The One with CHA Winter 2013

It's CHA time! Almost as good as Christmas :)

When you're greeted by this outside, you know it's going to be a great day!

Since Jane won't take a bottle, I brought her along. 

She was my little sidekick/accessory and was a smashing hit with all the ladies, and a few gentlemen, including Greg who was missing his kiddos.

As I stood in line to get my badge, I was told it had already been printed and I had to contact someone from American Crafts to bring it to me. Yeah, I don't have anyone's phone number... so I snuck in! I was prepared to leave my phone as collateral, but no need, no one stopped me.

I headed straight to the AC booth to get my badge and check everything out. Amazing as always.

Thickers wall. 'Nuf said.

The Dear Lizzy booth - filled to the brim with prettiness as always.

The new Crate Paper line by Maggie Holmes is simply stunning. I hope I can get my hands on some!

And of course the Amy Tangerine booth - always fun things there! Notice Amy is holding Jane - I had to practically pry Jane back out of her arms several times :)

I walked briskly through the entire show and saw some fabulous things.

Super cute boy and girl baby-themed lines by my good friend and co-worker Alisha Gordon for Echo Park Paper Co. (go Alisha!!):


A cute party set-up at Pebbles:

Halfway through walking the floor, Jane fell asleep. I could have taken a nap right then and there on this here bed too!

More lovlies:





Lunch break! She was a happy girl to have a full tummy.

I stopped by the Northridge Publishing booth to say what's up to the head honcho and fellow employees.

I don't even know what this is all about.

Must have: washi tape dispenser!

I spy a fox at the Lawn Fawn booth!

I sneakily snapped photos of Becky Higgins and Tim Holtz.

I'm much too shy to go up and talk to people of their caliber. Becky Higgins and her Project Life business are now teamed up with American Crafts, so we kind of like work together now, which is crazy cool! When I first started working at my local scrapbooking store when I was 16, her book "My Creative Companion" was THE book to have. We couldn't keep it on our shelves!

She's one of the first well-known/famous scrapbookers and I hope to get up the guts to talk to her one day :)

In addition to stalking Becky and Tim, I also got to meet some fellow scrappers that I admire!

Left to right:
Amy Tan (of Amy Tangerine) || Stephanie Howell || Shimelle Laine (aka Glitter Girl)
Elle Price (of Elle's Studio) || Elizabeth Kartchner (aka Dear Lizzy) || Diana Waite, Heather Leopard, and Amy again.

I was in my element all.day.long!

PS - I'll be hosting a chat on the 2Peas website at 9am Pacific Time TODAY if you wanna stop by and say hi and ask any pressing questions you may have!