I ended up with very few pictures from the dinner last night, but my friend Kim took this one on my camera so I can share it! If you have photos uploaded somewhere, let me know and we will add the link here.
Thank you all so much for coming and participating! We ended up having approximately 350 people there last night!
There are some people I really want to thank who went out of their way to help make this all happen! There was no way Jessie and I could have pulled this off without the help these people gave us! (A special thanks to you Jessie, for doing all you did to make this come together!)
Chris Jenkins was a major support system during the whole planning of this dinner! She let me bounce ideas off of her, came up with some brilliant ideas of her own, took care of all the graphic design work, helped pack up products for the bags and helped stuff the bags, came clear across town to help get all the goody bags and doorprizes to the show, and was just a really good friend through everything!
May Flaum spent an entire week helping me get the contact info for manufacturers together and then helping to email them the invitations to participate in the dinner.
Kim Mattina and Carol Banks left the show early and came over to my house to help bring all the bags to the dinner. I have known these two for a while now, and it was so wonderful to finally get to meet them in person! They also helped to get everybody checked in and pass out bags and doorprizes.
Tina Freeman, Kim Hughes, Cynthia Roybal, Grace Lum, Kitty Foster, Sarah Murphy (who also came over to help stuff bags), and Sarah McNaughton were there early to help get everything set up and then checked people in and passed out bags and prizes. They spent most of the night helping out, and that was really generous of them!
We had Molly Newman and Lin Sorenson from Simple Scrapbooks, Ana Cabrera from Scrapbook Answers, Sarah Kelly from Memory Makers, and Stacy Julian from The Big Picture all stop by and show their support, and I thank them all for that! I know they were all exhausted from the show, and we really appreciate the fact they took time to come by and be a part of this dinner!
I also want to send out thanks to Wendy McKeehan, Tricia from Scrapbook.com, Shirley from the Scrapbook Stand, and Wendy from Queen and Co for being so darn nice! Thank you to all of you who participated in the thank you gift for us... that was so kind of you!
If I have forgotten anybody, please know it is from a lack of sleep and not a lack of gratitude! I hope everybody had a good time, and I can't wait to see all your pictures from the dinner!
I have some more manufacturers to add to the links who either gave us doorprizes at the show or brought them to the dinner, so I will be posting again later. Keep checking back because we will be posting pages and projects made with all the products that everyone received last night soon! Take care!
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