Hello you! Thanks for popping in. Good job you’re not sitting on the sofa with me though; Oh my! Today’s the day both jet lag and the post-exhibition lurgy caught up with me. Trouble was I HAD to design and write up the new Groovi Club! Time is on the move, it’s already mid month and we lost the first half of January to TV and the CHA! So, my dear faithful friend Paul Church pitched up at 9am and we…
Hi there. Pull up a chair! It’s good to see that you’re here and you care. So Friday’s here, I can hear you cheer! And below is some art that I’d like to share. One day in LA at the CHA, nobody was giving me the time of day! I’d smile and chat – and they’d walk away. I’d chat and smile – and they’d run a mile! So there I stood with my Groovi Selection, and all I was feeling…
Hello everyone, Paul here. I thought that since Barbara and Dave were flying home today, I would takeover the blog and fill you in with what has been going on back here in good old blighty and what I have been upto since joining the Clarity Family. Firstly, apologies to all of the New Design Club members, unfortunately the January issue has been delayed and will go out towards the end of the month – but it will be worth…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. The show wrapped up yesterday for another year, so we broke it all down, packed it all up, and called it a day. All in all a very successful show. Very. More will be revealed… It’s our last day in California after the CHA. Our flight is this evening, but what to do all day?! The thing is, LA is so spread out. Dave flatly refused to haul 4 suitcases round Hollywood or Long Beach, (how…
Howdi! Last day of the California Trade Show, and oh boy! Did it get busy yesterday! Suddenly, loads of the connections we had been making since the start of the Expo started falling into place and coming together. It was brilliant! There’s a really dynamic young online team over here called Blitsy, who promote and do Craft flash sales. Smashing people, and so switched on! Well, they also happen to be Ken and Judy Petersen’s kids, who are our cool…
Greetings from a Colorful California. We are having a very productive time over here at the biggest craft trade show in the world and I am working on the same stand as the lovely Ken Oliver – a name you will have heard of from my various blog posts. Ken Oliver is the creator of the little bottles of magic powder called Color Burst and also The Best Ever Craft Mat. So I thought that today’s post should be about…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in! It’s 6am and I thought I’d catch up with you before the show. Yesterday went swimmingly – really well. After all those fears and worries about it! Lots of interest, plenty of orders. the Groovi went down an absolute storm, so tomorrow I will go back!! I met lots of very genuinely interested and hands on women. A few suits looking to make a quick buck out of us, but the creatives were there in…
Hi there! Greetings from California. The sun was out today. But we are here to work, so we really can’t go far. Don’t think for a minute that this is a glamorous break. The sky may be blue, but traipsing up and down a busy 5-lane road (that’s a mere 10 lanes from one side of the boulevard to the other) through a concrete hotel jungle with varying degrees of pomp to and from the Convention Centre certainly isn’t my idea…
Hi there! Can you believe it!! 4 minutes before the clock strikes 12 and I turn into a pumpkin!!! This 8 hour time difference won’t beat me though! I’ll be back in a minute!!! Sorry about that! wanted to post before midnight your time. We went for a late lunch, and then I realised that I had left it way too late for my daily blog! Found a great restaurant though. Bubba Gumps Shrimp Factory. Not only was the food…
Hi there! Greetings from a hotel in LA! The flight was long but good. When it comes to Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson certainly has it. The food, the service, the entertainment. All brilliant. Unfortunately, even he can’t control the weather (yet) and the turbulence about an hour before we landed was pretty bad. You know how it is, when one person pukes, it has a domino effect, and suddenly there were all sorts of gagging retching and burping noises going…