Blogger Night with Cricut at Provo Craft!

December 5th Aimee and I met up once again to go to a blogger night for some sweet fun and announcements with Cricut at the Provo Craft building. Once I finally found the building (GPS lead me astray a bit, oops!) I rode the elevator up to the 6th floor with some other bloggers and met up with Aimee who had saved me a spot in line. We got checked in and began such an awesome evening!

Aimee and I got our picture with the Cricut mascot!

Room was decorated with all kinds of decorations cut out by the Cricut machine. Such a neat set up!

Met in the breakroom - standing room only by the time we got in there! to hear Nathan speak to us for a bit about some exciting new things and then the CEO himself, Ashish , was there and spoke to us for a bit. Did a little Q&A/feedback and then it was pretty much over.

 While we listened to Nathan and Ashish we got some great treats to snack on. This picture is of the creamers for the hot chocolate! I picked York Peppermint Patty. Sooo yummy! Fancy :)

 Red velvet cake bites, delicious!

 Creamers, lots of marshmallows and other treats

 Here is the craft I made for the gift exchange. Everyone was invited to bring a homemade gift. I feel like my stuff is never something someone would want to receive as a gift, esp compared to some of the super crafty bloggers in Utah...but! I managed to make this shadowbox with bells inside. I used my Cricut to cut out the words "Jingle All the Way". Turned out decent, I hope the person who got it was happy with it.

 We all got an number when we checked in and it matched up to a present on the table. I got the lime green bag with pink wrapping paper. 

 Then I spent a few minutes taking pictures of more decorations all made from the Cricut machine. Amazing!

Loved this lampshade!

 The ornaments and Santa on the tree

This festive tree

Great wreath!

Loved the garland, neat idea!

Such an exciting evening and I cant wait to use my Cricut more. I downloaded the Cricut Craft Room software to my laptop and started a new blog that I will link you to soon that will have more craft related projects and adventures on it.

Gardner Village Blogger Meetup

Ahhh omgoodness. This was such a freekin' AMAZING night at Gardner Village! I cant believe I've never been here before yet it is only about 10 min. from where I live. It was even better that my sister Laura could join me! She is going to hate me for posting a certain picture but I have to document everything! 

We started out with some yummy food at Archibald's Restaurant. There was fried green tomatoes which I regret not trying now and something else covered in fried batter. I just took some spinach dip I guess it was? and tortilla chips. Man, the dip was SO good I wish I had had time to sit and eat more. The card on the left listed all the shops we had to get to and we had about 2 hours to get them all visited so we could enter the drawing at 8pm!

Dont we look so good with mustaches?! Haha. This was what we had to do at our first stop! Funny

Interesting outfits here, I liked the bright colors and the lace

I really liked the purse bags paired with these dresses

Fun skirt, great colors, reminded me of Halloween

So much attention to detail and decoration!

picked up this super cute owl! Love..so soft!

I thought this pumpkin was neatly done!

Owl costume on this little Kewpie doll

Creepy book cover and title - reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode

So many Raggedy Ann's & Andy's

This room was shades of teal. So fun!

I liked this outfit, esp the shirt underneath the tank top

Loved this necklace!

Candy - Sixlets at Sweet Afton's. They even had silver and gold!

We got to sample a piece of fudge here. I had the chocolate orange one - oh yes, super sweet but the flavor was perfect. A sliver of a slice was just enough.

"Beware" , said the owl

Took this picture for Tony ;-)

Orange roll from Naborhood Bakery. Omygoodness. It was so light and fluffy.

 I wanted more!

To die for! Loved this owl pillow! They were only $15 I think

This sign was super cute, would look nice in a movie room

Captured a little of the beautiful sunset that evening

We finished with about 10 minutes to spare!

a table full of prizes! $350 purse, a bike!  gift cards, gifts from the stores at Gardner Village and more!

Chocolate fountain! There were marshmallows, strawberries, pineapple, bananas, rice krispie squares , cinnamon bears and more. It was insanely delightful as you can tell from my excited face below!

Us bloggers with our green swag bags that we filled up with goodies from each store. So fantastic!

Lucinda the witch!

Great costume and makeup!

Announcing the winners of all the prizes on the table!

Laura's name got called! They couldnt pronounce her last name so she had to help them out a bit

 

My name got called too but Laura wasn't able to get a picture. 

I won a $50 gift card

Laura with her sweet Halloween decoration prize that she won

The next day at home I laid out everything I had acquired in my green bag on our kitchen table. Does anyone want to buy a monitor? Haha. Wow, I was again impressed with the generosity of the shop owners we visited at Gardner Village!

What I won! $50 gift card to The Black Goose Design

In the bag were some delicious chocolate mint truffles , a chalk ink pen and some little chalkboard stands.

It was an excellent evening and I appreciate so much the blogger community here. It was fun to put some names with faces and talk to some new friends. Def. looking forward to the next blogger event!