Another guest post from our editor Kent!  He’s still in Europe… evidently zipping around in pursuit of Whimsyland sightings.  Here’s his report…

Hi Liz and Beth, 

This is the first time I’ve been to Rome and what impresses me is how much carved marble there is in this city. Ancient sculptures are everywhere you look…and they’re amazing…but they’re colorless. And they’re also mostly unclothed. The ancient Romans where a lot of things, but they weren’t modest. More on that later. I could send a hundred pictures showing you how Whimsyland has impacted the city of fountains, but I think this one sums it all up.

The world famous Trevi Fountain has a Whimsyland makeover! Look at how colorful everything is now! Sure beats varying shades of antique white. These giant renderings of the Inspire and Laugh quilts are extraordinary when you see them in person. Some of the buttons are at least a foot in diameter and must weigh 20 lbs each. Beautiful quilting. Truly awe inspiring.

Earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI, seen here with the Whimsyland book, called on the city to bring Whimsyland to life.

“Inspire the uninspired. Bring color to the colorless, and cloth the unclothed.”

Some people took this quite literally.

I toured the city…and after seeing sculpture after sculpture of the Roman Empire in all of its unadorned glory, you can imagine my relief when I came upon this site.

I forget which museum this was, but here’s an ancient roman who’s sensible enough to cover-up in style with the NEW Lizzie B Cre8ive “Modesty Wear” (for statues). (Because fig leaves are so B.C.)  As your editor, I advise you to market this immediately. Don’t save it for the next book.  I already did the first cover for you.  Maybe you could call this model the Apollo?! 

(I want to emphasize that “Modesty Wear” is for statues only. Not for people. I want to make that very clear.)

So where should I go now?  Have you heard about anything else happening in the world?

Yours truly,

Kent

Well, Kent… we heard that France is wonderful this time of year!  You might want to grab your beret and zip on over there… Keep in touch!!

It’s finally time for our book drawing!  In the past, we have done it by video which is pretty fun.  Just so you can see that the drawing is all fair and above board and all.  But this morning, I’m in a bit of a hurry (have to run off to another book-signing…whew!  so fun!)  AND my famous videographer is still snoozin’ in his bed upstairs (he’s 12, and it’s summer vacation, which means staying up late!)

SO… that brings me to the quickie drawing.  All of the entries went into the proverbial hat, and we have a winner!

So, Tara with the email address “taralynchard”…. please send us an email so we can send your copy of “Whimsyland” right out to you!!

THANKS SO MUCH to all who commented and entered our book giveaway.  We love you all!

WE SO WISH we could send you ALL a book!  Really!  We do…!  (But, us girls have gotta make a living….)  But we DO have a special treat from you if you would still like to have our book.  BUY our book, and not only will we sign it, but we’ll also send you a free pattern of your choice ($10 retail and under). Just go to ShopLizzieB and order the book, and then immediately send an email to lizziebgirls@gmail.com to let us know how you’d like your book signed, and which FREE PATTERN you’d like us to include with your order!   

Great day everyone!

It’s a sign…. your last chance to enter!

Our SALE and book giveaway is winding down… 

I was reading thru the posts and getting ready to do the drawing….when another post popped up!  I thought…HEY.  Last chances are good.  I’ll at least wait til the end of the DAY to assemble all the entries and pull a name for our BOOK GIVEAWAY WINNER.  Soooo, you must scroll down to our May 20th post titled “Podcast Giveaway” and comment to enter the drawing for a signed copy of our “Whimsyland” book!

I  must say, we have LOVED LOVED reading all of your comments.  Thanks so much for not only taking the time to read our blog, but to share your thoughts with us!  We really, really appreciate it.

And just to let you know… our SALE is winding down today.  Midnight!  Last chance to save 30% on all Lizzie B patterns and kits at ShopLizzieB. Just be sure to enter the code MARKET09 upon checkout to get the discount. 

I’m off to a couple of quilt shops this morning….sketched a new quilt last night, and of course, NEED fabric to get it going!  I think it’s gonna be cute.  (And it’s a great excuse to go get a fabric fix before the week is out!)

It’s our first GUEST POST!  And who better, than our fantastic editor, Kent Richards, to post this information from our book’s first “World Tour”.  It has been reported that our Whimsyland book is really making the rounds, and inspiring creativity everywhere!  Here’s his report….

Hi Liz and Beth,

With all due respect, I would think one of the most powerful men in the world would have more important material to read.  But evidently, President Obama received a copy of your book from none other than the Queen of England.  She asked him to read it in preparation for his Royal visit.  She’s a huge, HUGE fan.

She’s already “Whimsyed Out” Buckingham Palace and she’s…well, some think she’s

out of control, but she’s just trying to lift the spirits of her country!

Her Majesty the Queen: “Have you had a chance to read the book I sent you?”

President Obama:  “Yes, yes I did…read it on the ah…flight over the pond.”

Her Majesty the Queen: “I want to rename Buckingham Palace “Whimsyland” but I’m getting some resistance from Parliament. Can you imagine that?I knew they wouldn’t go for changing our country’s name from England to “Whimsyland”, but I honestly thought I could change the name of Buckingham Palace on my own.  I mean I AM the Queen of England. You know my name is Elizabeth too, just like the Lizzie B girls!

President Obama: “Whimsyland’s nice, but this is Buckingham Palace!  Look, I love you to death, you know that, but we can’t laugh our way out of these problems. Tough decisions have to be made. Sacrifices have to be made…

Her Majesty the Queen: “President Obama, we can NEVER sacrifice Imagination, Laughter, Creativity and Dreams. These are the pillars of humanity…they keep use sane in trying times, and inspire use to greatness.  This is Whimsyland 101 here!

Buckingham Palace as it appears today. Whimsyland influences everywhere.

She had been behind this podium many times before, but this time it was different. This time she was fighting for everything that is Lizzie B.

A little bit o’ background… before I was 1/2 of the Lizzie B team, my nametag said “Beth” a couple of days a week, at my local quilt shop here in Tucson, Bella Quiltworks.   (Well, yeah, the name on my big huge invisible HAT said “MOM”… but this was my play-day-getaway-job!)  It was great, a time to connect with fellow quilters, other women (remember, I live in a house of all MEN), and to be surrounded by bolts and bolts of colorful fabric.  Ahhhh, heaven. I taught classes, cut kits, whipped up sample quilts, moved fabric and displays from here to there, and generally had a good time being part of the quilty world.  As I started designing patterns for a couple of classes that I was teaching, the thought of publishing my patterns had crossed my mind.  Enter the OTHER 1/2…. LIZ.  And as they say, the rest is history.  We started designing like mad, jumping into the publishing and wholesaling world… while I was still trying to fit in Bella a day or two each week.  As Lizzie B grew, and got busier… something had to give.  That MOM hat was permanently stuck on my head, and so the days of playing (well—working— but it felt like play!) in the quilt shop had to come to an end.

(I must say, my hubby was quite happy that I was quitting my job at Bella.  He often said that it was the MOST EXPENSIVE job I had ever had.  I really don’t think I ever brought home a paycheck.  I mean, really!  I think I was one of the best customers!  I hauled home tons of fabric. I owed them WAY more money at the end of every work day…)  And my boys loved me working at home every day, too.   

So I like to say that Bella was my launching pad… giving me the creative outlet to pursue my own dreams and go my own way.  It’s nice to still be connected with the girls there, though, and to have that “home-away-from-home” that I can pop into now and then… for a colorful fabric fix, a laugh with friends, or just a “what’s new” catching-up conversation about our families.  Joelee, the shop owner, has been one of my biggest cheerleaders… and I’ve picked her brain many times on what a shop owner is looking for, or what we as designers can do to help shop owners market new stuff. I’ve shared the whole book-authoring and fabric-designing process with Joelee and staff, and they have been so supportive!  When it came time for our book release, I was really looking forward to the Book-signin’ party that they had planned for me! So last Saturday was book-signin’ day at Bella Quiltworks, in Tucson.  Since I was teaching a class there on Friday afternoon, I hauled all of the projects and some of the Whimsyland decor down the day before so we could set up.    

The girls at Bella were great about getting on the ladder and hanging up all the stuff (HEY, you guys want to come to market with us??!) Thanks Kathie and Cindy (who are both much taller than me!)  Joelee was a great help too.  

And I MUST mention that Kelle, her daughter, was the hit of the party…even though she was not even there.  She was the one who baked all the cookies for the event… and I must say, they were pretty darn yummy!  (And if you haven’t heard by now— the recipe is in our book!)   Thanks Kelle!   

I was a little scared…. not sure if anyone would actually show up.  And buy a book.  Or want it signed.  You know, we all have those nightmares where we throw a party… and no one comes!  But my fears were put to rest.  Quilters and friends started trickling in even a little before the advertised time, and pretty soon, the shop was buzzing!  

THANK YOU SO MUCH to all who came out and ate cookies and laughed and played at the quilt store with us on Saturday!  It was sooo fun to see some familiar faces– those that had been students in past classes that I had taught, and others who are regular customers at Bella that I just don’t get to see anymore.  Some new faces too, which was just as fun.  

I love meeting and talking to quilters.  We have a bond, you know.  No matter WHAT kind of quilting you enjoy doing, or what fabrics and patterns speak to you… we all are creative and industrious and ambitious!  It was fun to catch up with projects, family news, and shared laughs. I LOVE LOVE my Lizzie B job!  I miss working at Bella— those of you who love to step into a quilt shop know what I am talking about— but I also love working on new designs in my studio and being on the OTHER side of the quilty world.  I’m grateful, though, to have that quilt-shop home to go back to.  I step inside… and that I am surrounded by friends.  And fabulous fabric!

If you listened to our podcast with Annie of Simple Arts, you will have heard that there is a sale going on in the Lizzie B shop!  All patterns and kits are 30% off, but you’ll need to enter the code for the discount upon checkout.  It is MARKET09.  The new book is NOT on sale, but everything else is… through June 5th.

And, in honor of our new book release, we will be giving away a signed copy of “Whimsyland” to one of Annie’s listeners!  You’ll have to post a comment on this blog in order to be entered into the drawing, mentioning something that you heard on the podcast (sneaky, eh?!  Making you actually listen….!)  The drawing will happen on June 5th.  Not sure what time.  Who knows what will be going on in our lives on THAT day, and when we might fit in the official book-giveaway-drawing!  But we’ll post the winner just as soon as we can, and send off the book right away!

Remember, only comments on THIS post will be entered to win…

Oh, boy. The Lizzie B girls are so often up late.  In fact, we totally don’t even GET the old saying “Early to bed, early to rise”  when we are together!  We get so much done in those wee hours of the morning… even if we DO have to rise early (to bake cookies, for example).  So, I suppose it is a good thing that Liz and I are not next door neighbors (tho’ we do dream about that….) we would be zombies if that were the case!

At market, it is just a given that there will be not much sleeping.  Not to say that we don’t NEED it.  All of our friends in the industry, whom we only see at market, must think those baggy eyes are just part of who we are!  (We do get rest, however, when we are not together…) 

So it seemed only fitting that we capped off our last day of market with a REALLY late night together.  And the bonus… we spent it with our good friend Annie Smith, the absolute QUEEN of the audio quilting world.  Annie has been doing a podcast about quilting for about 4 years now, and we had the good fortune of doing an interview with her about a year ago.  We had planned to spend some time with her in person while in Pittsburgh, but she was not able to head out east, so a chat by phone was the next best thing!  The plan was to end the day with a podcast interview, after the market clean-up and a well-deserved dinner out.  We got back to our hotel room, got into our jammies, and got set to call Annie.  (I must mention that we had on our dorky MATCHING jammies.  Liz and I both packed the same ones, unbeknownst to one another.  Lame, I know.)

I won’t name names, but let’s just say there was already snoring goin’ on in our hotel room by this time.  Couldn’t have THAT as background noise for the interview!  We headed downstairs, to the hotel lobby, in our jammies.  It was late, and we were hoping it would be quiet and deserted down there.  It was.  The girl at the front desk told us we could use a conference room, as long as we didn’t mind the mess. OK!  We were good with that.

The mess?!!  Evidently, there had been a breakfast meeting earlier (WAY earlier) in the day.  Old stale coffee cups, rancid orange juice glasses, half-eaten bagels schmeared with crusty cream cheese dotted the table.  The A/C was cranked down to 58 degrees…freezing in there! (Perhaps they were trying to keep the cream cheese chilled?!)  We turned off the air, and found a corner of the table that was somewhat clean, and got on the speakerphone with Annie.

Photos here to illustrate would be great!  We didn’t think to take any pics, though.  Just imagine, the Lizzie B girls, who had started the day at 6 am baking 15 dozen cookies; spent all day at market zippin’ around talking to customers, fellow designers, fabric companies, etc; dismantled the booth and packed everything up; and finally, at midnight were sitting down to relax.  Not a pretty sight.  Definitely not a photo opportunity.  We called it the “ugly side” of the quilting biz… quite literally.  If Annie had suggested a video call, we would have had to politely refuse!  And we are not too sure we were even coherent.  You can see for yourself, by listening to the interview here, on Annie’s Simple Arts website.  It’s also available for download on iTunes… (and really, I should listen to it again, in the light of day, before blogging about it to our friends, but Annie said it was good… I am taking her word for it!)

Speaking of Annie, she is embarking on a new venture that I am sure you quilters out there will want to know about!  We have many non-quilter friends who tell us they would LOVE to learn to quilt, but don’t have the time for classes in a shop, or that don’t have a shop near them, etc.  Annie (who was podcasting before ANYONE even knew what it was!) has now embarked on the newest online technology…. ONLINE CLASSES!

Check out this quilt of hers….  Isn’t that fabulous?!  It seems daunting to even try to make something that amazing, but Annie can teach you how, one seam at a time.  She has been teaching new quilters how to make this quilt, step-by-step, in a 10 week class in her local quilt shop for years.  Well, with WebGuy’s help (her awesome hubby) they have developed online classes so ANYONE can now take her class. You can go to her website and see some free posted videos about the class and what it will entail.  The price to take her 10 week class….?  Get this:  ONLY 65 BUCKS!!  It is a deal and a steal, I tell you.  The concept is fabulous… the videos will be posted new each week, so you can fit it into YOUR schedule.  And she will also have several online chats each week to answer specific questions that you might have.  AND she has offered to answer any questions personally by email (she is one amazing person, I tell you…)  The first lesson is free, so you can try it out.  The second lesson starts pretty soon, so hurry.  She also has arranged for a quilt shop to have fabric kits available for purchase if you don’t want to pick your own fabrics.  More info can be found in her classroom.  Wish WE had time to make Annie’s fabulous quilt…

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The last day of Market is bittersweet… I think everyone must feel a bit the same.  Totally exhausted.  Needing sleep (and a bed of one’s own!).  Sad to say goodbye to friends in the industry.  Sad to tear down all the fun, amazing booths on display.  And REALLY not looking forward to the packing-up, hauling-it-out, jockey-ing for loading dock time once again.

But, it must be done!  Time to head on back home, to the studios, offices, workspaces… to begin thinking about the next market and what might be in store for Fall.

The Lizzie B team was sooo happy that the last of the cookie dough had been baked (another 15 dozen cookies before market opened at 9 am… crazy crazy crazy!)  Beth the mathy-brained one figured out that THAT many cookies, baked 9 at a time, for 6 minutes each…. well, never mind.  It was just a long morning of that cookie-bakin’ smell wafting through the hotel.  I am sure the rest of the hotel guests were disappointed to get down to the breakfast buffet to find… just bagels.   

The last day of market is also a bit slower-paced… a lot of the quilt shop owners head back home in order to start their work week bright and early on  Monday, and the show floor just seems a bit more quiet and easy-going.  It’s also a time to get out and see some of the other booths, and visit with market friends!

As market came to a close, we noticed across the way at Kansas City Star that the book rack was lookin’ pretty empty!  It was pretty exciting for us to see all the SPACE that was there in the Whimsyland rack…that means that some of you hauled our book outta there!  Thank you sooo much!

As the clock approaches 4 pm… everyone starts to get a little excited and distracted and ready to roll.  It’s always a little hectic to figure out HOW to take down the booth quickly and somewhat organized (ha!)… and in our case, we also try to figure out just what is going back to Tucson, and what is going back to Liz’s studio in Philly.  We always mess it up though, and something (or more) ends up on the wrong side of the US!  Good thing we have Fedex to straighten ourselves out in the coming weeks!

Meet FRANK… a new addition this year to the Lizzie B team.  We adopted him from Home Depot for a mere $19.96 plus tax.  What a sweet deal for a big strong guy!  In another world, he would be known as an appliance dolly, but here in our wacky world, he’s Frank (and a pretty good partner to our girl Dolly!)  Of course, we had to get out the markers and Lizzie-B him!  Didn’t want some big burly convention center dude walking off with our Frank, thinking he was part of the crew THERE.  He’s ours!  And he has fleurs to prove it.  He is just sitting, waiting, for tear-down, waiting to do the heavy rolling for the poor tired Lizzie B crew.

So, the dismantling of Whimsyland begins.  Sniff, sniff.  It’s a little sad.  But we are packin’ it up for another day.  (The plan is to take it to Long Beach…. we’ll keep our readers posted!)  Here’s a pic of Monique, our wire-girl, in motion… she is getting swooped outta there and will be on her way back to Liz’s studio (her twin, of course, lives in MY studio.) One thing that makes taking down a booth such a pain is that the FIRST thing that happens in the convention center is the rolling up of the carpets in the aisles.  Which means that we can’t really stack much of OUR stuff on the carpets in the aisles.  The mess and piles and packing all has to pretty much happen in the 10×10 booth.  It’s a bit of a jigsaw puzzle to figure out where to stack everything.

This photo just strikes me as soooo funny!  (remember Gumby, that cartoon in the 60’s? 70’s?  The tree, just sittin’ there, kinda reminds me of that rubbery guy…even tho’ I think Gumby was green, and it was his little horse Pokey that was this orangey-brown color!) That poor tree looks so sad, doesn’t it?!  It was a star at market, but now it’s gonna get unstuffed and packed away for another day…

Even the sky had to come a-fallin’ down… here it is all bunched up in Monique’s belly (hey, we are also creative when it comes to packing!  How else do you think we got all this crapola— plus 4 of us and luggage— all the way to Pittsburgh in just one little ol’ Suburban?!)

That’s it, folks.  We are done and outta here!  Just in case you think we are total SLOBS, they tell us to leave our garbage in the booth.  Again, keep those aisles free!  Please notice the nice, smooth, clean concrete floor in the Lizzie B booth.  We did NOT win the Stupidity award this time…. thank goodness.  We do learn our lessons!  (if you do not have ANY idea what I am talking about, read our earlier post entitled “The Stupidity Award” from market last October….)

“Sittin’ on the dock o’ the bay…”  We got outta there pretty early,and John was sent to get the ‘burb and find his way to the loading dock.  It was a long process.  Hmmm, they give you two DAYS to set up, and only two HOURS to take down.  It’s a traffic congestion nightmare waiting to happen!  But John drove that big ol’ monstrosity (his words) right on in there, and we were outta dodge by 5:30 or so.  In time for an early dinner…. yay!   

Liz and I had one more FUN task to do before day’s end… we were podcasting with Annie Smith of Simple Arts!  She is one of our favorite people, and we were sad that she was not able to make it to market this time.  We had planned on hanging out together, and doing a podcast one night.  So although we didn’t get to SEE Annie this time around, we sure weren’t gonna miss chatting with her!  More on that in the next post……  (it’s off to Cheesecake Factory!)

Just postin’ a few pics from our last day of quilt market…

Beth with Deb Luttrell of Stitchin’ Heaven (in Quitman, TX)  She was fun, fun, fun!  We’re gonna send her our Whimsyland quilt one of these days, so she can display it in her shop and gear up for a block-of-the-month class.

A teenage boy at Quilt Market?!  Yep.  It’s true.  Evan (age 17, who calls Mark Lipinski “Dad”) hung out with us for awhile.  We like to think it was our winning personalities…but honestly, we know it was the chocolate chip cookies and beanbag chair!  What a sweet young man!  Kudos, Mark, on raising such a great kid.  Polite, funny, sweet… the moms in us came right out and let him eat all the chocolate chip cookies that he wanted.  He talked about the fact that it was pretty strange for his dad to have more Facebook friends than he did…  haha!  He is so proud of his dad though, and the creativity and spark that he adds to the quilting world. He spotted our book on the table and picked it up, exclaiming “I’ve read this book!” He totally knew all about it, which we thought was so funny!  

Mark also brought his parents to see the ginormity (if that IS a word, it totally describes the size!) of quilt market.  They were  very normal.  And sweet, calm,  quiet.  So we are not really sure that they really ARE Mark’s parents.  Even though Mark’s mom DID tell us a little about what he was like as a kid… but we are keeping mum.  Might need to bribe Mark sometime in the future, and we’ll need ammo.

Mark’s mom was wearing one of our extra name badges…that of Liz’s sister Christine (whom Mark calls “Sister B Cre8ive”!)… so here’s a pic for you, Sistah B!

We got to meet Sandy Klop (also known as American Jane!).  We have always loved her designs.  In fact, in one of our most popular patterns (we called it “Woman’s Gotta Have It”…) we used one of her fabrics that just MADE the quilt.  Got SO many emails asking about that fabric, that we got pretty good at directing people to her website!  It was fun to meet her…she is so happy and bubbly. She and Mama C started bonding over their iPhones, discussing which Apps they should download, etc….and that was the last we saw of both of ‘em.   Side note—- notice that both Liz and I have on our glasses on this last day of market. I normally wear contacts, but there was NO WAY I was gonna be able to do that, given the lack of sleep and pretty large bags under the eyes (the glasses kind of hid those, too…an added bonus!)  Liz had to help her tired eyes out too, and wear her specs.  I think sometimes we MUST do things that are different from one another, but…not usually.

AND THE AWARD GOES TO…….

Yet again, it was a bit daunting to be approached by Karey Bresenhan of Quilts, Inc.  but exciting at that same time.  Secretly I think we were hoping to win a prize at market again, but we were also gearing up to try NOT to be disappointed if we didn’t!  So when Ms. Bresenhan walked our way this afternoon we were a little afraid she might pass us by.  But instead she stopped and presented us with The Creativity Award again and told us that never before in the history of Quilts, Inc. have they awarded the same company TWICE with this prestigious award!  Then as if we weren’t overwhelmed enough….before she left she said, “We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with in the fall!”  Uh-oh.  Talk about PRESSURE!  Never mind.  In the face of a good challenge, our outlook is…..BRING IT ON!  But for now, we’re going to enjoy having our creativity validated once again.  

Here’s another view of the booth:

People have thanked us for providing a “happy” place for them to be in at market.  It’s a long and tiring weekend for shop owners and when they turn the corner and see our booth it’s been fun to see their faces light up and the tug of a smile appear.  Beth and I LOVE what we do and we have FUN doing it…we’re so glad people get a sense of that when they see our designs and step into our little world of Whimsyland! (or maybe it’s just the cookies?)  

But enough about us!  We were able to leave the booth for a bit today and walk around visiting.  The first thing we wanted to do was take a look at a coat made by our friend Annie Smith for the Lecien fabric company.  It’s being modeled by my daughter’s dress form after all!  But look how completely gorgeous it is!  Well done Annie!

front view

back view

Then we went to visit our new friends from Sample Spree, the Grabaro0’s Girls!  They are new to the quilt market world.  This is their first time and they’ve been a little overwhelmed.  We gave them a few tips when we met them on Thursday night and became fast friends!  They’ve been having a FANTASTIC show and their new gloves are AWESOME!  They fit beautifully, “grab” fabric, and are a FUN shade of purple.  We can’t wait to go home and give our new gloves a whirl!

We had lots of fun people come visit us in our booth and near the end of the afternoon, Patty Young, a Michael Miller fabric designer, dropped by to see the way that we had used her fabulous fabric throughout our book and EVEN on our floor cloth!  Her friends had to take pictures of her standing on the floor cloth and then they stayed behind for a lively visit with Myrinda from Fabric Hound (www.fabrichound.com) .  They were tired when they entered the booth, but after a few cookies and some laughs, that all changed!  Here they are posing on the Lizzie B bean bag chair!

Tomorrow we’ll get some more visiting in….need to visit Henry Glass, our fabric design “people”!  And the girls at Abbey Lane, friends we made last year at market, and see if we can find out what else is new and exciting out there.  I’m not sure WHAT possessed Beth to promise that we’d blog every day from market!  As I sit here clickin’ away at my keys we’ve got quiet snores going on all around me.  We’re all just  a tad bit exhausted!  

I hope they’re all dreaming of new creative ways to WOW the Quilts, Inc. people in Houston this fall because I’m fairly certain my brain will shut down completely as soon as my head hits the pillow!  I think I’ll just keep my fingers crossed that as we take down the booth this time, we don’t feel the need to award ourselves with the second STUPIDITY award.  We didn’t use made-to-stick-thru-the-decades 3M tiles this time though, so we might just be okay!

Stay tuned for more updates at market!  We’re “tweeting” all day at Twitter and posting breaking news on Facebook as well.  And tomorrow night we’ll be podcasting with Annie Smith.  Until then…

….have creative dreams!