Artsycrafts review

I really cannot believe that it has been a full week since day 1 Artsycrafts, it has taken me all this time to get myself back into a normal routine. Unpacking stock, classroom equipment, paperwork and re-ordering stock....crikey, it's time consuming......but was it worth it?......you bet it was. It was one of the most amazing days ever!!!! Artsycrafts is normally quite a challenge to organise but for this event, we were expecting 288 over 2 days.....that's a lot of people......a lot of kits.......a lot of stock.....a fair amount of stress but then everything fell into place and we had a blast. We were so busy, I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked but here is my little review with the pictures that I do have.

The man himself, Mr Tim Holtz did us proud and put together an amazing class, it was one of his fantastic Configurations boxes stuffed to the brim with vintage trinkets and Idea-ology goodies and every single person just loved it. Of course Mr Mario "Starbucks" Rossi was there working his magic behind the scenes as well as Alain Avrillon from Ranger Industries.

Every person attending Artsycrafts gets a name badge, this time Mr Paperartsy (Mark) made all the badges, some people got more than one name badge but more about that later.

As I mentioned before, I didn't take many pictures of work in progress but I did take this great shot of the project that Leandra and I designed. Cute little terrace of houses, don't you think. Our project used a great new technique combining Paperartsy's fabulous new Fresco Finishes paint and Ranger Colorwash....we just loved the results.

So here are the pictures that I took on my phone. I'll start with some behind the scenes stuff on the lead up to the big day. Here's Karen and Linda E. unpacking Tim's stamps in the shop, all this stuff was destined for Artsycrafts........lots of lovely rubber.

Paperartsy Fresco Finishes paint waiting to go in our class kits.

Stock for the shop, all boxed and divided into the four sessions so that people on the last session still had the opportunity to purchase some of the brand new goodies.

This was just a fraction of the boxes that we took with us.

This is how our classroom looked before set up and.........

.......wave a magic wand.........hey presto........a classroom and a shop!!!

We do like to start out with a well stocked shop.

Just before classes started, Leandra and I popped down to Tim's classroom one last time to check that he had everything he needed, so we took the opportunity to take a quick snapshot before everyone arrived.

Class in progress.....wow, these guys were quiet in our class.....you could here a pin drop at this point.
In support of the British Heart Foundation's wear something red day, Siobhan, one of our very shy Artsycrafters, joined in the fun with her very blingy red top hat. Everyone loved her hat and most people tried it on. I even saw a picture of Mario wearing it at one point!!!!
Our resident comedienne Linda E. also known as Julia or Sweet Pea (she's the one that had three name badges!!!) trying to fit a whole packet of Maltesers in her mouth at once....I hasten to add, it was a fun size pack!!!! She's so gonna kill me when she sees this! Who cares....it was very funny!

But she never complains when she gets the rubbish jobs.And she did get to make a new best friend.......young Millie.......one of Leandra's gorgeous daughters who also worked her socks off for two whole days.

These girls flew in from Europe to take part in the event.....what makes you think they are Tim fans???????

This is what our shop looked like after you guys had finished shopping!!!!!!! Me thinks a little retail therapy works wonders.

Last but not least, this is the Artsycrafts team (the Marks are not here though, Mr Paperartsy was behind the camera and my Mark had to take time off from his proper job to man my shop).

L to R.....the lovely Karen (queen of kits), Linda E./Julia?Sweet Pea, Me, Tim, the gorgeous Millie, Leandra, Lynne Howe.....also known as Essex Lynne or Cheryl Cole, Jo Firth-Young and Leandra's oldest daughter, the beautiful Courtney.

My apologies again for the lack of pictures but I think I might be able to steal a few from Mr Paperartsy sometime soon.

So I would just like to thank each and everyone of of Artsycrafters for joining us for such an amazing event, the whole Artsycrafts team for your endless support, the guys at Ranger, Advantus and Stampers Anonymous for rushing products to us at the speed of light, Mario for being the King of kits and of course Tim for making so many people very happy by joining us at our special event.....it will be a day that many will remember for a long time to come.

Now this has absolutely nothing to do with Artsycrafts but I got to watch my beautiful grand daughter Millie at her ballet class this week and it just melted my heart.