Downtown Campbell's March Sidewalk SALE!

The Downtown Campbell Business Association is pleased to present a Sidewalk Sale this Saturday and Sunday, March 10 & 11, 10am-5pm.

It's Paris Flea Market meets Old Town Bazaar!

Downtown Campbell Fun

With four blocks of fantastic finds, come on down to East Campbell Avenue for some great deals and live music.

Participating merchants will include:
Bombshell Boutique, Campbell Furniture Gallery, Celtic Shoppe, Khartoum ($5 Bloody Marys & $3 Mimosas), Recycle Bookstore, Simply Smashing!, Sonya Paz Fine Art Gallery, Stone Griffin Gallery, The Olive Bar, Tiny Tots Baby Boutique (Saturday only), and Vintage & Vogue.

Over the weekend, we'll be featuring live musical entertainment by The Mary Ellen Duo.

Winter Wine Walk @ Stone Griffin Gallery — The Aftermath

Downtown Campbell's Winter Wine Walk was last Wednesday, and we at Stone Griffin Gallery hosted Naumann Winery.

Naumann Vineyards wine corks at Stone Griffin Gallery

The next day I noticed a bag sitting on the floor behind the counter — looked inside — and saw that it contained most of the corks from the bottles of wine that was served for the wine walk.

I decided to spill them out on the counter and take a photograph! So, here are the corks on the counter, visible behind the corks are three small, 5" x 7" original oils by Terje Nordberg.

Downtown Campbell stages a wine walk twice a year — usually February and September. They are great fun, so be sure to attend the next one!

Classico Gelato is certainly one of the better Gelato locations that i have visited and of course it helps that they are my neighbor.  A sweet treat to relieve stress, one small nibble at a time. I recommend to anyone in need of relief to visit this establishment and enjoy a plethora of flavors.

Post Partum Fitness Hits The Streets Of Campbell

Baby Boot Camp meets up at Tiny Tots
 every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:00 am.

Moms and babes take to
 the streets of Campbell

By California standards, it was a chilly Tuesday morning. I was excited and apprehensive to participate in Baby Boot Camp.  My babies are both in their twenties now but I certainly could use the conditioning. And these ladies had all recently given birth so I thought I wouldn't stick out for my lack of fitness...too much.

Ten participants and their babies (with strollers in tow) began their fitness workout with a power walk/jog to the grass area below the water tower in Downtown Campbell. I quickly fell behind and by the time I arrived the new moms were lunging and squatting with gusto. I stepped in line only to realize that these exercises were much more challenging than they appeared. Once the lunges and squats were completed we did a hand and foot crawl on the cement (which was cold). Thankfully, it was time for another power walk/jog, this time to Campbell Park.  Again, by the time I arrived the group was well into repetitions of conditioning exercises.

August, mother of three,
 leads Boot Camp

One of the babies started crying. I took this as an opportunity to be both helpful and to save face. I'm sure the mom knew it. She graciously allowed me to hold her baby for which I was grateful.

Baby Boot Camp is a stroller fitness program that offers classes nationwide. Their slogan is "we offer fitness for you, fun for your child." Their mission is to enable women to be the fittest they've ever been without worrying about who will watch their baby. They offer programs for all fitness levels (well, maybe not mine, lol) including prenatal and postpartum. They believe that healthy women are better moms and better moms have happier (and healthier) kids.

New campbell business

The difficulty I've found in opening a new business is the time it takes to get organized. There's so much to do that the lists are coming out my ears.  But as time will slowly show, the pieces of the puzzle are coming together one piece at a time.  BYR of Belgium is waiting on a few stepping stones before its doors will open. This is just an update to let the public know that we still have you in mind. We will not forget about the coupons given for a free waffle to those that have bought gift cards.  And we will continue to give updates as to when we plan on being open.  Please continue to check Facebook and Twitter or drop by the shop to say hello, we gladly welcome visitors even if there's nothing to purchase other than a loyalty card, at this time.

Winter Wine Walk Is Coming!

We  accepted delivery of the Winter Wine Walk wine glasses just now. We have been quite busy the last few months getting ready for the wine walk. What with all the planning, getting permits, schedules and all it keeps a lot of us busy. We try to plan so that when the wine walkers (is that a word) show up everything runs as smooth as possible!

Sonya Paz posing with the pallet of wine glasses!

Vanna White er Sonya Paz is helping unloading the glasses. We simply had to take a picture as some unknown person had taken it upon themselves to mark up the plastic wrap around the cartons! Nice touch us longshoremen thought! We have them stored with the nice folks of The Olive Bar.

The Winter Wine Walk glass and flyer

Instead of working — unloading the wine glasses — we thought it best to pose for more pictures. Go figure.

Winter Wine Walk Glasses showing the sponsors

This pic shows the sponsors of the Winter Wine Walk. The Winter Wine Walk is sponsored by the Downtown Campbell Business Association and The Heritage Theatre!

The Winter Wine Walk is on Wednesday, February 8th from 5pm to 9pm. We will have wineries in many of Downtown Campbell's shops, boutiques, businesses and art galleries!

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. The Winter Wine Walk goes on rain or shine. This event is pet friendly so bring Fido if you wish. Dogs will be allowed into some shops depending on room and such, and all of our Downtown restaurants have dog friendly patios!

Mark your calendars.

Tickets can be purchased now at Sonya Paz Gallery, The Olive Bar and Bombshell Boutique. Also online at Downtown Campbell.

California Landscape Photographs on Canvas

I rode my motorcycle out over Mt. Hamilton and towards Patterson late summer last year. As my gallery specializes in California landscapes (mostly original oils and acrylics rather than photographs) I always keep a weather eye out for something that would make a good composition. I saw lots of lonely open California landscapes on this trip, barren brown hills, rolling hills with oaks and such.

Eileen Graham used several photographs that I took of the sun setting on a ridge as a basis of an oil painting that she just completed. This should be in the gallery soon.

Lonely Highway

I saved this photograph and think that it might make a good stretched canvas print to offer in my gallery. This is on Del Puerto Road, which leads from the top of Mt. Hamilton over to Patterson.

Stone Griffin Gallery specializes in California landscapes.

Come on in and look around when you are in the area.

Stone Griffin Gallery
234 E Campbell Ave
Campbell, CA 95008
408/374-5200