Did I forget to mention?

Picante picked up two Signature Awards at the event on May 6th. The day started out at Midcan shooting new webisodes for the Just Slow Down campaign. Under the gun to get them done - they're already on the air! Thanks Keith from Energy and Denise, Adam, Simon and Lori from Elemental - WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT YOU!

Speaking of Adam, he joined the Picanterians at the Signature Awards and shared in our excitement of picking up two People's Choice awards for the Credit Unions Financial Therapy "Bathroom ads" - one my first attempts ever to be funny......and the Saskatchewan Rocks website designed by ....wait for it....the geniuses at Elemental. Oh yeah, Adam won the table prize a fabulous new TOASTER! 8 new entries in the Just Slow Down Youth Video Contest today. Check out www.justslowdown.ca and vote for your favourite. Some of them are just fantastic.

Had a lovely meeting late this afternoon with two of our new favourite friends. Can't help it. Just happen to think this is one of the best campaigns we've ever created. Really looking forward to telling you all about it.................................later. :) By the way Kath.....awesome explanation of GRPs!

A Picante Victory!

Had a fantastic and wonderful meeting which ended in a handshake. I think it's safe to say that Picante has been chosen as the new Agency of Record for ............nah. I can't say yet.

This is a very exciting time at the Picanteria.

Got a nice call today from an old friend. Kirby Nishikawa, former GM of St. Vital Centre, called today from Calgary. He's in need of some design help for a mall they're revamping. Both Amanda and Cherrie are so excited - it's right up their alley. I'm excited to be working with the Kirbster again.

Received another RFP today as well. Somehow we'll fit that in. Shaun......HELP!!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it like this!

Cinco de Mayo - Wasn't that a party!

Picante invited clients, suppliers and friends to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the fabulous Redboine Boating Club on the banks of the Red. I think I'll let the pictures tell the story.

Say Cheese!

Thanks to all "friends of Picante" who turned out for our taste testing wine & cheese party. In addition to having an excellent time, hanging out with old friends and making some new acquaintances, the attendees took their tasks very seriously - appearing on-camera to record their comments and impressions about the cheese, experimenting with the pairings, sampling the many varieties of cheese and participating in our blind taste tests.

Thanks to everyone who attended. And all the Picanterians who gathered intelligence from Winnipeg grocers, prepared the cheese, created the signage and ran the events.

Definitely, a good time was had by all.

Batty over BINGO!

Our fabulous clients at NorthMart Pharmacy have gone batty over Bingo. Here's a few shots of Cross Lake NorthMart manager Richard, Pharmacist Mark, and our client Dave playing a rousing game of Bingo in some poor unsuspecting Cross Lake resident's living room. They are taking an active role in researching this amazing phenomenon first hand.

Can't wait to launch our own NorthMart Bingo in the next few weeks.

Alas there were no winners this particular evening but Dave reports an excellent time was had by all. Thanks for the pics Dave.

Student Placement News

Today we say a fond farewell to Monica Saromo, our Red River College work placement student from the Graphic Design program. Monica designed our latest email invite for the Picante Cinco de Mayo fiesta and was a great pleasure to have around. The whole Picante gang (except for Shaun who is frolicking with wife Kaleigh in the Big Apple) went out for a fabulous Meiji sushi lunch and presented Monica with a genuine Picante cookbook.

And this past Monday, Paul Blawat joined us from RRCs Creative Communications programs. The students were a big help to us this week as we worked on a new program for credit unions in Saskatchewan to help them celebrate Coop Week this October.

Back from Jamaica.

Yes, I took a quick 7 day reprieve from the grind to enjoy Jamaica with my husband Allan and our friend Tony from Midcan Productions. We had an awesome time and now it's back to a very hectic shop.

Working on a couple of RFPs and continuing to keep very busy with North Mart Pharmacy. Clark did a great job on the video and Amanda and Shaun performed herculean feats in developing 18 different print projects at the speed of sound! Now we're working on the Bingo broadcast strategy. Very fun stuff.

The SaskCentral Annual Report was delivered on time. Amanda, what would we do without you?

Grant Park is very happy with the new Spring Environmental campaign . Will add some graphics here when I get a chance.

And everything is coming along nicely for The Centre Mall in Saskatoon.

Thanks to Elemental Motion Media (Denise in particular)for helping us with a tight deadline yesterday.

Getting ready to shoot more stories for the Just Slow Down campaign on Easter Monday.

And...we have a couple of other new business projects on the horizon. Should know more later this week.

If we were thinking we were going to slow down a bit this Spring it appears we were sadly mistaken.

Still planning the Cinco de Mayo Fiesta. More details available soon.

Short week next week. Ay Yi Yi!