Getting ready for Vegas show on March 6

Gary and I had decided the shows were too difficult to do, so we didn't really keep very good track of all our card samples, display boards and other things we'd acquired over the years. When we did the show recently in Anaheim, we only had a table space, but this show we actually have a 10x10 booth as well as an additional booth for make it take it's. We have been frantically searching for lost items and have found much of what we need except for our very best card samples. We haven't given up hope--we still have a couple of trailers where they might be.

It is very exciting to have LeeAnn's family taking over and helping to bring to fruition some of the dreams I had for HALOS that we ran out of energy to do.

I buy anything I find that is the "loop" side of the velcro. Now that I've found out how much I love HALOS II, it is a bonus that the stamps stick to this fabric. I see display boards often in the classifieds and the number of office cubicles I've seen for free over the years is endless.

Afer the CHA Super Show, I confiscated the display board (tri fold) to store my newly acquired craft supplies. The clear hook tape made by Velcro holds my scissors, Cricut cartridges, rotary cutter and sharpeners, tape gun etc. securely. Hopefully a picture will follow, but our camera is lost. We remodeled and have boxes of things that we have not had time to go through.

We are also working on a portable storage system that goes in a doorway suspended on a spring rod. I have also had wonderful success by putting hook tape along the top edge of closet doors and suspending the loop fabric panel from there. I've been testing how much weight they will hold and it is amazing. We will have these available at the show.

One year ago today.......

I had been in a cast with a broken right wrist since falling on the ice a month earlier. I had worn out the little piece under the thumb by turning my die cut machine too much and had just gotten a soft brace cast put on when the X-ray showed it hadn't healed. I had my daughter drive me to the post office and then I dropped her off and felt OK about driving two blocks home. As I passed the fast food restaurants, suddenly a 3/4 ton pickup driven by an 18 year old girl plowed into me. Could she have been on her cell phone or texting? My kids tell me not to judge, but I think she was. Anyway, my left wrist which was holding onto the steering wheel snapped and I found myself in what I thought was smoke, but was really caused by both air bags going off. Somehow I managed to unbuckle my seat belt and open my door and fall out on the ground so I wouldn't burn (or I thought burn). Thankfully, someone called my daughter for me and an ambulance and after what seemed like hours I was taken to the hospital which was also only a couple blocks away. My collar bone was also broken and I had surgery and metal plates put in it and the wrist a week later. A few days later, horrible pain resulted in gall bladder surgery

So, today I'm thankful for two hands and wrists that I can craft with, and hold grandbabies with and make cinnamon rolls and little Wyatt should be arriving in about 5 minutes. Also today I get to tend my twin granddaughters, Jaden and Courtney -- age 6, and Also Claire and Curtis, ages 2 and 6. My first grandson, Jesse -- age 16, is coming to learn how to make clear acrylic stamp mounts from Grandpa, so he can help his mom as she takes over HALOS. We have signed up to do a show in Las Vegas in early March and there's much work to be done.