Anyone who follows my twitter stream knows I went to the SNAP conference a couple of weeks ago. So ya, I’m a little late with this, but it took me a while to recover from my stay with roomies Stacy and Leanne. They are too fun to get any sleep. I’m sure you’ve seen recaps all over blogland so I’ll save you from a novel with all the details and just fill in some highlights.
First off, there was a door decorating contest. We decided to do a photo booth with a bunch of magnetic creative blogger tools hanging around the door frame. We had funny sayings on chalkboard word bubbles to along like:
Nail gun – “Nailed it!”
Trowel – “I dig blogging!”
Rolling pin – “That’s how I roll.”
Photos from Stacy and Amy’s Instagram.
At first, I was not excited about having a PJ party that first night (something about having no cute PJs), but by that night I was so ready to be in comfy clothes! I had forgotten shoes to wear with my track suit (not so cute with riding boots) I realized I had some flip flops, but then the cute Cricut girls (my awesome sponsors) surprised me with some slippers. They totally take care of me and let’s be frank anyone who rocks Ninja Turtle pants is a friend of mine.
I love how the left picture sums up how we pretty much just laughed our heads off and had fun the whole time. All of my pictures turned out like this. Luckily, Amanda redeemed us with the pic on the right.
The second night was the dinner sponsored by Cricut along with the Queen Bee Market. Cricut must have brought over a million flowers. No joke. I spread five huge boxes over all the dinner tables and it didn’t even make a dent! We got a little nuts with the ginormous flowers.
I also won this amazing Sage and Harper bag from Queen Bee Market. Isn’t it awesome?! I’ve never loved a bag so much!
Day three brought the Lowe’s Designer Challenge where they gave each team a table full of random items and one hour to create something fabulous.
My team included:
We built this fun kid’s puppet theater out of a dropcloth complete with Princess and Superhero puppets made from glue sticks, zip ties, furniture sliders, and paper towels.
So what about the classes right? I won’t bore you with the wealth of techie/business stuff.
Here are some take aways for the blogger and non-blogger alike…
- Use floral frogs to hold foam board vertical to create backgrounds for your pictures.
- Use T-pins to hold fabric on foam boards for staging pictures.
- Love your kids for who they are, not who you need them to be.
- If you have anxiety you are living in the future, if you have guilt you are living in the past, if you have peace you are living in the present!
I guess you could say I have been living in the present taking the conference theme “Create Joy” to heart and that’s why this post is fashionably late. 😉
Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Cricut and they were my sponsors for the SNAP conference because they are awesome like that.
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I am bummed that I missed the photography class, I heard it was awesome! I have one question. What the heck is a floral frog?
@Kara It is a little round disc with a bunch of nails sticking out of it. They have them at craft stores to help with flower arranging.