Cincinnati, OH - August 7 & 8, 2009

Stampaway, USA XVII was fun as always. The theme for the Friday night party was "Wear Your Art Out" and many of the vendors and customers did. The party on Friday night is from 7:45 to 11pm and it's always great to see the costumes. We caught some of the stampers for a picture.

Dah Daubers girls were definitely a favorite.
This was the back of their shirts.

Diane, Leeanna, Christy & Linda

Dah Daubers...Aren't they GREAT?

Cynthia wore her art on her shirt.

This is Kelley, wings and all, still smiling at 11pm.

Some of the vendors dressed up, wearing their art:

Ron & Sarah from The Paper Cut

Karen and Greg (yes, Greg is in the pink) from Marco's Paper

Jim & Janelle from PK Glitz

Pam from MorningStar

Mary Jo McGraw demos for Carmen's Veranda

Now we are at home for a couple of weeks as we prepare for our fall line-up to NY, PA and VA. Be sure to check our convention schedule on our website: www.stamplajolla.com and watch for our new stamps which will be posted soon.

Novi, MI - August 1 & 2, 2009

The Novi show was fun and exciting. Karen joined us for the fifth year and we always have so much fun with her at our demo table. We were happy to see many friends we've made in previous years in Michigan.

Karen glittered all day.

Winston-Salem, NC - July 25 & 26, 2009

We had a great time at the Winston-Salem show. It was held at the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds and we met so many happy stampers who were thrilled to have a show in their area. We are looking forward to returning to this show in 2010.

Robin did a wonderful demo using the Stamp La Jolla glitter.

Winston-Salem...here we come!

We are excited about the new show next weekend (July 25 & 26) in Winston-Salem, NC. We have never done a show in NC...close, but not actually in NC and we've had lots of people contacting us about this show.

For more information regarding this show, go to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour's website at www.stampscraparttour.com Also check out their blog at SSAT Blog Jackie just did an e-interview about Stamp La Jolla and we have a coupon on the blog that you can use at our booth at the NC show.

We hope to see many of you there.

Pittsburgh, PA - July 11 & 12, 2009

Last weekend we were in Pittsburgh for the Stamp Scrap Art Tour Rubber Stamp Convention. We we fortunate to find one of our friends from the RSC board who agreed to help us in our booth. Jeannine stepped right in on Saturday to do our make and take and then came back on Sunday to demo our glitter and stained glass technique all day. I was so excited, I forgot to take a picture, but another vendor snapped this one.

Jeannine was fantastic!

West Springfield, MA - June 6 & 7, 2009

We traveled to West Springfield, MA for the fourth year. We always enjoy visiting this area of the country.

Suzie helped us in our booth again this year.
It's great having her at our make and take table.

The drive home was uneventful until we got to this section of I-80 in PA where they had removed the top surface of the road. We were only on it for a couple of miles when we lost the tread from one of our rear tires.

It's very loud and scary when a tire comes apart on the freeway! This one was no exception and it dented the van and bent the exhaust system.

We had an interesting experience with the repairman our roadside service sent to change the tire...and it was NOT a good one! After about a three hour delay, we were back on the road and made it home safely.

This tire still had almost 20,000 miles under warranty! It sure doesn't look like it here! We were very thankful that we were safe throughout the ordeal. We have four new tires now and we'll be ready to hit the road for Pittsburgh, PA right after the 4th of July.

Southfield, MI - May 30 & 31, 2009

It was fun to return to Michigan for the show in Southfield this year.

Awna traveled to do our make and take project and play in the glitter.
She did it all this weekend and we really appreciated having her help.

MaryAnn & Awna