Here is my awesome friend Cindy Petersen. She was so kind to invite us to her house to stamp right after we arrived in Salt Lake but first she took us to lunch at Cafe Rio's (yummmm!). She had the cutest stamp room!

This is all of us who went!  (Susan, me, Mary Jo, Christie, Cindy, Angie and Sharon)We had such a great time! I miss everyone already.

Cindy had 4 really cute projects for us to make and I think I could have stayed there all day just checking out all of the cool things in her stamp room.

This is my good friend Sharon Armstrong.

The theme of the day! If you look closely you can see my reflection in the picture.

This is Angie Adams. She is so cute and I am really glad I got to meet her.

Here is Cindy being silly!

Most of you know that I just returned from the Stampin' Up convention in Salt Lake City. It was such a blast to spend a week with so many great friends and learn lots of wonderful new ideas. My head was exploding from all of the cool projects I saw there. But, one of the best things about convention (besides seeing all of my friends of course) is all the FREE stuff you get! This is just part of my freebie pile. I still got lots of swaps and gifts from friends too.  The pink and orange bag is the one that everyone got as a convention bag and it was filled with lots of goodies and stamp sets. Then the other bag with the flowers on it is my Founder's Circle bag. I got that one for being in the top 100 demos in the country. I earned spot  #23 this year. I couldn't have done it without all of my wonderful customers and downline. They are super duper fantastic!!! Then on the last day of convention, Shelli surprised us all with a packet of goodies from the new Holiday mini coming out in about a month! The crowd went wild when she announced it and the Stampin Up employees brought them all out for everyone. It was one crazy day! Convention is such a fantastic time for everyone who goes. It is like a giant slumber party with all of your girlfriends for the week. No cooking, cleaning, kids, laundry at all!!! Just FUN! I encourage all demonstrators to go next year if you have never been to experience the excitement of it all.

 Stampin' Up's new Catalog is finally here! Stop by and pick up your copy today! You will love it! There are so many awesome stamp sets and accessories to pick from!

Many of you know that I took my daughter Lindsey with me on the Stampin Up Caribbean cruise this year instead of my husband. He is the adventurous one so when Lindsey wanted to go zip lining in St. Lucia,  I was kind of in a panic because I am terrified of heights. So, luckily my wonderful friend Melissa and her husband David adopted Lindsey for the day and took her zipping through the rainforest. Here are a few pics of their adventure. This is them getting all prepped and ready to go.

Here is Lindsey on one of her zips. She is coming in for a landing! She was a little scared at first but then once she did it, she was ok and had a great time.

The guides were very helpful at making sure everything was safe.

She made it!

After the adventure was over, they stopped to take some pictures of the incredible trees and landscaping. What a wonderful treat for Lindsey especially since her friends were back at school doing work while she was flying through the forest on the tropical island of St. Lucia. I am sure she will never forget  that day. Thanks to Melissa and David for taking good care of her!

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.

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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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.

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.

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!

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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