Color Me Mine - Santa Monica, Santa Monica

You get charged a "sitting fee" if you so much as pick up a paint brush with your kid!

It was fun to take my kids there. Nice experience. I wouldn't go a lot because the stuff sort of looks the same, and I don't want a lot of clutter around my house.

Was not transparent in the costs and rules associated with groupon

It took me three tries to be able to use my Groupon The first time I forgave them because we did get there about 40 minutes before closing The second time I purposely called ahead that morning to ask what the latest possible time was to get there and they said an hour before closing We showed up about 65 minutes before their official closing time (8pm) and were told that since they start closing at 7:30 we couldn't paint Needless to say I was NOT happy The final time we decided to go on Friday since they are open until 10pm (which of course actually means 9:30) and were able to paint The staff wasn't very friendly, but we of course had fun painting since we brought a bottle of bubbly with us ;) I will say, the ceramics seemed pricier than other Color Me Mines I've been to, but I guess that's just Santa Monica for you The other thing is that it's been over a week and we still haven't gotten the call saying our items are ready to pickup Seems a bit excessive since it doesn't take more than a day to fire Whatever Hopefully they come out amazing and it was all worth it!