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More pics from Leadership

I went to my upline's meeting last night and had to do a little speech on how much fun Leadership was and for me, the best part is always seeing my friends from all over the country. These are pictures from our last night together at Leadership. We were all bummed about going home because we had so much fun all week (plus we were all going home to freezing cold weather after enjoying 70's in Phoenix). A bunch of us went to Uno's Pizza for dinner and ended up staying for hours just talking. The weather was so nice we ate outside.

Here are my friends Lisa Fast and Dena Rekow. Lisa is from South Dakota and said it was like 30 below zero where she lived so they closed the whole state down because it was too dangerous to go outside. I can't even imagine. I am not a cold weather person. I want to live in Florida one day so it is warm most of the year.

Here are Tami White, her mom and her downline and my awesome roomie Terri.

Here are Pam, me and Tami. 

Ok, I have to throw in something stamped here. This is a really cool box that Shelli decorated. Of course if Shelli made it, it is gorgeous!  I love the way she makes everything shabby chic (vintage) looking.

A few of my favorite swaps!

I am posting just a few of my favorite swaps from Leadership. These are actually some of my roommate Terri's swaps that I took pictures of so I don't have the names of who made them. If one of these is yours, let me know and I will add your name on here. Loved these cards. Of course almost any card with that Vintage Vogue set will be one of my favorites. Can you say Gorgeous??? I love that set!

Note: This top card was made by my good friend Cheryl Flynn and I didn't even know it! I love it. Great job Cheryl!

Hope you all are having a fabulous day. I will post more tomorrow. I have my downline meeting tonight so I have to go prepare for that….I am so far behind! 

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Pics from Leadership

Here are a few pictures from Leadership….these are just a few of the many friends that I have made being a Stampin Up demo all these years. I can't wait to go to Stampin Up events to see all of my friends from everywhere in the country. Stampin Up is such a great company to work for and the friendships I have made here will last a lifetime. The 1st one is my awesome roommate Terri and I.

Here is me with my great friend Kimberly Van Diepen.

This is my awesome friend Cindy Petersen. She always makes me smile!

These are pics from the Managers Receptions. Our table was set up so nice, I had to take a picture.

Here is Kimberly getting down!

This is my good friend Max who is also a Sam at Stampin Up. She always keeps everyone laughing.

Here are Max, Christie and Cindy acting silly!

I promise to show stamping ideas from Leadership tomorrow.

Founder’s Circle swaps

I thought I would post a couple of my favorite Founder’s Circle swaps. There were so many awesome ones, it was hard to choose just a few so I will be posting more all month.

This first one was Shelli’s swap card. It is always a treat to get a card from her and even though she made a full card in case we wanted to give it away, I doubt anyone will part with it.

This card was made by my friend Jeanna Cable. I think this one is gorgeous.

and this one was made by Susie Wood. I think this Autumn Splendor set is one of my favorites from the Holiday Mini.

Ok, I am almost done posting Founder’s Circle stuff….

I just have so much fun stuff to share from Founder’s Circle….. I will post some of the swaps starting tomorrow.

Here is another pic from the pajama party. I stole this one off Kimberly’s blog since she hasn’t sent me the originals yet. She is my photographer. That is Dawn Rapsas, me, Christie Schroeger, and Dawn Griffith. We all helped Dawn R. with her swaps and we were covered in glitter from head to toe. We finished them with about 2 minutes to spare.  

This is Cori Hancock and Bonnie Thurber . They both work at Stampin Up and made our trip extra special. They are so much fun.

Here are BJ Peters, Cheryl Flynn, and Tami White. I had so much fun hanging out with them last week.

This was the gathering place where we did our make and takes and just hung out. It was so relaxing in there.

Stampin Up had a huge stash of candy in the gathering place for us. Everytime you went in there, there were tables of candy all around the room so you always had to stop and grab some. This is Tami and Leasa sneaking some…..

 This is our farewell dinner the last night. We went to a country club called The Ledges which was gorgeous. I am in the front row center wearing a black top. If you get a magnifying glass you can see me!

Just a couple more of my faves….

I had a couple more swap pics to show you. These were 2 of my favorites!  I loooooooove that new Medallion stamp and the clock on top of it is just gorgeous! I don’t know who made it, but I love it!  The cake one is really cute too. The last picture is of me and my best friend Kimberly Van Diepen. We both were in the top 10 this year for demo of the year (she was #2 and I was #8). I thought this was a great picture of us up on the big screen as we went up on stage for one of the marches. I think this one was for promotions in your downline. Convention was such a blast this year. I hated to have to leave all of my friends after such a great week. The good part is I will get to see most of them again next month at the Stampin Up Founder’s Circle retreat in St. George Utah.

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More pics from convention….

Here are a few more pics from convention. These are swaps that my roomie Terri got and  I took pictures of them. I don’t know who made them since I don’t have the originals. I just went through her samples and took pictures of the ones I liked the most.

I love this one with the Movers and shapers big shot die.

Note: I found out this one was made by my friend Robin Merriman!

Another one made with the big shot die….the Big Shot is by far my favorite Stampin Up tool. You can just do so many things with it.

This is my SAM (service account manager) Terri. She works at Stampin Up and makes my life so much easier. Whenever I have a problem, she is always there to help.  She is such a sweet person. Once you earn a free trip through Stampin Up, you are assigned your own SAM and it is such a nice perk. It gives you a direct connection to the company and makes you feel extra special!

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Pics From Convention!

I finally am getting a free minute to post some convention pics….I will post cards and stuff later but I wanted to post some of my friends and I first.

This is me with my friends Adrian, Terri (my roomie), and Tiffany. We are just hanging out waiting for general session to begin.

This is Terri and I at Debbie McNeil’s get together. These are gourmet cupcakes that were so yummy!

This is me, Debbie (one of my fabulous downline) and my roomie Terri out for a wonderful dinner at Cafe Molise.

Here is a pic from the top ten demos of the year on stage.  That is me in the back and my best friend Kimberly Van Diepen to the right and Shelli to her right. Joanne Wiemers and Dawn Rapsas are in front. Dawn was #1, Kimberly was #2 and I was #8 and I think Joanne was #6. We all had a great year and I can’t wait to see all of my friends at the Founder’s Circle retreat next month. It is such a treat getting to spend the week with such an awesome group of women and it is total relaxation! No work, no stress…..just hang out with your girlfriends. Thanks to all of my awesome customers and downline for helping me make the top 10 this year!

Here is a pic from our last day together at convention. It is bittersweet when it comes to an end. You can’t wait to get home, but you hate to leave all of your friends. This is Debbie, me, Kimberly, and Terri just after breakfast.

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Last bunch of Hawaii pics… I have so many good ones!

This is my last batch of Hawaii pics….I know you guys are probably sick of looking at them. I just have so many to share. I promise I will go back to stamping pictures tomorrow…..

This is Dania, me, Shelli, Melissa and Robin at the airport when we first arrived in Hawaii. Shelli was on our plane!

Each night we received a gift on our bed when we came back from dinner. Here are the first 2 gifts….our cool Hawaiian bag and the palm leaf bag was filled with goodies like macadamia nuts, popcorn, cookies, and chocolate!

Here is one of my very best friends, Kimberly Van Diepen (acting goofy as usual) and her husband Russ.

Here we are with a bunch of our friends eating dinner at Roy’s. We had a great time and the food was awesome. We had the best waiter too. I wish we had that restaurant here.

This was our gift on the last night…. a pretty necklace with Aloha on it.

Ok, I figured I had to throw in a card somewhere or you might get mad! They had a hospitality room set up for us at the hotel and there were tons of samples on display. THis was one of them that I really liked. I will share more tomorrow.

More pics from Hawaii!

I just had to post some more pics of our trip….

These are a bunch of my fabulous friends that we hung out with on the trip. Cindy and Lindsey are on the left, me and Chris are in the middle, and Max and Lance are on the right. Max is actually a SAM at Stampin Up and she also earned the trip. She is the first Stampin Up employee to earn it as a demonstrator. We were having a blast at the Luau in this pic.

  Here are a bunch of us goofing off. My friend Kimberly is the one laughing hysterically. Usually I am the one that looks like that!

Here are me, Cindy and Christie with the scary looking guy. They were walking around hamming it up in the photos. They were on stilts or something to make them like 10 feet tall.

Different scary guy posing with my good friends Kimberly, Denise and Terri. 

This was at the restaurant we went to the last night in Hawaii. It was super windy and there were a bunch of guys surfing out there but you can’t see them in the pic.

This is some art work that Chris made in the lava rocks. He took the white coral rocks and spelled out Stampin Up! It will probably be there forever now. There is graffiti all over the island but instead of spray paint, everyone uses rocks. It is really cool looking.