ScrapFest Recap

Sep 21, 2011

Trav­el­ing to dif­fer­ent places to teach is always so much fun but being home and in your own bed is awe­some. Last night, I slept so hard I don’t think I even moved in my sleep. ScrapFest was awe­some, incred­i­ble, amaz­ing and inspir­ing. I would do it all over again tomor­row, if I could. I had a blast teach­ing all 6 of the Maya Road classes. Every one who came to class was so upbeat and excited. It was so fun get­ting to chat with so many cre­ative peo­ple from all over the coun­try. I really enjoyed being in MN. The peo­ple are so nice and get­ting away from the Texas heat was awesome.

I have so many pho­tos I want to share that I took dur­ing the event so I decided to cre­ate a col­lage. You will find pho­tos from some of my classes, some of Emily and Ronda doing make-n-takes, the gor­geous and very pop­u­lar zip­per flow­ers Car­o­line was demo­ing, Ronda and Emily prep­ping for make-n-takes while I was cre­at­ing my class sam­ples and a photo of my book. Just a lit­tle FYI… there are signed copies of my book at Archiver’s in the Mall of Amer­ica.

Each day Maya Road did two dif­fer­ent make-n-takes and Car­o­line fig­ured Maya Road did approx­i­mately 2,000 make-n-takes dur­ing ScrapFest. YAY, Maya Road!

Mon­day, we had a relax­ing sight see­ing day and went to the Min­neapo­lis Sculp­ture Gar­den. What a gor­geous place to visit. The flow­ers gar­dens were so vibrant in color and the sculp­tures were incred­i­ble. It was a gor­geous day to walk the garden.

After walk­ing the gar­den and tak­ing loads of pho­tos we ate lunch, shopped at Wet Paint which is an awe­some art store, those of you who live in the area are so lucky! Then we headed to a fab­ric store were Ronda, Car­o­line and I all walked out with an arm full of fab­rics and loads of cre­ative ideas. It was a great day of shop­ping and fun.

Mon­day evening, we headed back to the Mall of Amer­ica were Car­o­line and Ronda laughed and I screamed in ter­ror the entire time we were in Nick­elodeon Uni­verse. I do NOT like roller­coast­ers or any­thing that goes up and down and swirls around but not want­ing to be the party pooper I agreed to ride Fairly Odd Coaster, Pepsi Orange Streak, Sponge­Bob SquarePants Rock Bot­tom Plunge, Jimmy Nuetron’s Atomic Col­lider and the Log Chute. After all that my tummy was let­ting me know one more ride and some­one next to me was going to pay the ulti­mate price so I sat and watched Car­o­line and Ronda ride the Fairly Odd Coaster again! There was no way they could pry me from the bench. I was not going for round num­ber two.

Car­o­line and Ronda are in the car in the upper left area of the photo.

And here is Ronda just after we got off the Log Chute… she rode in the front. I rode in the very back squeez­ing onto and hid­ing behind Caroline.

So as you can see we were super busy yet had a super fun time. I hope to be able to do it all again next year… exclud­ing a few rides. Now I need to focus on mak­ing sure every­thing is ready for Artis­tic Jour­ney, next week­end as well as fin­ish up a few assign­ments and projects. I have a Hal­loween and Christ­mas Mini Album online work­shop to put together as well as get some blog hop projects and other cre­ations fin­ished and sent out asap!

Hugs!