Friday the 13th!!!

June 16, 2008 on 4:32 pm | In Uncategorized |

What a beautiful day it was! This was the day we said hello to our granddaughter! She is adorable - like we expected anything less, just not quite so soon. She was born three and a half weeks earlier than expected and will have to stay in NICU for a few more days, but mommy and baby are both doing great. As you can imagine, I’ll have my hands full for a couple of weeks, but I did promise to let you know about the Arlington scrapbook show, so here’s just a few highlights,

It’s always been a great show with a wide variety of vendors, great workshops and crops. People have been coming to this show from all over Texas and neighboring states for years, but with the price of gas on the rise, I don’t think there were quite as many people there this year. I may be wrong though, since I was there on Thursday which has always been the slowest day. There were a few scrapbook stores who had booths there and I was really glad to see that - so many stores have closed in this area I wasn’t sure which ones were still left. I know I can buy anything online these days, but I’m one who likes to see things up close and personal. I may be exaggerating, but it seemed as if 50% of the vendors were selling acrylic albums and word albums, other than that there wasn’t anything new that really jumped out. There were more vendors offering online services to professionally print albums for us and a couple of vendors offering to put slides and old reel to reel film on CD or DVD. I have lots of old film, so I’ll probably give them a try, but I’m not sure about slides. Our projector still works and we have literally thousands of slides (my film of choice in the 60’s & 70’s and I had a half frame camera). I think we’d have to take out a 2nd mortgage to get those on an electronic file that may be obsolete 5-10 years from now. Technology is moving so quickly, I still like my 35mm negs! I know they’ll still be around. Hybrid was THE buzzword at the big trade show in January, but I didn’t really see it being promoted at the consumer show. Digital Scrapbook Memories had a busy booth - I really love their CD’s - lots and lots of great images to use for all kinds of paper crafting. One booth had a great selection of 12″ x 12″ lace paper from Ki Memories and there was lots of felt from Queen & Co. Spellbinders was busy, busy, busy. If you aren’t familiar with the company, they have a die cutting machine (the Wizard) and the most remarkable dies. They look like brass stencils, but they both cut and emboss and the designs are great. Best of all, their dies can be used in other die cutting machines.

Well, that’s it for now, have a great day everybuddy and happy craftin’………….

Yours truly, Julie :)

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