Sweet Shoppe Candles will be gifted to celebrities attending the award show.
A piece of Reading will be in tinsel town this weekend when Sweet Shoppe candles are gifted to celebrities at the Golden Globes. Owner Leslie Gennari received a phone call from GBK Productions asking her to make custom cupcake candles for the Globes' nominees, presenters and VIPs. According to their website, GBK Productions is a marketing, public relations, fundraising and special events company. They will create the Luxury Lounge at the Globes this year to benefit Lambda Legal, an organization fighting for the rights of lesbians, gay men and those with HIV/AIDS. After celebrities enter the GBK Luxury Lounge at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, they will be handed a Sweet Shoppe cupcake candle. Gennari was asked to make cupcake candles to …
Sweet Shoppe Candles, owned and operated by Reading resident Leslie Gennari, will supply candles for the "Official Oscars Celebrity Swag Bags."
Quiet, tree-lined Arnold Avenue, located not far from Interstate 93 near the Woburn town line is about as far from the popping flashbulbs and resplendent red carpet of The Oscars and Hollywood’s Kodak Theater as you can get without swallowing a mouthful of the North Atlantic. While approximately 3,000 miles of roads—and an unknown quantity of tinsel and glitter—separate Reading from Hollywood, none of the nominees and presenters that walk the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards this Sunday will be leaving without taking a sweet-smelling slice of this sylvan corner of town home with them, thanks to Leslie Gennari, owner and sole proprietor of Sweet Shoppe Candle Bakery. Gennari’s candles, looking and smelling like delectable confectionary…
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