Remember these friendship pins sistahs? OMG.. I had a KAJILLION on my shoes when I was young… did you? Well the symbolism of this picture is the title of this post: FRIENDSHIP. GRATITUDE. LOYALTY.
I must devote this post to all the people in my life who help me get through my days (In no particular order)
Denabella- thank you for helping me get through every day…. with our laughs, our giggles.. our non stop chit chat.. shipping, receiving, for our friendship
Helenabella- for whipping me into shape.. keeping me GROUNDED.. keeping my chin up on the hard days.. and for just being there for me
PAULABELLA and LINDABELLA for being there at a moment’s notice.. travelling with me.. working their tushies off for ME. For Stamping Bella. For expecting nothing, for being loyal, for doing beautiful work, and for just being there for me.
Ruby-my household savior.. need I say more?
For my Design Team for producing the most beautiful samples representing Stamping Bella.
For my teachers in Bellaland for continuing to spread the stamping addiction
My Friends, Family and PETS (lol)- dealing with me every day
Every day I am grateful for who has entered my life and I firmly believe that there is a reason. And for that I am grateful.
Ok, now that I am tearing up.. let’s get on to some funny recaps from the show
As you know, we just came back from ARCHIVER’S SCRAPFEST in Minnesota. This was an amazing event and we had so much fun.. SO much fun..
Line ups were crazy
I also decided at the meet n greet to be all SNAZZY and wear my shoes without socks.. OMG… have I mentioned that the mall is 27 square miles?
Needless to say it was flip flops for me for the next three days.. I can’t even tell you about the blisters but I think Lindabella saw BONE… LESIONS.. I was hobbling 🙁
Our stamps looked PHENOM in a prime spot in Archivers.. I was so proud
Between Linda and Paula teaching and me demoing, it was a crazy weekend.. met so many great people .. ate good onion rings (shh don’t tell) and had such good laughs with my friends :).
I have SO many stories to tell that I don’t know where to start.. so I think I will just leave this post as a GRATEFUL post. A thank you to everyone in my life for being in my life.
Mwah to da sistahs who love a sappy sistah
Em
{sniff} i just finished my post…with more horror…ah, detail! all documented so we know what to do and what NOT to do next year! YES…i’ll be there next year. (and we did all agree that we need to bring Dena, didn’t we?)
Grateful for what we have shared, and what lies ahead.
Glad you had a good time and OF COURSE I remember those friendship pins, OMG I had a million of them! ROFL 🙂
I can NOT get out of my head the look of your two sided blistered foot…saying you could not keep walking the mall friday night, as we headed off to find food. I can see you turn around to me and say “i can’t” as I just about p’d my pants laughing as you kept saying it and kept moving. LOL Then the horror of seeing what your foot looked like without the socks on. 🙁 Couple layers gone and thank gosh you had those flip flops!
Yes, we had so many pins on our shoes and coats and is this making a comeback??? haha
how about updated friendship pins using stamped images on shrinky-dink and small embellishments? anything to use up my stash…
and I didn’t quite understand that you were in the middle of the shopping mall until I saw your trip photos. Have to check out an Archivers next time I’m across the border.
friends are good even better when they have rubber stamps to share …