Sep 22 2008

Texas Fun, Hospitality and the Blog Candy Winner

  Well I’m back from the Great State of Texas!  I had such a blast meeting everyone and they were so very warm and welcoming.  These ladies welcomed me with such fun treasures to bring back with me.  I knew instantly I was in a super wonderful place when my Fabulous Hostess, Lydia of www.understandblue.blogspot.com   met me at the airport with a goody bag to tie me over in the hotel that included chocolate brownies that I swear the angels themselves made.  Definitely, this trip was off to a great start, lol.

Oh! and then the fun really began with my brayer workshops.  By the way my beginning brayer workshops should come with this warning “you will definitely leave with ink on your hands”!

Anyway, we got a little dirtier when a couple of my fellow Split Coast Stamper Dirty Dozen Alumni (Joan & Jeanne) attended along with Jenn, SplitCoastStamper Royalty.  If you haven’t met these ladies in person your missing out.  They are a real HOOT!  My sides hurt from laughter after the workshop was over. 

  

  

Every single person I met on this trip was an absolute delight!

  My Hostess, Lydia and Me

   

I’m not the only one that went home with treasures.  When you attend one of my beginner workshop you also go home with some terrific items (brayer, Innovative Stamp Creations stamp set, stamping mat, finished projects etc., etc. ) and the mastery of brayering. 

Thank you so much to all of the workshop attendee.  Stampers in Texas are the BEST!

On another note, as promised we have a blog candy winner! 

Out of 643 entries the random number generator picked, drum-roll please. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .

 Joy  who wrote, “As a child I remember looking forward to Halloween every year. We didn’t get store bought costumes though. With 9 kids, it was homemade all the way. I don’t think I ever wore a store bought costume ever in my childhood. I remember mom cutting up some of her old sheets. She cut holes in them for our arms and heads so we could be ghosts. One year particularly, we didn’t have plastic bags to use for candy, we had paper ones and it started raining and I remember trying to keep my bag from getting wet. I slipped and fell and my bag was all wet and the bottom fell out. I lost all my candy on the ground. I cried then, but when we got home, all my siblings shared their candy with me. Those were good ole’ memories. Halloween,falling, lost candy and all..Thanks for bringing this back to the front of my memory Michelle.   Love your collection of cards you have done for the fall. BTW.. I got my first BRAYER today..wooohooo… I can’t wait to try something like yours.”

Joy, please e-mail your address to mzindorf@aim.com and I will get this stamp set in the mail to you ASAP.

Thanks everyone for playing along!

May your Monday be full of fun, laughter and special memories.

Until my next post. . . . . .. . .

Michelle

Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar

Links to all my tutorials can be found here:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

7 Responses to “Texas Fun, Hospitality and the Blog Candy Winner”

1. # Jerri Kayon 22 Sep 2008 at 11:27 am

   Oh Michelle, it looks like you all had a blast! I hope you have a workshop in central Florida, I’d love to come as I need expertise teaching on using that brayer!

2. # julieon 22 Sep 2008 at 11:32 am

   I was planning to come to your workshop in Texas, but instead I got hit by Ike and had to leave town. I hope you come back!!!

3. # Chris Motton 22 Sep 2008 at 11:37 am

   Looks like a fun time…Of course being from Texas you need a TEXAS A& M mug to complete your Texas collection…LOL
   Thanks for sharing your awesome photos, good to see they treated you right with Texas hospitality. Chris

4. # Pattyon 22 Sep 2008 at 1:03 pm

   It sounds like you had a FANTASTIC time. I mapped it out, and Marco’s paper is about 3 1/2 hours from me. I think I might be able to talk my co-horts in crime, I mean stamping, to take your class the next time you have a beginners class at Marco’s! I keep watching for it!

5. # JoAnne Miconon 22 Sep 2008 at 1:28 pm

   looks as if a good time was had by all!!!!!!

   wish I could attend one of your classes Michelle!!!!

   maybe someday you will come to So Cal…closer to the San Fernando Valley

   hugs
   JoAnne

6. # Sharon (stampscout)on 22 Sep 2008 at 3:54 pm

   Thanks, Michelle, for the wonderful class! It was a real thrill to finally get to meet you and to learn your fabulous technique with the brayer. Glad you had a safe trip home.

   Sorry ours was such a rambunctious group . . . it was Jenn and Jeanne’s fault! LOL Can’t wait to practice what we learned (without the fingerprints this time). But, we all had fun, didn’t we!

   Hugs from “Big D!”
   Sharon aka stampscout

7. # Laurie Helgasonon 22 Sep 2008 at 5:43 pm

   Welcome back.

   Sounds like everyone had a great time.

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