Leadership is over

Let the vacation begin. Dianne, Laura and Gayle dropped me off in Glendale tonight at the candy store. But it was closed. Aunt Bunny picked me up and we headed for her house. Leadership was great. Compared to convention it was very quiet and more upscale. We ate very nice meals off of china. Beats the convention box lunches. Today at the last general session we all got a new stamp set that will be in the new catalog. It's very beautiful. Well, I'm tired so this will be it for a couple of days. I'll be home on Weds with lots of new ideas and I turned in a big order so I'll have lots of new things to play with. Let me know if you want to book a workshop during Sale-A-Bration.

More Momento Mall items

Here's what you can do with Decor Elements. This car is in the Momental Mall and it's really sharp. And here's the back window of the car. I got a Decor Element to put on the side windows of my van. We'll have to wait and see how it looks.

Here's the shopping bags that they have this year. I got a bunch of them, They're bigger than the ones they had last year.

Tonight we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for supper. Can you belive it's the first time I've been there. Just had a burger but it was really good.

This morning we had the alarm set for 6:30 but I got up at 5:30 to go to the bathroom and that woke Dianne up and then we couldn't get back to sleep so we finally got up before six and we were still almost late gettin to the convention center. Tomorrow our first class starts at 8:30 so we'll have to get going a little earlier.

The weather here is beautiful. Warm, warm, warm. Having a great time.

Here's a couple of the things that I got in the Momento Mall today. This is a ribbon sampler and a spray hand sanitizer.

And here's a watch with Stampin Up! ribbon for the band. It say's Stampin Up! on the face of the watch.

Today was a quiet day with only one session this evening. We got to watch some demonstrations and play with some of the new items in the new mini's.

Dianne and I went to lunch at a place called Sam's Cafe. It's Southwestern style food and it was really good. It's so warm and sunny here that we got to eat out on the patio. Wish you were all here. More pictures tomorrow.

Finally here

Well I finally got here. There was a little delay getting to Detroit this moring because of the weather. Had to get off the highway once because of an accident. Got to the airport, checked my bag, got through security and grabbed a bite to eat. Got on the plane and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally they announced that there was a problem with the baggage handler system. Finally took off about 50 minutes late. Had to change planes in Chicago and the flight was suspose to leave Chicago at 1:15. The plane from Detroit never landed until 1:15. But they had delayed the plane to 1:40. By the time I got to the right gate people were already lined up to get on the plane. Oh no, no time for lunch. Got on the plane and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally they announced that they were still loading baggage. Finally left at 3:00. So I was a little late getting into Phoenix. Called Dianne and she and Laura picked me up and we went right straight to the Old Spaghetti Factory. Really good food. Then we went to a Super Target. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Took Laura to her hotel and got here about 9:30. So since that's 11:30 Michigan time I'm ready for bed. Hopefully I'll get to take some pictures tomorrow. Good night.

Starter kit on sale

Now is a great time to join Stampin Up! The starter kit is on sale for $169.00 and no shipping. AND you get to pick an extra stamp set out of the big catalog. Have you ever really sat down and looked at what you get in the starter kit? There's five stamp sets, a Stampin around wheel, handle and ink cartridge, Stampin Pastels chalk set, 2 packages of colored card stock, 1 package of neutral card stock, snail adhesive, Eastern Bloom decor element and the applicator tool, stampin scrub and mist, versamark pad, blender pens and 5 ink pads. Plus the extra free stamp set. And you get 30% off of your first order and you get 20% off every order after that. What a deal. And we offer free training, monthly meetings, exciting trips and wonderful new friends.
If your interested just let me know. I'm leaving this morning on one of those exciting trips. I'll be in warm and sunny Arizona for the next week but I will be checking my email and updating my blog so watch for news from Leadership.

Sale-A-Bration

Tomorrow starts Sale-A-Bration, or as we could call it, The Big Giveaway. Because for every $50.00 you spend from now until the end of March you get to pick a product out of the Sale-A-Bration mini. Notice that I said product. That's because there's stamp sets, designer series paper and a punch. And this year there's a bunch of stamp sets in the big catalog that you can pick as your free item. I know, I know, you haven't gotten your mini yet. But you will. In the meantime the mini's are posted on the right hand sidebar.

I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and now we're onto a great New Year. So to start off the new year I've added the Occasions, Sale-A-Bration and Decorative Elements to the side bar so that you can look through them until you get your mini's in the mail. They will be coming.
And here's a couple more cards from my last swap. This one is courtesy of Ronda Wade. It's using the stamp set called "Messages for Mom" out of the Occasions mini.

This card comes from Sandy Haynes and she used the Sale-A-Bration set called "Good Neighbor" and some of the designer series paper called "Welcome Neighbor". This paper pack is wonderful because there's 72 sheets of paper and you can get it free. Just ask me how.