The Chick's side of things

Well, okay...so you have Mom's acount of the scrapbook convention below....here's mine: We got to the convention around 3:00. The first thing we did was sign up for the raffle drawings, of course. We found a table, planted our stuff, and started around the loop looking for make-and-takes. I was working on a cute little flower card, when, low and behold, "Emily Rule" comes over the loud speaker. Mom pulled me away from the booth and shoved me in the direction of the announcer. Excited, I rushed to the center, expecting stickers, paper, pens, something awesome. What did I find??? What, I ask you, did I find?!!! An organic sock doll. I am SOOO not kidding. This random lady had set up a booth selling baby products that are made of all organic cotton. Random?! Disapppointing?! Yeah.


So I returned to mom, confused and disgruntled over my "baby safe doll" (who, by the way...had no arms. What's up with that?), and we continued around the loop. We got to one booth about half way through that was having a "super-duper special." The guy sold lines of paper with the embellishment in packs for $20 each and every hour, on the hour, he would throw two or three kits in a bag and sell the bag for twenty bucks. When you bought a bag, you'd get a raffle ticket and ten minutes after the hour there would be drawings from the raffle tickets. Well, mom and I ended up at this booth and the guy who was bagging the special was...well, basically totally incompetant,...and needed help. Being the kinda nice, OCD person that I am, I offered to help. Another lady joined in and, afterwards, the guy insisted that me and the other lady take extra raffle tickets. Thinking that there would be no chance that I would win, I accepted. Well, not ONLY did mom win a raffle, I won the grand prize. SOOOOOO not kidding. I got not one, not two, but 32 little bottles of buttons!!! A $92 dollar value!!!! Random? I think so. Sooo....all in all...it was a great night. I walked away with 32 bottles of buttons, over 400 pieces of designer paper, and....and organic doll. Very, very good night.