Briefs
Designer to present free color clinic at paint store
Gail Mayhugh of GMJ Interiors and a columnist for the Home section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal will present a free color clinic Feb. 20 at Sherwin-Williams in Henderson.
During the seminar, Mayhugh will discuss ways to bring color into your home. She will focus on how to properly use color and accent paint.
Those attending will receive a free Color to Go paint sample and other decorating gifts.
The seminar is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the store, located at 1224 N. Boulder Highway.
Advanced registration is requested and can be made by calling GMJ Interiors at 269-7001.
Simmons to give away new mattress through Twitter
If you're not getting a good night's sleep or your old mattress is so worn out that it keeps you up at night, Simmons Bedding Co. wants you to tweet about it.
The Simmons Beautyrest Tweet for Sleep sweepstakes, running through April 30, lets sleepy consumers send a Twitter message that automatically enters them in a sweepstakes to win a new Beautyrest Anniversary queen-size mattress valued up to $2,000. Those interested in entering the contest need only post a tweet about sleep that includes #simmonsbeautyrest and the URL http://bit.ly/beautyrest to participate. A weekly winner will be randomly selected during the 12-week contest, and any winners who buy a Simmons mattress during the sweepstakes will be reimbursed for the cost of their purchase up to $2,000.
To enter the contest, consumers must tweet a message stating what they would do to obtain a good night's sleep either from their personal Twitter account or via the entry form on the sweepstakes Web site, http://contest.simmons.com/tweets. Participants may choose to post an original tweet, to re-tweet a variety of sample tweets listed on the sweepstakes site or to re-tweet another entrant's tweet. In addition to posting tweets, visitors to the contest Web site may view a list of recent sweepstakes tweets, become a fan of Simmons on Facebook and register for Simmons' e-mail newsletter, Better Sleep News.
"By using Twitter as our sweepstakes method, we're leveraging an already popular online communications venue to expand Simmons' influence within the social media world while gathering intel regarding the true value people place on sleep," said Tim Oakhill, Simmons' executive vice president of marketing.
The bedding manufacturer plans to host several online sweepstakes throughout 2010.
For more information about the sweepstakes or to enter the contest, visit http://contest.simmons.com/tweets.
Artist creating personalized pet portraits on homes' walls
Faux artist Phoenix Lloyd of Las Vegas is sharing her love of painting and pets by creating personalized pet portraits. The portraits are painted in homeowners' laundry rooms and feature a beloved pet dragging a clothesline filled with various articles of clothing.
Lloyd has been an artist most of her life and began her firm, Phoenix and Company, which specializes in faux finishes, murals and speciality paintings, in the mid-1990s.
She can be reached by telephone at 768-7292 or e-mail at phoenix0008@yahoo.com
