We left Friday and took our time driving up - we chatted and enjoyed the sites! We even tried to find a few scrapbook places along the way! Of course the first one we tried to find ended up in a neighborhood - guess it was someones internet business! Darn! I guess it was not meant to be!
We arrived at our hotel, checked in and then decided to find the store where we were taking our Wendy Vecchi class. To our amazement, there was a truck unloading oodles of stamps!! The owner of the store saw us looking in the windows and invited us in. We looked around at all the fab paper, Tim Holtz goodies and a ton of other great items!
Here is a picture of the front of the store:
On Saturday we got up early and headed to the store - Wendy was going to be there at noon for a book signing and we wanted to be there early to look around the store, ya know in case we missed something the night before!!
Allie looking in the window at Ted from Stampers Anonymous - he was doing demos!
Pic of Wendy at the table where she was signing her book: She is a wonderful person to meet - I encourage anyone that can to take her class and meet with her to do it! I really wanted to stand close to her to see if some of her creative energy would rub off on me, however, you really don't need to stand really close to get a creative vibe from her!
2:00 Class time!!
These are some of the awesome pieces of art that Wendy brought
Here is Wendy and Allie setting up for the class ----I was the one way in the back taking pics! Not that I didn't want to help, but you know with having MS you have to conserve your energy and I wanted to save it all for the class!!
Sorry for the lines on the pic, not sure where they are coming from.Lets see how many times I can say AWESOME!!
Wendy is a great teacher and her designs were awesome and very inspiring! Here is the finished wall hanging we did in class: The class was called: Lovin' the grunge!! We got a kit and the kit had the new filmstrip ribbon, which was a blast to work with -(now if I can only get my hands on some!!) We played with the Tim Holtz masks & rock candy stickles! Fun stuff!!
The grungepaper rose was fun to make - a little frustrating to do but once you get the idea it comes very easy!
After class we scooped up our purchases and headed off to dinner and then back to the hotel to play with our goodies! Class was very inspiring and awesome!
Trip back home on Sunday - we stopped at the St. James winery and bought a few bottles of wine- then to the cheese outlet- cause i need cheese for my wine!!
Monday back to work! Whew what a great weekend we had! Thanks Allie for the laughs and the conversation!!
