Last night, I enjoyed a wonderful dinner with Shelli Gardner and her daughter Sara Douglass along with Christyne and 3 other "Canadians, INK!" demonstrators: Esther, Genevieve and Lyne. Unfortunately, Esther's two new demos Jessica and Debbie were unable to join us, and I missed getting to meet them.

Esther's "Workshop Of a Lifetime" with Shelli and Sara had occurred earlier in the evening, so this was our chance to unwind, eat and laugh together -- all over some yummy food (and even better dessert!). I had so much fun with everyone, my face was still hurting this morning from all the sore muscles from grinning and laughing so much :)

My only regret was that I didn't have a magic wand to bestow some extra sleep on these travel-weary ladies: they'd only gotten 4 hours the night before and with a extra-early flight back to Utah this morning, they probably fared just as badly.

Here's hoping they had a safe trip home.., and that their luggage makes it home with them!

Huge props go out to Esther for her fabulous accomplishment... I'm so thrilled that you earned this so early into your Stampin' Up! career! Ladies, not only is she rocking her business, but she's 8 months pregnant, has 2 small & active boys AND a full-time job as well. Way to go, Esther!

You can read more from Shelli herself about Esther's workshop here...

Happy stamping,

posted by Caroline LeBel, Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator @ 1:00 p.m.