Saturday, February 5, 2011

CHA Los Angeles 2011

A week ago yesterday I left for Los Angeles, planning to stay for a few days. Mother Nature had other plans with severe winter weather back home! I ended up staying in California with family I haven't seen in years then headed up to my brother's place in Montana!! I'll make it back home.... some day!

So, sit back and enjoy my view of CHA. Meeting up with old friends and meeting ones I've only had the chance to know online!
Kelley and I worked the Spellbinders booth one day which was fun.

 Rockies





Grand Canyon

Downtown LA Marriot

Beautiful lights in hotel
Lobby


Beautiful HUGE painting, Girl With Pearl (?)
It was hard to get a good picture, but it was awesome!

Anna Griffin


 Kaiser


Lorelie "working"




 Getting to meet Starla and seeing Sherry agin


Prima









Oh Yeah! Copics!!

Kelley admiring the AWESOME DCWV booth!!! 
The dresses are all made of paper! WoW!








Got to meet Diane!!

The Yarn Displays Were Just Awesome!
Objects Were All Made From Yarn!! Check It Out!!









 
Got to meet Teresa & Michelle!!

Dinner LA Live
Kelley, Connie, Wendy, Lorelie, me and Deb!
So fun getting to meet them!

Don't remember the company,
but they had beautiful flower punches!



 Had to get a pic of Amber's samples in the OCL booth!
 And sweet Joy!

Want Scrap
Now making bling to match Spellbinders! Cool!


Don't remember the booth, but thought these were gorgeous!
Thanks to Robyn, Outlines booth


Got to meet Kimme!!

 Awesome Sewing Wreath at Cosmo Cricket



Got to meet Ashley!!

 Splitcoast Dinner
Joy, Jami, Lori
 Marianne, Deb
 The Group!
sorry it's blurry!

Our Daily Bread designs now a Partner Company with Spellbinders
Kelley and I did a make and take.


Got to meet Jessica!!

16 comments :

Auntie Em said...

Your pictures of the CHA are all very nice and great to see some of the amazing booths BUT I LOVE the photos of the Rockies and the Grand Canyon! What beautiful natural sights to see!
Thanks for sharing! :o)

Suzanne said...

Great photos!

Scrumplescrunch said...

Oh Dawn
I am so envious that you have such a wonderful show that is CHA. You Americans are so lucky.
Here in NZ we would never see such things.
Your photographs are wonderful, but it only makes me realise on how much I am missing out.
Thank you so much for taking the time to show us the photos, I enjoyed them very much.
Smiles:)

Grace said...

Great pics Dawn! It was fun just to see the incredible ideas and all the great people we "know"! How amazing a time you must have had!

Kittie said...

Thanks for sharing all of your great photos. Sure wish I could have been there.

Robyn said...

Excellent pictures, FYI I believe that the Christmas ornaments might be from a company called Outlines.
http://www.outlinesrubberstamp.com/ecom/products.cfm?catID=151&maincatID=

Anonymous said...

You lucky girl you--going to CHA!! I wondered where you were! I love all the pictures of the amazing things you got to see! I'd give pretty much anything to see all the merchandise in person--especially now that we're down to only one stamp store! She does a great job, but the shop is small so she can only bring in so much. Sue (suen)

Marlene said...

Wow! Fantastic pics! Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a great time!

Heather Huggins said...

Fabulous pictures.. Thanks for sharing the. I bet you had a blast..

Joanne (jojot) said...

well....gf...you sure do know how to s-t-r-e-t-c--h our a good thing......good for you....to get some visiting in after seeing all the fab bling and gooodies....thanks so much for sharing my friend...and fab photos

Starla said...

Fab pics! I got so involved with looking, I forgot to take pics! Lol! You will have to send me the pic of us, mine was blurry! I'm so glad I got to meet you!
Star

mel m. m. mccarthy said...

Ouuuu La LA! Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you. I feel almost like I was there! Such gorgeous photos. Ahhhhhhhh!

Chrissy D said...

SUCH SHEER YUMMINESS! Looks like you had a wonderful time, Dawn!

Anonymous said...

Dawn, it was such a surprise to hear someone calling out my name as I was walking thru to get a slice of pizza. It was gret seeing and meeting o and Kelley at CHA. I spent so much time renewing friendshps and visiting, I know I didn't see everthing, but I sure had a blast. I am such a fan of yours and hope to see ou again at some of the shows. Hugs, Mary

Anonymous said...

Looka like I should proof read before I hit post omment. LOL It was GREAT meeting you, etc.

Lori Craig said...

Great pictures! It seems like you have been around the world... Glad you had a great trip, and very glad that you are getting home. So good to see you! Will you get to leave the farm again for Chicago?