here to remember what things were like before I started buying my music on a laptop; to remember what it’s like to kill a five-hour shift; to remember what it’s like to even be in a record store.”

When you enter Kiss The Sky, you are bombarded by new music, legendary artists, music DVD’s, bins of Vinyl and CD’s, pop culture, rock collectibles, T-shirts, posters, and all in an environment that allows you to browse, learn and often times discuss and debate your ideas on music. Steve Warrenfeltz and Mike Messerschmidt moved this gem from Batavia to downtown Geneva in November 2006. Since then they have continued to plant roots in the community, selflessly promoting the local live music scene, assisting in local charities and even sitting on the board for Aurora’s Blues Festival and summer concert series. As residents of Geneva, we are fortunate to have been put in the national spotlight by Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah, and now it’s rock-and-roll’s turn.

Realize that it’s not just the local and surrounding communities that make it a point to frequent Kiss The Sky, but people travel from all over the tri-state area to specifically shop there. Richard Milne, host of WXRT’s “Local Anesthetic” and “Regular Guy”, and owner of RANK Entertainment, has driven out from Chicago and spent time in this store, had this to say, “Kiss The Sky has all the earmarks of a great record store, the kind I used to spend way, way too much time and money in, both as a customer and employee.

Anybody who’s ever been seriously into music could easily spend hours and hours in a store like this. And should.”

Record Store Day was founded in 2008 to celebrate the unique culture that surrounds the remaining independently held record stores. The outpouring from recording artists and local communities around the country and world was outstanding for last year’s first Record Store Day. Metallica showed up, unannounced, to a record store in San Francisco, where they hung out with patrons and signed albums. This year so many recording artists have gone out of their way to support this event with special and exclusive releases to independent record stores, including new material from: Wilco, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Sonic Youth, Beck, The Decemberists, Radiohead and My Morning Jacket. Most recording artists will openly talk about how important record stores are to them as individuals, let alone to their careers.

This all happens every day around the world, across the country and in Geneva under the roof of Kiss The Sky. This is where you go in with or without expectations, soak it in, look at new and old music, initiate conversations and debates, and ask questions. Some days you’ll only leave with ideas, and others you’ll leave with two or three items from bands/artists that you might have never heard of, or haven’t heard in years.

Warrenfeltz and Messerschmidt will play hosts to an all-day party on Saturday, April 18. In addition to all of the Record Store Day new releases, Kiss The Sky will have special sales, live music, and food and drink for those who make a point to celebrate with them.

You don’t have to be a musician to love record stores; you simply have to love music.

Peter Lindenmeyer is co-owner of Weaver Partners and a member of indie rock band HOSS. He resides in Geneva with his wife, Darlette, and their two children, Grace and Grant.

This article first appeared in the April 2009 issue of eGeneva Magazine.