CHA highlights
So…real-life stick figure celebrities aside, what was good stuff was to be found at CHA this year?
While not strictly craft-related, palm trees are always a good start. Especially in January.
Getting more on-topic then: this fabric line by Donna Downey for Prima. It’s so lovely. Totally excited to use this fabric album for something soon. The pages are made from canvas with big chunky eyelets. Scrummy.
And hey—that is Donna Downey herself.
This wood veneer album is one of my favourite things of the show…but it’s going to retail for $20 (and assumedly £20) for a 6×6 book. Oh, how torn I am! Love it…but it’s pricey. C’est la vie.
The TwoPeas cupcake social was great fun, but somehow I took all of three photographs? This is the delightful and super-sweet Sande Krieger (in the centre) plus supercute CD Muckosky on the right and someone I don’t know (feel free to identify yourself!) Dina Wakley who I’m also sure I know is awesome on the left. And clearly something was very funny. It could have been anything really. It was that sort of afternoon.
Other things that were lovely…
...my super-secret bargain accommodation shared with three roomies.
...adorable red mazda rental car! that I did not crash!
...PAPER! In particular…Craft Fair by American Crafts, Just Chillin’ and Great Escape from Making Memories, Traveler from Little Yellow Bicycle, Margarita from GCD, every single thing at My Little Shoebox and approximately six gazillion other adorable pieces of paper that I long to make my own.
Also, I may have been tempted into finally succumbing to some sort of digital cutting system. It hurts to think about it. But I tried the even more…and there is one that is releasing one of my favourite fonts on its system…and there is one that doesn’t need cards so I could cut that font plus lots of others…the jury is out. Do I need to cut things? Without scissors? It feels very foreign and quite wrong to me. And yet…it could help make cool stuff! And sometimes I am reduced to that amount of simplicity. It’s shameful.
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