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Create 08 Brisbane & Melbourne

It kicked off on Friday night with the Brisbane Retailers Event. We had so much fun with them getting messy and creating ... they were a fun group of ladies. It was great seeing all their creations!

There was no rest as next morning we had to be up early to organise Create 08 Brisbane. We were greated with woman when we arrived, who were super keen and ready to have fun. Some of the girls even helped us set up ...thank you so much to you guys, you were awesome and i really appreciated your kind and generous spirits! It was a fun day, full of lots of scrapbooking thanks to Heidi who had planned super cool projects (of course). It was really nice to meet all these people i had been in contact with and put a name to a face. What a great group of people - who looked like they had heaps of fun. I was a little jealous i wasn't sitting down with them creating cool stuff! lol! It was a bit of a family affair - esp in Brisbane, even Gary was called in to help ... our girls were doing jobs, and i had a team of volunteers who were amazing. Lisa, Ange, Alicia and Tracey you girls were fabulous and i am so thankful you were there ... thanks a million! We met with the Scrapbook Creations ladies after the event, they were so generous and donated magazines for everyone ... we really appreciate the support of them and others like Delish, and all the other sponsors who supported us.

Monday we were on the early flight down to Melbourne, I took our eldest daughter Katya with us ... she has truely been an amazing help to us and quite frankly i don't know what i would have done without her. So she was on board to help set up in Melbourne, and my dear friend Suzanne let me steal her daughters to help (and give Katya some company - they are super best friends) Melbourne was a different situation, as the venue was able to let us set up the day before .... this was alot less stressful on us ...

Melbourne was so fun, again i was just so happy to meet all these great people i had been in contact with and get to know them a little. I was on the floor in Melbourne so i got to spend more time with everyone, if i did it again i would have done the same in Brisbane ... i guess that is part of learning! We did run out of food at lunchtime, and thanks to everyone for being so patient and understanding of the situation while they prepared some more.

Once again i loved seeing everyone so busy and inspired making all the fun things. I had done the samples for the calender class ... so i knew how exciting all the techniques that were being taught were ... it was exciting to see people learning. I have to thank Suzanne for her help thru the day, Maddy, Jessie and Katya for their wonderful help ... also my sister-in-law who was amazing on monday .. i know she would have loved to come if she had a babysitter!

I was really touched with the gorgeous girl at the end who stood up and thanked both Heidi and myself ... it bought a tear to my eye to be honest, and i appreciated her thoughtfulness so much. Heidi did an amazing job of teaching, that is why we all love her so much. She made tears come to my eyes ... and i wasn't even doing the class! lol ... she has a way of touching your heart ... a special gift!
Arlington at Wattle Park Chalet were so helpful to us, they really bent over backwards to accomodate us and make the event go well ... i am especially thankful to Tanya for all her hard work and the positiveness. She made this process so much easier for me - esp with me being away from Melbourne!

We had approx 2 hours in between ... mostly which was re-setting for the Retailers event. We had again a gorgeous group of woman, i enjoyed chatting to them all and seeing their creations. Being in business myself, i loved seeing their reactions and the lightbulbs going off as Heidi shared some ideas and advice for ways they could improve or grow their businesses! It was inspiring ...

I just want to leave this LONG post to say i feel incredibly greatful for the opportunity to have been able to do this with my dear friend Heidi. She is so talented and clever ... and she constantly inspires me. This has been an incredible learning experience and i want to say THANK YOU for all of your kinds words of encouragement or the "thank yous" the emails and the comments on the blog. You are an incredible group of ladies, and i feel thankful to have met you thru this cool experience. Merry Christmas to you all ...