The Scrapbook Convention Report
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**LilMarcieMouse** · 11-22-2003, 11:57 PM

<font color="red"> Scrapbookers: Sue and myself

When:11/15/03

Where: Indiana State Fair Grounds </font>

<font color="blue"> The first class we had was at 10:30 am. We were up and out of the house at 9am. Sue need gas so we stopped to get some. I wanted to put my coat in the backseat, so I just throw it over my shoulder. Sue got back after paying and went to get her keys from the middle of the front seats and they were no there.

I must have knocked them off. We could not find them. I even went into the store to make sure she didn't bring them in there and left them. Nope no there but I did find $5.00.

I had my key so we used it to make it to the convention on time. We knew they must be in the car. We got there and went in to get our tickets.

Sue had reordered them for us. We found the ticket desk and picked them up. It was close to 10 am, That when the venders all opened. Sue opened the envolope she was givin to find only 1 set of tickets, NOT 2.

so back to teh window we go. Sue tells the lady she order 2 of each. The lady finds her receipt. She also asked her if she had gotten an E-amil conferming her purches and Sue says yes. The lady then stares telling her that it is her responsible for makeing sure everything is right. Then hands writes me tickets and stamps my hand so I can get in. tells us we have to deal with the instructors because the classes are full.

Ok so we sit and talk a bit about what we will do if a problem happends. I figured I had to have a spot because Sue was chareged for bth of us. They just forgot to print my tickets. We then had to find our first class. This one was the one I picked the one about useing The Sizzix. If you don't know what a Sizzix is, It's a die cut machine. I got in with no problem and there was enought stuff for me too.

The instructor was late but she was very nice. She show every the machine (we already have one) She then talked about the new things for it. The have small letters and also embossing too.

She then showed us the layout will be doing. She basicly wanted us to cut everything, since our class was cut short so she could help us, She told us just to take it all home and put it together there. The little leetters she told us about are as thin as a credit card. Very cool looking. I ended up helping some folks and had to rush to cut my stuff.

Don't get me wrong I didn't mind helping but it took a lot of my time up.I did get it all cut out without help I just took anther machine to use.

We had a bit of time so we ran to the bathroom and then went to find the next class that started at noon. This was the Piglet layout. I also got in with no problem and there was enough stuff too for that class. We had a pack that had every thing to make the layout with and we got a small scrapbook too.

She had us cut some of the mattings and showed us where stuff should go. That was page one. It had Piglet on white that was on green,The word Piglet across and the top and a spot for a photo. The second page had the Shaker box on it with a saying about good things come in small packages on the top and a spot for a photo. The shaker box was a pre made one that has sticky stuff on it. you first put the bottom down and then add what you want to put in it. Ours were pink squres. We put a stick in it for a back graound and added small beads. Then you put the clear plastic part on and add the top square, and it was done very easy. The shaker boxes come in lots of shapes and colors. there are 4 diffrent sizes in the one package.

We also had an extra page the we did Quilling for. This was a Mickey page. (mine is not done so I don't have a photo of it) Quilling is when you have a metal thing that at the ttop has a split and you put the Quilling paper in it and roll it. We made Mickey heads.

This page was black and white. with a saying that when I can I will write it down. I wish I d=ahd gotten a piture of this lay out but it was underglass and I didn't want to try to get it. When mine is done I'll take on of it and post it. I did get a picture of an Eeyore one she had.

By this time it was after 1pm and we were hungery, so off the the food for lunch. I had a Hamburger and Sue got a hotdog. We shared fries and we got 2 waters. The cost was over $10.00.

It was way expensive for food and drinks. Soda was like $3.00 alone.

It was now time to look around. Almost every vender had some thing Disney. I did find a mat for my Slpash picture. AS Sue paid for that and some other Die cuts we got I saw a demanstration for an eyelet machine. It's very simple and you can put them anywhere on the page. Of couse we bought it. We also bought a kit to do Mosaic pictres. That when we decied it was time to go.

There was a Christmas and Hobbie show too so we went to that. I ran into some Elvie

there. We didn't do much shopping but it was nice too look around. then we headed home.

We had a lot of fun and are going back next year for some more classes. If you need more info just ask. I don't know if I left anything out. Click here to see the pictures. </font>