They FINALLY moved the expo from the SJ fairgrounds and put it in Santa Clara at their beautiful convention center, just down the street from Dave's work. The classes had real walls and carpeting even! The food offerings were fabulous...nice salads, yummy looking lasagna and no huge lines for it! The shopping hall was great too...you wern't tripping o
ver everyone to get around! I think they could start allowing rolling bags here because there was actually room for them for once! One of the coolest things that I found were these letters at Rusty Pickle. Of course I haven't used them yet, but just looking at them gives me all sorts of ideas! Some classes were as usual not so good...took a Basic Grey class that was too basic and not worth the price at all. Had some fun classes with Lance from Rusty Pickle and as always came out with great projects-including a mini book in a jar. Then I had a GREAT class! Find Out What's In...It was taught by the expo staff and I wasn't expecting much but the instructor was fabulous! Beyond the layouts that we made in class, she gave design ideas, interesting techniques and was so into what she does! She teaches for the expo throughout California and I will definitely take more classes with her! The other really good class was taught by Katherine Brooks with Deluxe Designs. The project was just ok to me, but beyond what we made in class, she showed a bunch of slides with other project ideas, told funny stories & was just great fun! She also talked about the importance of everyone scrapping about themselves...she even gave us a challenge, make a layout about ourselves & e-mail it to her...those that did would get some goodies from her. Of course I sent a layout to her & she sent me a huge package of goodies...die cuts, shapes, tags, and the one book of hers that I didn't have yet!
What a fun day!
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