Second Day at Convention

Hi,

Friday at Convention was a wonderful day.

Our day started with Main Stage presentations and also some "walks".  You get to celebrate your achievements at different times during Convention.  In the morning they did the Annual Sales walks.

I was nervous going up onto the stage, but it was pretty neat to look out at 3500+ people!

I crossed the stage with Kari.  She is from Kingston and also earned the 20K award this year.  She is part of our "group" and is so much fun to spend time with!  We were so glad (excited!!) that we could go across the stage together!

During Main Stage, we heard about the MDS2 program that is due out in August.  They have made about 75 changes/additions to the program and it sounds amazing!  I'm going to start using it, so watch out!!!  We also had great stamping demonstrations from Shannon West and Bonnie Thurber.  I love them both!  (I secretly want to be related to them...!) 

Shannon gave us a quick peek at this amazing project.  I'll tell you more about it in an upcoming post!!

After Main Stage was over, I went and worked on my "Make & Takes" with my new Convention Stamp sets.  I didn't get ANY of my Make & Takes done this year - I guess I was too tired!!!  I'll have some work to do in the next few weeks to get them done!

I attended two great classes after that.  The first class was called "I Am Having Fun".  Shannon West lead the class and it was fabulous!  Adele and I sat together and had great fun dancing along to Barry White during the class.  :)

The class was all about remembering that stamping and Stamping Events should be fun for everyone.  All the senses should be "happy" during an event.  It should look good, sound good, smell good, taste good and feel good!  That makes "sense" to me!  Hee hee!

My next class was called "I Am A Leader" with Brian Pilling.  I got a kick out of the fact that he really wanted to call it "I am a Bad Leader" and tell us what NOT to do.  Instead, he did a great job keeping it positive and was able to teach us what he wanted by using the well-known fairy tale, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".  

I liked how he got us to write real goals for ourselves with timelines.  One of my goals is to have more of a schedule for my Stampin' Up! stuff.  I want to be a bit more organized in my approach instead of just fitting things in here and there.  

After that class we went back to Main Stage.  Shelli did a neat stamping presentation and I laughed out loud (as did everyone else) when she showed us a new product and said "If you don't order this, something is WRONG with you!!"  

During this Main Stage session, I got to cross the stage for earning a 100K award this year.  Adele was able to snap a quick picture of me while I was up there:

We ate a fabulous supper at P.F. Chang's that night and then zipped back to the hotel to do our "Shoebox Swap".  I'll post pictures of that in another blog entry.  

Hope you're enjoying the pictures and all my babble!  

Andra