April 23, 2007
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So on Saturday I was going to the show right? There was a possibility I was going to meet some sistahs so I had to dress nicey nicey… I squeezed on a few outfits and finally decided to wear a pair of jeans a top and this gorgeously stunning olive colored suede blazer… do you see where I am going here? I look at hub, he says beautiful darliiiink, i get in the car, get to the show and realize.. I look like a STUFFED PICKLE in that blazer! Of course, instead of shutting my mouth and keeping pickle thoughts to myself, I get to Cherished Scrapbooks booth, immediately disturb Nicky in the midst of a demo and say “tell me the truth.. do I look like a stuffed pickle”.. she looks at me as usual with the “you are on crack” expression and I just settle down and try to forget about this pickle business…
I failed to mention that while I was so focused on my pickly outfit as I walked into the show, my peripheral vision caught sight of a booth of baskets.. woven baskets.. As you all know by now, I am OBSSESSED with baskets, boxes, bowls, cases, wheely totes etc.. anything that ‘houses’ something else.. but at that point, I could NOT stop at the basket booth.. I had to get to Nicky ASAP to discuss ‘pickledom’… Anyway, I hung around the booth for a little while, playing with stamps and colours and Odorless mineral spirits and I spot this cute blonde lady who looks at me and whispers ‘do you know who I am?”.. and I of course knew right away… it was ROBBY.. a doll, a crazy loony tune like all of us but most of all… such a TRUE ‘sistah’ in every sense of the word. I lovey. Of course, guess what almost the first thing I said to her was? “I look like a stuffed pickle”.. LOL! We blabbed and walked around the show together.. I showed her an amazing demo that I love so much and can’t achieve with watercolor paper and tombow markers a technique done by Krista Schneider.. a wonderful artist and has AMAZING AMAZING stamps (check her out at www.sunshinedesigns.ca . She is a true doll and wonderful artist and honestly, her technique is not to be beat…!I hope you likey her stuff cuz I sure do :). Nothing like supporting a Canadian talented female entrpreneur! So we watched that together walked up a coupla aisles etc.. I then ended up on my own.. and guess where the first place I went to was? Of course the basket place… So not only did I fall in love with the basket
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but I bought it… I feel like I did a good deed as I got the whole story as to how many people are employed to make these baskets etc…
I decide to schlep this basket all around the show with me.. I bought a Diet Coke and I put it in this GINORMOUS basket and watched it slide back and forth the whole time.. well at least until I filled it with goodies!.. I went to Nicky to show off and she says to me ‘you gonna schlep that basket all over the show? why don’t you just leave it at the booth? That was her kind way of telling me I looked like an EEJIT (idiot) walking around with that basket… TOO BAD.. I loved that basket.. and I went to buy some veggies after the show and I quickly called Nicky to tell her that 4 grocery bags fit in there and it only took me one trip with the food from the car… USUALLY TAKES 100 million trips and drives me NUTS… ok back to the show… After walking a little further, I met 3 wonderful cousins who I have known for a long time.. these 3 women are so special and love each other so much and share the same passion for the craft.. they go to all the shows together, they stamp together, take classes together and exude such a warmth about them that you just feel instantly attracted to them… They are Maralyn, Karen and Esther.. They have supported me from the get go and I can’t thank them enough (plus I know they read this blog so more brownie points for meeeeeee- just kiddinK).. All three look at me and say “WE TOO are bare minerals women”.. I was so excited plus now I know their secret 🙂 *winks*
So I bought a few goodies (including a Swarovski Heat setter-JUST what I needed-NOT).. don’t ask.. but if I ever do anything with it, I will be SURE to post…
Anything else I have to share? OH ya.. here are a coupla pics from the booth of Nicky alone and Nicky and Dianne (they are the two that made the awesome best kept secret DVD Inkitup
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I think the stuffed pickle is done for tonight.. hmmmm
I think I am gonna post another bellafella..or fellabella.. not sure which way it goes yet *winks*
MWAH! MWAH ! MWAH! And if you came to the show to see me, I am SOO SOO SOOO sorry I missed you 🙁
Em
Oh I LOVE hitchedafella!!! How cute! I couldn’t get it to “enlarge”…so I can look over every fine detail, lol…guess I’ll check back later, grrr. I so love reading your blog, you make me laugh with your humor:)
Muah,
Tanya
I love the hitchedfella – I am getting married in September and I now have found my thank you card image.
Its priceless like all your designs.
You’re a nut you know that?? But then I tell you that a lot don’t I?????? *grin* you really gave me a chuckle over the “stuffed pickle”…..ROFL!!!
And I LOVE hitchedafellabella – I want it!!!! It is SO cute!!
you are so funny – I’m sitting at work (shhhhhhhhh) reading your blog and laugh out loud at the pickle jacket because that is **so exactly** what I would do!!! You are the bomb and never ever ever ever change cuz I adore you! (scary stalking stamping sistah!).
oh and I love baskets, boxes, totes and everything and anything that will ‘house’ (as you put it) something else!
Your day sounds perfect .. no matter what you think you look like.
That basket! Will Bella get a basket too?
I got tears in my eyes when I saw hitchedfella.
To paraphrase old autograph books:
Bella and Fella
Sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
MWWWAAAHH
Bella and Fella
First comes love
Then comes marriage
Along comes a baby carriage!
Soon we’ll see him with a pram!
Pramafella? Sounds cute! Should we see him sometime in early summer?
Hitchedfella is great, I love his stylin shoes! I can’t wait for more. : )
Fella needs some brothahs… I love hitchedafellabella… but that’s NOT the same sistah he went to prom with!!!! LOL j/k!
You have such energy-I can feel it from your Blog entries. Sounds like the show was a hit. Beautiful basket by the way. I wish I could have gone. Any in Montreal? Thanks for sharing the photos and the story.
-Mary Lou
Hahaha, I would have loved to have seen a stuffed pickle photo Em, I’m sure you were exaggerating! Surely DH wouldn’t let you go out of the house looking like a vegetabel? :p (is a pickle a vegetable? I suppose it must be…) Sounds like you had a great time, thanks for sharing and descibing it in your funny way, you had me in stitches again :D!
Haha — you’re such a goofball!!! A stuffed pickle….hmph! I’m sure you looked fabulous (I’ve seen your picture, you are beautiful!!!)
You make me laugh 🙂
Sounds like you had fun and that’s what counts, right? Your commentary makes me laugh – soooo funny! Wish I could have been there and met you! Love the new fellabella – too cute!
Sounds like you had a great day Em! I love Hitchedafellabella and have added them to my cart. I can’t believe I am working on order #9 already! 🙂 Keep them coming I can’t just order one. LOL 🙂
THE *REAL* TRUTH ABOUT EMILY !
Ok guys, don’t let Emily’s wackey-phrases, terms, abbreviations, and the expression “MWAH” trick you into thinking that she’s some nut-job, with uncontrollable hair and ink all over her … ohhh and let’s not forget strips of rubber hanging off her. HA
Emily is the MOST appealing, bubbly, honest, straight-forward, AUTHENTIC woman you shall ever have the pleasure of meeting 🙂 Emily’s personality instantly makes you feel warm and comforted, like you’ve known her your entire life.
The Pickle thing? Listen, anytime a woman can wear a phenomenial suede jacket, with the slighest hint of eye shadow to match, ain’t no PICKLE in my book !?!?! The *basket thing* hehehehe … well that’s another story TOTALLY! MWAH!
Ohhh and did I mention that I think Emily use to be a runway model, who did shows for Victoria Secret? I seem to remember her with a pair of wings flapping on her back? heheheheeee
Miss Emily Bella, is a benevolent soul ~ both inside and out :0)
Robby
Sounds like a gem of a friend Robby – we are all lucky to know Miss Emmabella even if only through the net. 🙂 I know I feel blessed to have found her and the Bellas. Now my hubby and my credit cards may feel different. LOL
Back to Hitchedafellabella for a minute…I just got a wedding invite in the mail for this August! Now I really can tell my hubby I “NEED” this stamp. Got ta love it!!!
MWAH!!!
Hey there…..just wanted to say to Emily….on behalf of the ‘cousins’….right back at ya! Robyn’s comments are so right on. And, we also agree you sure didn’t look like a stuffed pickle to us – you looked stunning. And, you don’t need bare minerals to enhance your already flawless complexion.
We are truly the lucky ones to have you here with us. And, with your sidekick Nicky- who I might add is the sweetest, nicest, most caring teacher in the world – how could we not love stamping as much as we do!
Your blog is the best…..when I get ‘stressed’ out at work and need a break this is where I come for a good chuckle, comic relief etc. To read your tales and the comments of others is just too relaxing – a few minutes of this and I’m ready to get back to the task at hand.
I forgot to mention – we love the bella stamps too – that goes without saying!
Thanks for everything you have done for all of us!!!!!!
Ok Emily…I so wanted to comment on your blog when you first went ‘live’ to congratulate and compliment you all to heck and to thank you for the A-dorable stamps you have brought to this fantastic money-pit of a craft which we are so crazy about…but was a-scared to…but now my DC Maralyn has inspired me (as she and Karen always do) to bite the bullet and go on-line to say thank you…besides…how could we not thank you for your kind, warm and lovely acknowledgement of the ‘cousins’…I was SO excited and touched and teary-eyed when I read that. It also gives us the opportunity to let you and the sistah’s world know we think you and Nicky are just the capital B-Best! and how fortunate we are that we know the both of you, live and in person, and must be the envy of those who can only read about you and wonder and dream. Well wonder no more envious people… Emily and Nicky inspire and make people feel good about themselves, about what they’re creating…and just plain happy to be around them…
As for this stuffed pickle thing…au contraire mon soeur-tah…it was one of those shoulda moments…I really was going to tell you how beautiful and svelte you looked and how I loved your jacket…really…and when I read your tale of the stuffed pickle learned one should say what one is thinking when one has the opportunity. So a belated you looked beautiful and svelte and I totally loved your totally gorgeous green jacket. Thank you Emily for your hilarious blog and for creating stamps for all situations and especially stamps I can use on cards for my 11-going-on-21-year-old-niece for whom I was always stumped as to what to do. A big hug to you and Nicky…you both are lovely and loved…xox…