(Above: Some of our ribbon on display at the show. I love the colors and I love the cute little flower charm that they come with!)
Most Embarrassing and Awkward Moment at CHA (MEAMCHA) award goes to...me! I don't know how I manage to get into these awkward situations. I think awkward should be my middle name.
Situation # Uno: Josh, Ashlee and I were in the hallway waiting for Paris to arrive. One of our manufacturers walked by, so we started talking with them (we'll call them "Graic" and "Yann") about the madness surrounding Paris' appearance. "Yann" told us that she had a gift from one of their friends back in Canada that she needed to give to Paris, but was too embarrassed to carry it around, so she kept it in her bag until she could actually give it to Paris. Hesitantly, "Yann" let us see what the gift was: a bra bag and panty pack from
The Brag Company! Curious about what the inside of these gifts looked like, I unzipped the panty pack and to my surprise found a pair of panties! Thinking that was kind of awkward, I said something stupid like, "Oh...they must include a panty to get you started!" "Yann" quickly grabbed the bag from my hands and was so embarrassed because apparently they were
her panties! Because the product was manufactured across the border and to avoid any problems at customs, "Yann" had to act as though the bra bag and panty pack were her personal travel products. Imagine if Paris had gotten these "gifts" with a pair of panties in them!
Situation # Dos: At the last three shows I've been to, I always see this guy who is a retailer that looks like Tom Cruise and Clark Kent/Superman and find him to be kind of attractive, but never would do anything about it...he's kind of just my CHA "crush" if you will. Josh spotted him coming towards our booth this afternoon and decided he was going to become friends with him. Josh started talking with him and told him how I've (as he points me out) seen him at the last few shows and have my own nickname for him! Josh also found out that he's married, but doesn't wear his ring... peculiar, right? I think I turned bright red, "nervous neck" took over and I now I have to find a new CHA crush. Unfamiliar with "nervous neck?" Ask me later.
Situation # Tres: Not hugely embarrassing, but still a little. This morning at the show, the fire alarm went off, so everyone had to evacuate the building. We were only outside for about a minute or two and then we were allowed back in the building, so we assumed that maybe the alarm had just been accidentally tripped and not necessarily set off by smoke. We never found out what happened and I had kind of forgotten about the whole situation. Later in the afternoon, there were some ladies that I had made conversation with, and they asked if I had heard what caused the alarm to go off. Not knowing what set it off, I said, "I'm sure glad that it wasn't anything serious and that the sprinklers didn't turn on. That would've put a
damper on the show!" The ladies thought I was so funny that I threw that pun in and I kinda felt embarrassed that they had actually caught my little "punny." But can you imagine if the sprinklers would've gone off?? Our booth would be a total loss because it's practically all paper and foam core!
Enough with the stories for now.
I was able to go over and see Chandice and Cam for a little while tonight! It's always fun to catch up with the Wingers! And to Cam, I love when you send me your jokes via text message...keep 'em coming! :)
Like these cutesy felt embellishments?? Want some? Enter the giveaway on the Pebbles blog! (And don't forget to enter the other giveaways on the Pebbles blog!)
Ashlee brought in the most delicious chocolate cake today...it was so good! I was close to asking for the recipe, but I'm not so sure that would be a good idea.
First, you need to understand that our office is in the basement of Pebbles in my Pocket. (I recommend stopping by the store if you've never been...it's great! Anyway...) Directly above our office is (unfortunately) the play area for children. Sometimes the parents are responsible and keep their children under control, but more often than not, the kids are let loose to roam the store at their pleasure. (Sometimes kids make their way down to the offices. Then they kindly get escorted back upstairs and handed back over to the parental unit.) 
Strawberry Jam Showdown update: no win for me. Boo! It was close, but Ash pulled ahead at the last second and won the SJS. We had 7 people testing the two jams which were mysteriously marked with a heart and a star, so that no one would know which jam belonged to who. Ash won, 4 votes to 3. (I like to think that if we had two more people, the votes would've gone in my favor--ha!) 
It's kind of a mix between a grunt/growl/smile/laugh/let-me-go kind of a face. I. Love. It. And I love how big her eyes are!
Work has been busy these last couple weeks as we've been getting ready for a product release! The two new collections coming out are kinda baby themed...lil' buddy and lil' miss. Josh did an awesome job on the lil' boy one (it's way cute!) and I did the little girl collection. It's always a good feeling to be done with a collection. It looks like it'll be out at the end of June/beginning of July...be looking for it! 
I opened up a file at work this afternoon and discovered that the document had 86 layers. 86! I didn't know that an an 86 layer Illustrator document was even possible! I think in school I'd have documents that would have a few (5 or less!) layers. I tried to get a screenshot of all the layers, but the list was too long, but this was most of them. It's almost Friday, right?
My valentine came to visit during lunch at work today! We had a most delicious valentine's lunch, complete with oriental chicken wraps, chips & salsa, cupcakes, gingersnap cookies and homemade brownies. Happy love day.
My friend that I made in the hallway as we were waiting for Paris Hilton to arrive at CHA emailed me his pics of Paris this morning! Two reasons why I love these pictures:
(Photos courtesy of Bruce Korr)
We caught a taxi for our dinner appointment last night and had quite a fact-filled drive! He was kind of a weird old man who apparently has 1500 acres in Tahoe and will be retiring this year. (Where'd the money come from for that??!) He gave us the inside scoop on the best and worst conventions:
(Above: Some of our ribbon on display at the show. I love the colors and I love the cute little flower charm that they come with!)
It's really true. Paris Hilton was at CHA today debuting her new craft line! I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true! Being true to her style, she showed up almost an hour after her scheduled appearance. We were out in the main hallway waiting to see if we could see her as she was walking into the show. People were everywhere and there was security all over the place! We almost gave up on her, but then the next thing we knew, she was walking by! We became 'friends' with the few people that were around us as she was walking in, and so after she was gone, we all compared the pictures that we got of her on our cameras (what would we do without digital cameras?!?!?) and one man said he'd email me his picture that turned out really well...we'll see if he sends it! This was the best picture that I was able to get...it all happened so fast! Don't believe me she has a craft line? Here's her little promo-deal-io:
That's hot.
(the whole crew at CHA!)
Booth setup day at CHA! 12 hours later and we finally left the convention center...what a day! Brenda was convinced that we'd be done with setup by 2 at the very latest, but sure enough we were there til about 7:30. I thought that things were going well, until I started putting up the vinyl that has our Pebbles 'bi-line,' which is supposed to read, "gathering life's moments" but I must've ordered, "gathering life's memories." Oops. Moments, memories...same thing, right? 
This kind of thing just doesn't happen to me...someone's up to something! 
