There’s a New Sheriff in Town . . .
At the first show I ever did, StampFest Orlando in 1997, about ten minutes before the show began Gene from Stamp Cabana came across the aisle to me and gave me a piece of advice that I have carried to this day – “Stampers are basically an honest lot.” And he was...
Raising Our Kids . . .
From a vendor perspective, we have raised our kids on the show circuit. Some kids were like mine, and actually know a little about life before conventions – Ryan was eight when we hit the road. But others know nothing else . . . Alana and Noelle Lindeman...
We Interrupt This Travelogue . . .
While I suspect that many of you expected my next post to be a continuation of our Arizona journey, new product info comes first. Friday while I was setting up the booth for the Indianapolis show this weekend, the March Distress Color of the Month was announced...
Arizona 2015 (Part 1) . . .
My brother Blake and I have been visiting Mom and Dad in Tucson since Wednesday. We have been looking forward to escaping the Ohio Winter for quite a while, but it went right down to the last minute – we had to change planes in Dallas-Fort Worth on the way, and...
New Stuff on the Horizon . . .
Greetings from the Winter Wonderland – 6” more inches of winter got blown off my driveway this morning. But not before I put this on my Facebook page . . . “Ah, the thrill of the Saturday morning scavenger hunt ... wandering out onto a driveway covered with a...
In Bitter Cold, It Takes So Little to Make Me Happy . . .
The farther south you go, the less winter weather it takes to make everyone go directly to Defcon 5. I have friends in Florida griping about temps in the 40s – friends in Tennessee with ice bringing down tree limbs – friends in Kentucky who got a foot of snow on...
Flat Stanley . . .
I got an e-mail from my friend Judy Jackson a week or so before the Clearwater show. She was going to be there and wanted to know if I would help her with her twin granddaughters’ Flat Stanley school projects by letting her take a picture with them in our...
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words . . . Times Six
After sharing the note from the Copic folks about the dockworkers’ strike on the West Coast, a friend sent me some pictures that gave this ordeal a whole new perspective. The first were taken before the congestion caused by the strike . . . And the rest...
A Well Written Explanation . . .
We got an e-mail from Imagination International, Inc. (the Copic and X-PressIt people) last night – it was their attempt to explain shipping delays caused by the dockworkers’ strike on the west coast. It was written well and I think it’s worth sharing . . ....
Throwback Thursday . . .
I first met Pat Johnson at StampFest Orlando in June 1997 – it was the first show I ever did and she is one of the few who actually saw my “deer in the headlights” expression that first day on the show circuit. We still laugh about it. Pat was working in a booth...