Maria's Ideas 
Murals & Fine Art
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www.MariasIdeas.com           Maria DeSimone Prascak         www.SlothLady.com​​​
 Sarris Candies  MURALS
Canonsburg, PA
Over 450 feet of  ​
Murals & Art Designed and
Hand Painted by

 Maria
DeSimone
Prascak
​Exclusively
​for 
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Sarris Candies 

 The World's
Best Chocolates!
 

www.sarriscandies.com
Maria's Ideas
Established 1982
Pittsburgh, PA
Maria started designing art for Sarris Candies in the 1990's. The first projects were 2 ceiling domes, 2013 murals for the chocolate castle room, next the ice cream parlour, the ice cream cone window toppers, five bejeweled animals, four murals featuring their seasonal candies, Pretzel People, another ceiling dome, 2 large candy columns, three murals featuring their candies and Sarris Candies castle installed in 2018. Many of the little candy pieces, chocolates and ice cream cones were hand crafted with clay and paper mache by Maria, hand painted, some rewrapped in their foil papers then applied to the murals. The murals and animals are embellished with thousands of authentic crystals, jewels, and colorful adornments~ each glued one at a time by Maria as she met happy, curious customers while they watched and enjoyed their sweet treats! 
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Mom loves Sarris Candies too, she's also an artist, and has been and inspiration since childhood .
Happy customers Brian, Missy and their sweet kids!
 The Chocolate Castle Murals
Adorned with thousands of authentic crystals, hand made faux candy pieces, mints, suger plum tree treats. flowers and more!
It all started with an idea and a sketch...
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 The Ice Cream Parlour Murals 
Adorned with authentic crystals, jewels, handmade embellishments and hand crafted window toppers
Be sure to try some Home Made Ice Cream!

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 Pretzel Box Castle Mural
features year- round treats & gifts
Hand crafted little clay candy pieces, clay pretzel door knobs and lots of crystals!
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 Christmas Mural
Features holiday packages with bling, Sarris Candies favorites, and thousands of crystals & embellishments applied one by one !
My little ladder was on the job too!
Adding
Videos soon!
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We hope you'll  check out the site again 
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Colorful Animals with BLING!
hand painted and adorned with authentic crystals, beads & jewels
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Sweet Hearts Valentine MURAL
 Adorned with authentic crystals, hand made clay pieces and hand made faux candies
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Deluxe Chocolate Boxes featuring the art of Pittsburgh's "Sand Man" 
Johno Prascak. Check out his art ~ www.JohnosArt.com
Boxes available in many locations and ~   www.sarriescandies.com
Spring Easter MURAL
 Adorned with authentic crystals, hand made candies, treats and cute embellishments
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Carousel Dome
 Adorned with authentic crystals, hand made ceramic vintage carousel elements
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Three more MURALS
Gumball Castle, Plush Animals and Sarris Candies Castle 
 Embellished with thousands of crystals, hand made clay candy & fun adornments
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PRETZEL PEOPLE  is sure to make you SMILE!
Maria created these little characters for the murals, Thanks to  Zoom Corp for taking my templates & creating  the pieces from my designs,  after she painted & decorated everything they also installed the Pretzel People
family for all to see! 
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