Stampin' Up!'s Convention is always filled with so many creative ideas - from the people in the home office to the other demonstrators you meet. On opening night before Convention "officially" started, we had a kick off party. This year's Convention theme was "GROW", so one of the challenges was to make a garden hat and/or wear a gardening outfit. It was fun to see how creative many of the demonstrators were with making garden hats and costumes.
![Smiley from millan.net](http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/gardensmiley.gif)
I was heading towards the door to meet up with my roommates when I walked past this table with a lady sitting there. She had made this AMAZING hat and I just had to stop and get pictures! These flowers are not "real" - they're all hand made. But it's hard to tell because the quality is so good - they look real. I almost wanted to bend down and smell them!
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I sat and chatted with her for awhile and I know that I wrote down her blog, but do you think I can find it right now? So if you are the creator of this beautiful hat, let me know so I can give you credit - or when I find the information (because I KNOW I have it someplace), I will add it to this post.
EDITED ON 09/22/11 TO ADD: The creator of this hat saw my blog and let me know the address to her blog. If you want to check it out go to http://1stampingnightowl.blogspot.com/ I'm heading there now to check it out myself!This hat looked beautiful from every angle. She had so many gorgeous flowers just spreading out all over this hat.
![Smiley from millan.net](http://www.millan.net/minimations/toolminis/xflora_oldpink.gif)
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Here is a close-up of some of the flowers and strawberries she had on her hat. Everything you see was made with cardstock. Amazing, huh?
![Smiley from millan.net](http://www.millan.net/minimations/toolminis/xother_chocdipped.gif)
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Here is a picture of the whole hat.
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And another close-up of some of her flowers. Check out the purple hydrangea. The detail on that flower alone was beyond amazing!
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And this is what she had on the top of it all - an adorable little bird house with a little cardinal getting ready to fly inside!
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The night was full of activities and events for everyone: beach volleyball, picnic tables, photo booths with dress-up clothes, demonstrator presentations, music, games, a pie-eating contest, and of course prize patrol. It was a fun way to start off a wonderful Convention! And that was just the beginning! Hope you've enjoyed this little peak of how my Convention started off - I'll be back to share more soon!
Until then...
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Jayne Stenstrom
jayne@jaynestamps.com
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