Last weekend I attended the Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Expo in Waukesha, WI (Near Mlwaukee).
It was at a new location this year with vendors in three rooms - this is the biggest the expo has ever been. It was a lot of the same people I have seen before, but there were some new ones that made the raised admission totally worth it!
This year there was a new company to me called
Bugawumps out of Northbrook, IL. Hey - That's pretty close to me - I need to see if they have a local retail location!! Anyhow, the cranky bird, the flip flops and the Rum stamp were all from them - pretty reasonable and they had a lot of really cute stuff that I had not seen before. (Images blurred to protect their copyright (and my butt)).
I got 6 sheets of cling foam for $3.50 a sheet!! That was the best deal at the show (Found at
Stamping Sensations) and I was in need of some!
There was a fantastic place called
Scrap-A-Holic that sold Magnolias!! (See her
blog for info on the stamps). Two tables full of them in baskets and boxes!! It was SoOOOOooooo Hard to choose! They were running a show special - buy 4 get 1 free, so I got 4 magnolias and the little bench for my sitting Magnolia with a Crown to sit on for free!! WOO HOO! Nothing beats Free!
Then there was the spot I stopped at first - it was
Eye-Lets Etc. and they only took cash unless you spent a certain dollar amount (I only had $10 cash, so it was really good that I went there first). They had the fantastic tie-dye flowers!
I just HAD to have them and now I wanna hoard them and not use them, but I promise I won't!
Maybe I'll use them with the Magnolias!
My last stop of the day was
Whippersnapper. They always have tubs and tubs of unmounted rubber stamps to wade through. They used to put them in a plastic kiddy pool, but there wasn't enough room in the pool for all the stamps the last few years! No joke, there were at LEAST 16 tubs of unmounted stamps. Nothing in any order, but it's so much fun to dig through!!
I smelled like rubber when I left from being elbow deep in bins for two hours!
I only chose 24 stamps this time around, but at $1 each it's such a deal!! No matter what size just $1 !!! WOO HOO!!
So all in all I spent about $90, had a good day and found some new vendors!
I'd call that a SUCCESS!
Anna Banana
