WOW… what a weekend!

Nov 6, 2007

This past week­end I had the plea­sure of going to San Anto­nio to attend a Fiskars Fisk-a-teers Craft­ing Ambas­sadors event. I have never attended such a well orga­nized, fun filled, action packed train­ing ses­sion. Brains on Fire orga­nized a week­end I will never for­get. I got to take classes given by lead Fisk-a-teers Holly, Stephe­nie and Cheryl as well as Heidi Grace of Heidi Grace Designs (totally adorable and the fun­ni­est sto­ry­teller ever one minute she had us laugh­ing the next she had us grab­bing Kleenex) and Nancy with Cloud 9 Design taught an adorable cal­en­dar class using many of her great paper lines . Each class was filled with loads of incred­i­ble Fiskars prod­ucts. We were taught how to use each one and then got to keep every­thing after we fin­ished the adorable project they had for us to create .

My room­mate was Patti Church Fiska­teer #377. Talk about a per­fect match. I was really wor­ried about not know­ing who my room­mate was going to be, because I am pretty shy in set­tings like that but Patti was per­fect. We clicked the sec­ond we met and laughed so much by the end of each day my face hurt. She is so FUNNY and will always be a great friend. We were lucky enough to get to attend every class together and thank good­ness I had her to keep me on track. With so much going on it was extremely hard for me to stay focused. I have never cut so many pieces of paper wrong in my life or got­ten lost in the direc­tions that were explained so eas­ily a kinder­garten stu­dent could have fig­ured it out. Thank­fully I had “Per­fect Patti” as my keeper. She was the best and I wish she lived closer because I really miss her.

I got to FINALLY meet Jane Hasty Fiska­teer #329. I have so wanted to meet her and each time the pos­si­bil­ity came up some­thing hap­pened. Jane is an incred­i­ble pho­tog­ra­pher. You really need to check out her blog. It was so fun to get to know her room­mate Kim­berly Brock Fiska­teer #1044. Talk about always look­ing like a “Rodeo Queen” she always looked so dang cute wear­ing her Fiska­teer hat. Gretchen Schmidt Fiska­teer #51 also sat at our table. I have chat­ted back and forth with her for so long and it was great to finally get to meet her. Gosh the list of peo­ple I met could go on and on. It is great to be a part of the so called “Fab­u­lous Fifty”. Bonds were formed this week­end that I know will last a life­time. It over­whelms me when I think about being a part of this group.

Now my next task is to train 20 peo­ple that want to become Fiskars Demon­stra­tors in the DFW area. If you are inter­ested in teach­ing and want to become a Fiska­teer Ambas­sador look for one of the “Fab­u­lous Fifty” in your area. If you made it this far in my post I feel it only right to offer a RAK. Just leave a com­ment about your favorite Fiskars prod­uct and I will place your name into a draw­ing for a Stamp Press.