Destroyed: MexicanSugarSkull.com Lost in California Wildfire

We were distressed to receive this email from a good friend of el Restaurante magazine, Angela Villalba of MexicanSugarSkull.com, whose business was destroyed in the California wildfires. 

DESTROYED BY WILDFIRES

Sadly, at 1am Monday, October 9, 2017, we had 25 minutes (in the dark) to escape our beautiful Santa Rosa home where we operated MexicanSugarSkull.com. We woke up to orange-red fire skies, 75mph winds, smoke, embers, falling trees & electric lines. I had to throw 125 donkey piñatas out of my van before we could fit Tacuba & 2 suitcases in the van.Our home, warehouse & inventory all burnt to the ground including all collections of Mexican calendar girls, Mexican movie posters, textiles & an extensive library of folk art books and a thousand other precious things. This huge fire is unprecedented & has destroyed over 6000 homes & businesses.We are safe, staying with friends in Berkeley, while we wait to be allowed back to say our “goodbyes” to our property. While we get a computer back up and running, register with FEMA and buy some clothes & cat toys for Tacuba (yes, she’s fine), we still want to do what we can to support you this year for your Day of the Dead parties, events, sugar skull decorating & honoring your departed loved ones. Sugar skulls must still greet the returning spirits!

We will tend to all our customer service problems as quickly as possible. Please give us a couple weeks.Our warehouse is destroyed but we still have sugar skull blanks & a small amount of merchandise we'd like to sell.

We have 2,200 Medium Sugar Skull Blanks & 80 Large Blanks that need someone to decorate!We hope to find groups, schools, museums, restaurant, organization or individuals

interested in buying a large quantity of Original Medium sugar skull blanks. $40.80 per dozen ~ 2 dozen minimum please ~ and full boxes of 82 skull blanks or more for a discounted price of $3 each! These are a perfect activity for  Day of the Dead celebrations. Once our UPS depot reopened, they had undelivered boxes stacked up from 1500+ burnt down homes in our area. It was great to run into our driver, Josh, who had a pile of sugar skull molds for us!

We just received a few straggling boxes of terrific papier mache that we can ship also.We've listed a lot of it on our homepage - and update it daily. We need to sell all this stock as we

have nowhere to store it.

Visit our homepage for current info & merchandise

It's very important for Day of the Dead lovers to continue with Day of the Dead celebrations & educational programs across the country. I was in Mexico in 1985 after the big disastrous earthquake. The spirits return to be with us no matter what.

Sugar Skull Molds: We have great ties with all the retail stores on our Locations page so please give your business to the stores who buy wholesale from us. Many ship. If you need sugar skull molds, contact: Alma's Oilcloth Healdsburg, CA; Arara Enterprises San Diego; Artelexia San Diego, CA; Borderlands Tucson, AZ; Casa Bonampak, San Francisco, CA; Casa Ramirez Houston, TX; Home Cake Decorating Supply Seattle, WA; Olvera Candle Co. Los Angeles, CA.

We're still in business although we don't know what that looks like going forward. We will continue sending out newsletters about our progress.