Yes! We Just Have Opened Our Boutique!!!

Hello!!!
Storming in with some great news!!!

Ania on behalf on glen landing just opened up a boutique on etsy.com where we are going to sell some glen landing stuff and her handmade things! It's called Be My Surf Princess

Lets see what Ania has to say about  this project in this little interview:

GL BLOG: "So how do you feel?"

Ania: "Oh, probably accomplished, because i had this idea for a long time and finally it is reality! It is a virtual boutique, and i hope one day it will be a physical store on the street : ) or even a chain of stores so i can have one in Philly, South Miami beach, and Minsk!!! Bubbly and carefree!"

GL BLOG: "What does the name mean?"

Ania: "I have chosen a name a long time ago, Be My Surf Princess. And the homie there is my baby seal. I like surfing culture, and you know Britney is Pop Princess, Grimes is Garage Pop Princess... And the seal is Surf Princess : ] (i know, it's way too complicated) It's more likely for the girls, something like Hello Kitty brand"

This is the logo for the tee shirts with the seal!

GL BLOG: "What kind of things are you selling there?"

Ania: "First of all, it is official Glen Landing boutique. We have so much merchandise and tee shirts, so many cool designs and colors. And we have the whole section for girls! We usually sell it only at our shows. Now it is so exciting to finally being able to sell it online! And usually girl shirts designs somehow incorporate the baby seal. So it is perfect for the boutique!
Along with out official Glen Landing merchandise I am going to sell all other stuff i make, including accessories, tee shirts, paintings (mm, of the seal...) and even i hope soon dresses and clothing!"

GL BLOG: "Who makes the items?"

Ania: "Well, we print our Glen Landing apparel, and usually Dan comes up with the designs. He is so good at it!!! he comes up with the dopest designs ever! and there are so many other design that he has ideas for.
And for the other items, i make them. I have been sewing since i can remember myself. I have so much stuff made and so much stuff in sketches/ideas. I will be adding more items to the boutique inventory as i make them"

A Tee with neon pink Seal :]

GL BLOG: "What is your inspiration?"

Ania: "Glen Landing. Baby seals. Bubblegum (original flavor) Japanese Harajuku fashion. Blue. I am all about color! I love bright colors, interesting color combinations, neon colors. And vintage 60s fashion. "

GL BLOG: "Why a baby seal?"

"I don't know why this image came to my imagination. But it did ( and i think i know why now). I remember sitting in class at the College of New Jersey, and just drawing this seal for the first time in my notebook. And since then, i could not stop drawing it in classes. I had all different kinds, a seal with spots ("spotted seal!!!"), with guitar, in hats and with accessories, a badass seal :) ... And then i started to draw it, using watercolors and oils. Then it started to appear on our gear, on my shirts, and even on my dresses now!
Also i love a seal as an animal and i would like to support the movement of PROTECTING BABY SEALS against their cruel murder for their beautiful white fur. So in the future i am planning on donating a percent of my sales to the organization that protects them."

This baby seal pretends he is
 a giant snowflake :)

GL BLOG: "What are you future plans for the boutique?"
Ania: "I want to open a branch on ebay.com :] I would like to have some music equipment related things, cute stuff for girls musicians. Also dresses. And of course more fun Glen Landing merchandise"


So if you would like to check out the boutique here is the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeMySurfPrincess

House Party Addiction! Part 1

Hello friends!

Ania  is here, reporting live from fresh beautiful and charming beach of North Wildwood, NJ

Recently we found ourselves having such awesome time while playing at Wild Russian Summer Parties 2012! Yesterday was the second show we played and it was so cool!!! Both parties were Birthday celebrations for two Russian girls both named Zenia! (is there any other Zenia's that are going to have birthdays soon?! i wonder...)

We love the energy, the vibes, the different languages, all this interesting new people we meet! Mostly Russian students that are spending their summer 2012 here in USA, in Wild Wildwood!!!

There were lots of people, everybody having fun, dancing, singing!

WE LOVE YOU, OUR NEW FRIENDS!!!!
(specail thanks to Zenia Soshkina for pictures!)

Meet our new friends! This is Julia, Zenia, another Zenia (it was her birthday party), and Slava!

Slava and Zenia are our neighbors, they are my favorite girls here !

We love to hang out and play at these parties!

We have played 6 songs, including Holiday acoustic, a new version of Criminals, Disco featuring me on guitar and singing (oh yeah these disco days are HOT), and of course BubbleGum.

The show was very intimate and just enough loud to hear everything clear.

And of course our favorite part was all our new friends dancing (like the speakers were about to fall down from the SHAKE of the room!!!!!) and a lovely light machine that was setting up the mood of a Russian- American spaceship racing to the stars!!

A special and pleasant surprise was to have legendary Chuck Treece at the party too! he is freshly back from his European tour with a band Lemonheads! Lots of cool stories from him!

 YEAH, and baby seals were there too!!

GEAR! Orange and Space Echo are hanging out!

Stay tuned for the second part of the story - an inside view of an American of a Russian party!

Dan will explain how he feels about it and I am sure it will very interesting!

All the best, Ania

PS: don't forget to use a Translate feature  if you would like to read this post in your native language!
Google is amazing... :)

Our Show At Gloucester Township Day

Hello!!!

Fresh report here from our show yesterday at Gloucester Township day at Veterans Memorial park!

It was a great begging of the summer celebration! The weather was gorgeous, fresh breeze and sunshine all day. We had our tent and table set up with t-shirts and seal gear :) and we had two contests going on: a FREE guitar giveaway which was such a hit! and also a huge gar of bubblegum, and you could win it if you guess the exact amount of pieces of gum in it.

It was awesome to watch kids trying to figure out how many pieces of gum is there. They were doing math, using a "Pie" method (?!) to calculate, they even asked for a calculator. Anyway, for everyone who guessed, there were 289 pieces of gum!!!! Right before BubbleGum song we announced the winner. A little boy won and he was so happy!

We want to thank ALL our friends and family who came to he show!! Especially our number ONE fan Jeff Knorr, our friend and our first bass player Brian Oberg now of The Wooden Owls , Neeka Caplan, and little Holly Evans. The stage was awesome,  lot of equipment there (well, that's how we roll). Also we got our sound engineer there, Ethan Caplan  - thank you Ethan!!!!!

The highlight of the show was appearance of our special guest Rich Quick, and WOW he killed it !!!! we played two songs together, and the energy there was unbelievable. Check him out! He is so talented.

Also we were happy to play our two new songs - Pizza and DiscoTeka!!!!! All little girls were dancing and having good time! yeah, that's what we want!

Just before our Pizza song we announced who won the guitar. And then a little rock star was born! you should see the excitement on the boy's face when he was running to the stage to get his prize!!!

GL and seals...

Seal shirt and Starr earrings that we sell at our shows 

My favorite quote by Walt Disney

Wishing you all the best!!!

Glen Landing