For those of us in the Midwest and Northeast, it has been a lousy Winter. Here in Southwestern Ohio, we haven’t had nearly the amount of snow that folks along the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Coast have had. But it has been cold, dreary and disgusting all through March and April – and I really thought that Winter had ended when we had an 80 degree day in February. Silly me . . .
The view out my back door about 11:00 p.m. on Easter evening, and the smaller trees in my backyard the next morning. Yes, they are very pretty – in December or January. Not in April. But as we often say in Ohio – “If you don’t like the weather today, wait until tomorrow – it’ll change.”
And so it did – by Tuesday, the temps were in the upper 60s and there were tornado warnings and 60 mph winds. Those winds blew the truck and me all the way across Pennsylvania on Wednesday and stuck around through setup in Allentown on Thursday.
New items in our booth for the first time – Texture Printing from Carabelle Studio (in conjunction with Gel Press), and a big display of goodies from Brutus Monroe. Which reminds me . . .
For those of you planning to join us at Adventures in Stamping in Akron, OH (April 28 & 29) and the Great Lakes Mega Meet in Novi/Detroit, MI (May 10, 11 & 12), Christopher Alan from Brutus Monroe and Anthony Gilbert from Anthony’s Paper Craft will be demoing in our booth all weekend long at both shows!
In Allentown, it was Sally Lynn MacDonald from Gel Press who was wowing the assembled masses. Sally Lynn is like me – we don’t sit still well – so when the line to get to my cash register got longer, she came out from behind the demo table and worked the crowd.
I titled this picture “Sally Lynn . . . meets Sally Lynn” – someone yelled “Sally!” and both of them looked up, then followed with “Sally Lynn!” and they both looked up again!
This little fellow was checking out every colorful thing in our booth . . .
Phil Rapezzi from My Craft Room – had to get a shot of his shirt to send to my cousin back home who is permanently anchored to his smoker.
Nancy Knies always represents for Picasso and Darlene (and Fred, of course) – so I took this shot to send to them at their retirement castle in Tennessee . . .
My backyard, the morning after I got home – Enough, already!
