Wow, the last two weeks have just flown by! First of all, the National Stationery Show was a blast! My friend Lorine and I chatted the whole 6 hour drive to NY. We enjoyed a delicious meal at Mom and Vince’s and then caught the train down to our room at the Marriott Marquis. Lorine’s partner Cyndi had set up their Surtex booth and we were ready for the show to begin. On Sunday, I spent most of the day in the Sizzix booth, helping to demo and answer questions. The booth was packed all day.
Monday started early with a gathering of designers.We all kind of know each other from the Art of Licensing discussion group and it was fun to put a face to some of the names I see regularly on the list. I had several meetings, then spent some more time in the Sizzix booth. From there, we attempted to broadcast on Cool2Craft, a live web TV show, but the internet was not our friend that day 🙁 Many thanks to Tiffany Windsor for putting up with this and holding her Sizzix machine up to try and show people what we were talking about! She is truly amazing. Please visit the sites of the other guests on the show on the show that day:
Tiffany Windsor
Linda Peterson
Joan Fee
Elizabeth Diamond
We enjoyed a subway ride and walk to dinner with Brandy and Julianna from Sizzix and the waiters and food at Borolo’s were delicious. Tuesday was a blur because we had a full day at the show, packed up the booth, took a train to my mom’s to get the car and then drove all the way home that night arriving at 3 AM.
On Thursday, we got a call from our daughter telling us that she was engaged! So last weekend we took a drive up to Baltimore to congratulate the happy couple before they set out for CA and MI to pack up and move to their two new Coast Guard assignments.
I came home from the show re-energized and ready to work up some new concepts.This past week was spent getting the final ScoreBoard blog hop done- so sad… Although it was a lot of work to organize, I learned a lot, met some new friends and will miss the fun designer chat that we shared and seeing the great designs that came out every other week.
So that’s what has been happening with me. Stay tuned for an announcement about a fun site launching on June 3! What have you been up to? Hope you can tune in to the newest coolest craft TV show Cool2Craft on Monday, May 31 at noon EST!
I’m going to try and be a better blogger, I promise! Sometimes life gets crazy though- you know how it is…
Congrats to your daughter and family! It sounds like you had a lot of fun at the show. Loved the blog hop. Thanks for all the hard work to do it. Can’t wait to see what comes next. See you tomorrow on Cool2Craft!
Phew – I’m out of breath just reading this. What a whirlwind you’ve been in.
Congratulations to the lovely couple!
I do hope you’ll have another blog hop. I got in at the very end, “met” you, won one of the die cuts (woohoo!), and generally had a lot of fun finding some wonderful new talents on your hop list. Al in all, it was a terrific experience for me.
Thanks for all the hard work that went into it.