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US YOUR WOWSIE BUTTON! Selkirk Artist Peter Holmes I went home with one of his beautiful paperweights Head Bean Hisself The lovely Jennifer from CheckerBee & co worker The Tooth Fairy - AKA Will Bullas Webspresso Faerie meets the Tooth Fairy! Les from the Selkirk Booth Liz Smith Harry & Millie Croft Dave & Linda from BoydsWeb.com The first smile I saw every morning Diane Combs & Boyds Artist Mr C became a WOWsie fancier The talented and delightful Judith G Yes, he's a WOWsie now! Ladies, we got him! Chris Spice and Brian Baker Peter Stone - Horse Artist- Booth CARDEW RANDOM STUFF |
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 Since many of the show events have been nicely covered in other reports, I am going to report on my personal highlights of my trip to Rosemont. My Rosemont Trip by Sally Sally@webspresso.cso.com Monday / Tuesday ~ Starting with the train travel~ my trip was off to a great start with the lucky positioning of my seat neighbors. Next to me was Gayle, who I believe would like to become a WOWsie! A very nice lady who was returning home after visiting her family in Colorado for her birthday celebration. Across the isle was a darling "jeune fille" , Diane, and her father, Eric. They were visiting from France. Diane spoke fluently, her dad was holding his own pretty well, but we had some humorous moments communicating. I got to try out a bit of my rusty high school French - I had forgotten how much I enjoyed trying to speak French, it's a beautiful language. Gayle had to leave us one stop before Chicago, we said good by and promised to be in touch. Since we had time to kill in Chicago, Eric, Diane and I went to my favorite layover stop, an Italian restaurant across from Union Station, Ranalli's. We had a lovely time, and struck up a dinner friendship with 2 of Chicago's Finest. They presented Eric with a wonderful souvenir, one of the patches from a Chicago police uniform! Very impressive. Wednesday ~ After being on the train for 18 hours or so, I think I took 3 hot baths from Tues. night to Wed. morning! I walked to the commuter train from the hotel and went downtown for the day. I visited the Art Institute and had an enjoyable time. After that I went to Marshall Fields and had a look around - tried on dresses, did girly things like that! Was to have had dinner with a friend, but business came up on his end and that fell through. Had a fun time later down at the lounge at the hotel, playing darts, chatting, etc. The only folks around on Wed. were basically the artists and company people. I got a chuckle later in the week when I walked by a Harmony Kingdom signing with a line a mile long. I happened to glance over at the artists doing the signing and realized I had been playing darts with one of them on Wed night. Never asked him what he did, just his name! Oh well, it's probably better that way, at least for him! Thursday ~ Hit the show bright and early - got in about 8:15 and high-tailed it over the Boyds Booth to get photos before the show officially opened at 9. Met up with Harry & Millie and made lunch plans for later on in the day. Spent most of the day just walking the show. Had a wonderful dinner that night. Some of my buddies were kind enough to include me in a night downtown at a fabulous place called "Famous Daves". It's a blues place with incredible music and great food! Just what the doctor ordered after being holed up at the hotel for a couple of days. Rosemont can get gloomy if you aren't keeping busy. There is nothing to do to kill time, no place to walk to. In fact, it's not really set up to even go outside for an enjoyable walk. Just a vast sea of hotels and highways. So my night on the town was very much appreciated, and the company was very enjoyable! Friday ~ Friday was my most anticipated day! Had been looking forward to
seeing "my girls" all year!! Oh, how can I even explain the joy and pleasure of
meeting everyone - it was overwhelming! The first to arrive was Michelle, Sherie and
Jeannette. Pris arrived just in time for dinner. We met up with each other before dinner
and immediately had a fit of the giggles! Ladies, remember taking the photo with my
camera's self timer? Michelle invited two lovely ladies to join us, Carol and Storm.
By the time we got back from dinner, Sharon and Mary Liz had arrived! How much fun we had!
I am grinning from ear to ear just thinking about it!! Saturday ~Ah - the big day of signings and excitement! WOWsie certainly had
their share. I knew that Sherie had a HB signing at 10, but was thinking it would be a
while after 10 before she got up there. So about 10:00 I was lollygaging with Paul C in
the deserted snack bar, talking about some of his early work. Guess who waltzes in
the door? The Head Bean! One of those fun memories! I knew I had better get over to
the Boyds booth, Paul had a signing at 10 anyway, too. I arrived at the Boyds booth about
ten minutes after 10, and Gary's already wearing his WOWsie button! (THANK YOU Sherie, by
the way!). I thought "Darn! I can't believe I missed it!". I decided to
hang around, take a few photos and wait for Jeannette's signing. All of a sudden, Gary
looked over at me and said "I know her! It's the Contest Lady!". Well . .ya
coulda knocked me over with a feather! He was kind enough to let me pop in for a quick
pic. But it got even better when Jeanette got there, he let us have another WOWsie
pic with him. I can bearly remember the whirlwind of Saturday's show. Sunday ~ Another day of show events. The WOWsie signings with Liz, the
Boyds Hospitality Room, sort of a repeat of Saturday. We had a WOWsie breakfast together
at the Hyatt, yes, complete with horn tooting (don't plan on staying at the Hyatt next
year, ladies, our names have been added to a special "list" LOL). Sunday I
collected some souvenirs. I wanted to buy one of the books by Will Bullas (aka the Tooth
Fairy). He asked me which one of the two books I liked best, and then he gave it
to me as a gift. That was very nice. Please check out his website if you are not familiar
with his work. |
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