Short takes

• eTTa design's weblog has a great piece about Leslie Aitkin's  LA General Store, which uses eco-friendly ideas (i.e. castoff furniture) for the interior of the fabric arts source.
• it's too early to think of Halloween for most of us -- but the pumpkins are growing in Altadena!
• Real estate news on the $7 million sale of the Bienvenidos Children's Center at 183-205 E. Palm to be the new home for the Sahag-Mesrob Armenian Christian School.
• Five Acres will be holding two fundraising events on Sunday:  a classic car show at Johnny Carson Park in Burbank, followed by its annual gala at One Colorado in Pasadena.  PSN has the deets.
• We think state Sen. Jack Scott may end up his legislative career making enemies of the balloon industry.