Back From Anaheim

I went to the Craft and Hobby Association trade show in Anaheim earlier this week with Jackie Ludlage and Heather Starosielski,  my friends and colleagues from Canadian Scrapbooker.  We had a fantastic trip!  The voyage there and back was on time, no luggage was lost, everything went smoothly.  This is very unusual for us.  ;-)

I took no photographs, but there are some excellent photos on other blogs on the web - one of my favourites are the links on the Treasured Memories blog, and there also some good photos on the Scraptivity blog.  There were some wonderful new products and I can't wait to see them in stores someday soon.  One of the tools I'd love to get my hands on is an electronic edge distresser from Zutter - it is fast, powerful and works on cardboard or many pieces of cardstock at the same time. 



Another innovation I really liked is the adaptor kit to make the Making Memories Slice hands-free.  You can read all about it here Making Memories blog.  I don't usually mind holding the Slice (it never takes long), but having the hands free option is very cool.

Also keep an eye out for stunning new papers and embellishments from many companies.  The releases from Websters Pages, Pink Paislee and Cosmo Cricket were among my favourites.

Here's a couple of photos I 'borrowed' from the Scraptivity blog (thanks, Barb!).  Many of the Canadians that were in Anaheim got together for dinner, including a Crazy Canuck dinner with over 30 people organized by Trisha Ladouceur (thanks Trish!).  It was an amazing time.  So nice to see old friends and meet new ones.   :-)

Dinner at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Company with Barb and Tony Starace, Heather, Katharina and Jackie from Canadian Scrapbooker, Bettina from MyStampBox and Nathalie Kalbach from Hamburg, Germany.  Happy Birthday, Tony!

Me, Heather and Trisha at the Crazy Canuck dinner