Yesterday's winner is AMY who left a comment at 6:42 AM (bright and early!) but no email address. Amy, email me!! You're going to love this!
Okay, I know I didn't post enough pictures yesterday (I was seriously still groggy from the trip and flight so I couldn't manage much) but I'll be better today.
I flew up Wednesday with Heather and her mom Linda and between the great company and the Dramamine it was a great flight (and I'm not too crazy about flying). We were tired when we got there but Isaac's sister Maureen had a fun day planned so off we went with her and Isaac's mom, Elinor Peace Bailey (hey, she's got a picture of us all there), and Eleanor's assistant Beth. Super fun group! We hit Bolt first and the cute stores there on Alberta (this was a scary neighborhood when I was growing up there so it's great to see it turned into a fun, hip place). Then we headed over to Mississippi Ave (again a formerly not-so-great neighborhood turned into a hot spot) for an amazing lunch at Gravy and some fun shopping. Here's a picture I took at this fun store called Flutter where I snagged some cute yo-yos (the up and down kind, not the fabric kind), pretty lace, and lilac soap.
Then we headed over to this amazing hole-in-the-wall chocolate shop off of Burnside where I had a rich and yummy mocha. I couldn't even finish it but the next morning I added the gloppy, yummy stuff at the bottom of the cup (which was still in my rental car) to my fresh coffee and man, that was good. You can see the cute little gal that helped us in the mirror on the upper right.
On Thursday after all the Schoolhouse classes (where I got all the freebies I'm sharing) I went over to the Pearl District for a fun gathering of bloggers and designers at a great restaurant called Oba (haha, I accidently typed it in as "Ova" first. Not sure how a restaurant with that name would fly!). The party was hosted by Kathy Miller of Michael Miller and Caroline of J Caroline Creative (lots of great pictures here!) fame. I was rubbing shoulders with some seriously fun fabric and magazine types and couldn't believe I was hanging with all these people whom I have greatly admired from a distance. A HUGE Thank You to Sandi for getting me on the invite list!! Wow!
Here are my poorly lit photos (I shall call them "artsy").
Here is Elinor's assistant Beth, Heather, and Charlotte Barnard the deputy editor of Country Living magazine (!!!).
This is Caroline, Charlotte, Paula Prass, and myself. This is my "Just smile and act like you belong and everything will be fine" face. Still pinching myself.
Here is Heather's display over at the Westminster corner (the best corner in the place really). I'm selling the sample dresses on ebay because Heather is letting me (if somebody buys them and chops them up into little pieces I don't want to hear about it!).
Here's some eye candy to tide you over until tomorrow. It's Tanya Whelan's gorgeous booth with her new fabric. Gaga!
Aaannnnndddd....here's today's give-away. Two cute fat eighth packs from the nice people at Benartex. Just leave a comment. More tomorrow!