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  • Gilding my Sneakers

    ByHeather Bailey

    CEclass72

    I've just returned from Creative Escape,
    a several-day craft-a-thon with hundreds of enthusiastic and kind women
    from all over the world: Japan, Canada, France, Australia, the U.S.
    Though I taught all day a couple of days in a row, I'm surprisingly
    refreshed. I blame it on the touching & funny keynote addresses
    presented by Heidi Swapp & Melanie Wellman — and my decision to wear tennis shoes instead of heels. 

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    The CE students went out of their way to express their excitement
    for my class, bring gifts (chocolate, jewelry, handmade cards, hair
    clips, etc.), and make the experience fulfilling for us teachers as
    well. (Thank you, ladies!)

    All 700 or so in attendance were deeply moved by the response to
    CE's designer lamp fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
    the final evening. All of the teachers at the event, and from past
    years, donated a hand-built, one-of-a-kind lamp to be sold in silent
    auction — all $ going straight through to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

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    To
    add excitement to the final evening, two of the lamps were sold at live
    auction. One bidder forked out $29,000 for charity to get her hands on
    Tim Holtz' lamp (neat girl too), and Heidi's lamp raised over $8000.
    Without gushing on, I'll just say I was seriously moved. I think we all
    were. It was a great time. Thank you, Heidi & the Bazzill team for
    including me in this year's event.

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    So…Now
    that the cat's out of the bag on the fundraiser, I can finally show
    photos of my lamp design — think tweet, tweet, chirp, chirp. I'll
    gather up some photos to post.

    It's great to be back. I'm wrapping up several big projects (hallelujah!) this week before heading out to Utah to deliver a keynote address at the Start-Up Princess event
    on September 11th. If you're anywhere near South Jordan, Utah next
    weekend, sign up for Friday's event and come say 'hi'. Or visit me at Material Girls
    quilt shop on Saturday the 12th — around 1ish (till 3ish?), I think. 
    I'll post a sure time as soon as it's confirmed. I'll also be on t.v.
    on Thursday, the 10th at Studio 5 in Salt Lake City. As for the rest of the trip — I'll probably be sleeping, huh?

  • Hello-ness

    ByHeather Bailey

    DaisyBouquet3a

    I
    have serious vertigo from working on a 24" monitor for the first time
    today.  We're holding off on the 30"er till the next upgrade.  (It's
    been 5 years or so since Mac last upgraded that beast.)  I've heard you
    get used to the gi-normity.  I sure hope so, as I'm definitely a bit
    dizzy — but it's a grateful dizzy.  My main machine is now a laptop
    and I can't say how excited I am about the portability.  Beyond heading
    to the park or the local bookstore for some quiet concentration, just
    switching rooms at will is exciting stuff. 

    I was trying to
    convince my new assistant to take a photo so I could introduce her
    here. Then, it dawned on me to swipe her Twitter photo & move on
    with it.  (You don't mind, do you Emily?)

    EmilyPhotoflSo,
    meet Emily.  Some of you may recognize her from the scrapbooking
    world.  Emily worked with Heidi Swapp for years, and Making Memories
    before that.  We had narrowed our interviewing process down to two
    candidates and were thick into discussing the matter when we received a
    last-minute suggestion to give Emily a call.  Well, Emily shook up the
    whole conversation and here she now is.  Currently, Emily is your
    girl if you have a customer service question at the Heather Bailey Store, a press
    inquiry, a wholesale order, etc.  Basically, she's our company
    juggler.  Well, I guess we are all company jugglers.  (You know those
    juggling acts that start with one juggler, then a second juggler steps
    on stage, then a third & so on?  Pretty soon, the bowling pins form
    a mid-air ballet?  That sort of thing.  We're not ready for Vegas or
    anything, but we're getting there.  We're still working on our stage
    names.)

    Oh, and you've gotta go back and read each & every comment left on the last post — holy toledo, what a bunch of crazy, cool stories!!  I'm both inspired and weirded out.  Time to start a dream journal.