The Stambrella Project

The Stambrellas for Hawthorne Hill Project 

As Easter approaches and our days loll toward the month of May, it occurs to us at Chocolaterie Stam, that,  Mother’s Day is just a hop, (pun intended) skip and a jump around the corner. To celebrate April’s transition to May, Stam’s has asked a coterie of local artists to hand paint umbrellas for one our favorite charities—Hawthorne Hill.

In the month of April, Chocolaterie Stam Des Moines will hang artisan-designed umbrellas in their Ingersoll and Valley West Mall store. Customers will vote for their favorite by “wishing them to win”—throwing donations and money into their favorite designs.  The Stam “brella” which collects the most  “wishes” will be awarded the Best in “Show”ers and a 40 piece box of Stam Chocolates.

Rules: 

1. Stam will provide fabric paintable umbrella for each artist to interpret the best use of color, texture and design.

2. Artists must submit the ‘brella design by April 21^st, 2014 at 2814 Ingersoll Avenue for installation either at Valley West Chocolaterie Stam or Ingersoll Avenue Chocolaterie Stam

3. All “judging” will be by placing donations (wishes)  in the umbrellas with all proceeds going to Hawthorne Hill.

4.  “Judging” will be complete on May 05, 12pm Midnight

5.  Artist and winner will be notified by Facebook and twitter May 07, 2014.

6.  All ‘brella artist entries will be auctioned by silent bid at our Mother’s day open house, Thursday, May 08, 2014.

7. All proceeds will be donated to Hawthorne Hill

 

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A whole day!

The Dutch are crazy about licorice, or as they call it, drop, with the highest per capita consumption of licorice in the world (almost 4 1/2 pounds per person per year) giving the Dutch drop market a total value of $225,157,500.

In honor of the day we have posted a craft project*

You will need:

Waxed Dental floss (generic brand will do)

Embroidery needle ( we got ours at Hobby Lobby for a couple of bucks)

38 pieces (about 1/2 Chocolaterie Stam All Sorts Licorice

Latex gloves

Mouse pad

• Step 1:  Cut dental floss to length of about 34 inches
• Step 2:  Thread embroidery needle with the dental floss
• Step 3:  Count out a variety of shapes and colors from the Stam All Sort Selection
• Step 4:  While wearing the latex gloves Insert threaded needle into middle of the licorice shapes and continue until all 38 pieces are threaded.
  
• Step 5:  Tie off both ends together making sure the licorices are tight to each other
  
• Step 6:  Trim ends of the floss, and ta-da!
  

We also created a matching bracelet by threading elastic through a few pieces!

If your licorice is unmanageably hard, it’ll soften right up after a few seconds in the microwave. Five seconds is usually just about right, but BE CAREFUL! Licorice will heat up very quickly and can cause serious burns.

*Young children should be supervised at all times while making candy necklaces. For safety reasons, plastic craft needles should be used to create holes in sweets instead of the sharp metal variety. Also, exercise commonsense when it comes to consuming edible jewelry that has been excessively handled and worn. Consider having the kids make edible jewelry specifically for eating and others just for wearing. Eating candy necklaces that have been played with and/or worn is not recommended.

Coloring Contest

Print this page to get started!

Des Moines: To enter online, post your masterpiece on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with #ColorMeHoppyDSM. Be sure to tag Chocolaterie Stam on Facebook (or mention @StamDesMoines on Twitter). You can also drop off your art in store and we’ll proudly put it on display!

You can find more details about the contest here.

 

Color us hoppy!

Easter Sunday is April 20, 2014. Stam Chocolate wants you and yours to enter our 1st annual coloring contest. Open to all ages, in the following brackets:

Toddler Apprentice—age 2 & under: Winner will receive a $25 Easter Gift Basket courtesy of Chocolaterie Stam.
Rembrandt—ages 3-5:  Winner will receive a $25 Easter Gift Basket courtesy of Chocolaterie Stam.
Van Gogh—ages 6-8:  Winner will receive a $25 Easter Gift Basket courtesy of Chocolaterie Stam.
Van Dyck—ages 9-12:  Winner will receive a $25 Chocolaterie Stam Gift Card good at participating stores.

Vermeer—ages 13+ (yes, including you, adults!): Winner will receive a $25 Stam Gift Card good at participating stores.

All received entries will be placed in a random drawing for one grand prize winner.

Grand prize in The Chocolaterie Stam Celebrate with Color, Celebrate with Stam Easter Coloring Contests will be Our 2014 Extra-large Wheel Barrel Bunny. (Valued at 69.95)

One “Best of Prizes”  are awarded in each category with one grand prize winner to be announced on Chocolaterie Stam Facebook page as well as email.  All entries whether electronic, digital, facsimile or in-store drop off must be receive by 12 midnight Saturday, April 12, 2014 for judging.  Judging will be based on the following criteria:

• Neatness
• Creativity
• Use of color

Judging and drawing for Grand prize will be on Wednesday, April 16th at 2pm. Winners will be announced by email and facebook on April 17th 2014.  All decisions are final.  No purchase necessary.  One entry per person.  Any vulgar or inappropriate entries will be discarded and ineligible for judging. All entries will become property of Chocolaterie Stam, USA, and cannot be returned.

Ready to get started? You can find the coloring pages in store starting Tuesday, March 18, or download one here.