CKC adventure
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I had the opportunity to go to the St. Louis Creating Keepsakes Convention this past weekend. It was the first time I’ve ever been to any kind of scrapbooking convention, so it was pretty exciting for me, plus a bonus was that I got to see 3 of my scrapbooker friends from other parts of the country!
My friend Klo is on the Pazzles design team, and she travels around to conventions and expos and sets up a booth to demonstrate and sell the Pazzles machine. I’ve seen her creations and oohed and aahed over them, but it was really cool to see this machine in real life in action making stuff. This thing is awesome! I wanted to buy one before I saw it in person, and now I’m really sold. Klo has made her own CD of designs that I talked about previously here, and she also gives tutorials for Pazzles owners and free cutting files for the Pazzles (or to cut by hand) on her blog here. Here are Klo and my other friend Jill working their magic in the Pazzles booth.
(That’s Stephanie in the front. Just met her. Hi Steph!) Jill is in the background. Does she have the cutest haircut or what? She hates it!
Here are the Pazzles girls the next day after a job well done at the convention and getting ready to go home.
My friend Thea drove 3.5 hours to my house, and then the next day I drove us 3.5 hours to St. Louis to the convention. I can’t wait to go to another one! By convention standards I’m told it was smaller than usual, which was okay with me. It took 3 hours to see every booth there and my feet hurt by the time we were done! Some big manufacturers of scrapbooking products were there like Rusty Pickle and Sizzix and Quickutz and SEI and there were stores there, some of them online stores that I have shopped at before such as www.dollarscrapbooking.net and www.scrappygourmet.com. The Scrappy Gourmet owner and her husband were just the nicest people! There was also a store called www.scrapbookoutlet.com where I bought stuff. My generous husband gave me $100 to spend and asked me to bring home any change that was left. Yeah right. Any scrapbooker will tell you, when you go scrapbook supply shopping there is NEVER any change left.
After the show was over on Saturday, my friends and I went to dinner. Another first for me, we went to Hooters. As if I didn’t already have body image problems! LOL Some of those waitresses looked like they were barely old enough to drive. But I did have a fantastic grilled cheese sandwich! Yes, people. I went to HOOTERS and had a grilled cheese! That’s just how I roll. I live right on the edge….
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