Must learn how to do photo collages--this way is annoying!!!
Enjoy!
Janet
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Creative Escape 2007
What a great experience! After the nightmares with registration, buying someone else's extra seat, and the lack of advance communications the event itself was WONDERFUL!!!! It was so great to finally meet all the sisters we had come to know from the Yahoo Board and to reconnect with old friends.
Tuesday: Left home at 4:45 am for our 6:25 am flight---no problems at all and we were in Phoenix by 10 am. Picked up our car and were off shopping---first stop was a Barnes and Noble for a Phoenix area map book!!! By then we were starving and decided to check out Crackers and CO. Cafe (a Polka Dot Chicks recommend!) and then it was onto Scrapbooks Etc. to get gift cards for our secret sisters. We also visited Mystic Paper where we ran into Margie Romsey-Aslett who remembered us from CKU, and Annalis Scraptique. Had to hit Target as well for wrapping supplies and cases of water and iced tea for the week. Checked in at the hotel and eventually went out again for dinner and then just crashed out after a long day!
Wednesday: Breakfast at the hotel since we finally got "Golden Tickets" for the 9 am Bazzill Tour. Fun times on the bus with Amy T. and the campaign for Hot Totty Orange. The new Bazzill warehouse is huge and Doug Jones (Mr. Bazzill himself) showed us around. We watched them cut and package paper as well as process orders for customers. The warehouse sale was a blast! WE both filled 2 pizza boxes with card stock and I counted later--about 110 sheets a box which makes the paper about 14 cents a sheet. It was on to Scrapbooks Etc. where we did some serious shopping!!! Then back to the hotel and time for the Lazy River!!!!
Thursday: Did some shopping in the morning at Scrap Happy Sisters and stopped at Staples to run off flyers for the quilt. Registration, Technique Boutique, Trunk Show and the Welcome Reception followed. And then the Yahoo Dinner poolside at the North Pointe Pool!! I didn't win anything, but Sandy did!
Friday: Nice breakfast in the courtyard and ballrooom and off to class at 8:00AM--ROSES ROCK!!! Our first class is Tracey N. from K & Co. Love their products anyway but this creative folder/book project is AMAZING!!!! If this is the quality of the projects, OH MY!!
Lesli S. was our next class and was 5 different cards, cute but IMHO not the level of project I would have expected. After lunch we moved on to Rhonna F. and a very artsy art journal for The 21-Day Challenge. While the instructions showed lots of examples, and I will create a great book, all we did in class for the 1 3/4 hours was stamp the pages. Our final class was a layout class with Heidi Lynn. Actually it was 5 layouts and a calendar and the instructions for the remaining pages. We left early as we had a bunch of things to do and I'm not sure how I'm going to use this stuff yet! After a Mexican buffet dinner, we started on the Friday Night Extravaganza---lots of fun with all the alumni teachers from 2006! Think "Shake Up Your Style" with a twist!
Saturday: We had first period free this morning which was really nice---then we were off to soldering class with Chris R. This was actually alot of fun but definitely an acquired skill. It was great being able to try the techniques without the investment in all the tools and supplies. After lunch it was time for the Purse Album with Jennifer W. This is adorable!!!!! Not hard, nothing too unusual, got to use the new Bazzill stitching templates, just CUTE ( I see Christmas gifts!) And finally we got Heidi!!! The project, a canvas memo board, is AMAZING!!!!!!! Love IT!!! Great banquet, beautiful flowers, lots of prizes, Alison Tyler Jones as featured speaker----all just wonderful!!!
Tuesday: Left home at 4:45 am for our 6:25 am flight---no problems at all and we were in Phoenix by 10 am. Picked up our car and were off shopping---first stop was a Barnes and Noble for a Phoenix area map book!!! By then we were starving and decided to check out Crackers and CO. Cafe (a Polka Dot Chicks recommend!) and then it was onto Scrapbooks Etc. to get gift cards for our secret sisters. We also visited Mystic Paper where we ran into Margie Romsey-Aslett who remembered us from CKU, and Annalis Scraptique. Had to hit Target as well for wrapping supplies and cases of water and iced tea for the week. Checked in at the hotel and eventually went out again for dinner and then just crashed out after a long day!
Wednesday: Breakfast at the hotel since we finally got "Golden Tickets" for the 9 am Bazzill Tour. Fun times on the bus with Amy T. and the campaign for Hot Totty Orange. The new Bazzill warehouse is huge and Doug Jones (Mr. Bazzill himself) showed us around. We watched them cut and package paper as well as process orders for customers. The warehouse sale was a blast! WE both filled 2 pizza boxes with card stock and I counted later--about 110 sheets a box which makes the paper about 14 cents a sheet. It was on to Scrapbooks Etc. where we did some serious shopping!!! Then back to the hotel and time for the Lazy River!!!!
Thursday: Did some shopping in the morning at Scrap Happy Sisters and stopped at Staples to run off flyers for the quilt. Registration, Technique Boutique, Trunk Show and the Welcome Reception followed. And then the Yahoo Dinner poolside at the North Pointe Pool!! I didn't win anything, but Sandy did!
Friday: Nice breakfast in the courtyard and ballrooom and off to class at 8:00AM--ROSES ROCK!!! Our first class is Tracey N. from K & Co. Love their products anyway but this creative folder/book project is AMAZING!!!! If this is the quality of the projects, OH MY!!Lesli S. was our next class and was 5 different cards, cute but IMHO not the level of project I would have expected. After lunch we moved on to Rhonna F. and a very artsy art journal for The 21-Day Challenge. While the instructions showed lots of examples, and I will create a great book, all we did in class for the 1 3/4 hours was stamp the pages. Our final class was a layout class with Heidi Lynn. Actually it was 5 layouts and a calendar and the instructions for the remaining pages. We left early as we had a bunch of things to do and I'm not sure how I'm going to use this stuff yet! After a Mexican buffet dinner, we started on the Friday Night Extravaganza---lots of fun with all the alumni teachers from 2006! Think "Shake Up Your Style" with a twist!
Saturday: We had first period free this morning which was really nice---then we were off to soldering class with Chris R. This was actually alot of fun but definitely an acquired skill. It was great being able to try the techniques without the investment in all the tools and supplies. After lunch it was time for the Purse Album with Jennifer W. This is adorable!!!!! Not hard, nothing too unusual, got to use the new Bazzill stitching templates, just CUTE ( I see Christmas gifts!) And finally we got Heidi!!! The project, a canvas memo board, is AMAZING!!!!!!! Love IT!!! Great banquet, beautiful flowers, lots of prizes, Alison Tyler Jones as featured speaker----all just wonderful!!!But the best parts were all the fun stuff that wasn't the classes--all the swaps, the Let's Escape sisters, Secret Sisters, the fun at meals, the WooHoo girls (LOVE the Photo Dot Chicks!), the photos with friends and the pink and green quilt. Thanks to Becca, Lisa, Nancy. Jeanette, KelliDarr and Barbara; the NY-NJ girls--Kristen, Barbara D., Susan, Cindy, Kim and Liz; my Secret Sisters Kathy and Melanie; my Let's Escape Sisters Ali and Lysa and Suzanne and Sunny; and to all the other Roses and everyone else too.
Looking forward to more RAKS, seeing lots of you at Scrap Etc in April (where the Roses will continue to ROCK) and next year at CE08!
Enjoy,
Janet
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