Where have I been?? August 6, 2009
I feel like I’ve been away for so long. The past two weeks have been sort of crazy around here for me. I spent the first week just preparing for the second week. So would you like to know what I’ve been up to? Okay, well let’s start with Sunday July 26th.
Sunday – Laura, my wonderful Fiskateer friend and fellow Fiskateer of the Year 2008, arrived from NY around 11 am. We had lunch at Sonic, hit the grocery store, and then headed back to my house to craft. We made 72 pins for the following day while my WONDERFUL hubby made us dinner.
Monday – Around lunch time we headed out towards Epcot, but not before making a stop to drop off some supplies to Scrapbook Royalty. Scrapbook Royalty was hosting the Worlds Largest Crop attempt at the end of the week and needed to borrow a couple of things that they couldn’t bring with them on the plan for California. After we droppped off the stuff we headed to Epcot for the Fiskars 360th Birthday bash! You read right, Fiskars has been around for 360 years. Fiskars invited Fiskateers to Epcot for the day to celebrate this huge milestone birthday. Only 50 people were able to attend and Laura and I were lucky enough to be a part of that group. We had an amazing day… orange mouse ears, special Fiskars 360 shirts, Fiskateer friends (new and old), a scavenger hunt, HUGE goodie bags, snacks and candy galore, make n takes with the leads, photos with Mickey, the announcement of the 2009 Fiskateer of the Year, a super yummy dinner, a desert party, fireworks and a very special guest… miss Carol Duvall herself! Yes, I got to meet and get my picture taken with the queen of crafts. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited! (pics 1-4)
Tuesday – We were up early and headed to the convention center for the first day of the CHA Tradeshow. Laura knows someone that works at CHA, so she was able to hook us up with badges for the show (Thanks Tara!). We spent the whole day wandering the show floor looking at all the new products and doing make n take projects. I even got to meet Tim Holtz! At the end of the day we were able to have dinner with the Fiskars employees that were in town for the week. Since I am now “part of the team” I was invited to attend. It was a wonderful meal spent with wonderful people. (pics 5-6)
Wednesday – Laura and I were pooped so we just laid low. We hung around the house, prepared for the CHA Supershow (which was Friday and Saturday). We had a late lunch at Sweet Tomatoes, relaxing, and had a nice dinner with Paul. We even got to watch some tv and get to bed early.
Thursday – DISNEY WORLD! My wonderful friend Laura planned to go to Disney World with friend and lead Fiskateer Wendy Jo on Thursday. I wasn’t going to go because tickets are a little pricey and i’ve been there more times than I can count. But Laura would have none of that, so she treated me to a day at Disney (part thank you for letting her stay with me and part 30th birthday present). We had an AMAZING day! It was super hot and it rained for awhile, but we still had a great time. We took lots of pictures! (7-9)
Friday – We were up early to get to the CHA Supershow before it started. The Supershow was a vendor show open to the public. I was working at the Scrapbook Creations booth doing demos all day and Laura was doing Make n takes with Michaels in the afternoon. Our day did NOT get off to a good start. My day went pretty well, although demoing punches for 9 hours straight REALLY makes your arms hurt. Laura spent to the day wandering the show and then ended up getting money stolen from her bag. Needless to say we were more than ready to go when the show ended. But did we go home? Of course not! We headed to the Scrapbook Royalty Worlds Largest Crop attempt.
Laura attended as a cropper and I was there to volunteer. After about 3 hours things started to calm down, so we collected our things to head home. But not before my wonderful boss, and friend, Stephenie introduced us to one of her best friends… Mark Montano! He is so sweet and very very nice. We got our pictures taken with him, got his autograph and then headed home. We were so happy to arrive back at my house before 11 pm for the first time that week. (pic 10)
Saturday – Another full day at the Supershow. Laura taught in the morning and I spent the day in the Scrapbook Creations booth again. We ended up leaving the show an hour early because we had to pick up 3 huge boxes of donations from Scrapbook Royalty. They had some stuff left over from the crop and generously donated it to Care to Crop for the 2010 event. Holy cow, how generous! (I actually just sorted through the boxes and I’m AMAZED at all the wonderful things that were in those boxes. Their donation alone has put us so far ahead of schedule with our donations. Thanks again SBR!)
Sunday – Laura went home, Paul and I did some shopping, and then I spent the rest of the day on the couch 
So thats what I’ve been up to for the past week. I’m still trying to recuperate. I’ve got make n take projects to do, pictures to sort through, goodie bags to sort and put away, and sleep to catch up on. But it was all worth it for such an amazing week!
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