GIVEAWAY
2 FREE PASSES + HOTEL
It’s somebody’s birthday around here and we’re celebrating by giving away 2 passes for you and a girlfriend. We’ll even pick up the hotel. Imagine getting away for The CREATIVE CONNECTION with just you and your best friend! This is big!
The Nitty Gritty
RULES OF ENTRY:
To enter you must do the following:
- Leave a comment on THE CREATIVE CONNECTION BLOG that includes the following information: Why you want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event and who you would pick to take with you and why.
Additional entries:
- Tweet the following “Win a full pass and hotel for you and a friend to BlogHer Handmade & The Creative Connection Event!” http://ht.ly/5Ped4 #tccevent11.
- *Blog about this giveaway and tell your readers why you would love to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event- 5 additional entries-leave the link on each comment
- Have THE CREATIVE CONNECTION EVENT button or link on the sidebar of your blog (2 Entries–leave a link to your page on each comment)
- “Like” us on Facebook-1 Entry (if you previously shared a post on FB, this is your entry. We must follow their rules of promotion-Thank you)
*Remember, you may have up to 10 entries, but you MUST POST SEPARATELY for each additional entry. This contest ends at 11:59 on Thursday, August 4th! Winner announced Friday, August 5th! Good luck~
We’d LOVE for you to help us promote in any online capacity you’d like. Post it everywhere!!!
To leave a comment, click below where it says 400 comments. Although the number may be higher than 400.
http://twitter.com/#!/happyapplesara
I’ve been trying to find time between my “regular” job and my family to start my own creative business. Attending this event would be just the kick-start I need! And I’d bring my mom, since she’s pretty crafty too :)
It won’t let me comment on my own still after 2 hours so I am trying to see if I can comment on someone elses comment. I would LOVE to get a chance to win this for my daughter and myself! Thanks. I tweeted this too for an additional chance.
Also, cannot seem to enter blog without reply.
PICK ME – I would LOVE to go to absorb more creative ideas and information – I am a MaryJaneFarm Fan having been to her farm, subscribe to her publications, and my daughter is one of her featured writers (speaking at the event). I would take my best friend of 27 years especially since 5 years ago we now live in different states. It would be a creative event of a lifetime for us.
I would be so over the moon delighted to have the opportunity to attend this event. I am one the creatives in the trenches, curbside crawling, digging in dumpsters and recycling other “trash” into treasures for a living. Building, painting, sewing, and general creating almost every single day for the last 9 years is exciting but we could use a “creativity wonderland” boost and break all in one..This would be like our dreamland “disney” trip to us….I would love to be able to bring my curbside crawling, building, crazy loving partner in “crime” and life with me…My loving wonderful hubby…A convention full of women certainly would not in least bother him and there is no one I would rather go with since we just feed of each others creative vibes.
I lost my son 5 months ago. We were planning on opening an Art Cafe and Studio. In honor of my son I plan to pursuit his dreams. I don’t know of anything he would want more. He was a professional chef, and he considered culinery his way of expressing his creativeness. I on the other hand was planning to oversee the art/craft studio. I am trying to educate myself in everyway possible. I have enjoyed creating with my family since I was a very young child. If I would win, I plan to bring my daughter to the event as well. She is studying Fashion in College.
It is posting at 3:00 a.m. on the 5th, but I sent at 10:40 on the 4th?
I would bring Marti. She was the one who helped me out when I first started blogging 4 years ago. I would like to go so we can hang out together and learn new things. And be silly. She’s over 50 and I’m 46 so in blog land, we are the old people but in our heads we are young! My first pc was an apple first generation…hahaha
xo Jana
I want to go to the Creative Connection Event because I am never more inspired than when I am surrounded by a group of passionate, creative people! It moves me to work harder and follow through!
here is my promotional tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/mrsrockit/status/96418566454263808
and if I win, I’m taking my best friend and craft buddy Jenny!
Just tweeted! @madebyjewls
Oh my goodness, I’m DYING to go to the BlogHer Handmade and Creative Connection Event! It looks like such an amazing event and I feel like I could learn SO much from attending. I’d want to bring my husband or my friend Dresden, they’re both super creative as well and would definitely benefit from attending.
The Creative Connection Event button is on my blog sidebar
http://www.madebyjewls.blogspot.com
The Creative Connection Event button is on my blog sidebar
http://www.madebyjewls.blogspot.com
I want to go because I was SOOOO inspired by volunteering last year and didn’t get enough play time! Want to take my mom, who has been an “original” handmade creator since I was born. I always blew it off, never appreciated her work that much, but now, see she was leading the way and gave me a lot of skills I use in my own business. AND I am due for some inspiration right now! :) Thanks!
tweeted at http://twitter.com/crystallinelove
Oh, my gracious, I would LOVELOVELOVE to win these tickets! I am just beginning to learn about blogging (you can see my site is just bare bones) and am very interested in getting it going. I keep gazing at the TCC schedule, all the while dreaming of how I might come by the money to get there. My hubby is a farmer, we just finished putting 2 kids through college, have another in her 2nd year and I have gone back for my degree in graphic design. So dollars are a precious commodity at our house. Winning these truly be a gift. Who would I bring? Hmmm….my friend Michelle. She is a photographer and cook, and would enjoy the TCC as much as me – just in a different way!
I tweeted the awesome giveaway details….seriously, it rocks!
https://twitter.com/#!/CatherineStern
I would LOVE to attend this event! I would take my SIL, Missy, as she and I share the craft bug!
This has got to be the BEST giveaway out there…in my (humble) opinion, it’s better than Oprah’s Favorite Things.
Anyway, I’m a life artist, constantly trying new things through this journey called life. I’m a dedicated work-at-home mom and wife in the creative field (freelance graphic design) and would LOVE this chance to spend some creative, crafty, focused time away at a conference like this (sounds just BLISSFUL) to spread my wings and enjoy the environment.
Seriously, I’d have to put names in a hat and draw one out to determine who would accompany me because most, if not all, of my friends and family are very creative. As they say, birds of a feather flock together – and it’s so true!
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
Oooo oooo pick me! I loved TCC last year and would love to catch up with everyone as well as meet new people this year. With 8 kids it’s not in the checkbook this year but who ever wins will with out a doubt have a blast and learn a ton.
I would love to go to the Creative Connection to jumpstart my textile design business. I have always been a crafty girl and would love to be surrounded by other crafty girls! I would bring my BFF, Inspired Butterfly (http://purelyinspired.blogspot.com/) because she inspires me to craft every day!
Just put a link on my sidebar! Hope I did it correctly….
ooops – here’s my site:
dillydallyblog.com
You have a (special) place in my left hand side bar on my blog:
http://every-day-inspirations.blogspot.com/
Thank YOU for the chance to win!
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You have a (special) place in my left hand side bar on my blog:
http://every-day-inspirations.blogspot.com/
Thank YOU for the chance to win!
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also did a link on my facebook page….CAN YOU TELL I REALLY WANT TO WIN THESE?
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510857149
Here is the link to my tweet!
http://twitter.com/#!/crimsonbruin/status/96428792297435136
It would honestly be a dream come true to attend the creative connection event. I have 4 sons so I don’t get to travel much for creative reasons. There is something about being in a room filled with creative people that feeds your souls like nothing else does. I would dearly love to bring my best friend along, to experience a creative connection (pun intended) of her own for the very first time!!!!
I don’t use twitter but I did promote on my Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/Carrie.Reid.Harney
Thank you so much for this opportunity!!!!!
Please pick me for this creative get away so I can bring my very best friend from college with me.
Just tweeted!
http://twitter.com/#!/oliveandollie/status/96431235391422464
Here is a link to my blog post!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
I would love to win a trip to TCCE. I was an attendee and a participant in the HandMade Market last year and it was truly a life-changing event for me. I made so many connections and met so many people that I wouldn’t have had I not been there. The experience has set me on the path for my creative business and I know, from attending, that everything I can imagine is possible. It takes a lot of work and perseverance, but it’s certainly possible!
I would take along one of my quilting girlfriends from the Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild. We would have a blast!
Thanks so much for the wonderful giveaway.
I would SO love to be entered!!!!!! My best friend Lisa of tarnishedandtattered.blogspot.com and I are planning on writing an art book together and this would be the perfect opportunity for both of us to explore all of our options! Thank you so much for offering this wonderful giveaway ~ xxoo, Dawn
I tweeted about this wonderful giveaway!
I’ve put a button on my blog! Thanks for the giveaway!!
OK… I have a button on my blog, too! I hope I win! Thanks for the giveaway!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/
My good friend Missy (actually Cheryl, but we call her Missy) and I have been talking about going to TCC for months! We Met MaryJane Butters (she’ll be there!) a few months ago and we started talking about going. The glitch?…My husband lost his job in January. I just couldn’t even think about talking to my husband about attending. Well, things are looking up! He started a new job this week! I would love to attend and enter the lottery for the book deal session! So pick me random.org, pick me!
I’ve added The Creative Connection button to my side bar as well ~
I shared on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/mooneytracy
Just posted a button as well. So cool how that works!
http://dillydallyblog.com/
If I win I would take my sister and business partner, but since she can’t take time off from her day job I would take either my friend Jackie or Christa… on second thought, nope I think we would all have to go and just split the cost of the third ticket ;-) I would take Miss Jackie because she is an amazing cook who would love the MaryJane’s Farm Day; Miss Christa would love all the photography classes; and we would ALL love the business classes. Not to mention the fun of hanging out for three days together!
Ok – here’s my tweet link: https://twitter.com/#!/andersonkiki
Thanks for the giveaway!
I posted about this wonderful contest on my Facebook as well:
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/dawn.c.edmonson/posts/2085542990700?notif_t=like
I Tweeted! http://twitter.com/#!/McAfeeCyberMom
This is just the BEST!!! i would love to win this creative adventure. I would bring my artsy girlfriend. Great Giveaway!
I just added the button to my blog:
http://otherhanddesigns.com/
here’s my tweet.
marybethhunt Mary Beth Hunt
Win a full pass & hotel for you & a friend to BlogHer Handmade & The Creative Connection Event!” #tccevent11 thecreativeconnectionevent.com
Tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/taradaramadeit
I would L-O-V-E to win this amazing trip! I’m a lifetime crafty girl with an even craftier mom and just launched my own small business last year. As a 20-something learning the industry and learning how to be an entrepreneur while juggling two little ones, a husband and a house, I think this event would be SO beneficial for me! The workshops look incredible.
If I won, I would take my mom! She’s my creative inspiration and it would be a wonderful get away for us both!
Here is the link to my tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/AngSuarez/status/96437269589786624
Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Would love to win this so much!! I have family in Minnesota too! Here is the link to my facebook where I am sharing the information :)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1490010644
I would love to win this giveaway ! I started my own recycled and up-cycled craft business that use to be just a hobby back in Feb and this would give me tons of new ideas and inspire me to press forward towards my goal of a actual store front! I would take my sister who keeps me pumped with positive thoughts and good sound advice and 2nd opinions.
I want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because I KNOW first hand how much it can do for my business. There is just so many connections to be made; so many friendships to be found; so much knowledge to be absorbed. It’s hard to harness just a few things of why I want to attend TCCE, but those are 3 very broad and general reasons.
I would bring my very good friend, Holly from Montana because her and I are 2 peas in a pod. We ‘get’ eachother. We think very much alike and don’t have hold eachother’s hand at events like these. We both have been through a lot in the last little while with our families and would both really enjoy the time to have some girl time and be in a place where we BOTH are understood.
Thanks for the opportunity to win!!!!
I tweeeted here
http://twitter.com/#!/iladeedacraft
I put it on my FB
https://www.facebook.com/LaDeeDaCreations
I would love to go to this conference to learn more and help me to become a better blogger. Being creative and crafting is my passion, and I love to share my passion with my readers. I would bring my BFF Nina who is also a blogger!
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/#!/3fourandunder/status/96442088698286082
I want to go to learn how to grow my blog and to meet other bloggers in real life. My blogilebrity is Jen, from Tater Tots and Jello. I soo want to meet her!!!
I would LOVE to win to learn more about blogging – – I’ve never been to a conference and would love to do so!! I’d take my cousin Kate, my behind-the-scenes help in all things. I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/sugarbeecraft/status/96445724811730944
http://twitter.com/#!/LUCKY7DESIGN
Loving this contest! Hope Im as lucky as I think I am!
MJ
Lucky 7 Design
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I have the Creative Connect button proudly displayed on my blog sidebar right on top!
http://mylucky7design.blogspot.com/
MJ
Lucky 7 Design
I blogged about it
http://ladeedacreations.com/2011/07/the-creative-connection/
here is my tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/ButtonwillowCat
I would love to just soak up all of the creative goodness that I could to make my art and my business soar! I would take my best friend Mary.
I put link on my side bar under upcoming awesome events.
I would love to go to The Creative Connection because I know the event would help me be a better blogger. The speakers and classes sound out of this world. I would bring my dear friend Grace with me who is an avid crafter and blogger herself. I know she’d absolutely think she’d died and gone to Heaven.
If I won these tickets I would invite my sister to come with me because she had a blog first and was my inspiration, she is so busy working in corporate world she doesnt blog much anymore. I would love for her to be inspired again.
I would love to win these tickets even though Im deathly afraid to fly on airplanes! Im the mother of 5 and wife to a great man and my biggest supporter. I have 2 blogs and 2 Etsy shops where I sell my handmade & vintage items. My dream is to open my own store one day and be a shop owner and inspire people to create beautiful homes for themselves. I love WWC and Im a big fan of Elizabeth Maxson she has been a great mentor to me and I would love to meet her in person. Im also fans of alot of the guest speakers and know that this would be a life changing experience for a New Jersey Housewife like me! If I could say it was in my budget I would…but I run a household of 7 and this is a luxury I can afford anytime soon :(
P.S. Thanks for offering such a great contest!
MJ
Lucky 7 Design
I tweeted, but couldn’t figure out how to save the link. Here’s a copy/paste of it from Twitter.
@FarmgirlGourmet
Heather
Win a full pass and hotel for you and a friend to BlogHer Handmade & The Creative Connection Event!” #tccevent11
7 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Tweeted about this awesome opp! Fingers crossed! @scissorspatulas
Jen
Scissors & Spatulas
I tweeted it via my Twitter Account.
http://twitter.com/#!/AngryJulie/status/96449905362608128
I would love to go to TCCE to learn from all the great speakers and presenters there. I’ve tried to get in more touch with my creative side this year and I think this will help me more with my creativity and projects.
I would take my friend Kelly, because she is so much more crafty than me and she would enjoy it too.
I want to go to CC because I hear so many amazing things about it from my roommates at Creative Estates. It’s pretty far from me here in SC so I would LOVE to win a ticket. Not sure if I could afford attend otherwise! If I win, I’ll take my sister in law who has a blog as well. She was lucky enough to attend Blogher ATL!
Jen
jen @ scissorsandspatulas dot com
Put the button on my blog! Scissors and Spatulas!
Jen
http://twitter.com/#!/504Main/status/96449530517655552
TWEET! TWEET! TWEET!
I would probably faint if I won this. I have been trying to figure out a way to get to TCC since I first heard about it. So many of the classes are being taught by people I admire and this would be an amazing venue to be inspired, try new (crating) techniques, and generally be amazed and in awe of the talent that is out there. And let’s face it, it is an awesome event and I would LOVE to be there.
I would take my mom because she inspired my crafting – I remember her crafting all the time and she used to sell at fairs. I would love to see her rekindle that love.
Put the button link on my blog but it’s not working. :(
Jen Scissorsandspatulas.com
Button’s on my sidebar!
I have been in school for three long years and I need some blogher mojo from others and need a space to feel my creative spirit renewed. I would bring my five daughters – cause when we get together the fire ignites with creative energy.
I tweeted about you, @anncp1595
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I would love to attend TCC and BlogHer Handmade because, frankly, I need the inspiration!! I would take my sister because she is my best friend, and one of the most creative people I know. I tweeted. http://twitter.com/#!/theshabbynest
http://twitter.com/#!/imsofunnyblog
I want to go because it’s a free freakin vacay. I blog, I would learn something. I would be tempted to take my husband, but then who would watch the kids. I would probably have a giveaway for whoever wants to go with.
I tweeted http://twitter.com/thienkim/statuses/96465903956393985
I want to go because I want to meet other creative women/people and soak in that creative vibe!
OK so I can comment on another comment but my own won’t go through. Something is not right. I give up. Making me crazy!!! trying for hours now. I would love a chance to win for myself and my daughter. Tweeted for an additional chance.
I tweeted this contest too. Sorry, as my first original 50 comments were great but alas they were never let through. I believe that those 121 spam comments that were blocked were half mine. I did the exact same thing every time with no luck at getting through until now, if it works.
Wow! What a wonderful opportunity! Thank you!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/NancyEberhardtMills
http://www.facebook.com/FiveTimesBlessed
And I just blogged about the giveaway :-)
http://otherhanddesigns.com/2011/07/28/a-hopeful-post/
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I tweeted the giveaway!!
http://twitter.com/#!/redredreeves/status/96477530311229440
I want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because the schedule looks amazing. I really want to attend those activities on extending my reach and growing my business. It seems like such a great learning experience. Plus, I will be exposed to some new crafts that look really fun! (Hello Vogue knitting!!)
And I would take my bestie Melissa. We write a blog together, raise our kids together, cook together, sew together, etc. Why not go to The Creative Connection Event together?!
Meeeeeeeeee! Pleeeeeease! Sharing it on FB RIGHT NOW!
Twittered!
http://twitter.com/#!/bugn1
I would take my adult daughter, who is also my friend :-) because… it would be an experience that we could both share and she is at a crossroads in her life on where she wants to go from her career wise. She graduated culinary arts and makes the best vegan cupcakes that seem to be in high demand for different charity events.
XOXO
Put the button on my blog! http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/
Here are all the links:
Button on my blog: http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/
Shared on The 36th AVENUE FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/the36thavenue
Twitter at: https://twitter.com/#!/the36thavenue
I want to go because:
I NEED some girl talk…
I NEED a good excuse to get a new pair of shoes…. PRONTO
…because last time I slept in a hotel room without my kids was during my honeymoon….SAD!
…because I want to prove the world that GIVEAWAYS are REAL and blogging ROCKS!
ok…I think I am done!
I would LOVE to come to CC in Minn in Sept! There is nothing more freeing than to get lost in yourself or in a project or in a technique. I love it when I start working and then somehow it is dinner time! Where did that time go? CC would be the funnest, coolest, most mind blowing opportunity ever! I would bring my art friend Lisa. We share some fun, creative times and she would love it as much as I would. Love you WWC!
I would choose my cousin Lisa. She and I are both obsessed with all of the fabulous craft blogs and want to be part of it but are still trying to figure it all out. Plus…. she and I are children at heart and would have the bestest time!
I shared this giveaway via twitter – http://twitter.com/#!/HeatherNash10/status/96500789383667712
I LIKE you on Facebook…Thank you for the chance to win and Happy Birthday (mine was a few days ago)!
…I am back. Here is the link to my BLOG POST: http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to win this and my post says WHY…. http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
I am a believer!
http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
Anything with the word HOTEL and Plaza on it sounds great to me…
http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
…here is my last chance
Button on my blog:
http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/
Shared on The 36th AVENUE FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/the36thavenue
Twitter at: https:
//twitter.com/#!/the36thavenue
Posted About It:
http://www.thirtysixthavenue.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
Thank you guys… I think I am done! ;)
I would love to attend The Creative Connection BlogHer event. I have been crafting for awhile now, but I am just getting my feet wet in the blog world and want some inspiration and insight into growing my creative business. If I win the tickets I would bring my mother in-law, she introduced me to crafting, creating, and all things handmade 9 years ago and I think it would be a great way to say thank you to her for all that she has taught me over the years!
Would love to see my favs Stacy Julian and Becky Higgins. I would take my crafty relative, my Aunt Jackie!
I tweeted. AmyMpls917
Liked the FB page!
What an amazing contest! I’ve been focusing on my creative side and about to launch a new creative business in the next couple of months. I think Blogher Handmade/The Creative Connection event will provide me with the tools and information I need to be successful, plus I’ll have the opportunity to be inspired by women who are already living their dream! If I win, I will bring my friend Theresa who is going through a career change and is also a creative guru.
Link to my contest Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/TravelingPumper/status/96528021925801985
I would LOVE to go because I think it would be a great way to recharge my creative batteries. I’d see new projects, learn new crafts, meet new people, see a new town. I’d love to go to with my dearest friend who I have never actually met irl, who is going to this year’s event! Sounds like good times to me.!
I tweeted! @messymonster25
I tweeted about this amazing giveaway. I am kinda beside myself about the opportunity to go to Blogher Handmade and the Creative Connection Event. ~~~crossing fingers and toes~~~~
http://twitter.com/#!/rhrjewelry/status/96538111374401537
I would be so thrilled beyond words if I won passes to attend the Creative Connection! I want to go to be inspired and educated. I have a passion for creating and it would be amazing to be in a room filled with so many inspiring people! I would take my friend Brandy, the creator of Blush Envy! She is extremely talented and I know she would love to go!
ps I could also REALLY use a brake from being SuperMom for a few days!
I like (love) The Creative Connection on Facebook!
shared it on FB at http://www.facebook.com/maryjovick and on my http://www.facebook.com/redhouseranch page. I’m ‘in it to win it!’
I’ve liked all of your related pages… Where Women Cook… Where Women Create… The Creative Connection…
‘in it to WIN it’…
I have had a design business for almost 1.5 years and I think this conference would be a great jumpstart for it. I really wanted to attend last year, but couldn’t and I have only heard WONDERFUL things about it. I would take my friend Jessica as she is very creative and we could have a girls weekend learning together.
I think the Creative Connection event would be the kick in the seat of the pants that I need to take my art/design business to the next level. Hearing the success stories of others, sharing in the creative juices flowing and learning a few new skills would help to propel me to where I need to go, giving me that creative nudge. I would take a fellow artist friend – we talked early on about attending to share expenses and double our enthusiasm but the financial numbers just didn’t pencil out…the look of surprise on her face when she finds out she is attending would be incredible!
just “liked” CC on facebook and commented on giveaway post
This conference is everything my blog encompasses…..social media, handmade, knitting, and cooking (OK, minus the knitting which my mom has tried to teach me a several occasions). “I Blame My Mother”, is a little bit of everything because of my mom. She is the most well rounded and creative person I know, and because she is my mom she got me interested in all sorts of stuff! Of course, I would bring her! And the cool part is that I live in Florida and she lives in St. Paul so it would be a wonderful time for mother/daughter bonding over just the things that brought us close in the first place.
I tweeted! (@iblamemom)
Win a full pass and hotel for you and a friend to BlogHer Handmade & The Creative Connection Event!” http://t.co/eqs7O4m #tccevent11
Would love to come and be surrounded by creative energy! Need to take my business to the next level and would love input and inspiration. I would bring my mom…she would benefit from thinking outside the box in marketing her art. Not to mention we’ve never taken a trip together…just us girls
just added CC button to my blog – right hand side column
http://fourcornersdesign.blogspot.com
I would love to attend because I would love to meet others that share the same passions I do, especially those that are successfully making a living doing what they love. I would take my friend Danielle with me. She is super creative as well and would love to attend.
I blogged about it here:
http://iblamemom.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-want-to-take-my-mom-to-creative.html
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I’ve been dying to get to this event since I first heard about it – for the inspiration, networking, and to support Terry Grahl/Enchanted Makeovers! Just not the right time for me financially. I would bring my daughter – she loves being a part of my creative business and I would love to expose her to such a great world of creative people. (I would also LOVE to meet and thank – Jo Packham – her books are what gave me the push to do what I love!)
I cannot tell you how much I want to attend this. I would love to be surrounded by such creative people and be inspired by them. I’m not sure who I would bring with me, I have a few friends who are all super talented and it would be hard to choose!
Here’s my tweet:
https://twitter.com/#!/myhydrangeahome
and I liked you on FB :)
I’d love to go! There is nothing like spending a weekend with a place full of creatives to get my inspiration on! Not to mention, seeing old friends and new and I would definitely take my biz partner and bestie, Chris Ann.
Button on my sidebar here:
http://myhydrangeahome.blogspot.com/
Event button on my sidebar:
http://myhydrangeahome.blogspot.com/
Greatest giveaway ever!
I blogged about TCC and why I want to attend here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/2011/07/shameless-shenanigans/
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I blogged about TCC and why I want to attend here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/2011/07/shameless-shenanigans/
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I blogged about TCC and why I want to attend here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/2011/07/shameless-shenanigans/
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I blogged about TCC and why I want to attend here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/2011/07/shameless-shenanigans/
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I blogged about TCC and why I want to attend here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/2011/07/shameless-shenanigans/
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I’ve always been a FB fan. I shared the giveaway here on my business page:
https://www.facebook.com/myhydrangeahome
Thanks so much for the opportunity!
I installed TCC’s button on my sidebar. You can see it here:
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I installed TCC’s button on my sidebar. You can see it here:
http://www.atriptoholland.net/
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I liked you on Facebook.
Love this! I just started a blog and could use TCC to learn so much. The problem would be deciding which crafty friend to bring with me.
I liked TCC on FB!
I really, really, really want to attend TCC because I’m a blogger who has recently begun to write professionally for craft websites. I’d love to expand my network and meet potential clients. I would also like to learn how to better represent myself and my writing–the Pitch Slam sounds amazing! If I had the opportunity to win passes for me and a friend, I would bring along my dear friend, Bethany, who has always encouraged me to publish my writing. We live too far from one another to see each other often, so we would have SO MUCH FUN spending three days together learning and laughing. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d love to go because I’m a crafts book editor and always need to stay in touch with what’s new in the crafting world. But on a personal side, I LOVE to craft, and would love to take some classes and meeting other inspiring ladies who do the same. I’d bring my friend Jessica, because she’s awesome and always has such wonderful ideas!
I liked on FB
I would like to attend this event because we don’t get such craft conferences like this in Canada (at least none that I know of). It would give me a good opportunity to network and help my business get the kick-start it needs.
If I win, I would bring my partner in crime – my aunt Hoda – with whom I could sit and bead for the rest of my life :)
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/carrieg777
WAHOO! I want to meet all the passionate business women! I have so much to learn and it is also just a blast hanging with enthusiastic gals :)
I would take my cousin because she wants to go bad :)
xo. Heather
from Post Road Vintage
Here’s my tweet! http://twitter.com/#!/touchjewelry
I want to got to TCC because it’s in MN & I missed it last year. I am trying to learn to knit so it would be really fun to get inspired!
nlay79@gmail.com
I liked on FB! :)
I tweeted :)
http://twitter.com/#!/postroadvintage
mucho gracious!
-Heather :)
http://twitter.com/theleakysippy/status/96566017819549696
and shared on FB :)
-Heather
http://www.postroadvintage.com
I added the button to my blog!
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I added the button to my blog! (entry 2)
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Tweeted the Giveaway!!
http://twitter.com/#!/RelicCharm/status/96569151006584832
I am a Jewelry Designer and love when I can find new ways and connect with new people to learn more about building a creative business. I would bring my friend Amanda who I am working with on opening a new store location in a couple of months!!!
I like you on Facebook!
Going to this conference would be a dream come true, I wanted to go, but just can’t afford it. It would help me go from idea to reality in getting my handcrafted business out of my head and on the internet and making me money so I can work from home. I would take my daughter because I think seeing how women can be strong and successful on their own is so important and she has such great leadership qualities I think it would be a great experience for her. She is also my right hand girl.
I want to attend the Creative Connection to get new inspiration for my projects, learn new techniques/ideas and to be around other crafters. I would take my sewing “partner in crime” Nicole.
I have always wanted to go to a blog conference! I’d love to go and meet some other bloggers. Sometimes I feel like I’m blogging in a bubble and would love to connect to an outside community!
I would FOR SuRE bring my best blogging friend Traci. She’s got a handmade jewlery business and the conference would be perfect for her.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/KadburyIs/favorites
I’m brand new at all this and am loving every second of it. The opportunity to attend TCC would be HUGE… I am well aware of how much I have to learn, and the connections and knowledge gained by attending would be the boost I need to helping me keep my site successful!
If I won, I would take my lovely friend Sharon. As a full-time working mom of two little girls, she manages to create an amazing homelife and somehow finds the time to also make amazing handbags. She has an awesome attitude on life and inspires me everyday!
tweeted about the event and the giveaway!
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/HippieDogDesign/status/96574768668622848
Thank you again for this entry>!
I am a new blogger, and I can use all the help I can get!
I have a button on the sidebar of my blog. http://creationsbychristie.blogspot.com Can’t wait to go!!! I REALLY HOPE I WIN!!!!!!!
I have the button on my page!
http://kadburyis.blogspot.com
Tweet as a separate entry, duh! : )
http://twitter.com/#!/KadburyIs/favorites
Button on my sidebar!!!!!!!
{pick me, random.org! pick me ; )}
http://kadburyis.blogspot.com
I like TCC on FB!!!!!
I would LOVE to attend the Creative Connection Event because I am wanting to make my food and lifestyle blog more creative and inspiring for my readers – and also for myself. I’m dying to attend the food photography class and be surrounded by creative, like-minded people. I would bring my dear friend with me because she is just as creative and motivated as I am!
I’d love to go to check out some of the amazing knitting design workshops!! I’d bring my friend who is moving down to the Twin Cities around then so she’d have something fun to do to take her mind off the big move.
Here’s a link to my tweet!
http://twitter.com/#!/MarissaStranik/status/96581017338511360
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to get to go and connect with and learn from other fabulous and creative women! I would take my sister with me because she is my crafting partner!
I “liked” the facebook page :)
I would love to win because The Creative Connection and Blogher Handmade would be an incredible networking and learning experience for me and my blog! Plus many of my friends are going and I can’t wait to see them all again. :)
I would probably bring my mom because she’s one of my biggest fans and I want her to experience this crazy blogging world. She deserves a getaway and she would be so inspired at the event.
I love what y’all are doing!
Myra
I tweeted! :) http://twitter.com/#!/blessedlife2/status/96583870002106368
Of course, I like y’all on FB! :)
I would love to go to this conference. It would be the jump start I need to start my own creative blog. Pick me!
The button’s in my sidebar: http://myblessedlife.net
I want to start a blog!
I am cutting back on my work to ease into an early retirement and want to spend more time exploring different
fiber arts. especially quilting . and maybe starting longarm quilting.
This could be a little push – – – I have always been a quick learner and an excellent student
And again: http://myblessedlife.net
Thanks for the chance to win! :)
I would love love love to go because I am in rut of creativeness and I need a little help from all the wonderful people at the conference! I am not sure who I would take, I might even take a blogger friend that would be deserving and not have the chance otherwise!
I would love to go to TCC! I’d love to be surrounded by fellow creatives and network and shop the market and create some lovely pretties and laugh and soak in the inspiring energy!!! I’d bring one of my artsy friends and have a blast!! Thank you!
Just tweeted! “jeannewinters” :-)
I would love to get away for The CREATIVE CONNECTION with just me and my creative Mosaic artist friend Sumukha.
I would like to attend TCC to get inspiration for taking my teeny tiny business to the next level. And I would bring my best friend, who is always thinking up new things for me to commit to! =)
tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/cookingupfamily/status/96588290555256832
Hello! I want to win/attend because not a day (or perhaps hour?) goes by without me daydreaming about what I’m making (quilting, knitting, crocheting, or embroidering), what I want to make next, how I can make more, and how I could possibly spend whole days making instead of sitting at a desk all day. If I win, I’ll bring my middle daughter, because she’s my partner in craft, as well as an apprentice organic farmer who would love and learn from the CC in a big big way! Thank you!
I think a conference like this would help me with both my blog and my Etsy business. I’d bring my sister with me, I miss getting to hang out with her and I think she could learn a lot too.
I would love to go to TCC to learn more about the creative network that has inspired me to start my own blog {A Charming Nest}. I feel I have so much to learn about the process of bring inspiration for others to my blog.
I would bring my mom. She taught me everything I know and we would have a blast!
I’d love to win passes and a hotel to the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. I currently am getting ready to launch a blog on how to leap into life with a good friend. As well, I have entered the pitch for a gift product company. I feel as if this event, this creative swirl of time with extraordinary women, who have embraced their creative lives, is the final puzzle piece in my journey to jumpstart my career and life. Having left my home last year, putting everything in storage, my husband, my cat and my car, leaving our families to drive across country in search of jobs…I have finally settled and am ready to start anew. I would relish being with these women who can only increase my passionate drive to embrace my creative energies.
I have wanted to attend since last year when I was unable to go!! I think this event will not only give me but other women a chance to realize their Dreams and make them come to reality!! I would think that if you attended such an event it would only FUEL the FIRE to make your thoughts become action!! What a Blessing to even get a chance to win!!
I would bring a friend, Kristen…….she is about 15 yrs younger than me, but we are SO much alike. She is trying to start her own business in a very small town…..her Passion is contagious!!
I read the WWC books, read the Blogs, Dream the Dreams but never make it come True!!
Thanks for the offer!!
Just tweeted at http://twitter.com/#!/nicoleketchum on twittter.
I am on your facebook page as well.
I’d just like to say this event could elevate my whole career.
This seems like such a cool event! If I won, I would bring my friend Sharon, who is a full time artist. It would be so much fun!
I’d absolutely love to attend this conference to meet some people who already do what I aspire to do in the handmade biz! I’d take my friend Mary, who’s also a creative blogger!
I tweeted @craftbuds
I would love to go to the Creative Connection just to be among so many inspiring women in one place! I would take my crafty, creative friend Calli from make-it-do.com :)
I ‘like’ you on Facebook!!
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The Creative Connection button is in my sidebar: http://www.lindsaysews.com/
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I would love to attend the to go to the BlogHer Handmade and Creative Connection event. I would bring one of my brave girl crafty friends along to enjoy the fun. I would love to get my craft on with you and them!!! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
I tweeted! :http://twitter.com/#!/amyusmart
Tweeted about your fantastic giveaway!!!
http://www.facebook.com/stephanie.burris
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I would take my friend, Regina, because we have been dreaming of a creative weekend to recharge and this is perfect!
Oh goodness, I would love to attend this! My little blog has been growing slowly, but I would love to learn new tips and tricks to really help it blossom. I love being around other creative people and harnessing in to their energy and ideas! And I know exactly who I’d take – my friend Sarah! We are always going to craft stores and fabric stores together, will often have sewing nites or nap times where one of us leaves our kids at home with hubby or someone else to go do some crafting together. Our sewing machines and Silhouettes have coordinating names even! (Laverne & Shirley and Lucy & Ethel)
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/#!/sumossweetstuff
I want to learn how to grow my dress business and develop my talents further! I’d bring one of my besties, Kassie, because she’s moving far away from me next week–and she’s a crafty lady too. :)
I blogged about your giveaway and why I need to win!!
http://positive-force.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-time.html
I liked Creative Connection on facebook.
I blogged about your giveaway and why I need to win!!
http://positive-force.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-time.html
I blogged about your giveaway and why I need to win!! Entry #3
http://positive-force.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-time.html
I blogged about your giveaway and why I need to win!! Entry #4
http://positive-force.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-time.html
I blogged about your giveaway and why I need to win!! Entry #5
http://positive-force.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-time.html
I would love to attend…. I craft and create everything
I would bring my artistic sister!
I put your button on my blog sidebar too! Entry #1
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I put your button on my blog sidebar too! Entry #2
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Baby #3 is almost a year old
I’m feeling crafty
and quite bold
I would take darc {a funny gal who lives in a farmhouse that’s drafty}
leave the hubs with our fold
pack and take flight
to the Creative Connection Event
& learn with all our might
then spend the evening at the hotel and not a tent.
The End.
Kara
OH this is HUGEEEEEE! I would so love to win, words really are inadequate!!!! I’d bring my creative partner in crime and we’d soak it all in— divide and conquer as it were. Then meet back up for a joint brain spill ‘cuz you know there would be no sleeping! Truly exciting, thanks for the generous opportunity to be part of my Dream to be at WCC.
Button on my sidebar!
Tweeted!
Final lucky entry for being a fan on facebook…. thank you so much for the chance to win!!!
I would love to attend to learn from the incredible line up of keynote speakers. Some of these women I have been watching for years , it would incredible to see them and be inspired by them in person. I would love to take my sister who has started her own photography business, she is so very talented and would love this type of thing. However, if she already has a wedding booked, I would love to go with my college roomate, who has a fun quilting blog, and who I have not seen for four years!
Have done the Facebook Thang
Bags airing out
Creative Cohort on speed dial
comfy shoes at my beck and call
making a new outfit as we speak
new batteries for the camera in place
can’t wait to hug Jo P’s neck! :)
I am a homeschool mom who would love to have my own cottage business. I know that I have so much to learn and this conference would be invaluable! I would take my mom!
Am trying to get my business started, having been out of work for 18 mo. Would love to bring my creative daughter, we bounce ideas off each other and work well together!
I tweeted!
I liked you on Facebook!
Souns like lots of fun! I have lots I still need to learn! I’d take my mom because she would do really well with a little knowledge, she’s already super-talented!
I would love to go! I love connecting with other creative people. I’d bring a good friend who would appreciate the creative vibe as much as I would!
I’d love to go to get inspired. :) I’d bring my mom, because she’s very creative. :)
I have been struggling to find my creative wings for a while now. I do finally feel at home with the creative bloggers I have “virtually” met over the last two years, but I want more. I want to meet people in person, learn more, learn everything and be further inspired by the work of others. I would bring my BFF Kimberly who has more talent in her little finger than most, but rarely gets the opportunity to employ it. Plus, we both need a break from our kids! We keep talking about a time we steal away for a few days, but it has yet to happen. This could be it!
I so would love to go and I would bring my husband because he is my best friend forever
I owned a gift shop for 20 years, and as a part of it, made and sold many of my own creations. I sold it 5 years ago to care for my grandchildren while their parents work. Although I LOVE being with them, I miss terribly being immersed in a creative atmosphere. So I am now on a journey to incorporate creativity into every facet of my life. Attending your event is the first step in that journey, and I am sooooooo excited!
If selected, I will be bringing my friend Carolyn who shares my passion for creativity!
I tweeted at @stillidealistic!
Thank you!
I would LOVE to attend this amazing event! I am a newish blogger and pretty much life-long crafter. I would love attend the workshops and learn more about my favorite bloggers! I would have to bring my BFF with me. She also is an almost life-long crafter and would love it too!
Button on my sidebar entry #2 for that one
http://www.504main.com
The first entry is #65 – was having a heck of a time last night!
I like the Facebook Page!
I want to attend the Creative Connection Event because I am craving more creativity in my life. I feel like my brain is full of good ideas and great intentions. I just need a jump start. When I see the list of panelists and keynotes, I know this could be the spark I need. I have been researching to start my own blog, and the information from BlogHer Handmand would be invaluable! I would take my best friend, and partner in all things fun and crafty, because she understands the need to make pretty things, and she is my sounding board and biggest supporter when it comes to delving into a more creative life.
I would LOVE to attend this event! I need all the help I can get to transition my blog into a creative goldmine. I’d bring whoever makes me the best pan of brownies. ;)
Thanks for this OPPORTUNITY to mix and mingle with other creative people. I am looking forward to coming your way, wings will be ordered up. Bringing a special BFF that loves creativity as much as I do.
I love the facebook page. And hopefully this comment will STICK.
I tweeted!
I would love to attend this event. I’m always looking for a way to energize my creativity and gather new ideas and anything that spurs me to action is awesome. Not sure who I would take with me. My first thought is my mother. She is always telling me that she isn’t creative and I know better than anyone that isn’t true. I would love something like this to encourage her creativity.
I also tweeted & liked on facebook. :)
I’d love to go & get the chance to be around all these creative people– there is nothing more inspiring!
And I’d take my sis-in-law. Like me she has 4 kids and work and school and never gets away to do anything fun!
I will be losing my regular job on Sept 9th :( and this would be a wonderful way to connect with other creative people and see if I could make a living with my arts & crafts, make it my new career? Do something that I love for a job, not just work! And if not a new career, just a wonderful break before I start looking for for new employment! And I would love to take my friend Jenny. She is expecting her 1st baby after 10 years of trying and heartache and it would be a wonderful treat for her, before full time motherhood comes along!
Liked you on facebook!
I would love to win this because the classes look amazing and it would be fun to get back to the cities after 15 years away. I would bring my sister who is also a crafter.
I tweeted about this also: http://twitter.com/#!/wildernessnomad
I would love to win this! I really want to go to have all that creative energy in one place to inspire me! I have been thinking and dreaming of doing my creative business for years. I also would love to actually start my blog and need the inspiration and encouragement to do it. I would love to take my friend Mary, who is a very creative spirited woman!
I have had TCC bookmarked on my computer since the first one.. and every year I look at all the photos and think DARN!! why didnt I go!! ?? I would know so MANY bloggers! , and would have SOOO MUUUCH FFUUN!! I live in Wisconsin and it would be so easy to Go!!! ……….I would bring my crafty-est sister Tanya!! .. We would be up glittering all night long!! WOOWOO!!…Im off to do more entries!! Get Your Sparkle On!! ~Vanessa!!
Liked you on face book!! ( LOVED!!)
The conference coincides with a new website launch for me, and I would love to show it off! I want to bring my boss/friend, Melissa, who recently started her own blog. She would learn so much!
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I would LOVE to come to the BlogHer Creative Connection event! I homeschool my four kids. I’ve found that art and crafts projects are sometimes ‘pointless’ when you get right down to it. I prowl the internet for projects we can do that are creative and yet fill a need in our home–something for the wall, a table top, something for the garden, jewelry, things that we can give as gifts, etc. None of that coloring-in-the-lines business for us!! I have tons and tons (and tons) of supplies, but I’m always short on ideas with what to do with everything. We moved into an area that is loaded with thrift shops and no craft supply shops, so we’ve recently learned the value of reusing things for our art and crafts projects. I also have some nifty ideas for turning a few of our projects into a business and would like to see how others have done the same thing. I would bring my sister along if she is feeling well, as she is always doing art projects, even though she has an advancing form of MS. But if her health was not up to par, I would bring my friend, Deanna, with me. She is an art teacher who makes amazing jewelry. She sells a few items here and there, and I would really like to give her some encouragement to do a lot more of that! I think The Creative Connection would fill the bill!
Oh how I would love to be part of this amazing event. I’ve been out of work for over a year and the only positive in this is I’ve had the time to really work at my art. I’m wondering if the universe is telling me to stop worrying about health care and salaries and just take the leap? I’ve been an artist since the day I was born but could sure use some insight on the business side of things. This opportunity has the potential to help change my life; at the very least it would be an amazing time to soak up creative energy and meet some of my most favorite and admired people in the art world. Happy Birthday and thanks for offering this opportunity!
I also liked you on FB. Thanks again!
Oh this would just make my year. I was so excited to see you are doing this giveaway, I’m just so anxious to go to this event and sign up for every one of Traci Bautiste’s classes and Princess Lasertron! But finances are a huge barrier :( I would take my very creative girlfriend Karla from http://www.backatyababe.blogspot.com. We have been talking about how we can make it work to get to experience TCC, it just sounds amazing!
I also tweeted this! http://www.twitter.com/meganrocks
I also tweeted
https://twitter.com/#!/mcmaster_storm
chirp!
kara garber
Attending a conference chock full o’crafty people would be a dream. I am thirsty for knowledge from women who had a dream and followed their hearts through to success. I am one of those women. My dream is just taking a little longer. I would bring my friend Lee because she also knows there is a fire in her belly and she just needs a map to help her navigate her journey.
I have spent the last year taking a break from my struggling small business to really refocus my creative efforts. I felt utterly lost between the stress of a business, my own creative choas, and my family balancing act. So I decided to Master the Art of Being Me. Not an easy task and one I’m still working on for life. What I did discover however was a greater passion for creating time for myself, letting go of what doesn’t matter most, and allowing myself permission to be the best Me! And allowing others to do the same. In the process I’ve also discovered a new passion and a better business idea for my future. Going to The Creative Connection is on my list of things to experience where everything I’ve learned in the last year and lifetime can come together and I can continue my own inspirational trail with other women. I would take my creative genius friend Joanna with me who has really encouraged me and has yet to bite off the big chunk she needs to get her business launched.
I’d so love to attend! I’ve heard that this is *the* even to be at, and it seems like it would be such a great resource for someone working through their first year of business-owning, such as I. :)
Oh, and I’d totally bring my husband. He’s my best friend and partner, and is so supportive of all the things I do. I’d love to get to share that time with him.
I would love, love, LOVE to win this! I am a new blogger, and would love the opportunity to learn and grow and meet some inspiring people at the event! I would take my sister who is extremely talented and who started her own blog, but needs a bit of a push to really get going.
Oh…I want to go because my blogs are my outlet…yup, my blogS. I have one documenting my weight loss…one for my crazy puzzle making hubby…a picture one…and my “real” one. I love comments. I love blogging. I love it I love it I love it. As to who I’d take with me? My initial thought is my husband. Because he is my favorite traveling buddy and because he supports and puts up with my blogging. Or perhaps my sister…who has started blogging herself. Or perhaps my friend because we haven’t had a girls’ trip for a long time. Or perhaps one of my daughters…because they put up with my saying, “Apparently, you haven’t read my blog”. :)
My friend Gina and I have been dying to come for a couple of years now. Money has prevented us. This would be an amazing opportunity for us ;)
I would LOVE to go to TCC. It’s close enough to not have to fly (eek!) and I know I would learn SO much that I don’t know about my craft, doing what I love, and making it my livelihood. I would totally bring a girlfriend from this area. We’re all military wives & some of us rely on the handmade businesses to travel with us as we move around supporting our hubbies :)
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Tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/JMStudioSol
Blogged about….actually I Bragged about this amazing connection of Creativity!! WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.rhinestonecontessa.com/2011/07/creative-connection-are-you-going.html
I tweeted too!
All buttoned up!
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All buttoned up!
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Have ‘loved’ you guys on FB for awhile now :)
Hey! I’m so excited (since I’m new to wp)… I put your button on my sidebar. Yay! Oh, I’m SO ‘in it to win it’!!!
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Badge on my blog: http://www.masteringtheartofbeingme.blogspot.com
Yes, ma’am! I’ve got your button on my sidebar. When I look at it I think, ‘visualization is realization’… because, ‘I’m in it to WIN it!’
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Badge on my blog: http://www.masteringtheartofbeingme.blogspot.com
It says I’m going to the TCC…wishing…wishing
Liked on Facebook!
Just added your cute Button!! Which says I am Going?
RhinestoneContessa.com
is this a challenge to my soul?? That it says this?
Whew!! I think I did all the entries….BUT
I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO!!! ……
I’m Going to look at what is still available at the hotel right now… ( Holding Breath! ) ……….I am shaking inside just thinkin about actually doing this!! ……I could just not feed my kids for a month and save up!!! LOL JUST KIDDING!!
Here goes!! Fingers crossed!!******
Ooh, maybe it will work this time!
I am just excited thinking about how exciting it would be to win a trip to the CCE. I have dreamt of being in a place where all of these fantastic, creative, people are gathered…what a boost to mental, physical…WORLD health, it could be!
If I get to go, I am thinking of asking a friend who is SO creative and too humble…I think it would open up her mind!
Shared the event on my FB page for my Etsy shop, http://www.stitchuation.etsy.com, as I know there will be people who follow me that will want to enter the contest too!
Stitchuation
The Creative Connection event is having a contest to win two tickets plus hotel to the event–I am posting this because it is part of my entry, I really want to go AND I know that other creative-types who have “liked” my page would love to go connect with like minds at this event–so you should enter too!
Stitchuation
The Creative Connection event is having a contest to win two tickets plus hotel to the event–I am posting this because it is part of my entry, I really want to go AND I know that other creative-types who have “liked” my page would love to go connect with like minds at this event–so you should enter too!
—That is what I shared on my FB page for my Etsy shop, Stitchuation.
I am excited just thinking about how exciting it would be to be at the CCE, surrounded by other people who are creative and caring….how could it not boost one’s health, state of mind, creativity etc?! It would boost WORLD health!–all of the joy and inspiration that will grow because of the event.
If I get to go I think I will ask a certain friend who is very creative and too humble–it would open her eyes!
I want to come because I love being crafty and creative and I want to LEARN new things to keep me inspired. I have a couple of people in mind to take with me…not saying who just yet because if I win I want them to be surprised also!
I have a sewing business that I really need to get better at promoting. I would probably take my friend who is also trying to do something creative on the side.
I would LOVE the oppurtunity to learn about blogging/advancing myself in my choosen form of art expression, but also experience all the other oppertunities at this wonderful venue. Not to mention being able to cross off one thing off my bucket list: ) I would love to take my BFF Carol who is a wonderful mixed media artist/teacher as I’m also : ) You can find me on Facebook Kari Wolf I’ll post this on there also !!!!
I would LOVE to attend to have 100% time to focus on my own development as a blogger. I have a bloggy BFF in mind that I’d like to take along who is a fantastic editorial blogger. What a great opportunity! – MoMomma
I can’t wait to win my tickets & attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because even creative people need to be inspired :) I would have to take my friend Traci because she inspires me everyday with her ability to finish all jobs big and small … I am more a starter less of a finisher :)
I would love to go with my friend Megan Fischer because we both need to get our creative juices flowing and I can’t think of a better place to get that done. Thanks for the chance to win! I will also be friending you on facebook.
Need some inspiration and motivation. I think that this would just be the ticket!!!! Thanks for a chance to win!
I want to win these tickets because I’ve been blogging everyday for a year and a half now, working hard to build my blog and I’ve never been able to attend a blogging/creative conference. Plus, my birthday is coming up in a few days (wink, wink) and it would be a dream present. I would bring my mom because she rocks. She’s an artistic genius and she taught me everything I know. If you pick me I’ll dance on the tables at the conference there out of sheer joy ;)
I would love to come because I am working on starting my own crafty business! I would love to bring my mom just because she deserves it!
I would love to go! I have never been to a blog conference but it sounds like so much fun! I would want to learn how to expand a handmade business. I think I would take my husband because he would understand my world a little better! Is that weird? Oh well!
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Why pick me? Because I took a dare nearly a year ago that there was a spot in Crafty Blogland for women to create and thrive without a budget … that financial circumstances did not have to define or destroy one’s ability to improve their homes and lives … that writing and sharing my adventures about in living the life I wanted to live even if normal never returned with resonate with other women. And at nearly 1,000 followers, this little experiment is ready for the next level–ready to grow and really become something bigger than one woman and one family. But as to the how? I’m overwhelmed. I’ve wanted to attend blogging conferences like CC to learn the business side of blogging (as well as bathe in the rush of creativity that comes from being around so many talented people!) The person I’d absolutely take is my online blog buddy Caroline of Artfully Caroline. We met through blogging and her advice and friendship has been one of the absolute best things about joining this community.
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I would bring my sister! I need some pep to my craftiness and this would do the trick!
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I don’t yet have a blog so attending this event would help me get started plus after attending the Gilded Girls retreat this summer I have started making and selling my crafts. The convention would really help get my creative juices flowing. I would take my mother because she is opening her own antique store this fall and this would really be a boost for her store ideas.
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I would LOVE to attend with my mom! We both love creating handmade goodies, and she even recently opened a crafty little handmade boutique. It would be so fun for us to attend a creative event like this together!
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I have been dying to attend and learn more about running a handmade business. I’d bring my sister along. She’s uber-talented and totally needs a great vacation.
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I want to go because I have some real creative potential but I am really confused at where to start building that! I would love to talk to and hear from other gals who have done what I want to do.
I would love to take my true best friend… my husband. And I would totally drag him to Princess Lasertron workshops.
I would love to come to TCC and Blogher handmade because I have so much to learn. I would love to be surrounded by women who get me and who I can learn so much from and connect with. The speakers and keynotes sound wonderful and I can’t even imagine how awesome it would be.
I would take my friend Amy. She is super talented, crafty and a joy to talk to. I know that she would appreciate and love this conference as much as I would! (*also, I’ve never gotten to meet her IRL so I’d really love that!!)
I just opened a little shop in South Dakota and could use some inspiration and “know how” of running a successful business! I would bring my older sister because she is crafty, fun but most importantly would kick my a*s if I didn’t. :)
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I want to attend because I love learning and being inspired by such amazingly creative women and I would bring my best friend Michelle because she is the most creative person I know and I adore her!
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The Creative Connection event is having a contest to win two tickets plus hotel to the event–I am posting this because it is part of my entry, I really want to go AND I know that other creative-types who have “liked” my page would love to go connect with like minds at this event–so you should enter too!
One mo’ time–I would be ecstatic to GO to this awesome event—I can’t even imagine the wondrous-ness of it, but am dreaming! I would take my friend Dawn and OPeN her EYES to how talented SHE is! It is so fun to dream about it.
Attending this event is an inspiration to me to ramp up my creativity and production in my little Etsy shop, Stitchuation, so I could someday fun a trip to the CCE!
Would love to attend this event! Meeting some of the wonderful teachers and spending time with like-minded people would be a great way to spend the weekend.
I would take my daughter. She is a creative soul too and we love to work on projects together.
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I would love to win and attend such a fun event! I would take another fellow blogger and live it up!
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I’d love to go to TCC because I’ve heard so many Tweeters talk about it. I’m a fledgling blogger and crafter but really want to expand both – and even dream of it becoming a business someday. Attending TCC would be a big boost to my confidence and give me an arsenal of tips as I move forward! I would take my friend, Brooke, because she is just starting her very own business and it involves crafting and blogging – we would learn so much together and be able to encourage each other after attending TCC.
I would love to win this! My blog is still pretty new and I could use any information to help me learn to be successful. I have an etsy shop but there is not much in it. I would bring my bff Misty, she is my ‘partner in crafting’.
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I’ve always wanted to attend a convention like this! I’d love to hear from all the great speakers and see all the amazing talent!
I would take my best friend, cause we live 550 miles apart, and it would be so awesome to get a weekend away together!
i love any and all forms of creative expression– i’ll try any art at least once! i would love to take my mom to this– i think she’s get very amped at a conference filled with talented women!
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To be among kindred spirits, to learn from those who love sharing, to create with those who love inspiration, to leave the daily for just a little while and then to come home, refreshed, recharged, inspired with new memories, new friends and new “treasures” I would take my mother..She is my best friend, my teacher, my cheerleader, a wonderful woman who I love with all my heart!!!
I would take my sister with me. She and I are like PB&J. No, that’s not creative enough. We are like Paula Deen and butter. Or something like that. :)
We just love to create stuff… make new out of old, repurpose, duplicate, and make it all pretty. I would just dig hanging out with all these amazing peeps and learning new stuff.
I have been dying to attend the Creative Connection! To be surrounded by such an incredible collection of inspirational and influential people and in such a gorgeous spot! It would be like a dream! I could only hope to leave a stronger contributor to my niche.
I would bring my Mom or my sister – whichever would brave the plane ride. LOL Both are amazingly strong women at the beginnings of creating their own businesses.
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The first reason I’d like to win is because September 15th is MY BIRTHDAY!! That and I’d love to meet more crafty ladies and network. I’d take my best friend Chrissy because she wants to start her own crafty business as well. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d love to win, and come to the event! I’d love to connect and learn from more amazing women. I’d bring my friend Destiny along with me!
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Selfishly, I would just love to be able to win and attend the Creative Connection because I enjoy all apects of creating/crafting/ art (just can’t pick a favorite). Unselfishly, I would love to be able to take my friend, Victoria who is going through a very tough time right now, as her husband has been diagnosed with cancer. I intriduced her a year ago to art journaling (its been great therapy for her) and she began about two years ago crafting/art with me, but has had to spend less time lately (for obvious and good reason). I would love to be able to win the two tickets and the hotel and take her so that we could spend the creative time together and treat her to a great time that she misses as well as give her a much needed mini vacation. I am embarrased as I dont know how and havent ever to tweeted, but will learn for this opportunity. I do have a blog and will post there as well as (even though I am not a good FBer either) post it on my FB and all I can do to win. Thanks for a great opportunity to win a great thing! Good luck to everyone entering!!!!!
I would love to go to see and be inspired by other crafty people! I am torn on who I’d take though, my bff from high school who likes to be crafty on occasion, or my enterprising photographer friend who is talented and crafty…
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I would love to attend because I love meeting other bloggers, learning as much as I can, and for once, this seems like a blog even that is right up my alley….creative! I would love to take my mom actually, because while she doesn’t have the chance to craft much any more, she’s always been the silliest, goofiest, most creative person I know and where a lot of my quirky inspiration comes from. She would thoroughly enjoy it and I think it’s the least I could do to include her after everything she’s done for me. <3
I would abosulutely love to attend this event! I recently launched my new interior design blog and would love to learn more from the experts! I have a creative brain that never stops conjuring up different ideas. I would take my sister because she has always been the creative/crafty type and would be on cloud 9 to attend this event with me!
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I would LOVE to attend TCC and BlogHer handmade because I am new to blogging (just over 8 months) and have never been to a single blogger event! I figure I might as well start at the top and attend what is rumored to be the best one! :) I would choose my sister to go with me. She is the one that helped me get started in blogging and the person I most share crafting and creating with. Plus I just got married and she just graduated high school, so it would be a GREAT sister trip before real life takes over for us! :)
It would be lovely to see all the creativity being exhibited by so many talented ladies! My life is full of caring and nurturing those in my immediate family…current count 33 of us…and I get lost in the idea of planning and doing for them all. My creative friend Candi, Mom/Gramma to her own large family would be my choice in companions. We mesh with love for our families and love to do things for them
Gotta go to the Creative Connection Event! I am already vending, but I would love to fly and also attend a lot of classes. I would bring my crafty daughter so that she could attend the Mary Jane Butters classes! Yahoo!!!
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I would love to attend but since I just started my new business I can’t really afford the cost. I would like to take my husband, who has been by my side, helping me sew, creating designs, and so much support. Thank you!
I would love to go to the Creative Connection Event for several reasons. #1 is that I want to meet Mary Jane Butters. I have all her books and magazines and have been a fan since before the first book. As a mom and entrepreneur she has really inspired me. I also live only 3 hours from Minneapolis, so it’s very doable. Unfortunately, with 2 kids starting college this fall I’m not sure I can afford it, so the passes and hotel would be a Godsend.
I would bring my friend Dori Jo because she’s amazingly creative and fun to be around and we’d have a great time together.
It would be awesome to be able to attend TCC and I would most definitely bring my mother! She’s so creative and is awesome at everything she does but rarely makes time to let her creative juices flow. This event would hopefully inspire her to inspire others, as she did me growing up. As for me, I’d so enjoy learning more about blogging, creating and take some of the awesome classes :)
OMGosh this is such a fabulous prize to win (crossing my fingers here)! I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event to get some expertise and insight on every business aspect of being creative and starting up a new business. Any tips and hints of success to glean from the all-star line up of speakers would be so valuable and amazing! I would take my friend Jill because we are in the beginning stages of brainstorming on the particulars of our business and we could certainly use some inspiration from this exciting panel! Thanks for such an awesome opportunity to win the event!
Jen
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Blogging, knitting and Mary Jane are three of my favorite things in life! I recently became a Farmgirl Sisterhood member and would love to see Mary Jane in person. Blogging and knitting are two of my favorite past times, and I would love the learn more about running a creative business. I would bring my mom with me because taught me to knit and is always a fun travel companion.
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I’ve actually already filled out the registration form but chickened out when it came to making the commitment. I was so happy to see an email in my inbox that said that i had begun the registration but had not finished. I appreciate the follow-through.
This event would really orchestrate a turning point for me. I’ve been a chiropractor for the last 14 years with a busy practice… and a handmade jewelry company on the side… I am in the process of selling my practice and taking the leap of actually following my artistic spirit. I’ve already got a lot of pieces in place and this event would send me flying!
I would love to take my Mom. She is a brilliant woman and my absolute biggest supporter.
PS… we have a ranch in west Texas and she and I dream of having a place similar to Mary Jane’s… so when we saw the entire DAY that you can be with the group we almost passed out. Collectively. I’ve been telling my mom about Mary Jane’s Farm for YEARS.
So the entire event would be good for our souls on so many levels. Crossing our fingers and toes… ‘in it to win it’.
I would SO love to attend the TCC Event because crafting/creating gives me such a feeling of joy and fulfillment, and I love sharing that with others. It would be a true gift to win this prize and take my friend Jenny. She gives of herself so much, to her friends and her family, and sometimes she forgets to also give to herself. Money is tight for her right now as she has lost some of her best clients (house cleaning) because of the poor economy and what she does have she is spending on her kids with a wedding and a graduation coming up. She deserves some time to nourish her creative soul.
I would love to take my twin sister. Being with other creative people is inspiring. You can be filled with new ideas and new perspectives AND make new friends!
I know it is slim, but I would love to win! :)
I would love to win the passes and hotel accommodations for BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. I am recently out of work and have moved to a new town. I would take this opportunity to determine if I can create a business. I would bring my sister, a creative person who is working at a job that is consuming her soul. Thanks for this chance to win!
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I would like to jump start or restart my creative self. I would invite my friend simone who lives in London and is a quilt artist.
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I recently started a cross-stitch design company (The Nebby Needle) and could use some help making my blog more interesting! If I win the tickets I will bring my friend (and creative kindred spirit) Jenny. She shares my passion for needlework/crafts.
I started my handmade business two years ago, but the past half year I’ve just gotten a bit overwhelmed. It would be refreshing and rejuvenating to be able to spend two days around successful, crafty women. I know that it would kick start my dreams. I would bring my good friend whom I plan on starting a handmade craft store/craft education space with in the future.
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to be surrounded by creative women would be a dream come true. I cannot make enough time to enjoy the creative side of life so this would be wonderful!!! Pick me please
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Oh my what a great giveaway! I so wanted to go to The Creative Connection the past few years, but my husband has been out of work for the past 2 years and I can’t spend the $$$. I would love to go to not only connect with other creatives – but to learn new things and get inspired. A room filled with kindred spirits would be a dream come true. I would take a blogging friend who I have always followed and then realized we live 20 minutes apart. We met and I know she would love attending the Creative Connection as much as me.
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A dream come true to win a pass and hotel. What a gift! My sister-in-law opened her home for me for the week-end to go SO we’d have a blast in a hotel with FREE tickets! Thanks for the chance to enter!!! So many Bloggy celebs and superstars in one place at one time. It will be quite the shindig!
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I would love to win this! Going to a creative conference would help boost my ideas for my blog . I would love to get away and be inspired! I would bring one of the ladies who work on the blog with me!
My blog is in progress and I have so much to learn – would love to attend!
I have never been to any thing like this before and have wanted to go for long time, it would be so much fun. I would just be amazed!!!!! And for who i would bring actually i would come by myself i like going by myself because i no i would meet a whole lot of new friends and for the other ticket draw again and give the ticket to that person!! Thanks so much for the chance to win!!!
I would love to attend The Creative Connection and BlogHer Handmade events, because I would enjoy having the opportunity to learn from other creative women. I was laid off in March, and although I am looking for full-time employment, I keep dreaming that I should use this time to start my own creative business — a dream I have had for years. I would sincerely enjoy the encouragement and advice of successful women on how to get started, the ups and downs, and more. Although I do not blog yet, I want that push to get me started. If I were to be chosen, I would bring my mother. She has inspired me to craft all of my life and encourages me daily to pursue my dreams. She had a crafting business when my sister and I were younger, but she has expressed to me lately that she wants to find a new “project.” I think attending TCC could give her the push she needs to start a new project as well. Thank you for the opportunity!
My daughters and I are thinking of starting a creative business from home. We have been following several ‘craft’ blogs and love all the ideas!
If chosen, I would take along one of my teen daughters to the convention.
Thank you for a great contest!
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I was just asked today ‘what would I do if I had the chance to start my own business’ and it made me realize I am SO on the edge of doing this! I just need more help on how to do it successfully. I would bring my BFF Amy of course!
I have just recently enjoyed crafting again and would like to make it profitable! My mom has always been crafty, inspiring my own “I can do that” attitude and would enjoy attending too!
I would like to attend because as a writer and designer I believe it will be an inspirational event and full of networking and learning opportunities. If I won, I would take my friend and co-author on an upcoming project. For one, she hardly takes breaks for herself, she lives close by too. But it would also be a good opportunity for both of us.
I would LOVE to attend. I am an artist/mom who is trying to balance creating an art business with taking care of my family. If I won, I would take my friend Deb. She would love it too.
I am just getting in to all this craft blog world and am in love! I would love to start my own business someday and know going to this conference would put me on the right track. I would absolutely take my mom with me because after all she is where I got my “crafty” side from! She is an amazing women!
I would love to take my friend who is a mom to a special needs child. She is very crafty and needs the time away to just play.
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I have dreamed of attending this conference and never thought it would be possible due to the expense. If my dream were to come true, I would invite Bea along. She just played taxi for me last week when I had to have surgery and couldn’t drive. I’d pick her for my Mom if I didn’t already have one. To reward her kindness would be wonderful…although she did get a zipper sewn in her freshly knitted sweater while she waited for me!
I would LOVE to attend this event for so many reasons. This past year has been the most trying year of my life. My goal for years has been to work from home being creative and crafty and be more involved as a mom. The past year my family and I have been fighting for custody of my 9 year old daughter (back in court after being divorced for 6 years, and I’m remarried now), we’ve dealt with my father-in-law’s sudden and traumatic death in Jan., and my husband survived a motorcycle accident just 1 month ago. My mom has been my rock throughout my life, but most recently during this horrible year. It would be such a blessing for both of us to get away for a weekend, just the two of us, and enjoy time learning from amazing women who can help to lift us up, and help me head in the right direction for living my dream of working from home creatively.
My daughter and I share a creative streak. When she was little, I was a student/and a teacher so summer was a special time for us. As a single mom, money was tight, but creativity was not, and we loved to sew, craft, and create together. At 29, she still is as creative as she was, and I am lucky enough to live a creative life, too. Unfortunately, we do not do that together. Moving in with her father as a teen, she became less interested in sharing her life with me, and eventually we have become estranged. I have not seen her for 12 years. Letters and calls go unanswered. I wonder if this would be a big enough gesture to break through? I could never afford to do it on my own, but perhaps with the free tickets, i could spring for her sister’s trip, too (who I do still have a relationship with, and is also madly creative) and it would take the pressure off, but still be a wonderful experience for all of us. I pray for miracles like this every day.
Oh wow, wow, wow! OK, I would love to come and get inspired! And meet other bloggers! And learn!
And I would bring my friend Teresa from Blooming on Bainbridge:
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She is a bundle of creative energy, so fun, and so inspiring! I feel like she’s one of my best friends even though we’ve never actually met! :) THAT would be fun!!!
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My best friend and I launched our crafting blog in February. We spent an entire year going through a deployment together and once our husbands were home for a few months we decided that we needed something for ourselves and we started blogging about our crafting and sewing projects. This would be an amazing break and gift for the two of us. We both have very young children at home and with us being military spouses we seldom get even a few hours to ourselves for anything. Our husbands work weekends and late into the evening on a fairly regular basis. To have a couple days away to spend time with like minded people and to make invaluable connections would be AWESOME for us. We both have so much to learn and to share. If I won, my bestie Sunni would be coming with me. Hands down!
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I would LOVE to win this package because I am a HUGE fan on Jenny’s art and blog. She uses all my Favorite colors and I love all things vintage and pink. I was born in 1958 to wonderful parents, the oldest of 5 children. We had the family everyone in my hometown of Yukon, Ok was jealous of. We were even referred to in a best selling book from an author who grew up next door to us as the “most wonderful family ever that she grew up wishing she could be a member of.” Alot of Jenny’s art reminds me of my childhood days and brings back precious memories. Without a second thought, I would bring my sister, Brenda. She may truly be one of the biggest hearted people I have ever known in my life and she has been dealt such a hard hand in life. She deserves so much better. We are both raising 7 year old grandbabies and rarely get to travel or get much adult alone time. Even though we cherish our grandbabies and wouldn’t change having them, it would be so much fun to have a wonderful sister/best-friend get away to express ourselves and have a creative time together.
I’d love to go so that I could get away for a break. We have a small farm and I work very hard with my sheep and goats and creating artwork. I live far from my best friend and we hardly get to see each other with our busy lives. I’d love to go to something like this for a breather, a friendship break, an art encouragement, and inspiration from other women who do what I hope to do someday…share my love of art with others.
Well I do not have a blog but have been toying with the fact of getting one. Seems like everyone has one. I would most definitely take my only sister with me. We live 2500 miles apart and were just together and crafted almost the whole time we were together. It was so much fun and we bonded.
Oh my goodness, how I would love to win! Just to get the opportunity to be among all of the superstars of creativity would be so totally awesome! I told my brother it would be like going to the Superbowl!! The only reason I am not already registered is the expense of the flight, hotel, room,rental car & conference fees. Since I doubt that the bank will give me a second mortgage (!), I’m praying daily that a miracle will happen to enable me to go. I’m thinking positive, I did book a room, just in case! I have followed so many of the blogs for so long & drooled thru many WWC mags & would die to actually meet some of the teachers! I would have to bring my friend from childhood, Kathy , who is the most gifted person I know. We would have a blast!
BTW- who’s BD is it? Happy Birthday! Thanks for the chance! Debbie :)
I like you on Facebook, even though I really LOVE you! :)
Pasted the badge in my top left column of my blog here:
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Thanks for the chance!
Jen
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Pasted the badge in my top left column of my blog here:
http://jenscupofcreations.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the chance!
Jen
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I would love to take my mama, she is so creative and taught me to be fearless when it comes to trying new things. It would be amazing to have a weekend together to create and laugh…away from the hustle and bustle of our homes.
Oh, to go to this event, or let alone win it! I follow many, if not all, of these contributors and the leaders of our industry. This year I am finally being recognized in my local art community as an creative contributor, and to be able to go and visit with my “heroes” would make me even more knowledgeable and “quite a feather in my cap” if you will. I have my own blog, and designed and am administrator of two others on behalf of their owners. I would take my husband, as he helps me, load my “stuff”, helps me set up, helps me cope, helps me survive, and he makes what ever I need in storage, display, props and sweeps up after me ( in more than one way) too.
I have “blogged” about the event on my Blog: Dreams & Schemes of The Crafteelaydee!
http://wwwcoronacreationscom.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection-event-is-coming.html
I have Tweeted the event as well!
https://twitter.com/#!/Crafteelaydee
I have this on my Facebook both by single entry and networked blogs!
http://www.facebook.com/Crafteelaydee
I saw your flyer while I was at Chaps in Spokane, WA. My mom and I are crafty and creative and LOVE blogs, etc… we would be able to drive over from SPokane… it would be the trip of our dreams! :) Fingers crossed!
Mindy Durall
mindymfreed@gmail.com
I would love to attend BlogHer Homemade to help enhance my new etsy business. I am expecting baby #2 in the Fall and I am trying not to have to go back to work. I believe that the tools that will be available will help me and my business grow a great deal.
oh! and I would take my Mother with me because she is the other half of me and my store. ;)
I just posted your button on the sidebar of my blog
http://melandjimmyatkinson.blogspot.com
I just posted your button on the sidebar of my blog
http://melandjimmyatkinson.blogspot.com
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I tweeted it!!!! http://www.twitter.com/mimimarieshop :) :)
I would LOVE to be able to attend an event like this!! I DREAM about starting my own party planning business. I currently do cake decorating and dessert tables, mostly for friends and family, and some word of mouth. I would love to expand my business to include full service party planning and my friend wants to do it with me! I am so inspired by all the women out there now doing this and loving their jobs, while being mom’s too! :o) What fun! I would bring my friend Holly to the convention if we won and we would dream about our future business! :o)
I would LOVE to take my dear friend Amanda. She is such an inspiration to me in so many ways. She is such a wonderful and giving person and also the most craftiest person I know! She is never afraid to try anything…and persuades me to try new things too!
Liked you on Facebook!
I would love this amazing opportunity to have a one-of-a-kind networking opportunity while learning to take my blog to the next level! I would take my sorority Big Sis Shirley who is a creative inspiration to me.
I would LOVE to get 2 passes and a hotel to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. I am already registered to attend the two Melody Ross classes but I would LOVE to take part in ALL the activities! 2 days of creative fulfillment! Stupendous! I would bring my friend Joanna – about 15 months ago Joanna encouraged me to start a memorial scrapbook for my dog, Magda. Through her I have discovered amazing scrap booking, creative card making, and wondrous art journaling. I now have a designated craft space in my home, a Flickr photostream of my work, and regular scrapping dates with Joanna. It has made a HUGE difference in my life joy level. Joanna and I would have a BLAST spending 2 days at the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event and would be able to spend some quality girl time together at the hotel. Thanks for chance to win!! See you in September regardless!!
hy you want to and who you would pick to take with you and why.
I have been crafting, creating, sewing, and quilting since I was about 5, which is almost 60 years. I would love to win tickets to attend The Creative Connection Event and taking my BFF, Kathy, She and I have a wonderful time creating and our show and tells are hilarious sometimes!
I am a mom of two and a teacher, so I would die to be in a place that is over flowing with creative ideas that I can do at home or work!
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I’d love the chance to win the two tickets. I’d take my friend, Robyn, as we like to scrap together, and because she is so supportive of my creative endeavors. My main interest in attending is to see how people take their ideas and develop them into a business. I think I have a winning line of products, but they are mostly in my head! I’d love to connect with other women in creative fields to see where I should go next. Thanks again for the opportunity.
To be surround by such creative, wonderful, wisdom filled people. How can you beat that!?! I would bring my BFF, who just happens to be my sister too:). We both love to create different variety’s of art . We also love to create jams, jelly’s, butters, ect and would love to be able to take to the next level. Fingers crossed! Thank you , Lis ~ who will also share on FB and twitter.
I have always been told, “why don’t you” or “you should” start an XYZ craft business. THIS would be the ABCs to help me turn those suggestions into reality!
Oops, forgot to say who I’d take with me: I would take my friend Jill with me. She’s uber talented and so fun to be around!
I “liked” you on Facebook! So glad I stumbled upon this!
I would love to attend this awesome, motivating event! I would bring my best-bud Amy- she and I are opening a new studio in September and I’m just creating a new website for my new venture into upcycling textiles, furniture and findings. I need all of the help I can get when it comes to new technology and how to make it work for me. It’s so important to have the support and friendship of such a terrific group of business-minded creatives!
I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because it’s always inspiring to meet others who share the same passion as me. To be in a room full of people oozing creativity and ideas that include topics like art, crafts, social networking and more would be the best experience ever.
And if I had to choose someone to bring, I would probably choose a friend I met at the first blogging conference I went to – Katie of Sweet Rose Studio. But if she already has a ticket, I would love to bring Amy of Pink Bow Bath Boutique. Can I bring both? ;)
I tweeted about this too! @bakedbyjoanna
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I would love to go because… Where do I begin? Moved across the country last November, closing my beloved gallery space in my best friend’s coffee shop that I stocked with vintage, thrifty goodness & my own wonky work, and I have been in a creative, making abyss ever since. I need to find my sense of purpose again in making and creating, I have been untethered for too long! I’d love to take my friend Pami, an interior architect & newbie crocheter, because we have creative kismet like no others, and I don’t get enough time with her… And I know that she would also be uber-inspired by it all. Fingers crossed here!!
http://twitter.com/#!/ikesmamma/status/96752163048521728 I tweeted!
I would love to go to hang out with creative people and just have fun!
I’d take my sister with me because she is amazingly creative and we come up with great ideas together all the time.
oh wow I would love to attend because I live in Sydney, Australia and it’s the one chance to meet some amazingly talented crafters and crafty superstars that I’d never get to meet downunder! I had been hoping I could save up and attend next year but having the ticket and hotel paid means I just need to buy an airfare! And I’d do it! In a flash! I’d blog all about it to all my lovely readers and it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Who to take? My lovely SIL who is just as craft obsessed as I am! What an amazing opportunity and thank you!
Corrie:)
http://www.retromummy.blogspot.com
I’m always up for some creative inspiration at an art retreat/event! I’d love to win and take my creative daughter with me! Thank you for the opportunity!
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I would love to go with my co-blogger Aimee. We could both use a refresher and break and this would be the perfect way to re-charge our creative batteries!!
Just liked you on Facebook too!
This event looks great! I’d love to win the trip and I’d take my husband as he is always encouraging.
2 more entries: Just put the button on our blog’s sidebar that says: “I’ll Be Attending The Creative Connection!” Please make that TRUE ;)
Forgot to include the link: http://www.supermommoments.com/
the chance to attend this convention would be life changing!! I would bring my sister-in-law because her life has been filled with caring for her Mother during chemo and her son struggling with Bipolar disease.
missy from the bayou
I would love to win- I need some blog inspiration!! I would love to take my sister with me!! Several freinds are already going and I know it would be so much fun!!
I would love to win this. I went last year and it really jump started my creativity. I would love to take my friend Becky that I met at TCC last year. She isn’t going this year so I would love to surprise her that she IS going! She is very creative and loved learning new things for her business at last year’s TCC. I am looking forward to taking some of the handmade classes there and getting ideas to take my creativity to the next level.
Diane
LOVE IT! I love all things creative and would love to take a girlfriend! Especially my friend Annie, who has inspired me in a lot of what I do.
I would love to attend because the energy and creativity of the panelists and attendees would be such an amazing experience. I’m eager to learn new things and can’t imagine a better place to do it. And I’d have to bring my friend Sarah who is probably the person most involved in my day-to-day creative endeavors.
I blogged about it #1 (my other entries are above 63, 65)
http://www.504main.com/2011/07/tickled-pink-no-58-and-chance-to-win.html
I “like” on FB!
I blogged about it #2 (my other entries are above 63, 65)
http://www.504main.com/2011/07/tickled-pink-no-58-and-chance-to-win.html
I blogged about it #3 (my other entries are above 63, 65)
http://www.504main.com/2011/07/tickled-pink-no-58-and-chance-to-win.html
I blogged about it #4 (my other entries are above 63, 65)
http://www.504main.com/2011/07/tickled-pink-no-58-and-chance-to-win.html
I blogged about it #5 (my other entries are above 63, 65)
http://www.504main.com/2011/07/tickled-pink-no-58-and-chance-to-win.html
I blogged about the giveaway! Entry one
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-entered-creative-connection.html
I blogged about the giveaway! Entry 2
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-entered-creative-connection.html
Oh my goodness – what a FABULOUS contest! I recently relocated from the Seattle area to Ohio and am missing all my creative friends and wonderful places to shop and hang out. Sometimes it feels as if I landed on a different planet. As I’m just in the process of starting an online jewelry business it would be SO AMAZING to have the opportunity to participate in this event. I would take my BFF Edna who lives in Seattle and is one of the most creative women I know! What a gift it would be to share this with her and renew our creative souls while making new connections with other women from all over the country!
oh my gosh i want to go so badly!Funny you said its somebodies birthday, my 50th is this Saturday, the 30th, and i was hoping for something special and I wanted this! Who I would bring is my good friend Becky Kelly, who is a popular, published artist. We are both in the same age group, both wanting to grow and love the creative process. We both need this. On a personal note, I have started an art business with my daughter Jenny who has Williams Syndrome. We are starting to grow in many areas but I need help with website, blogging, illustrating books, etc. and as I was reading all the classes being offered and I was so excited until i saw the cost. All I can do is pray for help……
I blogged about the giveaway. Entry 3
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-entered-creative-connection.html
I want to attend TCC so bad! I’d love to meet all of the inspirational women that will be attending! I would bring my very supportive husband with me.
I blogged about the giveaway, entry 4
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-entered-creative-connection.html
I blogged about the giveaway! Entry 5
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-just-entered-creative-connection.html
I would love to win a spot. I would bring my mom, she’s the one who gave me my creativity!
I would love to attend this conference! I want to take my business to the next level and I believe this TCC event would help. I also need some help in the kitchen. My family would be grateful for any new tips and techniques I’d pick up.
I would love to go to TCC!!! I would love to be able to meet and hang out with all the creative people that will be there – and I am sooo interested in all the sessions!! I would take Holly from 504 Main with me – cause she’s my roomie from a past convention and she’s fabulous. :)
I tweeted about this giveaway & I forgot to say who’d I’d bring along. I’d bring my friend of more than 20 years, Beth, because always gets my creative juices going. To be able to share this with her would be amazing!
I tweeted about the giveaway! @flamingotoes
Thanks for the chance!!
I would love to come to TCC for many reasons but mainly to enjoy the energy that comes when a group of creative women and men get together. It is just such a happy energy!
If I were to win, I would being my new boss – because tomorrow is her birthday and well, she is starting a business to inspire and grow women and would love to attend the event!
I love to be surrounded and supported by creative people and I would bring my mentor and friend Yvonne.
My day job is not so creative so I would love to take a weekend to just indulge that side of my brain! I would bring my friend Ariel. She helps feed my creativity and is the only person I can talk with for hours about fabric and random DIY projects.
Since becoming unemployed earlier this year, I’ve been trying harder than ever to take my creating abilities to the next level. I’ve done fairly well considering I’m self taught but would love the positive charge of being around so many amazing, talented women!
I’d bring my daughter in law, who is just starting her own journey of finding her creative self and who would be ecstatic at this opportunity – as would I !
To win this would ” fill the apple basket” of my creative soul. I would take my aunt with me- she makes me laugh and she is happy to get crafty with me.
I would love to come to The Creative Connection event because we have nothing like it is Australia! What a wonderful opportunity it would be! If I could bring someone, I would either bring my gorgeous Aussie friend Jane Davenport, or offer it back to give to someone in the US who might otherwise not be able to afford to come.
Thanks so much!
OK’ this is probably my 9 attempt.. crossing fingers.
WHY DO I WANT TO WIN… REAL SIMPLE- “””” IT WOULD BE SO AWESOME!””””
My birthday is coming up too.
I have never ever been to any bloggy convention/conference
I would take Desiree from The 36th Avenue, she is moving to my neck of the woods too. We would both be first timers. EEK!
Thanks for the opportunity. WINKS-JEN-CraftOmaniac…. crossing fingers, toes, and eyelashed.
i tweeted yesterday when I first learned of this total complete awesomeness. winks-jen
I liked your FB page. Can’t wait to hear more about the event!
I have totally liked you on FB woot WOOT! jen
I’d love to attend because I get so much creative energy from being around other people who “get it” and are also creative. I also love that this combines creativity and business. Perfection :) I’d take my friend Michelle, whose story she tells through her art, because her path is just now opening up before her and this is the perfect next step.
I’m not new to blogging but this is the first time I’ve blogged were the intended readers are just family members. I would love to learn more about the creative minds out there at this event. I would totally take my mom. She’s the reason I love to create!
i FACEBOOKED THIS SUPER DUPER COOLNESS- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Craft-O-Maniac/169807146392913
WINKS-JEN
It would be awesome to win and attend. I would take my Sis. We would be so inspired!
I live in Mpls so you could give the hotel to another winner!
tweeted :)
http://twitter.com/#!/backtoallen/status/96770985084198913
I have tweeted– @365spirit
I’ve ‘liked’ and posted on Facebook.
I am turning 50 on August 1st. I am recovering from Stage 4 breast cancer. Creativity has been a lifeline for me during my health battle. I would take my sister, Joanne, who has been a great support to me regarding my health issues and has been a creative buddy inspiring me all along the way.
I would love to win a pass to the Creative Connective event because it sounds so luxuriously decadent to spend a weekend around a group of incredibly talented and creative women. Throughout history, women have used their creativity to feed their families and keep them clothed and safe to making great works of art, music, and craft. I would bring my mother, an art teacher, with me because she her best to bring out the creative in all of her children – for which I am eternally grateful.
I would bring my bestest friend Wendy. We are always trying something new and creative. We have so much fun, we
photogragh and journal our experiences so we can always remember how much fun we had trying something new. We are truly two creative souls who would totally enjoy this experience. I hope we get picked.
I’m working to sell my handspun yarn and would love to attend the Creative Connection to explore and learn But even moreso, I would attend with my best friend who lives Texas. We both like to make things be it knitting, spinning, crocheting, embroidery, but to have a time together where we could just revel in this creative atmosphere would be amazing!
I would love to attend this conference because I want to take my blog/business to the next level and think it would be a great learning experience to get my closer to that goal! I would bring my friend Kate who is just getting started with blogging and sewing!
I would LOVE to win this and I would take Wendy Burton (A mixed Media artist from Saskatchewan – like me) as we don’t have these opportunities to connect with other artists here.
I will be posting on FB and Tweeting.
THANK YOU for this opportunity!
Would be thrilled to attend and even teach one day (big dream!) I am a licensed artist (Multiple Blessings by Caroline Simas) and am so blessed to have my hand in the creative process each and every day. I live and breathe better when I make things with my hands, don’t you? Know several folks who know Jo Packman and tell me she’s such an inspiring lady…would love to meet her. Of course I’d enjoy connecting and creating with other women who share similar passions and talents. I would probably invite my sweet friend Lillian who can make anything beautiful.
Oh, I hope to win! It would be such a fabulous experience!
Blessings….
Caroline
I dream of going to TCC….to submerse myself in an ocean of creativity, with like minds, and kindred spirits. And, there is no other kindred spirit I would rather take than my mom. We see the world similarly….as an endless source of creative inspiration….a pile of potential….that just needs a few rhinestones to make it sparkle. :)
It would be absolutely amazing to attend this event! I’ve been searching and searching to find out who I am and have finally found out that I am blessed with creativity. This would be such a kick start to my creative business. I would take my dear friends Wendy; she is a very talented and inspirational woman. This event would be a dream come true. :)
I would looovvvee to attend this conference with my best friend Grace. I need to jump start my creative side and my friend Grace needs to attend because she has had a bad year. She has lost family members, suffered with a business during this bad economy, and has welcomed 4 members of her husbands family into her home indefinitely. She has a huge heart and definitely deserves a “break” to connect with her creative side.
Since I am still considered a “newbie” in the blogging world, this would be the perfect opportunity for me and my “newbie” blogging girlfriends to GETAWAY! I could really use this in two ways. First, as a huge endeavor for myself to have some ME TIME. Second, as a Mind Fueling experience to learn more about the things I really enjoy. I have put much thought into who I would take. It would have to be a newly found friend {Pam}, found via the blog world. This would be such a wonderful experience to have with her. What a thrill it would be to WIN!
http://throughmylensetlh.blogspot.com/
I tweeted about it a @ThroughMyLense_
Creating has always been a part of my life and running my own business, creating for others has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I have for what seems a lifetime been trying to get things up and going, but life always seems to get in the way preventing me from going full steam. Thank goodness my passion, perseverance, along with the support of my family and friends always seems to win out. Attending the Creative Connection could help me learn valuable information that could help grow my business, channel my energies in the right direction and along with the fact that it would be just cool as heck! I would definitely bring my mom. Even though both her and my oldest daughter have always been such a strong support system and source of strength for me, my mom and I recently have been dealing with a situation that has been life changing in many ways and feel that this would be a good and inspiring experience. And well, we both love to create!
I would love to win free passes to this event. Last year was the first time I had ever heard about it, and just knew that some day I need to attend. I would choose one of my daughters as my companion since I know we would have the best time ever attending this together. Thank you so much for offering this giveaway :)
LIKED Creative Connection on facebook
Posted the link on my facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Through-My-Lense/142995722449342?sk=wall
I shared the event link with all my friends on Facebook!!!
I like you on Facebook!
I was just telling my husband that I wish there was SOME way I could make it – and then this opportunity. So many great presenters that I am already familiar with through blogs, twitter, etc. How inspiring to actually meet them. I would want to bring my daughter so I can instill in her the desire to create as my mother did for me. That and I want her to see that there are other “crazy, creative” people just like me!
Shared with my friend on Facebook, here’s my link to my FB page: http://www.facebook.com/lannette.ring
I got a badge on my site! (1 of 2 entries)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/
Took a few years off from my business to have two children and need some serious motivation to get back into the swing!! I’d love-love-love to take my super creative Aunt who loves to get her creative on! She lives almost 900 miles away so it would be a great bonding time too!
I got a badge on my site. (2 of 2 entries)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/
Fan of TCC on Facebook
I have your button on my blogs side bar, entry 1
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/
Ohhhh, how fun! I would take my best friend, my daughter… My sweet craft partner. We have so much fun making things together… And it is the greatest joy just hanging out with her.
I have your button on my blog side bar, entry 2
http://twoprincebakerytheater.blogspot.com/
I like you on facebook.
I have always wanted to attend any top notch creative craft cooking conference. I would bring my Mom, she is the most creative person I know.
I LIKE you on FB already!
I am going to have to make a change in my work and I’m going to have to do it soon. I refuse to go on another job interview for as long as I live — it was torture in my 40s, I can’t imagine what hell it would be in my 50s — so I need to create something for myself. I have had an idea percolating for (I just realized) 4 years and I think it’s time. I am scared to death and feel like throwing up half the time, but the other half I feel like dancing and singing (while jumping out of my skin). It’s pretty incredible. I believe that attending this event would motivate and energize me… so that perhaps I’ll soon be singing from the rooftop. I would bring my daughter with me — wildly creative, funny, inspiring, and my biggest cheerleader. Thank you.
I tweeted “Win a full pass and hotel for you and a friend to BlogHer Handmade & The Creative Connection Event!” http://ht.ly/5Ped4 #tccevent11.
I liked the Facebook page
Winning these tickets and having the opportunity to surround myself and my friend Cindy Jackson with so many creative people will just be ouststanding. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach now of all the creative ideas that will be going on in my head. Oh the chance to learn from them and get out of my little studio at home. I don’t get to get out much because I am always producing (good thing) but I would just love to see what the other people in the world are doing. I have always wanted to take classes but never have the time!! Oh it would be joyous!
I would love to win tickets to the conference because I am just starting my handmade business and I would love to learn some tips from the pros! I would bring one of my friends that is also trying to start a handmade business!
I would LOVE to be here! I am dying to learn more about blogging and making this an actual job for me. I have been at it for a year and want to get more serious!
I would bring my mom because she is my best friend and equally as crafty!
-Taylor
I have blogged! (1 of 5)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-dream-impossible-dream.html
I have blogged! (2 of 5)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-dream-impossible-dream.html
What an awesome giveaway! Tweeted!
I liked on Fbook!
-Taylor
I have blogged! (3 of 5)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-dream-impossible-dream.html
I have blogged! (4 of 5)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-dream-impossible-dream.html
I have blogged! (5 of 5)
http://365spirit.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-dream-impossible-dream.html
Here is the second link to my blog post!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
I’d love to win! Who doesn’t need a Creative Connection? I’d bring along my B.F.F. Aubrey. Why? She lives on the East Coast and I’m on the West. We are both busy with children and this would be a great opportunity to meet up and do what we love. We both have Etsy shops, love to create using all forms of media.
Here the third link to my blog post!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
Here is the fourth link to my blog post!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
Here the fifth link to my blog post!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com/2011/07/creative-connection.html
Button is on my sidebar :)
http://www.taylormadehome.blogspot.com
-Taylor
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Button is on my sidebar :)
http://www.taylormadehome.blogspot.com
-Taylor
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Here is the 2nd link to my blog!
http://bostonsewer.blogspot.com
I would love to attend! I worked as a graphic designer for years and have been a stay at home mom to my 4 year old since he was born. I’ve been slowly working on a new business for designing invitations and printables for parties but have a long way to go before it is up and running. It would be wonderful to learn from all the great speakers and presentations. I’d bring my mom cause she loves crafts, is very supportive of me and could really use a vacation away from some stress she has been dealing with.
I posted a comment on Facebook! I hope I did all this correctly!
I have the ideas, just don’t know how to make them profitable. Who would I bring? My friend Joelle who is very talented, but also doesn’t know how to translate ideas into profit.
I would LOVE to attend the Creative Connection Event–for education, inspiration, and FUN. My daughter and I are working on several creative endeavors and I love, love, love seeing what others are doing–and sharing what we are doing too!
I liked on FB too!!
all those creative people in one place, I would really like to be there! I love how creativity flows when you are around like minded people. I would bring my mom, she is wonderfully creative and I know how much she would enjoy the experience, what a fun trip it would be to travel with my mom. I love her so much and often think how nice it would be to get away with her :)
I tweeted here
http://twitter.com/#!/createdbydiane/statuses/96791855685050369
Wonderful event. I like it.
I would love to come take classes from the extraordinarily creative lizzy house. I’d love to bring my girl. She’ be blown away by being around so many people that we read every day…what an inspiration to meet so many successful & creative women! Thank you for sharing the dream!
I would love to attend – I just went to the market last year because I heard about it at the last minute. I would love to attend and hear all the fabulous speakers. I would take my sister Kathy – she would fly in from Florida – we love all the same blogs and enjoy creating – we are each others creative soundboards – we bounce all of our creative ideas off each other. I was thrilled to tell her that I met Tina Givens and Ree Drummond and we would be gitty if we could meet Amy Butler!
Thanks for hosting this fabulous event!
I want to attend for the AMAZING classes, the chance to pitch my craft book idea, and meet other amazing women.
I would bring my mother. She blazed my creative path. She will be getting over lung surgery – a 2nd bout of cancer. I know this would lift her spirits.
I am one-month new to blogging and would love a chance to attend. My platform is quite unique – I blog about the beauty of the public library and what it means to our family (I do not work for the library) – trust me, I have been all over blogland and haven’t seen what I am doing. I would love to learn as much as I can to increase my readership which in turn would help me and the library. I would (naturally) bring a librarian friend with me! Please pick me! And thank you for this opportunity. xoxo michele
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YAY! Happy Birthday! How generous of you to share such an awesome gift with us! I would LOVE to attend The Creative Connection and BlogHer Handmade. I have heard so many wonderful things about this conference from Kami and Laurie. They got me so excited about it at EVO. I would love to be in the hands-on workshops and learn from THE best! What an amazing experience this conference would be. It would be so fun to meet all the amazing women I look up to and admire. If I win (crossing my fingers, toes and eyes) I would bring my friend Linda. We entered a contest together a few months ago and worked so hard on it.. however we didn’t win. It would be so fun to actually win and go together!! She is one of my dearest blogging friends and someone I truly look up to. Thanks for the opportunity! Hugs!
I tweeted here http://twitter.com/#!/iheartnaptime :)
I tweeted about the event =)
I shared this giveaway with my readers on my blog here http://www.iheartnaptime.net/2011/07/the-creative-connection.html :)
Hey all, I’d love to be at this conference and connect with these creative people! I’d bring my dear friend from nearby Sioux Falls, pick me!
Kate
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I couldn’t find the buttons.. so I added a link to your website on my sidebar. :)
I like The Creative Connection on fb. Woo that’s 10 entries for me!! I reallllly want to win this! I’ll be crossing my fingers till next Friday! Thanks again!
I’ve never been to a blog conference and would love to learn more! I think I would bring my sister.
I would love to attend the convention because I am a crafter/sewer at heart and do it as much as I can . It soothes me, gives me a sense of peace, and makes all that is wrong…right. My 7yo daughter is the same way. I am constantly reading and looking at other blogs to get ideas on starting our own business with the crafts/sewing and including blogging. The convention would be a priceless wealth of info for me. If I won, I would bring my mom. She is also a crafter at heart but never really did much with her creativity. She is from a small town, typical hispanic upbringing, lives in a very small world if you know what I mean, and would be totally in awe of everything that the convention would have to offer. The only place she’s been outside of her TX home is good ol’ Branson, MO. :) I would love to get her out somewhere different, new, and just show her what’s out there. She would be beside herself.
Oh what a wonderful chance to reunite with an old friend of 45 years! We lost touch with each other and have just found and rekindled our friendship, even though it was like we had never been apart. I love crafting and painting. She love crafting and antiques! What a fun time it would be for us both~
I would love to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event for the opportunity to interact with so much creative energy & passion, to learn from the best & to make connections with amazing women that will last a lifetime! The toughest part of this entire entry is to pick who to take with me because so many fabulous women have helped inspire me & have been so loving! I would pick Aimee of Aimee Broussard Events because she was my fearless & fun roomate in NYC at the first conference I ever attended and I will forever think of her like a sister!
I like The Creative Connection on fb!!!
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/3littlebirdsbtq
I put your button on my sidebar … oh, I wanna win SOOOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would be sooo lucky if I won this trip! Love to craft and my sister and I are wanting to start a business with our crafts. I would certainly take her along if I am the lucky winner. Thanks for the info and the opportunity.
I’d love to take my friend Diane, who is a seasoned quilter, who gives so many of her beautiful creative works of art away, recently widowed I think she deserves and would enjoy such a gift as this! And for myself! I’d just love being inspired by so many artists and have the opportunity to play and create with them and to learn from them. I might even sneak in a visit with my nephew and SIL in Minnesota!!!
I’d love to take my friend Diane, who is a seasoned quilter, who gives so many of her beautiful creative works of art away, recently widowed I think she deserves and would enjoy such a gift as this! And for myself! I’d just love being inspired by so many artists and have the opportunity to play and create with them and to learn from them. I might even sneak in a visit with my nephew and SIL in Minnesota!!!
I linked this on my facebook for all to see and hopefully join in the fun and chance!
I blogged the photo and link to my side bar on my blog!!!!
More will be coming!!!
I put the information and picture on my other blog!!! Textile Art Quilts by Lynn!
Thanks for all these chances…I think that makes five for me now.
I’m at 10 entries!!!! How does that work?
I just blogged about this giveaway.
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xo tara
I posted it on The Art Quilt blog and linked it to Kristin’s blog!!!
MORE will come!
I added this wonderful chance to the side bar of yet another blog of bloggers who are all so creativie: The Artshine Blog.
I wrote a post about The Creative Connection on the Artshine Blog!
I sent a mass email about the contest and The Connection to my creative friends!
My tenth chance is because I told my creative Jewish women’s group/website all about the contest! I am sure some of them will want to join in the fun. My friend Lisa is an ardent knitter~!!
I am a photographer and would love to come learn more! I would bring my friend Morgan because she crochets and I take pictures of her creations.
I want to win because I would love to be around creative people who share my interests! Not to mention, it would be a great reason to take a vacation. I would invite one of my girlfriends who lives out of state and who I never get to see. A girls weekend would be fabulous!
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I would somlove to win the this fabulous give-a-way and take my husband as he always supports me in whatever I do. I would love to take knitting classes from Susan Andersion (my knitting go to gal) and my husband loves MaryJane! How fun it would be to share this with him!
LauraT
Winning this would give me a wonderful opportunity to be surrounded by other creative minds and help me in my creative endeavors. Who would I take? My husband, who not only supports me 200% but also needs to get back into his own creative ventures.
Three days of crafting, free stuff, hotel…who wouldn’t want to win!
I would love to attend and would bring my mom. We both love all things crafty and this would be a great opportunity for us to bond and have some girl time doing things we enjoy.
I like TCCE on FB!
Your button is on my sidebar, entry #1.
Your button is in my sidebar, entry #2 (http://mybabyfaves.blogspot.com)
I want to learn more about how others are being creative and earning a living or part of one by doing what they enjoy. I would bring my mom as she would enjoy it and it would be special for us.
I would love to go to learn how best to expand and build my loom knitting pattern business. I would take my friend Ann as she encouraged me early on in my efforts and continues to be a supporter! She also is very crafty (taught me about everything cross stitch which she learned from her dad!) and could use a boost in her own creative endeavors and a little adventure too after a tough year!
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I’ve been wanting to start my own ‘living your best life’ blog and need some help with getting going; I’d bring my sister Becky cause she and I are best frienes and live across the country from each other. She would love a conference like this too.
I would love to go because I’ve been wanting to start my own blog and love to cook and do crafts. I would bring my sister–I’ve been trying to get her to start a blog with me!
I liked you on facebook!
I really enjoyed last year and would love to experience it again!
This would be so amazing! Junk Bonanza and CC all in one weekend! Yay! I would bring my husband…yep my husband. He loves to go junkin with me and is very supportive of my creative ideas :) I’m a lucky lady!
I like you on Facebook. (I really love you, but there’s no button for that!)
I would love to go to this event to keep my creative juices inspired! I would bring my best friend of 30 years (!) – we are dangerously creative together :)
And I liked you on Facebook too!
I want to attend the conference to learn how to merge my creative brain with my business brain into one happy and prosperous brain! I would take my creative muse and sponsor Shannan!
OMGosh! This sounds so fabulous! I would love to attend this because I am really starting to focus on my blog and trying to figure out what my goal is for it. Learning how to earn money from it would be awesome. As far as who I would take…..there are so many talented women in the blog world that I have never met, but look up to so much for what they have taught me thus far. I would definitely pick one of those ladies as a big thank you! Thanks so much for this opportunity. I’m tweeting and “liking” on facebook too!
I think this event is an amazing opportunity for anyone who is creative. I am inspired by Stacy Julian and would love to meet her, If I win, I would bring my friend Suzanne, who hasn’t been on a vacation in 10 years! And she is such a creative, amazing woman! Thanks for the chance! Linda
What a wonderful opportunity, a chance to find my next path. The fork in my road has about six tines and I am having difficulty choosing which one(s) to follow. This next stage in my life has lots of potential but I need a help with my goals and choices in what forms my art should take. And it looks like so much FUN. My friend, whould come with me, is a talented writer also looking to broaden her perspective…and write just for the fun of it.
I have a button on my blog…http://www.myveryeducatedmother.blogspot.com/
I would love to attend because I am hoping to move my blog to the next level…increase traffic, monetize and as someone who loves to craft and write I think there would be several panels and speakers that I could learn from!
Ohhhhhhhhhh goodness. Yes, I would love to go. Been reading so much about this event – the guest speakers and everything that it entails. I would love to take my friend, Lynne, from Bainbridge Island with me. She’s “into” art – so unlike most of my other friends.
I’ve started blogs several times, but just don’t seem to get anywhere with them. Would really like to learn what makes them work! I would love to be able to attend with my daughter. We spend lots of time together and share a love of crafts and cooking.
My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog and began wishing I could attend. How inspiring it could be! I would bring my sister-in-law.
I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog and began wishing I could attend. My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. How inspiring it could be! I would bring my sister-in-law with me.
How inspiring it could be! My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog and began wishing I could attend. I would bring my sister-in-law with me.
I would bring my sister-in-law with me if I won. My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. When I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog, I began wishing I could attend. How inspiring it could be!
Your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog made me wish I could attend. My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. How inspiring it could be! I would bring my sister-in-law with me.
This is the weekend of my birthday – what a fun way to spend it. Hope I win! I’d bring my best crafting buddy Liberty and we would wander the halls of the Handmade and see if we could start our own business? Plus I would love to hear Becky Higgins speak.
If I win, I will invite my sister-in-law to come with me. My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. How inspiring it could be! I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog.
Who wouldn’t benefit from such an event?! My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog. If I win, I will invite my sister-in-law to attend with me.
Oh my goodness, this would be so amazing to attend. I would bring my friend Heather who I finally convinced to start a blog of her own to share the most amazing projects she does. I know we both would love to learn more about how to make our love of “creating” a business. Please pick us! Please!!!!
I would be very grateful for the chance to attend your conference. My husband, his two sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. If I win, I would invite my sister-in-law to attend with me. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog.
What an opportunity! Thanks for the giveaway. If I win, I would invite my sister-in-law to come with me. My husband, two of his sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog. I think it could be very inspiring.
This makes my 10th entry. My husband, his two sisters, and I are testing the waters of the small business world. I’m sure your conference could be most inspiring. If I win, I would invite my sister-in-law to come with me. I saw your ad on Cathe Holden’s blog. Thanks for the contest!
Posted this Giveaway on my blog @ http://throughmylensetlh.blogspot.com/2011/07/blogher-creative-connection-giveaway.html
Posted this Giveaway on my blog @ http://throughmylensetlh.blogspot.com/2011/07/blogher-creative-connection-giveaway.html
Giveaway is posted on my blog http://throughmylensetlh.blogspot.com/2011/07/blogher-creative-connection-giveaway.html
It’s on my blog! http://throughmylensetlh.blogspot.com/2011/07/blogher-creative-connection-giveaway.html
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oh, I’d love to win this! First, I’d take my mama because my dad left her recently after 35 years of marriage and I think that a little girl time plus some creativity would do her some good! The reason I want to go? After 36 years, I’m finally finding my artistic voice… and I’d love the opportunity to strengthen it. Plus, it would be a fun getaway from the daily grind of 2 little boys (4 & 5 – yikes) and an adult child husband (I mean that in the most loving way!). Plus, I’m DYING over Melody Ross’ little brave book class – I think I might very well NEED that. Please?
I would absolutely love to attend. This event seems almost too good to be true. My creative-idols all in one place! Seriously? It has to be the mecca for any creative woman! I would bring my dear daughter-in-law. She’s the best present my son ever gave to me (and now she’s given me my most-adorable grandson!). Yes, I would love to bring her so we could spend the whole time together! Thanks for the opportunity!
As a brand new business owner, I would so love to attend this conference! If I won, I’d bring my friend/fellow business owner/head cheerleader/super talented super mom Kristen (3littlebirdsboutique.com)!!!
When I was 9 years old I wrote a fairy story called “Jovan and the Ant” and sent it off for publication. The only publisher’s address I could find was in the front of a set of encyclopedias, but I was determined to let my words be heard. The editor kindly returned my story and told me that her company didn’t publish short stories. Since then my burning ambition has been to be a published author. Blogging is a wonderful outlet for my creative urges, but I feel a bit lost when it comes to realizing my dreams. I feel certain that the workshops, seminars, and the sheer volume of creative energy that fuels The Creative Connection Event would help me find the focus and clarity that I need! I would love to bring along my high school sweetheart and husband of 29 years. Our anniversary is in September, and this event would be the perfect way to celebrate! My husband is my biggest fan and supporter, and very creative in his own right! He is an amazing chef, and loves to work with stained glass and soldered jewelry. I can’t imagine a better gift for either of us than a weekend at TCC. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I would like to go to the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event to learn more about blogging than I have learned on my own. I think it will help me understand so much more! Plus, I need to feel as if I am contributing more to our income, somehow and I think advertisements through my blog might help; and maybe I can one day sell products on my site. I would take my friend Michelle because she is trying to do her own business on etsy and she has started a blog for her site as well. I just really want to learn more and it’s really hard when your starting from scratch. This would help out so very much for both of us.
Wow the conference sounds like a great event! I am searching for the boost to start my own creative jewelry business. An event like this would be the perfect inspiration to get me going. My best friend Karrie is also being a business founded on her creativity. I would bring her along because she got me started (aka addicted to) beading. Thanks for a great opportunity.
I would love to win an go because who wouldn’t want to learn from the best and the brightest (not to mention most creative!)? I’m not sure who I’d take, but I’m not beyond accepting bribes. ;)
PICK ME!!!! OMG I would just be the MOST excited person in the WORLD if I win!!! I am pretty new to this blogging world (about one year) and I admire SO MANY creative and crafty bloggers out there in Blogland. I would LOVE to be able to attend the CREATIVE CONNECTION event!!! I just KNOW I would meet some amazing people and pack my brain full of CREATIVE ideas!!! Ohhhhhhh, I hope I win. I would take Shelley Smith from House of Smith because she is one of the MOST creative person I know!!!
I twitted about this EVENT!!!! I would LOVE to win!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/#!/homebyheidi
Because it would be AMAZING to hear, meet and learn from other creative and talented women. I love how supportive, positive and inspiring the blogging community is! I would take my friend Jackie, because she could use a few days away from being a SAHM with her 2 kids ;)
I just LIKED you on facebook!!! Just waiting for the email that lets me know I have WON!! :)
I just added The Creative Connection Event button to the sidebar of my blog!
I added a link to the TCC blog under the Blissful Blogs section of my sidebar! Wishing with all my might to win!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to attend this conference! I have heard so many great things and would love the opportunity to attend and grow my blog. I started blogging a few months ago and there is sooo much I don’t know! I would love to bring my friend Alex who recently started her own blog and helps her husband run his own business. This would benefit us both sooo much! Thanks for the opportunity.
I need some guidance in helping me to get my business off to a good start. I really want to be able to make working from home successful. Putting my kids in daycare just isn’t for me. This sounds like it could help! I would love to attend but there is no way financially I could do this so I need to win! I have a friend that has just started her own business that I would bring a long. fingers crossed!
I would love to take my husband. I have been trying to convince him that we can change our lives by doing what we love! I know there are so many inspiring folks out there!
I just posted about The Creative Connection Event on my blog Serendipity Vintage Studio!
http://serendipityvintagestudio.blogspot.com/2011/07/friday-findings-creative-connection.html
This is would be such an amazing experience!
One of my favorite part of life is learning from others- their experiences, struggles, lessons, etc. I would love to learn more about how to market my creative nature, not only for my blog but for personal satisfaction and the ability to assist others.
I would bring one of my best friends, one of the only other people that I can share ‘my creative’ side with :)
Thank you for the opportunity!
Coley at http://www.whatyoumakeit-coley.blogspot.com
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I would love to attend this conference! I would bring my friend Angela who is a fellow Navy wife and sells her handmade stuff on etsy. I don’t sell anything but want to have a better handle on running a creative business so I can eventually sell things.
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I would love to attend Creative Connections. So many ideas and so many classes to choose from.
I wanted to attend but our A/C went on the blink and right now in Kansas, and I had to choose the
A/C. Family would have killed me if I had chosen Creative Connections!!
I have 2 friends I would like to bring and I would choose just one…Suzanne, because she has
never been to an art class.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Sharon Morrison/Ks
I just posted about the event and the giveaway on my DIY Weddings blog at Craft Gossip!
http://weddings.craftgossip.com/creative-connection-event/
I would LOVE to go to BlogHer Handmade and the CREATIVE CONNECTION first because it looks soo different and interesting. I would love to learn more about social media and gleen ideas from other creative minds! I would take my friend Michelle who is the most OUT OF THE BOX creative artist I know!! We would just LOVE to attend and see what this is all about!
What a wonderful thing for you all to do!! I would love to attend this conference…have always wanted to and something always gets in the way…lol. It’s hard to keep in touch with my creative side at times, being a wife, mom and just everyday life sometimes gets in the way! I would bring one of my girlfriends who feels the same way!!
I would love to attend the event and meet some of the aspiring bloggers that I follow. I, too, have been searching for the right balance of family, day job, and crafting. I would take my cousin’s wife, as she and I have often fantasized about quitting our day jobs and starting a party planning business. I hope I win!!
I would love to go and be surrounded by other women who are inspired to create as am I. I have never attended anything like this and I think it would be a great way to meet new people! I would ask my best friend Julie to come with me. She is my scrapping buddy! Love the concept of blogging. Great way to express your feelings. Also tweeted!
I love all things creative. Same old story though- mommy to 3 with little time left to satisfy my desire to “create.” I would bring my sister for sure, because she’s one of my besties and shares my love for creative endeavors. We’ve started a blog together to document our projects, and need a jump start to get going. Thanks for the chance!!! :)
What a great opperotunity! I am so excited to hear about this event, much less a chance to win to go! The hardest part would be picking who gets to come with me!!!! Thanks!!
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I want to attend BHH and TCC for the opportunity to learn from awesome, talented women, and to expand my creative enterprises. I would ask my sister, who lives on the east coast, to join me as she is the most creative person I know and love. Thank you!
I would love to go and see all the beautiful things and learn a little more about all my favorite crafts. I would bring my friend Libby and enjoy the girls weekend away we have been dreaming of.
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I retired a couple of years ago after my husband passed. I have been in the printing business for 30 years and am ready to get back to my creative roots. Want to see the latest trends, tips and definitely want to be steered in the right direction to actually put my talents and passions in the right direction and start a business. Would bring my daughter as she is also a do-it -yourself person and really has a knack for creating.
I am so excited about the possiblility of attending an event like The Creative Connection. I launched my blog just a month ago and am completely addicted to the whole world of bloggers and I need to learn so much more. This conference would be exactly what I need. I would bring my mentor and friend, Kustom Kissers so we can take over the world!!
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I need something to get me to scrapbook again. After I attended the CKC in April I scrapped for a couple of months. I think this will help me get going again. I would bring Barb H. We had lots of fun at CKC.
I would love to address this conference to meet all the creative ladies I love to read! I would take my sister Erin (blogger http://www.SuttonGrace.blogspot.com) because she is the craftiest person I know and could use a break from her 4 kids! :)
OMG, the killer lineup of speakers and workshops, who wouldn’t want to come to this event!!! So many fantastic workshops to choose from, a seriously fantastic learning opportunity! I would bring my friend Janelle, a budding knitwear designer, a great step for both of us to work on our creative businesses together – a crafty sisterhood!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/traceysebastian
This event looks amazing! I just recently started a blog and I’m seeing the power of making your blog a business or using it to promote your own creative business. My husband and I are working on growing our knowledge in photography – just got our first dSLR, we love to cook, and have a ton of other ideas that could be turned into creative businesses if we put our mind to it. I would also love the opportunity to learn how to maximize social media and other marketing tools to grow your business. Thanks for the opportunity!
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I’d love to connect with other creative bloggers – this event would be such a wonderful opportunity to network and make new friends, as well as learn so much. I’d take one of my blogging friends with me. Thanks so much for this opportunity.
Why do I want to attend? Well, I want to learn, to explore, to be inspired, and to meet cool creative people. Who to take is easy: my big sister, Janice. Many, many years ago, she taught me how to crochet on a long car trip to visit our grandmother. That launched my obsession with all things handmade. Today, she and I are both persuing the handmade lifestyle. Jan makes handmade, one-of-a-kind cards and I own a very new letterpress business. And, this year we both had very, very big birthdays as we are ten years apart in age – she is a baby boomer and I am a gen xer. What a blast it would be to surprise her with this trip!
I would absolutely love to attend this event! I have been wanting to attend a creative conference for a while and this would be the perfect opportunity to learn and be inspired by creative women. I would bring my girlfriend Brittany. She’s a creative person and is just getting into blogging so it would be great for her, too!
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I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Events because I am in awwww each time I open one of your magazines. I am filled with the artistic magic of all of the artists in this beautiful world. I would choose to bring my oldest daughter Amy along with me. She has had a very tramatic past few years with prescription drug addiction and has been incapacitated for several months earlier this year and learned through art classes held inside the jail, that art can heal the mind, which heals the body and soul. She is doing wonderfully now and is working toward a brand new life without drugs.
Why would I want to go? Why wouldn’t you! I missed BlogHer Food when it was in Chicago near my home, and the other ones I just can’t afford to fly and pay hotel etc. So winning this would actually be even better since I think I would enjoy the creative conference even better. And I would actually take my husband, he IS my best friend, and has been for 30 years :)
I tweeted it! http://twitter.com/#!/amandascookin/statuses/97013409052246016
I liked you on Facebook, the link didn’t work by the way, had to take the “.com” off then it did ;)
I blogged about the event!
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I tweeted.
I liked your Facebook page!
I would love to attend. It sounds like a ton of fun!
I would love to attend this amazing event in my home town!! I am always looking for inspiration to be creative and this even would the cream of the crop!! I would bring one of my creative scrapbooking friends!!
I would be thrilled to attend this event because I need to hear from other women who are busy balancing their lives but still finding time to create beautiful things, full of thought and inspiration. As a mom to 3 little girls and a full-time English teacher, I have so much on my plate; however, I cannot get away from using my talents to make special things for my home and for others. New to the blogging world, I am excited to be able to share my experiences with others and hopefully encourage others to take advantage of their time and make their surroundings lovely! Thank you :)
my daughter and I would so enjoy a trip like this. would also love to see Christina Ferrare!! how does she manage to get even more beautiful with age.
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Oh I would love this..I am in my 60’s {YikeS!} and would love the chance to share in all that creative energy with all the “kiddos” ..What an amazing experience for this “senior” and who would I take? My very talented and artistic 79 year old Mother-in-Law. She’s a hoot and would entertain all with her stories of being in the family-owned traveling-through-the-mid-west Circus in the 40’s!! Plus, she may have a thing or two to teach us all about art, life and love of creativity!
I blogged about TCC!
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I want to attend this event because of the great presenters and the location! And I’d bring my mom – she would be so into this!
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This would be so much fun, I am not sure who I would bring with me, maybe it would be fun to see if my long time friend that lives a state away from me now would want to come, I know she would love this as much as I do, we are both artists, and love everything creative.
I would LOVE to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event to be inspired!!!!!!!!! …to be around others who “get it”! …to have fun! I’d like to bring my friend Marilyn B. because I KNOW we’d have a blast together. We’d be inspired together. We’d learn together and we’d come home and put the ideas and inspirations to good use!!!!
I would *love* to attend this event for motivation, inspiration, and the sense of community. I daydream about it…would love to live it!
I’d take my friend Jen. We just reunited after 10 years and have embraced our creative bugs together. I think this event would bring us even closer…plus what momma doesn’t need a good road trip?! :)
Thanks for the chance!
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Oh, how I would love to attend this! I’d love to meet some of the fantastic bloggers I follow as well as be inspired by the various workshops.
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This would be such a great opportunity to go to this event and learn from such creative individuals. I would bring my sister, who is one of the most creative people I know!
I have been a passionate crafter for my whole life(and that’s a long time). I have built my life around my passion and I believe in passing this down passion to others. Attending this conference would allow me to share the joy of crafting and passion I have with other liked minded women. I would bring my friend Michelle because we can’t stop talking about our latest projects, or what class were taking. I know we would have a blast, an experience we would never forget!
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My friend and I use to take classes, go on creative road trips and just have fun but with our business taking a hit from the economy and my friend caring for her elderly Mom, we are in need of some creative inspiration and a break.
This would be amazing! I’d bring my sister who is so busy with her 5 kids that she doesn’t get a lot of creative playtime for herself. Plus we live on opposite sides of the country, so we only see each other once a year. It would be so fun to be together at this event!
I have been wanting to attend this event but it wasn’t in the budget. I am a graphic designer and need some new inspiration . I would probably bring my friend who is very crafty and creative but we don’t get to spend so much time doing the things we love since we had kids. Thanks for the chance!
I would LOVE to experience this amazing event, would bring my good friend who’s even more creative than I am.
I would love to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because it is in my home state of MN and IT IS SUMMER! So much nicer then -20 degrees! I would bring my husband who is my faithful companion to all things crafty & my favorite person to spend time at a hotel with!
I love to create – in almost all mediums – but find that my children consume life and all I create are meals and clean laundry. (not so inspiring!) I would pick my great friend Rachel who is a creative genius, who now lives far away and I never get to craft with and who also has lots of little ones consuming her days and nights! If we won our husbands couldn’t say no!!!
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I would love to go to this event! I have been wanting to go to quite a few of these types, but the money and timing seem to be off. I’d love to learn, connect and be inspired! I’d take one of my girlfriends who is equally creative..so what a fun girls weekend on top of all that!:)
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I oohed and aahed over the myriad of post-event-postings on the blogs of gals who attended last year. There was a universal “loved it” approval rating from every blog I visited. It’s pretty wonderful to attend “vicariously” through the experiences of others, but it would be exponentially more fabulous to attend! I can’t swing it on my own this year but hope, hope, hope to make it sometime as I intend to jump into the blogging and commercial crafting game. Should the universie shine upon me and make me the lucky winner, I would take my dearest friend Margaret who lives an artful life and whose senses are primed to the beauty about her! – Amy Bauer
You know, at first I didn’t want to come. I’m not in this for the money, literally. However, as I’m building my church’s online presence, attending the BlogHer sessions on Thursday sounds like a really good idea — plus I’d then get the bonus of playing with art too!
As for who I would take with me…. hmm, I’d love to take my Mum (who still lives in Australia), but I guess that’s not realistic (although maybe it would get her back out here). She reads tons of blogs and is creative but doesn’t actually blog herself.
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I would love to go, I love any and everyting handmade, recyled, original. I would like to take my husband, because he knew nothing of crafting, artists, etc. The first time I took him to a quilt show, He remarked, he could not believe that the items were made by a person. He was in total awe !!!!
I have been dreaming of starting my own blog for a while now. This would be a great way to learn and get a jumpstart on making this dream a reality. I would love to surprise my good friend Courtney with tickets to this event. She just started a new blog after battling cancer for the third time. It’s been a year now and she seems to be doing well. Just feel it would be a great surprise and a wonderful treat for her.
Thanks for the wonderful opportunity!
I would LOVE to win this. I could definitely use a class on helping promote my blog as well as everything creative.
Thanks for the chance to win! :)
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I was trying to think of a way to get my finances to stretch so I could attend! I would love to go. Nothing makes me happier than hanging out with other creative ladies. Who would I take? That is so hard. Maybe my mom, cause she is the best. Or my friend Ally, my partner in crime (and MOPS co-coordinator!)
I want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because I think it would be the ultimate first
event for me and I would hold my own contest on my website to give another creative soul a chance to attend this awesome event too!
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This would be so AWESOME! My good friend and I have recently opened a craft shop and would love the opportunity to learn so much about what can be done and how.
I love crafting and have never been to anything like this before. I want to take my mommy cause she’s my best friend and she’s the most creative person I know and would love to go.
I’m a mother to 3 beautiful children under the age of 3 1/2. For the past 3 years I have bookmarked, printed, and “favorited” so many websites and ideas. I LIVE for my family… But would love the opportunity to BE ME for a couple of days and attend this amazing workshop to create, design and be inspired. If I was chosen to attend I would post a message on my Facebook account asking who would like to go and would be able to attend. I would take a friend that I’ve not seen since high school or college or maybe even one that just desperately needs to channel their creative drive again! What a great opportunity!! I hope to see you soon! Happy birthday!!!
I’d love the chance to attend the conference…it’s truly one of those only in my dreams events.
I’d bring along a girlfriend i’ve only know a couple of years, but we connected on that artsy, mental level that doesn’t happen often. She’s had so many health problems from a horrific car accident and she hasn’t been able to do much, but working on her art keeps her going. She also hasn’t traveled anywhere for so long, i feel bad when i even say i’m going out of town! It would be the ultimate gift to give this sweet woman who has touched so many others with her blog and art.
Crafting, styling, designing and photography are my passions! Just tweeted at @celebshoppe
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I would love to attend. Crafting, styling, designing and photography are my passions and the thought of being with so many like-minded women makes me giddy! The only reason I’ve not purchased a ticket already is because my fall schedule is super hectic with some exciting media events. That said, if I were to win I would take it as a sign that I am meant to be there! As for who I would bring, it would be my mom. She encouraged me to start my own company three years ago and has finally opened her own Etsy shop as of a few months ago. It would be great fun to share this community with her and I think it would give her that boost of confidence that young business owners need. You can find me at http://blog.thecelebrationshoppe.com/
I would love being surrounded by talented and experienced women. Right now I am laying the groundwork for my future creative career, and I’d like it to be a firm and solid foundation- what better place to get that than from TCC? I would love to bring my blog friend Gwen. She lives across the country so we haven’t met in real life yet- this would be perfect!
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I would LOVE to go because I love sewing, jewelry, crafting, and blogging. It would be fabulous to be able to attend an event where 1) it is a place that women with similar passions can come together, 2) I can glean and learn from people who have valuable wisdom and insight, and 3) make more friends within the handmade community! I would love to meet the people who have SO inspired me along this journey and thank them, become friends with them, and have fun with them!! :) I would bring my sister, Amy. She is a freelance photographer who is amazing and talented. She makes amazing things, takes jaw-dropping photos, and I would love to bless her with this opportunity :)
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I would love to have a couple days away and learn some new crafty skills and also to get out of my current crafty rut. I would bring my mom, she’s the reason I have any crafty skills at all. :)
I’ve been blogging for nearly three years and have enjoyed being creative for as long as I can remember. I would love to attend Creative Connection to learn more and inspire myself to take the next step: my own creative business. If I win I would take my sister Jaimee who is currently starting her own furniture restoration business. I know she would love it. Oh, and did I mention that we originally hail from MN? :)
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I would love to attend with my daughter ! Conventions are always so inspirational and motivational.
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Oooh! I want to go so badly, the classes look amazing and I’m in desperate need for inspiration lately. If I win I would surprise a fellow blogger/friend Katie. Shhh..don’t tell her!
As an Elementary Art Teacher (EAT), my job is to motivate and inspire 800 young minds year-round for the last 12 years. In the process, I’ve come to lose touch with my own personal creative mojo; my motivation and enthusiasm has been been “flooring it in neutral!”
My home studio is chaos, FILLED with potential that has just been sitting on shelves and in bins waiting to be done. Walking in, and not knowing where to begin…
I’ve held dear the Chinese proverb:
Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Involve me and I understand… I”d love and take to heart the opportunity to be involved in the CC, to network withothers outside of the static magazines I have purchased, to find and sustain a creative direction for ME.
I’d have to bring along my friend and coworker, Science Specialist, Vanessa. We often connect after-school chatting it up about what we’d like to be creating.
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I would love to attend TCC! The past couple of years have been rather trying and I am finally breaking out of the valley and scaling some peaks! I started a business to help women in business succeed. I think if I were able to attend TCC I would meet a lot of amazing and inspiring women and learn from their successes. I also have tons of online friends from the past several years and would absolutely love to meet them!
I would bring my BFF from high school who also just started a business recently after being home for the past 18 years. It would be a dream trip for both of us!
I would love to go to Creative Connection! I have only been to a couple of blog conferences and love meeting new blog friends & this would be a wonderful conference to attend. I have been blogging 4 and 1/2 yrs. & it has changed my life so much, all the friendships and community we have is so great. This year, I have the pleasure of going to BlogHer 11 and can’t wait for that either. I’d love to win this one too! I’d take my friend, Debbie, with me. She is a new blogger & would love it.
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Speaking of birthdays… this is the weekend following my best friend’s birthday (9/12). We don’t get to celebrate together anymore since she moved to Boise from Tucson. This would be the best gift ever for her! She is an amazing and hard-working mother, wife and soon-to-be preschool teacher. A break like this is well-deserved and extremely overdue. And, although I would LOVE to be there with her, she is going to have to choose another companion as I will actually be in Michigan at my cousin’s wedding. Either way, Tanna would love it!
I want to learn how the craft blogging world works and what I can offer to the world. I want to take my daughter with me, she is my best friend and I taught her how to sew and quilt. I think this would be an amazing experience to share with her.
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After twenty-five years as an academic, I am ready to soar in retirement. I would love to learn how to take my creative passion for scrapbooking into the blogging world. Nothing would be finer than to leave Carolina and come to the Creative Connection with my dear friend Karen. As she lives in Iowa, we don’t get to see each other nearly as much as we would like.
Right now me and my friend Debbie are trying to start a trash to treasure and refurbishing furniture business. We have oh so much to learn about on line. I think it would be great to go to this conference to help us in laying the groundwork for our future. I’d like it to be a firm and solid foundationand it sounds like we could learn alot being surrounded by talented and experienced women at TCC. I would take my friend and business partner Debbie.
Right now me and my friend Karie are trying to start a refurbishing furniture business. We have so much to learn about using all the technology on line. I think it would be great to go to this conference to help us in laying the groundwork for our future. I’d like it to be a firm and solid foundationand it sounds like we could learn alot being surrounded by talented and experienced women. I would take my friend and business partner Karie.
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As a stay at home mom, I love the time I spend with my family but I have found that I also have to find time to be creative. My creativity is therapy for me, it always has been. I would love the opportunity to be able to get away with a friend, who shares my love for creating, to this fantastically creative event! As a former accountant/CPA, I do not want to return to my former career. I now realize I am an artist, not an accountant! My dream is to learn as much as I can to make a career using my creativity. Since my kids are growing up, I want to start my second career. I have two fantastic creative friends but I think my friend Staci would benefit so much more since she and I have shared craft booths for over 4 years. We love the time we spend at the craft shows and are always happy to share everything we learn.
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K we thought we had 5 entries for 1 blog and don’t know how to take our comments off. So I am just sayin that we also liked you on facebook.
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I’d invite my cute baby sister! I NEED to come..beacause I need some serious creative juice!!!
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I am planing to attend any way and look forward to all the inspiration .If I won I would bring my friend Patt. We always have a great time even when we get lost on our road trips.
Oh, I’d so love to attend your conference! I have been crafting for over 40 years, and just started blogging about my adventures knitting every pattern on the book “Sock Yarn-One Skein Wonders” at http://www.onskeinwonderwoman.com
I have so much to learn and this conference would benefit me so much. I just don’t know how I’d choose between all the wonderful offerings!
I tweeted about it!
I would love to attend. i am new to blogging and plan on moving next year and am hoping to have a business to move with me! This would be godsend!
I put your badge on my blog: http://www.oneskeinwonderwoman.com Being the eternal optimist I chose the badge that says I’ll be attending your conference!
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I would love to attend the Creative Connection Conference because it would be the perfect venue to help my mom jumpstart her quilting/fabric shop business. She has been so selfless in fostering 6 children for the past 16 months and putting her dreams on “hold” while doing so, that I would love to surprise her with this outing. I live in KY now but I grew up in MN and my mom still lives there so this would be PERFECT:) Thanks for the chance to win!
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I want to go because I love everything Mary Jane’s Farm does. I would take my sister, a talented pastry chef.
I would love to attend this blog event because my boyfriend and I both have a blog together and we’re starting to really get into it. Something like this, I’m sure we’d learn tons! Plus…it would be nice to go somewhere exciting!
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I would SERIOUSLY love to come to the conference! I have never been creative really until the last year, when it blossomed out of me all of a sudden and I feel so blessed for it. I’d bring my mom, because we share such a passion for creating and it reminds us of how similar we are and how much fun we have creating together!
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I would love to attend because it looks a super fun and educational event. I would like to hear the speakers and am interested in the classes and would like to see the vendors. At this point, I don’t know who I would take with me — I’d have to check with my friend’s schedules. Thanks for this great opportunity!
I love to craft and bake, so The Creative Connection is right up my alley. It would be so amazing to learn from so many crafty ladies! I would bring my sister. We have the best “crafternoons” together while our toddlers are napping!
I would love love love to win! I’m a craft addict and am always looking to learn new things and improve upon my skills. How amazing to do that with like minded people who crazy for crafts too! I would bring my sister without a doubt. We started our business together and are always looking for new opportunities!
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I would absolutely LOVE to attend the Creative Connection Event!! I just cannot imagine the inspiration, creative-education, and last but not least, FUN FUN TIMES that I would experience at this event! I would take my mom with me for sure. She is a pre-K teacher and is crafty to the bone. :)
I would love to win because Tim Holtz will be there!!!!! Also I love to be creative and always looking for new ideas ! I would bring my sister as she is a quilter.
I would love a chance to attend the connection. To be around all those creative talents would be a dream come true
I liked you on facebook! I forgot to say who I would bring with me on my last post. I think my husband because he is my greatest supporter.
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I’d LOVE to go, and get help with my kids clothing patterns… I know how to draft and design, but not how to market myself…..
I spend my days trying to create and bake! Taking my big sister Missy with me to the events would be a great way for us to learn to take our abilities to a new level!!!
I want to start my own sewing business. I would LOVE to come to this conference to get JUICED up for it! I would bring my super creative boyfriend with me, who has been helping b\put my business plan together. This would be just the thing I need to get me started down this road! Thanks for the chance to win, yay!
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I would love to go to The Creative Connection Event!! I can’t even imagine how inspiring it would be, how much fun I would have and all of the amazing women I would get to meet – total dream come true!
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If I read the rules the right way, for the five entries for blogging about the giveaway we have to leave five comments? So this is the second for my blog post. :) http://mebeingcrafty.com/2011/creative-connection-sept-conf/
Would love to come and learn more – been blogging for a while but am limited in my knowledge and would love to learn more!
Would probably bring my good friend and neighbor who is also a “once in a while” blogger. It would be just great fun together – it’s rare we get to talk without our children around! :)
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I would love to go! Any chance to get out of the house! It would be amazing to get some creative tips for my home sewing business. I would probably bring my Mom, I learned by watching her craft over the years. What a fun girls trip!
Whatca dream come true to win this amazing gift. To have the opportunity to be inspired by the best would be life changing. To experience this with my dear friend Amy would be just what I need.
I would absolutely love to win this trip and I would bring my sister along with me :)
I would love!!! to go to this event. I want to start my own business. I’m not sure on marketing, how to promote or even how to start. For me this all would be a learning experience that is much needed! I need to learn how to sew, how to make jewelry, and how to become unique and creative. The would just be a great opportunity for me and my husband (who i would be bringing with me). He is behind my one hundred percent and this would just help him be able to support me and understand why crafting and making things is what i want to do with my life.
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I would love to attend BlogHer Handmade to be inspired by amazingly talented women as I venture into my own business.
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I tweeted @paperparade and will definitely blog about this. I would love to attend! The opportunity to connect with other passionate creatives is very exciting. I would bring a creative friend *Kelly who I would love to see be inspired to start her own business.
I would like this on Google+ coz FB has now lost the charm and craze. hire a web programmer
Hi & thank you for the generous opportunity! I’d love to attend w/ my friend Jill…we’re both rather creative souls (Jill is amazing!!); & LOVE surrounding ourselves among other beauties. I’m thinking this is just THE place to be where creativity, sharing & inspiration abound (hello, eye candy!)….being immersed in that energy would give us both a wonderful lift while recharging our spirits as the last few months have been spent processing some emotionally challenging issues…different for each of us; yet, I feel strength & courage giving us each new wings!
Many blessings ~H♥~
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I would Love, love love to win this!!! It would make my oh-so-crafty mama soo very happy, and I’d do anything to get away and get the old creative juices flowing!
Thank you for the chance to win this most generous gift. I’ll be 62 this August, and after raising teenagers-2 adopted Russian sisters, I NEED a just for me time, and what a place to be! Thanks again
I would love to go, I like to learn and see all the new stuff when it comes to being creative. I would probably take my Hubby as the only time(s) I’ve been in or near St. Paul has been with him, so Minnesota is kinda special for us. He’s got a bit of the creative bug in him too, just leans a little more to wood & paint/stain than paper & yarn (me)!
I would love to attend this event! I’m a SAHM of two little boys and crafting is my outlet. I would love to be immersed in it for a weekend, learn new techniques, and soak in lots of wisdom. I would bring my sister with me. She has the crafting bug as well and has been hosting a “Doodle and Stitch” group once a month at her house. She would love it!
Wow!!! I would absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE to win!! Last year I attended the launch for Where Women Cook in NY and just being in a room with all that creative energy was truly amazing! I could only imagine it would be that much better at these 2 events. I would take my friend Karen because she has been my right hand person on many of my creative projects including my own DIY wedding!! She really deserves it.
Amazing is the WORD…it would be AMAZING for me to win tickets etc to The Creative Connection in Sept. Soaking in the knowledge of the speakers & workshops – the inspiration from listening to everyone and the joy of meeting other people who love and work in the creative field – is EXACTLY what I am needing. Who would I bring? My lovely daughter, who is also an aspiring artistic talent and has just had her 2nd baby and NEEDS a uplifting, inspirational and knowledgeable escape to get back on track with her work! AMAZING and AWESOME are the words for such a great contest and I thank you for the opportunity to win!
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I work full time at a boring desk job and design jewelry on the side. The jewelry designing is my passion and would love to experience the workshops to enhance my skill for jewelry designing! I would take with me Jamie. She is my best friend and also has a passion for jewelry designing.
I would LOVE to attend the Creative Connection in September because I believe that the speakers, attendants, and all of the activities would inspire me to learn more techniques and ways to incorporate creativity in each day—whether it is decorating, sewing, working with multi media projects, cooking for my family—-what a truly wonderful event! And I would love to bring my sister with me as she has just retired from teaching this year and she is extremely creative — so I believe that this will inspire her to pursue her creative dreams! I know that she has so much to give back to the community and will encourage others to create, too! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity! What a gift!
I would love to go to Creative Connection! I have been trying to find a way to start my own creative-based business for some time while working full time. I think being around such amazing, creative women I would be able to figure it out! I would absolutely take my crafting BFF with me….oh we would have so much fun soaking up all the knowledge!!!
This conference looks so exciting and I would love to go. As a mother of three, ages (14),(8), &(3), I have been a stay at home mom who has never been away from my kids. So after 14 years of 24/7 of kids, I am in desperate need of a break. I have truly lost myself in my children and would love to spend the weekend with creative women and learn again about stuff I like. I love photography and decorating and would love to meet professionals in those areas. I don’t know who I would bring, but Im sure I could find someone.
I’ve recently started hand stamping on metal for jewelry creations. I’m obsessed with copper now days. I’d love to take some more business workshops and meet other creative people. I saw some awesome workshops I’d love to take. I’d bring my pal Rosy with me. We sit at work and talk jewelry all day while we work away at our computers. lol
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Oops, this was an option for a different contest with Patty Young. Count it as an entry for “blogging about your event instead.” I still only have the limit of ten entries. Didn’t win the sewing pattern bundle, but am keeping my fingers crossed for the two free passes.
Oh what a great opportunity! I would take my lovely sister-in-law if we won! She is one of the most creative people I know and how happy I’ve been to finally have someone in my life who “gets it”! She (and my brother) just told me that they want to move to her native country Mexico. Oh dear! I’m not sure when this is going to happen, but the first thought I had was that I need to get away with her to something just like The Creative Connection! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to attend because
a. It’s my birthday too (September 15) and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate and
b. I live to craft!!!
I would take my 90 year old mom cause she was the inspiration for my crafting obsession!
Once I saw that Ashley English was teaching a class on canning, I knew I just HAD to try to go! I’d love to spend some time with some crafty people doing what we love most! I’d bring my mom–she lives kind of far away from me now, and would absolutely love to go on this adventure with me!
I love making art and other crafty endeavors. I just need help making everything mesh together in my life. Attenting this event will help and honestly I can’t afford to go.
Also, my 40th birthday is August 30th, so winning would be a belated gift!
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would be squealing with delight if i were to win!!!
i try to keep my eyes & mind open to being inspired daily. HOWEVER< being surronded by creative women, ideas & their passions sounds simply amazing. i would hands down take my cousin to the conference with me. we started our blogs together 3 years ago & it would be a thrill to take her along with me.
thanks for the opportunity!
kellie
Oh. My. Goodness!!!! I would SO love to go!!! Ever since I first heard about this wonderful event..like last year!!! I’ve dreamed of it. And, from the looks of it, so have over 800 other people! LOL I used to do craft shows, and stopped. But my love for handmade has never waned. So I have a (small) etsy shop. I am so thrilled when I find out there are others who share my passion and can only dream of connecting with them. (very few ’round these parts!)
I would take Tammy in Texas. I’ve never met her, but she is a crafter, scrapbooker and a really nice person. She has been so sweet and helpful with my blog that I’d love to repay her by taking her with me (and finally meeting her!)
Thanks for the opportunity!
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Thank you so much for this chance…I would love to attend to learn, to connect and to grow as a creative lifestyle blogger and a brand!!! I need to attend because the opportunity to network is amazing….all my friends are coming and the teacher/speaker list is off the charts amazing!!!
I would offer a giveaway on my blog for the other ticket. That way I don’t have to choose and the ticket will get into the hands God intended it to be in. If I am fortunate enough to win…I will pay it forward to another creative soul!!!
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I would love to attend this event, but free tickets are the only way right now. I am self-employed and working hard to follow my dream of making finished jewelry. I can use all the help I can get, am hungry for information! If I won I would take Ms. Shelly who works with me. She also is an aspiring Jewelry artist, is very hard working and can also use all the information she can get ahold of to help make her business a success. Here is my Twitter link: well, at least to my twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/bellomodo
I am keeping my fingers crossed!
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I am at a point in my home-made business where I need some serious advice/guidance/general inspiration to be able to proceed. I can never afford to attend events like this, but free passes/accomodations would sure make it possible! If I win, I’d either bring my sister or mother-in-law, both of whom are just as crafty. :)
I’m turning 40 in Sept and this is my birthday present to myself! The expense it going to be a lot out of pocket and I’m going alone. My passion is to create. I was born to create….it’s in my blood. I’m hoping to find my inter-self. I want to come home renewed, inspired, and ready for whatever it is that God has in store for me. I love the Where Women Create magazine and found out about this event from it. As soon as I saw it I’ve been obsessed with attending and realized this is ME!
If I could bring a friend I would choose someone that could never afford to attend and would need to pray about what person that would be. Someone who would encourage me and already sees my potential. Maybe someone who would be interested in starting a business together? (or not) I am attending by myself and it’s kinda sad to celebrate your birthday when you don’t know anyone so that would be a great reason to take a friend.
I’ve had a blog for about 3 years sharing my creativity and have begun to get a lot of followers. I want to learn more about blogging and how to get more traffic and how to turn it into a business. I have no training (self-taught) at all and look forward to learning. I feel like there is so much out there I’m missing.
Thanks for taking the time to read my story. My fingers are crossed but know there may be someone out there more deserving. I will persevere no matter what. I’m just so excited to be a part of such an amazing group of people, people like me. I just know this is the thing that will motivate and get me going in the right direction.
Can’t wait! See you in Sept for my Bday present to me!
Christie Daugherty
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As you can see from all of my entries, I am fervently wishing to go to the Creative Connection event this year, especially since it’s in my home town! And I would bring my dear friend Tracy (www.sellabitmum.com) with me!!!
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Oh my goodness what a great give-a-way. I would love to go for all the creative inspiration that is sure to be there, My mojo left home and I’m trying to find it so I’m sure the event would help me a great deal.
I’d have a hard time picking from my crafty friends but I’d probably choose an old friend I haven’t seen in a long time so we could catch up and be inspired at the same time.
Thanks so much for a chance to win something I could never afford to do on my part-time, reduced pay check.
Take care,
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I would love to win this trip because it would be a great opportunity for my mom and I to get together (she lives thousands of miles away from me) and do something we both love, craft. My mom is my best friend and has been since high school. Moving away was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I rarely get to see her so this would be a perfect opportunity for us!
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My friend Pam and I have always talked and are always creating and brainstorming things to sell. This would be so helpful to us and give us the push we need. Oh and she’s the one I’m bringing if I win!!!
who wouldn’t want to go. I have a great friend who loves to do handmade weddings with me. We creat everything from scrach for each bride so that its all to her likeing.
My mother and I are dreaming of going to this conference for some huge encouragement in getting our pattern publishing off the ground!!
Although I’m almost 60, I continue to learn and grow. I would love to come and bring my daughter, whose daughter was born in Minneapolis, to reminisce as well as pick up tips, etc. on decorating her brand new house. Thanks for offering us the chance.
I would so love a chance to win! I would bring my best friend. Let’s just see it’s been the second worst year of my life, and I need a chance to change it! :-)
Have fun at the event everyone!
What a great opportunity this will be for someone!!! I would love to go because I love blogging and I love to be creative. And I would take my handsome and wonderful husband :-) because he puts up with my blogging obscession, lol.
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I would love to attend with my faux sister, Marion. We grew up together sewing and crafting and making something out of nothing. We have known each other since we were 5 and 7. (i was five.) Neither one of us have started a blog due to lots of obligations but I would love to and this would be just the push I need. And we both will find the classes inspirational for all our creative projects.
I would love to attend this conference! I have been a crafter/baker/creator forever … started blogging recently and need help! If I won, I would bring my friend, Gwen, we have been creating and crafting together for many years. If Gwen can’t come, I would bring my hubby … who has tolerated my crafting for 38 years.
I would love to go and learn from all the creative people in blog world. I love to see what everyone is doing on their blogs, it gives me inspiration for my own home. I would take my mom, she helps me with my projects and helps me get them finished.
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I am constantly creating new crafts an baking. I would love to be around other like minded people. The sessions all look like things I am interested in especially the creating your own business etc. I would bring my mom with me as she is the reason I have always enjoyed creating.
I have to agree with my faux sister, Ana B. Winning tickets to come to The Creative Connection would be great for both of us. We always love to go places together and when there are creative activites that we can do together, that is just the frosting on the cake. Thanks so much for this opportunity.
Both myself and my DH are disabled and love doing crafts to keep us busy. And the more we learn the more fun it is. To be able to go to this event would be just plain awesome. That alone is a good reason. And I would definitely take my husband. He likes to work with wood and my crafts (sewing, quilting and more) sometimes combine together. Right now he is working with jewelry. So much fun! How fun that would be for us to be able to go together!
I LOVE Jo and anything she touches is GoldeN! I can’t really afford to come this year but winning the trip would be so sweet! I never win anything BUT if I did, I would either bring my BFF Cindy who has never been to a creative event or my new BFF Carolyn who is super talented. Fingers Crossed!
I would so love to go to the creative connection event. I have wanted to go for so long, I just think the atmosphere, the people and the opportunity to learn would benifit my creativity as I try to turn it into something that will support my family . I live in Arkansas, so it’s a long way to go, that plus paying for the event and hotel would be more than I could come up with being a mother of 3 children. I’m usually thinking on ways I can give all my money to them and when I don’t think it up they do the thinking for me, LOL. This opportunity would mean the world to me and being so close to my birthday I could use this as my birthday wish.
-if I was selected to go I think I would take a fellow mixed media artist that lives in my town. Wanda and I haven’t met in person yet but she is an artist who blogs and through our blogs is how we found eachother. I know she would be thrilled to go to this event and would love the opportunity to meet other artists as well. It would be a fabulous way for us to get away and get to know eachother face to face. So far it’s been computer screen to computer screen. Wanda is also an artist who sells her work to support her family and would benifit for the business knowledge as well.
I’ve been struggling for some time trying to figure out how to get my artwork out there and how to get a business going that focuses on my creative talents. I’ve been published, my most recent art work is on the cover of Sew Somerset magazine. I just don’t have the knowledge that I believe I could gain at this event, that coupled with the amazing inspiration that I’m sure just hangs in the air there, I think, will be the boost I need to move forward.
Please choose Wanda and I. We would be more greatful than you could imagine, and we have blogs with lots of followers as well as Facebook pages and creative contacts all over the web to get the word out.
Thanks so very much for this opportunity! Looking forward to coming to “The Creative Connection”! :)
Thespa
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This would be a opportunity of a lifetime. I am currently recreating my life, finally allowing myself to use my artistic creative skills by blogging and joining Manufacturers Design Teams. I want to bring it to a new level and this event would give me this push and information. My life long best friend would be who I would take. We have a dream of starting a creative company together.
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Attending the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event would be the perfect way to jump start our handmade soap business. We have taken a three-year hiatus while my business partner’s daughter underwent 2 open heart surgeries (4 months and 3 years old). We are ready to get creative again! I would be taking my business partner and best friend with me. She deserves a break and creative inspiration and we have so much fun together!
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I have several creative blogs and I plan to post on all of them to get the word out! This is such a worthy event!
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The obvious answer is for inspiration and stimulation! Imagine being with all those creative people an being able to bounce ideas off one another. I would take my daughtrer or my best friend…whichever one is available that day. Perhaps my stitching buddy from Stitchmap…..can yuou bring people in from 2 different locations?
thanks for the opportunity….
I had a birthday this past week & I would be SO BLESSED to win this trip for a belated ‘celebration’ of sorts. I would take my sweet sister. We are close & we miss our crafty mother who is in Heaven, still inspiring us. Here’s what I want to leave with: We’d love the chance to enjoy this yummy ‘craft confection’,
We would appreciate the trip to the CREATIVE CONNECTION!!
Grace, peace & thanks in advance – Julie Henderson :-)
t would be the inspiration I need to give the Blog word a try.I have always wanted to, but just am too nervous to try.
I have been following Creative Connection for months wishing I could go to this convention. Due to the poor economy there is just no way. So, I have been hoping there would be all kinds of posts on your blog about it so that I could live vicariously through the lucky people who did get to go. If you pick me, I will soak up every minute and count it as a blessing. If not, I’ll continue to hope that there’s lots of crafty goodness on your blog during the convention for those of us unfortunate enough not to attend this year. Crossing my fingers!
Liz
I’m working on getting my own creative business started and blog going and need ‘HELP”. It has been to long since I had my own business, and it wasn’t a creative business, so I could really use the help. Also, my daughter just started her own creative business and has just jumped out there and started doing it, and I think that it would be incredible if we could both go and learn how to learn new skills and business ideas that would increase our business into the next level. To have the advice and direction of this level and expertise would be most exciting. I am presently trying to re-start the 2nd half of my life and actually do what I want to do and have the fun that I’ve always wanted to have in my career so to be able to win these tickets would be like a dream come true. Thanks for giving us all a chance to win. Best of luck to everyone and many blessings to all. The best is yet to come!!!!
I desperately want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event because I would REALLY LOVE to meet all of the awesome bloggers that I read! I would choose to go with my friend Amber (http://grace2be.xanga.com/). She moved to another country last fall and I miss her! Plus she is SO good at meeting new people! :)
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A little over a year ago my husband and I found out that we were going to be stationed in Ramstein, Germany for the next three years . The move was particularity tough for me and during this time I lacked any and all creative motivation ( and my studio, because it was floating in the Atlantic Ocean for two months). Thankfully, my creative funk was flushed down the drain when my mom introduced me to the Where Woman Create blog. The daily motivation, tutorials and of course BlogHer has kept me up with the latest, and makes me feel much closer to home. I would make the trip back to the states to bring my mom…because she is not just my mom, but my best friend and my creative partner in crime. There isn’t a day where we do not Skype each other to discuss project ideas . She is always sharing with me something new she finds on where women create! I miss her so much and would love this opportunity to be with her to share this once in a life time creative experience!
Attending this event would be the opportunity of a lifetime for me. I have loved to create my whole life. As a child, I’d craft under my covers at night using the light from a flashlight. (I was supposed to be asleep, mind you….) As I got older, I continued to craft to relieve the stresses of everyday life, and found that it was a good side income for me and my young family. When my children were little, I spent many nights up late making custom-designed rag dolls for my customers. I ended up sewing over 1,000 of those dolls….and that was before we had the internet.
These days, all of my children are grown, with my youngest graduating from high school this past May. I still craft at every available opportunity. I still have a “normal” job but I craft my heart out in the evenings and on the weekends. After years of passing up events like this so I can be in the area for my children, I now have the freedom to be able to travel from home without upsetting the apple cart.
I would like to branch out and mingle with others who create for a living. It’s my dream to be able to create as a full time job and it would be awesome to network and learn how others did this for themselves. I’m still working on getting my first book published and would also like to pursue having my own product line.
I would bring a a local artist friend from my community, Thespeona. She also lives in my town. We met through blogging and have yet to meet, although we are planning to get together soon. Thespa – like me – has been doing this for many years. We’ve both had some exposure through having our designs published in books and magazines, but we’d like to take it to the next level. The Creative Connection would be a fantastic opportunity for Thespa and I to spend some quality creative time together while networking with others in the arts and crafts and blogging world.
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I would be thrilled to attend this event with my favorite middle daughter and canning partner, Marissa. We are very different individuals but we are best buddies when it comes to scouting new venues, food, books, and treasures both new and old. She visits our country “homestead” regularly and helps me with my garden, chickens, canning, baking and cooking. In turn its fun to visit her vintage urban apartment and see the city. It would be great to turn our hobbies and passions into a successful business and share with others.
Oh I can name 100 reasons I would LOVE to attend. Ill start with “can you imagine how fun it will be to get such creative ideas from such creative people. I would love to bring my daughter. She is very much my friend and we seem to draw creative fun from one another. Please pick us for this fun and creative time…
Julie
I want to learn from the best creative bloggers on how to continue to grow my creative blog and business. I was supposed to attend a creative blogging conference in April, but due to my Grandfather’s sudden passing, I wasn’t able to go. I’d love to be able to bring Jenni Carlisle from Carlisle Clan because I want to meet her in real life!
I want to attend the events because i know my mind, spirit and soul will be blown away by the creativity, and the knowledge. I would take my best friend and partner in crime Wendy! Why would i take Wendy because the inspiration would change her life.
Why wouldn’t I want to attend!??? I know I would be inspired beyond my wildest dreams! I would be feeding my creative soul, and I would take along my artsy buddy, Lily, so we could create together without the demands of our boys! Oh, I hope, hope…hope we get picked!
I would love to win tickets to TCC. I have been in business (art and jewelry) for several years and feel I am at a point where I need to ‘KICK IT UP” a few notches. I think this event will motive my creativity and help me focus on the future of my business. I will bring my friend Laura, who is a wonderful and creative person. Thanks for a chance to win tickets for this wonderful event.
Melissa Pelz
I would love to go! I am a quilted, sewer, knitter, and jewelry maker! I would so love to be around all that creativity and it would be a great break from my non-creative job in IT. I would bring one of my best friends that shares my creative pursuits!
I would love to attend…I love to spend time learning new ways of doing things or just somthing new too and this would be a great place to do that. If I win I would take my sister, she is so talented and such an inspiration to me.
I’d love to win this getaway. I need to jumpstart my creativity and I would take my best quilting friend, Pat with me.
Pick me, pick me. Please!
I’m beginning a new business creating jewelry and would love to be inspired, creative sparks! I would take my Mom who is really crafty and would adore going to this with me.
Janelle
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I would bring my mom with me, she was making clothes, blankets and canning since I was little, now as an adult I wish I paid more attention!
Ohhhh how fun!!! This is most exciting and I would love to have the opportunity to join a multitude of creative people and absorb the energy. I have always created and would love to learn how to get my goodies to the world. I would also love to learn new ideas and feast on the inspiration. I would bring my favorite creative gal Beth. We always are inventing new ideas. So Fun!!!
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Well, I am only going to be commenting once as I am not the most ‘literate’ of computers, and I do not tweet nor do I facebook…that being said, the person I would bring is my mom. She and I both have very ‘creative spirits’ and we seem to be drawn to the same things! I do not get to see her, though, more than once very five years as she lives in Minnesota and I live in Idaho. I am blessed to be able to talk with her a few times a week, and we share ideas back and forth through the mail and I would say she’s my biggest fan of all the ‘creative juices’ that flow. Truth be known, she’s the one that started those years ago when she signed me up for Home Ec Sewing to give me something to do in the summer. I have never been able to afford to attend any workshops, as they are never offered in North Idaho and travelling any distance would be near impossible what with the economy nowadays, not to mention my husband is now unemployed after 21 years at the same place! **I will try to get a link to your page so others know about this but I can’t promise! Give me paper and glue, I can do just about anything. Computers? Not so much!!**
Well, I joined the Where Bloggers Create Party this year, and “met” Karen Valentine through an e-mail…I would LOVE to win a trip to hear her and the other wonderfully creative, inspiring women speakers. I would bring my friend Amy from Tennessee with me- we met through blogging and just spent a week together here in Louisiana. This would be the trip of a lifetime, and I’m praying for the opportunity :)
I would love to attend the Creative Connection. My creative desire is present, but the motivation is stalled. I would come with my best friend of 39 years whom I have not seen in a very long time. It would be lovely to share this experience with my dear friend.
Why would I want to come? Why would I NOT want to come?? I’ve heard about this amazing conference and I’d like to be part of the action! I’m a new blogger and would like to pick some people’s brains. I would bring my wonderful friend, Linda, who is also a blogger. The fun we would have, and the information we’d learn, would be insurmountable!!
I would love to be chosen to attend the Creative Connection Event because a) It would be my 1st of creative conferences that I’ve had the chance to go since I’ve been a baby making machine ;) b) I need to be inspired and motivated and c) I REALLY REALLY want to meet all of these SUPER DUPER FANTABULOUS folks that are going to be there!! Who would be the lucky person to go with me if I win and why?? Well, that would have to be my super talented and creative, not to mention totally adorable best friend, Kristen. We’ve been besties for 20 years, but have lived in separate states for 20 of those and only get to see each other every 3 years or so. :(
TCC or Bust! I can’t begin to go into how wonderful attending TCC will be, the speakers, the classes, the comraderie! I’m already overwhelmed at the magnitude of it all! For a fledgling crafter such as myself this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get such a wealth of knowledge from so many experts, who wouldn’t want to attend?
I would bring my husband with me. For so many years he has put me and my ambitions ahead of his own and I know this could be the kick-start he needs to get back into the painting, drawing, and creating that attracted me to him in the first place! I couldn’t think of a better friend to share such an inspiring weekend!
This would be like a wish come true. I would bring my Sister in Art, since she emailed me the same day that I emailed her saying….We MUST go to Creative Connection next year. Neither of us had the budget to do it this year, so what a wonderful surprise and opportunity this would be! So, I am leaving the link on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/isellduncan), my twitter page (http://twitter.com/isellduncan), and my blog, (http://www.foxhollowtales.com).
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I would love to come to the conference and I would bring my friend Gretchen, who is a blogging mom I’ve known for years!
I want to attend The Creative Connection because the most inspiring crafty business ladies in the industry will be there. I want to meet them and all the other sparkly souls bouncing around the convention!
I would take my friend Melody with me. She is a fellow yarn enthusiast.
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I am ready to start my crafting/blog adventure but am not sure exactly where to begin! Blog? Etsy? Business name and cards? Oh, what I would give to chat with chat with these talented ladies and begin my dream! Of course I would take my crafting mentor, AKA, Mom to this event! Please, please with sugar on top!
I would love to go to Creative Connections because I am an artist finalizing plans for my own blog and I have been at work on a series of childrens’ books I am writing and illustrating. I am also researching the blog world and its impact on creating community and economic sovereignty as part of my thesis in Art Education. I would bring a fellow artist who is a phenomenal mixed media artist.
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I wd LOVE to attend the most creative event of the YEAR! Everyone needs their MOJO boosted and what better way than
this fabulous meshing of like minds and creative talent! REALLY! I wd love to bring my BFF who happens to be the most creative person I know! What a wonderful trip this wd be! PICK me!
I’d love to attend to find the wonderful inspiration that others give me. And of course to meet some of the lovely bloggers that I read all the time! :D I’d have to bring my sister, since we did start this journey of craftiness together.
I would take my best friend and sister Mary who says she’s not creative, but she is in her own way -just needs some inspiration. I would want to go to fellowship with so many dynamic and innovative women who inspire us all to create. Kelly Rae Roberts, Leigh Standley, Donna Downey and so many more.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to attend this! I’m just starting my website and it would be so fun to meet everyone else that goes :) I would take my best buddy Shea with me! P.S. its totally on my birthday so wouldn’t that just be the BEST bday ever!
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WOW!!! Would SOOO love to win this!! Me and my BFF, Jeannie, would have a blast there. So much cool stuff to learn!!
Creating has always been a part of my life and running my own business, creating for others has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I have for what seems a lifetime been trying to get things up and going, but life always seems to get in the way preventing me from going full steam. Thank goodness my passion, perseverance, along with the support of my family and friends always seems to win out. Attending the Creative Connection could help me learn valuable information that could help grow my business, channel my energies in the right direction and along with the fact that it would be just cool as heck! I would definitely bring my mom. Even though both her and my oldest daughter have always been such a strong support system and source of strength for me, my mom and I recently have been dealing with a situation that has been life changing in many ways and feel that this would be a good and inspiring experience. And well, we both love to create!
I would take my friend Tina, for sure. We’ve been talking about going for two years now, but finances hold us back.
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I would take my friend Nici— she is an amazing, crafty entrepreneur and I would love to go with her. OOOOOooooohhhh. Pick me oh, random-number-generator……
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Ladies, I lost my wonderful husband 15 years ago. To keep busy and take care of my family I opened a small tearoom. I have used and loved Susan Branch’s recipes for many years. It is a life dream to see her. After so long,I feel I’m finally getting myself back. I’m starting to enjoy the things in life I did before my lost. I would be bringing my daughter, she also enjoys cooking, home and gardening. Plus August 5th is my birthday. If you all pick me, it would be so appreciative!! It would be something special to look forward to. Thanks
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My sister (Susieharrisblog.com) and I create lots of things and of course we LOVE road trips.
It was nothing for us to see a blog about Round Top Texas and next thing you knew we were on our way.
We traveled all the way from Louisiana to Washington state to attend the faboulous Farm Chicks Show.
This would be a great reason for us to hit that open road again.
Of course we would keep our blog, twitter and FB friends up on every exciting moment!!
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Thanks for this great offer! I would love to come to the Creative Connection to learn from all the inspirational teachers and speakers at the event–it is such an amazing opportunity. I would bring my good friend Jill as she is my most creative friend and I know she would LOVE it!
I would love to win the passes to the Creative Connection because this year there are so many designers and educators that will be presenting. I would be bringing along a friend from my quilt guild that loves creating just as much as I do.
I would be honoured to attend The Creative Connection ! I am in the process of opening a small market booth to sell antiques, linens, handmade gift tags and cards, old silverware, etc. I do have confidence in myself and my abilities, however, I know attending such a great event would only increase my confidence in myself – seeing all the wonderful women who have paved the way, women I admire and have read about on so many great blogs….I think it’s great that these events are held so women everywhere can come together and share not only their knowledge, but their wisdom and experiences, good and bad, so that we can support each other in our ventures and take away wonderful memories to boot! I would invite my beautiful sister along, as she has always been there for me, so supportive and encouraging, and always wants the best for me, even if that means telling me things I don’t want to hear. To me, that is real love between sisters. Thanks for holding this giveaway and I’m sure whoever wins will have a great time and make many memories! ox
First, I have never won anything, and boy, do I enter!
Second, I have been to art school, and made everything from soup to nuts, hats to stained glass and chandeliers, and would like to meet others like me! I might bring A fellow hatter, Maryanne, or my friend who makes clothing from repurposed t shirts: Sardine. I will find someone to go.
thanks for the opportunity, I need a creative kick in the behind, and a vacation from stress. It’s been a tough year for everyone.
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The Connection sounds wonderful! I would love to attend to learn so many, many things I do not know, and I would take my hero, oneskeinwonderwoman, who truly is a Wonder Woman and has more creative connections than I can even dream of having some day.
Oh, I would love to go . . . . I’ve been dreaming about it ever since I first discovered the magical convention! I feel like it would be such a blast of inspiration and comraderie. If I were to go, I would pick either my mother or my good friend, Jen. Either would love it and would be so excited!
I would love to go to this creative event! It sounds amazing and inspiring and that’s what I need for my home based business. I would love to bring my sister Caroline because she is my BFF and my downline. I would love for her to be inspired as well!
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I always feel energized and inspired when I can be around creative people. I would bring my sister who is a creative artist who is amazing. She lives in Idaho and I live in Wisconsin! She is isolated and the time together would be a boost creatively for both of us!
I would love to come as an artist trying to grow my home business which includes – art work, Art workshops, and Online Art Classes – I would love to take Melody Ross as I think she is someone who has had success, lost it and most importantly risen above adversity.
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I need to go to this event because I have found myself in a creative black hole! I need inspiration, I need a kick in the patooski! The heat here in Texas has fried my little pea sized brain, HELP! If I am picked I will find:
H-Hugs filled with creative vibes and potential friendship
E-Excellent teachers and panel experts to guide me into something new and inspiring ideas
L-Lovely and smart contest panel experts who will see that I need H-E-L-P
P-Perfect opportunities to find new friends who will become a part of my creative life. It’s hard these days to find a kinship of friendship with people who have the same interests!!!
SO PICK ME! MY TEXAS FRITTER FRIED BRAIN NEEDS A BREAK!!! MANY THANKS-CINDY CRAINE
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If I can’t take Karen Valentine as my buddy I would take Amy Boland, a great photographer and super sweet person. She would be so much fun and she’s already registered!!!
I own a handmade business and just started a blog. I would love to attend this conference to learn and get inspiration from the best in our community! I would bring my very creative sister! Thank you!
I would love to win tickets. There are so many great classes offered. It would be so inspiring to be there. I would take my sister in law because she loves to create also.
I would love to win to be able to soak up the creative genius of all the artists and teachers that I KNOW will be there! I would bring a girlfriend that I know never gets away out of town, she’d have a blast with me! Susan
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I turn 40 that week, and what a great way to start it out with time with my best friend (my mom!) and with creative ideas and info from some incredible speakers. (my goal this year is to learn how to bake bread, so why not start at Creative Connections??) It’ll be a fresh start to a whole new decade!
I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and the Creative Connection Event.
Sounds like the main theme of the whole event is INSPIRATION, Inspiration, Inspiration with like minded creatives. We all can use this in our creative endeavors. I am also looking at setting up my own Blog and need some inspiration on how to get started on doing my own. I would love to bring my friend VF who is a creative at heart and is always looking for new inspiration to add to her creativity.
To absorb every second of every minute of every hour of each day at this breathtaking gathering would feed my creative soul. I’d bring my talented roomie of 30 years ago…fresh out of college she opened my eyes to a delightful handmade and homemade lifestyle. She’d already started a creative necktie biz at that point and her breads and pastas and pestos nurtured my sense of artistic possibility. Life has thrown some obstacles at us both, and a few days in the company of inspired kindred spirits would be a great way to rekindle that friendship of so long ago…
I would love to bring my daughter and be a part of such a creative event. We would walk away inspired and renewed…oh the possibility of it…
Reconnecting with former pleasures like quilting and jewelry making would really enrich my life. I would ask an old friend from Las Vegas, who I am in touch with online, to attend with me…..she loves all kinds of flower arrangement and home crafts!
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This program looks so inspiring–just what I need, some inspiration. I would probably take my sister with me. She and I love to inspire one another. This would be a perfect setting for us to inspire one another!
I started canning last year and have turned into a full-on canoholic. The people who love me keep asking me if I’m going to start selling jars instead of just giving them away and a few people have suggested that I start a blog. I was an aircraft mechanic for ten years before I started and have never been domestically inclined beyond cooking dinner. I saw a link here on Ashley English’s small measures blog and would love to attend her water bath class. Talking to other people who share this new found obsession would be an amazing learning opportunity. I would either take my mother, who is the most inspiring person in my life, and my friend Jo, who starting asking me about canning.
I would love to go to the Creative Connection. I have a blog and and up and coming quilt pattern business. If I could go I would take my good friend Marilyn. She has an organizing blog and is a published author, plus she is alot of fun.
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i want to go because i have so much fun cooking, blogging, crafting, etc. i would love to share ideas and be together with a bunch of people who share my interests. i would take a friend of mine with me because i am pretty sure she feels the same way!
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I would totally take my friend Katrina, because we would have SO MUCH FUN here!!
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Wow it would be wonderful to win this trip to the Creative Connection Event. My friend Shawn & I just started a business making handmade items in MT and we need so much help and inspiration to get us on our way! I’m sure this event is just what we need to get our business off to a “creative” start!! Blessings, Debbie
I would love to attend the Blogher handmade event + The Creative Connection because it would be very inspiring to get together with my people + craft + share + laugh. Most of my crafty friends are e-friends + to meet them in person + create together would be invaluable. I would take miss Amy Turn Sharp with me, because she is my soul sister + I would love to experience this event with her.
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I would love to attend the Creative Connection and BlogHer handmade, with my daughter, Ashlie. We both love to create, and I have watched her creativity blossom from drawing with crayons at age 3 to developing her own style as a young woman. She is the most talented person I’ve ever met. I have pursued creative endeavors for many years, while raising my family. I finally have a plan for my dream business, and would love to attend The Creative Connection, to learn and be inspired by the best and most successful creative entrepreneurs. I’ve read “Where Women Create” from the first issue, have been so inspired.
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I would love to attend Creative Connection because I have always loved different mediums of crafting and it would be great to expand my knowledge and jump start my inspiration! It would be also such a great opportunity to learn from the best as I start to lay out how to create my own niche in the crafting business. I would take my good friend Ashley because she is so talented and has recently started a small crafting business of her own. We would be ecstatic!
I would love to go to this coference! I would bring my best friend as we are both trying to get businesses going right now. I have a child who has som…issues and to be able to work around his schedule is the only way I can work. This would teach me so much!! I have been “crafting” all my life & still take classes to broaden my experiences….
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Oh my goodness, I’d love to win this! I’ve never been to a blogging conference, but would love to have the chance to meet other bloggers and learn some tools of the trade! And, of course, I’d bring my sister, BFF and blog partner Jordan with me! :)
I would love to attend the creative connection because I would love to meet the creative people behind this forum and learn to enhance my creativity. I will bring along a friend who is one of the most creative people I know.
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I would love to go to this because it will help me get more creative ideas. I would bring my sister or mom. Thanks
This event would be amazing to attend. I love the tickets. I’m sure I would be inspired to take my talents to the next level as a business I could do from home, while I raise my children. My mom, would love to come with me! Thanks!
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I’ve “dabbled” in creating my own craft business or many years but just haven’t been able to make the full commitment to doing it. I have no doubt, that given this tremendous opportunity, I would be fully motivated & commited & energized & excited & ready to hit the ground running.
I would bring with me my friend who is the most passionate crafter that I know – she lives to craft!
Attending this event would be spiritual nirvana for me, to be surrounded by so much creative energy and inspiration. I have a lot of unchanneled creativity within me just waiting to find its way out, and this conference offers so many opportunities to find my niche. I also have been in awe of Mary Jane Butters for years and the chance to see her in person would be a wish come true. I would love to bring my friend Pam who creates fabric designs and makes handmade bags for craft shows. And lastly, I have to admit that I was in Saint Paul for the first time last spring and just plain fell in love with the place! Who couldn’t love a place that has poetry in their city sidewalks? I want to come back to see more!!!
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I’ve yet to attend any craft conferences, and have only had the chance to attending blogging and cooking conferences. I’d love to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event to finally put faces to name and make real life connections. I’d take my friend, Sarah, from whiletheysnooze.blogspot.com. She’s a new blogger, and has never attended a blog conference. I know that she would get so much out of it along with make new friends. Plus she’s a working mommy of 2 and needs a break from her daily grind!
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I would be thrilled to attend the conference and be in the midst of such wonderful and talented ladies and speakers. I am a blogger newbie and would love to attend to learn and experience more of this blog world that I am falling more and more in love with every day! I would take my bestie who has also recently started a blog. I know we would have a blast!
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I am intrigued and inspired by the talents of entrepreneural women and would LOVE to take part in such a remarkable event! I’ve got several crafty friends that I’d like to bring…think I can pack them all in my suitcase??? ;)
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My sister and I both became bloggers this year. We would love to have the opportunity to attend a conference together!
I would love to attend this event! I am an avid baker who has dreams of one day owning my own bakery. I think this would be a great experience for me to gain a greater understanding of how to promote my baked goods. I would bring my mother along, as she’s the one who taught me the art of baking.
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I would love to attend this event in an effort to get back in touch with my creative spirit. I would bring my sister along and she would benefit from all the workshops geared toward owning your own business. Thanks for the opportunity!!
I would LOVE to start blogging on a regular basis and share some of my ideas in the blogging world. This opportunity would jump start my desire to blog. It would be difficult to choose, but I would choose my daughter to join me. We love being together and she is so talented! She would benefit from the trip too! Thanks for the opportunity!
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I would take my mom with me….she has passed on her talent and passion for making our house a home, she encourages me with my projects and loves to see what I’ve done! I want to come so I can meet the incredible ladies that I read about every day!
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I attended The Creative Connection Event alone last year and love, Love, LOVED every minute of it! I am hoping to bring at least two more people with me this year, my cousin Heather who has an awesome business she is hoping to bring to the next level, and my mom,a talented florist, decorator, can-make-anything-look-beautiful type of lady! Can’t wait!!
I want to attend this event because I am in need of inspiration! I’m planning my little girl’s 1st birthday party and I’ve hit a wall, but feel I need more ideas to put it over the top. Being around so many creative minds will have to soak into me a little. I would bring my mom, a 4th grade teacher, because creativity is oozing out of her and her work everyday. This would be a little bit like heaven for her :-)
I would love to attend. I am working hard to get my business up and going, and I could really use the info from all of your wonderful creative teachers. I would love to take one of my friends from my local modern quilt guild… if I win, it’s whoever jumps on that invitation first!
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I’d like to go because I LOVE handmade things, and would really like to market somethings I make (someday). I’d also like to go and meet some blog girlfriends I’ve met in the last few years. I’d 100% take my friend Carrie who lives in MN. and we’d get to meet AND get to go to a BlogHer event. She has a new baby this summer and she deserves a mini vacation!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this wonderful contest! I have always wanted to attend but never had the means. I haven’t even been able to go to a scrapbooking convention all these years. I have dreamt of going to a conference and joining in all the classes with others that would totally inspire me! The last 10 years have been so bad for me healthwise and now I am finally coming back to life. A getaway such as this would be a true gift. I would take my youngest daughter because she has the creative bug like me plus she could use a well deserved vacation!
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I’m an artist/entrepreneur and i juggle between producing my art, teaching creativity workshops, and now, I want to go online to do e-classes and create an awesome blog. However, Im a self thought entrepreneur, which translates in learning by mistakes, learning the long way and having to deal with lots and lots of set backs. I would love to have the opportunity to go to The Creative Connection, not only to learn from the experts to create my blog, learn new techniques, social media and creativity, but to meet colleagues that speak the same language that I speak: creativity.
I would love to take my sister in law with me because although she is an urban planner, she has been the most creative student I have ever had. She is all about problem solving and learning, she enjoys creating and gives 100% of herself to the process. She would be a great influence to me because she supports any of my ventures 200%.
This would be an absolute dream come true for me! Please pick me!! Crafting is my passion and I’d love to learn from these amazing women! I would bring my sister who is super crafty as well!
I want to come to be- creative of course and I hope to bring my friend Chris DeGrado with me to co-create
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I would LOVE to go to the Creative Connection to mingle with all the creative souls and awesome bloggers!! It would be a DREAM COME TRUE!!!! I would take my equally creative bestie!!!! We would be in HEAVEN!!!!
Thanks for a chance to go!!!!
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It’s a total shot in the dark but I’m going to enter! I’d love to be a part of this event. I’ve been blogging since 2007 and would love to take my blog to the next level. I’d love to connect wtih other bloggers in person – the ones who inspire me every day. I’d love to take my little sister who is incredibly hilarious and is dying to start a blog!
Creating has always been a part of my life and running my own business, creating for others has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I have for what seems a lifetime been trying to get things up and going, but life always seems to get in the way preventing me from going full steam. Thank goodness my passion, perseverance, along with the support of my family and friends always seems to win out. Attending the Creative Connection could help me learn valuable information that could help grow my business, channel my energies in the right direction and along with the fact that it would be just cool as heck! I would definitely bring my mom. Creating has always been a special part of our lives and it is something that continues to bring us closer to one another and to ourselves.
My birthday is September 16th so this would be a great gift for me… I would either take my mom or my friend Susan which both these ladies are so talented so I would have fun with either one of them.. Good luck everyone…
I would enjoy attending this event because crafts are that perfect way of squeezing art and creativity into your everyday, super busy life. I love being inspired by reading about other people’s creative ideas! If I were to win this contest I would bring my mom because she has always been an inspiration for me and our family. I don’t know how she did all the things that she did but she raised three kids, worked out of the home, and still managed to make all of her kids homemade outfits, backpacks, sweatshirts, cross-stitch, and make beautiful quilts all the time. She is certaintly an amazing woman!
Why you want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event and who you would pick to take with you and why.
I would love to attend because honestly I am so excited to learn new tech and craft information. I really want to begin blogging regularly once I start student teaching in the Spring of 2012-I think that a medium such as blogging will be a great tool to share my experiences good and bad, funny and sad, and for those who have previously student taught or are going to in the future. I would try to bring my mother because she likes making things and cooking things and needs to be a little more tech savy. However, she works two jobs and so if she could not attend I would bring another friend or family member.
I LOVE anything crafty and would love to attend. I would bring my BFF Katie. We have known each other for 25 years and live in different states. This would be a great vacay for us to catch up!!
Wow, why do I want to go….simple I’m addicted to all things crafty. It’s my passion and hopefully will be my full time income when our youngest enters school. I would totally bring my friend Michelle, we both need a crafty inspiration break!
Here is my blog post:
http://thecraftedsparrow.blogspot.com/2011/08/win-2-passes-hotel-to-creative.html
I AM STARTING IN BUSSINESS NOW.I LIKE TO SEW THIS IS MY PASSION I ENJOY IT AND ACROSS IT I MAKE MY CLIENTS SO HAPPY.I NEED THIS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF IDEAS AND I NEED TO KNOW THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT.THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN THE STRONG WOMANS CONQUER THE BUSSINESS WORLD,ITS OUR TIME. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ONE OF MY FRIENDS NAMED BEATRICE BECAUSE SHE IS IN BUSSINESS TOO.
http://thecraftedsparrow.blogspot.com/
Added the button to my side bar!
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Posted to facebook!
I’d love to go because there is nothing more energizing then to be surrounded by creative women. I want to learn more about taking my creative business to the next level!
http://twitter.com/#!/randglopez/status/98236382560002048
Here’s my tweet!
I would love to be surrounded by inspiration to kick-start a creative career. The time is right, now that my kids will both be in school for the first time. I would invite my friend and nieghbor to come with me. We have met every Friday for two years for sewing, painting, knitting, beading… all sorts of projects. Some great, some flops, all fun. And therapeutic. But now we would like it to be profitable as well!
I am thrilled to learn there is a convention dedicated to crafting! I would love the chance to attend, and winning this is the only way. I stay home full-time with my three wonderful children, and have just discovered the amazing world of blogging. All the inforamtion available is amazing! The opportunity to come to the Creative Connection to learn, connect and share would be such a gift! I would bring my mom, as she is very creative and my biggest supporter of starting a home cottage business. Thank you!
I would LOVE to go for an infusion of creativity! My cousin and I enjoy creating handmade art and incorporating with our antique finds, so I would take her too!
As a brand new creative business, I would take my business muse and best friend, Linda to get the knowledge side of running an interner based company. We have admired and followed so many BlogHer members for guidance and direction, it would be even more helpful to attend this unbelievable conference.
I would love to go because it would be a great opportunity to learn lots of new things. I’m particularly interested in self publishing. I would invite my friend Teri–we’ve conferenced (is that a word?) together before and had a great time!
I would love to attend this event because I have been making handmade leather journals for two years and I am just finding events and people on the internet to learn and get ideas from. I have never been to an event and know it would be valuable to me and my business, which is our primary financial support. I would invite my sister-in-law Jennifer Carter because she has been so supportive and also has a home based business and welcomes creative ideas.
I would be on cloud nine if I could attend this connection! As the mother of 5 year old triplets I don’t have the resources to shell out the fees needed to attend some of the amazing gatherings available now. Wow, to have the opportunity to meet, learn and share with all these talented people……..it would be life changing for me. I feel like I’m on the cusp of something great right now. I have the drive & I believe some talent, but I’m stuck on what to do next. I need encouragement and advice. To be around these women I admire who have walked this road ahead of me could turn my creative world around. If I won I’d bring my best friend Dawn of The Feathered Nest along. Dawn & I have some big dreams of joint ventures and this is the perfect place to come together to brainstorm and present some of our ideas. Dawn lives in a small town in GA. and being a mother to five sons has made it financially impossible to go to workshops and conventions. She would freak out if we won. What a gift it would be. Sorry so long!
I don’t tweet & don’t understand facebook too much (hum maybe this is another reason why I’d benefit from the event) but I have put the CC button on my blog & will ‘like’ it on FB.
I would love to attend TCC event! As a creative business consultant, I work with entrepreneurs and growing businesses by helping them articulate vision, learn business planning basics and create effective ways to present their businesses to market. I’d definitely take my mom with me – she runs a vintage furniture/home goods resale business and would love an inspirational few days with a group of likeminded folks!
I would love to come because this past year has been an absolute nightmare, and my blog/creative business has suffered because of it. I would love to be surrounded by all that creativity, talent and intelligent mindset of the event.
I would love to bring my friend close friend Juanita, she is one of my biggest supporters and also a super jewelrymaker as well.
I have a very creative friend that I would love to take to Creative Connection. I know we would learn so much and be so inspired. Please enter us in your giveaway.
My sister and I are from a long line of crafters! We’ve been to every craft fair imaginable but we would like to take it to the next level! We have talked about it for so long but that is all we ever did…talk. I have been researching how to get our product out there and ran across your conference and I know this would be an awesome opportunity for us! Thanks for the chance! Jennifer and Tammy
I’ve tweeted, put a link on my blog and blogged about the event.
http://barbesaintjohn.blogspot.com/2011/08/win-chance-to-attend-creative.html
I think the event would help grow my creative business immensely
I added the button to my side bar
http://barbesaintjohn.blogspot.com/2011/08/win-chance-to-attend-creative.html
I have my own cooking blog that I create home made dishes for my family and I’d love to attend a blogher event! I would bring on friend Melissa or Jenny, depending on which one is available! How fun that would be!
Helping spread the word about the event through my blog. I’m excited to see how many entries are on here, this shows how wonderful the event is!
http://barbesaintjohn.blogspot.com/2011/08/win-chance-to-attend-creative.html
Here’s my blog post (entry #3).
http://myveryeducatedmother.blogspot.com/2011/08/creative-connection-event-giveaway.html
I think this would be a fantastic opportunity to revitalize my muse! I think I’d bring along my super creative buddy who has been trying to get some of her projects out there.
Who wouldn’t want to come to this? To rub shoulders with some amazingly talented women is a guaranteed self esteem boost! Who would I want to take. Well, my answer might be a little different from everyone else’s. Instead of just one friend, I would like to bring a couple thousand. (vicariously..of course!) I am a contributor for a local Utah TV show, Studio 5. I would love the opportunity to share the experiences, the knowledge and the amazing people that I meet with all of the UTAH viewers via video!
http://studio5.ksl.com/?nid=34
I want to win this opportunity to jump start a new business restart. I have recently had to relocate my business and in the process lost all my customers as I have been relying on word of mouth. I am in a totally new place and I must look to the web now for customers. This would be such a great way to get started as I am totally overwhelmed! I would like to bring my beautiful daughter as she is just getting finished with collage and about to embark on her own venture. This is such a great opportunity for both of us!
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Button on my sidebar! Really, really hope I win!!
I want to attend BlogHer and The Creative Connection because I’m a new blogger starting out as a small fish in a gigantic ocean! I would love to meet other bloggers to connect with them in real life, rather than virtually. And maybe most importantly, it sounds like an amazingly fun time, and I’m ready to have some fun!
Oops…forgot to say who I would bring:
I would bring my bloggy friend Andi :) She is so lovely!
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I like The Creative Connection Event on FB via Release Me Creations!
oh how I’d LOVE to go to this event! I’ve never been to a blog-related conference before and would LOVE to soak up lots of inspiration, not to mention make some new blogging friends. I’d take my friend, Kara, a friend and fellow blogger because she has 4 kids (one with special needs) and has very LITTLE time to do anything fun for herself. She’d have a blast and I know I would too! Thanks so much for the chance!
Button is on my Blog!
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I tweeted about this giveaway- I’m MKMathews
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Oh my goodness! I would love to win a pair of passes to CC and BlogHer handmade! I love creating my handmade items but I still have so much to learn! I’m always asking for advice from fellow creative crafters on twitter. This would open up my networking even further!
If I won, I think I would take one of my best online crafting friends. Then we could meet in person and talk even more about our shops and how to continue to build and grow. :)
I tweeted from @christa_jane
I “Liked” CC on facebook!
I want to win because I actually won a scholarship to TCC Event LAST year and had the best time ever. It was so inspiring and I met so many women who are now wonderful friends and there is nothing like it in the world. I think I would bring my friend Amy, who thinks she is uncreative, so she can learn the same lesson I did last year – creativity is about making things and we are ALL good at making something.
I would love to attend this event! It sounds like so much fun!
Oh my goodness! I would love to attend Creative Connection to meet other ladies with similar interests, to be inspired, and to just “recharge” myself. Thanks for the opportunity!!
I would love to attend and I would bring my dear friend Julie.
I just blogged all about it!
http://releasemecreate.blogspot.com/2011/08/creative-connection-2011-top-ten.html
I would love to go! I love to sew and have an Etsy shop, well 2 actually. I need a creative boost as it were with all the stress I have from my “real job” right now. I would bring my sister who is a Home Ec teacher in middle school. Yes, they still exist but are rare. She teaches sewing and cooking along with her own Etsy shop too. This conference is right out our alley! We don’t have the money to go ourselves.
I have owned and opperated my own decor and Antique Shop for 7 years. A little exhausted and burned out and broke, but can’t think of giving up. I need inspiration and a good kick of creativity. I am probably moving my store to a historic building. My customers say they love everything I do-But to keep doing it I need to be rejuvinated. Please rejuvinate me!
I would bring my Mother-she has owned her own businesses for over 50 years and she is my biggest supporter and confidant. Plus I just love spending time with her and we interperate everything differently so two sets of ears and eyes is always good.
I would like to attend to feed my creative soul but that is not the main reason. I read that you get two tickets and my second ticket would go to my friend Tausha who I met less than a year ago but who feeds my soul daily. She designed my living room and brings me joy anew each time I enter the room. She has so much to offer our community and I know she would grow from the exprience of “being there” with all those creative juices flowing. Please choose her. You will love her as I do.
I blogged.
http://redmittens.com/2011/08/01/the-creative-connection-event/
I would love the opportunity to see and hear what other artist are experiencing. Thanks for the chance!
I LOVE THE CREATIVE PROCESS. SPENDING TIME CREATING IS SO MUCH FUN AND IT LETS ME LIVE MY BEST LIFE! I WOULD LOVE TO ATTEND THE BLOGHERMADE AND THE CREATIVE CONNECTION WORKSHOP. I HAVE HAD A CHALLENGING FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR. I AM NOT WHINING BUT I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER,NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER AND WHAT EACH MONTH HAS TO OFFER ME. THE LAST FEW GAVE ME THE PASSING OF MY FIRST GRANDCHILD IN UTERO,( AFTER SHOPPING MYSELF SILLY WITH JOY FOR THE LITTLE BABY), A SERIOUS FALL AND A BROKEN FOOT(OFF WORK 6 WEEKS), THE SUICIDE OF MY SWEET BABY SISTER LISA,( SHE STRUGGLED WITH ALCOHOLISM) THE SUBSEQUENT DIVORCE OF MY SON,(LOSS OF A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW) AND NOW I HAVE FALLEN AND BROKEN MY FOOT AGAIN ONLY IN A DIFFERENT PLACE. OFF WORK WITHOUT PAY AND STRUGGLING TO MAKE IT.I VISITED WITH MY BROTHER AND HIS WIFE A FEW WEEKS AGO AND I WOULD BRING HIS WIFE LAURA. SHE LOVES TO CREATE TOO AND WE INSPIRE ONE ANOTHER. WISH WE LIVED CLOSER TO EACH OTHER- BUT THIS WORKSHOP WOULD BE A GREAT BLESSING OF SOME FUN AND A GIFT FOR US TO SHARE. WHO EVER DOES WIN IT I HOPE IT GIVES YOU GREAT JOY. BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL- AND KEEP ON KEEPING ON WITH YOUR CREATIVITY. IT BLESSES US ALL.
I would love just to see what all the people involved have come up with. I would bring my friend Heide, because we have been trying for, NO KIDDING, 5 years to make either a spring or fall “MOM’S ONLY” trip to Minneapolis, and I think it’s about darn time to put ourselves first in line! And tickets to an event would make it impossible to say, “Oh, maybe we’ll get to it next Spring….”
this is wonderful! i love the blog and i do want to come to the event!!
I would love to come to this conference to learn how to make my blog more dynamic and appealing to me readers. Believe it or not, I would bring my husband so he could gain more insight to this “blogging world” that I have decided to dive into!
I tweeted about this giveaway!
I liked Creative Connection on Facebook!
My business just turned 1!! It has been a great year, but I have sooo much to learn about connecting people to my business. I would love the opportunity to be a part of this event, all the creative energy and information would be just the boost I need. I would definitely bring my sister. She has been such a support, sitting with me at shows, listening to me go on and on about ideas, watching my daughter on a moments notice. And through it all, she is starting to catch a creative bug. She has 5 kids at home and could use a weekend away! I almost want it more for her than me! JK.
I liked Creative Connection on FB
After this summer with my husband needing a kidney transplant I would like a vacation to some place I would like to go to. I would be taking my mother she need a vacation too, she worries to much on if my husband will get better. Thanks
I would love to go to this event because:
I admire so many of the teachers and panelists, especially Holly from decor8, jenny holiday, and megan hunt!
I would take my 18 year old daughter to show her all of these creative women up close!
thanks :)
Oh how incredibly awesome it would be to win tickets to this event. I pined to go last year and am pining again this year. I have had the dream to have my own craft business for many, many years. I am now taking my first steps to make that happen and know that this event would be life altering. I would bring my friend Ann as she is a wonderful person who loves and inspires everyone she meets. She would love it!
Oh my how I would love this so very much. Please enter me for a chance at a win! I have you posted on my side bar and have fro the minute Elizabeth posted you!
I would bring my daughter who loves to create right along with me…We are shop keepers and make time daily to create and inspire passion to all who will listen.
Thank you for such a beautiful chance!
xoxo
Dore
Ok, here’s the deal. I am DYING to go to BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event!! But I’m not sure I could convince my hubby to take time off from work to watch our kids AND pay for me to attend. If I won a free ticket + hotel, I know I could convince him to let me go! PLUS if I could bring my bloggy BFF Jamielyn from I heart Naptime, I would be in heaven! Please please please pick me!!
thank you for the chance! I’ll be crossing my fingers, eyes, and toes. and my ears. haha
Linda
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Liked on FB as Craftaholics Anonymous
I would love to win this. One of the main reasons I would love to win and go is because I think it will be a great opportunity to meet some fabulous women, network, learn and have fun. Every year I plan out a certain number of things to do (based on my upcoming age) and one of them for this upcoming list is to really establish my business. I write this because my upcoming birthday is September 14th so this event will be a great starting point for this goal.
The person I would take with me is my mom because she’s awesome and we do most things together, like our business.
Thanks for the chance to win!
I “liked” you on FB
I also tweeted about this too!
To be given this opportunity to win passes to BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event is nothing short of amazing! I have pondered everyday how to work a way to attend and this seems to be my only hope. As my passion is to expand my hobby/business, I would love to learn anything and everything from your list of panelists and teachers If I won, I would bring with me my sister who is equally ambitious to fulfill her business dreams. We just both need that extra creative, legal and financial direction that this event looks sure to provide.
I am at the point in my life that now I can follow my dreams. My kids are grown it is just me and my husband.It is time to see if my art will be well received in a retail market. It is time to go for it :) I would bring my beautiful daughter she is a jewelery designer. She also has given us 4 beautiful grand girls that inspired me to start a children’s line of wall art. life is good !
I attended the Creative Connection last year and loved it. So many creative minds together, so much fun. My good friend Danielle and I are starting a business together and she would be the person I would choose to attend with me.
I’ve blogged about it as well. Good luck everyone!
http://melissaburford.typepad.com/burford_designs/2011/08/the-creative-connection-theres-still-a-chance-for-you-to-win.html
I would love to attend this convention! As a Home Economics (Clothing & Textiles specialist) teacher at an ALL girls school, my heart beats at little faster at the incredible opportunity and huge source of inspiration this would bring to my life and the lives of my students. My partner of choice is my husband – yes, the man who goes to the fabric / craft or home decor store with me in support of my creative talents and endevours. I can pay this forward to SEW may, hope to meet you at convention!
I would love to attend, I’m a creative person who is trying to be creative full time – as a business. I would take my friend and co-worker who values creativity and is lots of fun!
I would love to attend Creative Connection…..I own a small brick and mortar store , LolaRue & Company and would love to be inspired by this amazing group of creative people! I would bring my mother because she is the first person that inspired me to live a creative lifestyle !
I would like to go b/c I have been told that I am a highly creative, artistic person and this would inspire me greatly. I also really need a vacation/to get out of my house to go somewhere but cannot afford to. I also think this might help me to have my own business one day to get out of poverty and to learn how to make money using my artistic gifts, etc. I might bring my friend Sherry b/c she is fun and has creative interests herself. THank you for this opportunity to win.
Thank you for the exciting opportunity to win tickets! I have blogged about why I should win, and I’m hoping this isn’t random because I really believe it should be me:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
Best wishes from germany,
tj
Although your badge is a little too wide for my sidebar, I’m still proud to fly it!
http://www.studiomailbox.com
I apologize that I do not know how to adjust the format so it fits better…
Best wishes from germany,
tj
If I were lucky enough to win, I’d give the second ticket back to Creative Connection in order to choose another single winner! Since I don’t have any blogging friends in Minnesota, I don’t have anybody to take.
This is exactly why I want to win so badly, if I could attend — all that would change!
Best wishes from germany,
tj
My post on why I should win is here:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
Thank you again for hosting this generous give-away!!
2nd entry for the blog post:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
Danke!
3rd entry for the blog post:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
Danke noch mals!
4th entry for the blog post:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
Danke schon wieder!
5th entry for the blog post:
http://studiomailbox.typepad.com/tales_from_studio_mailbox/2011/08/the-creative-connection-st-paul.html
I hope making these additional entries was the right way to do this. I don’t want to be greedy, I just really want the chance to attend!
2nd entry for the blog badge
http://www.studiomailbox.com
Danke!
Shared your post on FB. Every time I check your FB page, I find another interesting thing! Sure would LOVE to come and just soak in all your amazing inspiration!
Need some inspiration and downtime with my sis-in-law!
I would be thrilled to win the opportunity to attend. I am especially interested in Mary Janes Farm day. I have been a fan of Mary Janes magazine for many years. I have always dreamed of taking a trip to Idaho to visit her farm. Visiting her in MN would a much more achievable goal, since I live in the midwest. I would love to take my cousin with me. We are both full time caregivers for family members and we both would greatly appreciate a few days just for us. Thank you for considering us.
I would love to attend to meet other creative women and learn to use social media more effectively. I would bring my super creative sister with me. Thank you!!!
I ‘like’ The Creative Connection on Facebook!
I would love to attend this event because I feel that I would be inspired by creatively conscious people who love fashion as much as I do and creating it. I would bring my fellow sewist Nancy because we both need to get on with the show and go into business.
I really, really want to attend vogue knitting day and attend one of Kristin Nicholas’ classes (embellishments). I would bring one of the gals from my knitting group. Or maybe my mom. I also would love to check out the other vendors and just be surrounded by creative spirits!!! <3
Liked ya on facebook.
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Blog post entry #4! I’m on pins and needles!
http://myveryeducatedmother.blogspot.com/2011/08/creative-connection-event-giveaway.html
I would love to start my own handmade business since I am a stay-at-home momma and I want to help with income but I don’t want to leave my son. So I think being able to go to this would be so inspirational and helpful in getting me on the right track in starting up a business.
I tweeted about the event on my twitter
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I like you on Facebook!
I added the button to my blog
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The button has been added to my blog
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I shared the giveaway via twitter! :)
Please count me in! If i win, I’d love to take my daughter who is undecided and at a stand still when it comes to deciding her future. I’d love to show her how her creativity can be her future. :)
I “like” CC on facebook!
Having the opportunity to attend CC, would be a dream come true!!! If I was to win, I would take my Crafty Mother N Law who luckily lives in MN. Crafting has not only saved, but has created a healthy mother-daughter -n- law relationship…and we know how tricky that type of relationship can be? CC would also be my last “hoorah”, as our Military family is moving in Dec. to a tiny island in the South Pacific w/ very little crafting resources . I have dedicated my life to volunteer work, by sharing my passion w/ children, Girl Scouts, PTA events, fundraisers, and so on. The resources, knowledge, and life experience I would take away for the CC journey would not further myself in a monetary business, but in the business of giving back. On the flip side my MNL would gain the motivation and understanding of how to further her crafting business. As a retired mother who raised 8 children, now is her time to shine!!! As for me, and volunteer work aside; being able to attend CC would be my “kid n a candy store” experience!!! Cheers~ Liza
I would love to experience this great show- I think I would learn so much- I know excetly who I would ask to go with me . It would be my friend Linda she is really into a lot of the internet craft sites and would love to go.
I would love to go to this event because it epitomizes the strong, smart, successful women that go out on a whim or a limb or hatch a plan and do what they are passionate about, what they are good at, and do what makes the world a bit more colorful, bright, and fun! I would love to learn, grow, and be inspired with all of these girls together in one place. I would take taradara of taradaramadeit because she and I met at c.c.e last year and we have been friends ever since. We love to listen and give support in this home made journey together. It would be such a sweet reunion!
I think that I would cry in awe of being among the women who have inspired me to do more with my ideas throughout the years. My friend, Sharon Herrell, and I have been talking of attending the event, but we can never get the funds to do it. Thanks for the opportunity to be one of happy ones to be a part of the connection!
Why do I wanna go? Because, as I said on my blog, I think I am going through a mid-life crisis & TCC is the ANSWER! I want to be around a ton of creative people who have made their passion their career & I want to learn as much as I possibly can from them so that I can make my little business that I share with my mom & sister a success. I believe that TCC has just what I need to kickstart things from the panels to the classes! It would be such a wonderful experience for anyone to go!! (But I hope it’s me! :D )
I know that if I were to win, I would have a hard time choosing between my mom & sis, but most likely it would be my sister because she is my best friend & we’d have a ball together!!
I super-duper blogged about it!!
http://mylaughingmagpie.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-pick-me-im-going-through-mid.html
#2 Blog post
http://mylaughingmagpie.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-pick-me-im-going-through-mid.html
#3 Blog post
http://mylaughingmagpie.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-pick-me-im-going-through-mid.html
#4 Blog post
http://mylaughingmagpie.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-pick-me-im-going-through-mid.html
#5 Blog post (sure hope you have a machine drawing the numbers! Otherwise you are all masochists for sifting through all this!!)
http://mylaughingmagpie.blogspot.com/2011/08/please-pick-me-im-going-through-mid.html
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oops, forgot the link with the blinkie
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Twittered about the free passes!
Thanks again for such an awesome opportunity!
Hope I win!
i am tweeting right now!!!
thank you for this opportunity!
Why you want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event:
I would like to get more savvy with my blogging skills. I like the writing part, but I would like to learn more about graphic flair. I would also love to meet Susan Branch in person and tell her THANK YOU for all the joy she has brought to the craft of letter writing.
Who you would pick to take with you and why:
I would bring my high school friend (one of my bridesmaids) who is a professional visual artist. She has a small business and she is the one who researched this event. We would have so much fun sharing a room and gabbing about all the amazing ideas the conference will expose to us!
Pick me, pick me, pick me!
If I won this it would be a dream! I would love to attend this venue to broaden my crafty skills as well as push my self to do more in my mixed media.A major piece would be to get this blogging thing down to help my sister with our buisness and take some of the pressure off her! I would take my sister who has been trying to budget this and so desperately wants to learn and expand and grow! She’s brilliant and is always looking for new ways to be creative. There’s so much great inspiration at this conference!This would be such a treat for both of us to connect with each other as well as other talented artists. What a great opportunity! Thanks and pick me!!!
I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. I have been selling girl’s dresses, doll dresses and accessories at craft sales for the past four and a half years. I would love to take the business to a higher level, but don’t know exactly what steps I need to take next.
I would bring my business partner and sister, Jamie. As my business and creative partner, she will benefit just as much as I will.
I have tweeted!
http://twitter.com/?lang=en&logged_out=1#!/search/realtime/MAnnMCreations
I have posted on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/people/M-Ann-M-Artist/100002044436315
I have blogged about the giveaway!
http://mannm.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-air-balloon-april-and-tcce.html
And I have put a button on my blog!
mannm.blogspot.com
Why would I want to attend? To soak up any and all the creativity my Texas heat cooked brains could absorb! Oh….and escaping this southern “oven” wouldn’t be bad either! Who would I ask to accompany me? My sister of course! Events as cha cha as this just HAVE to be shared with one’s sister!!!!
just me….delicately swiping my brow in 113 degree temps….jan
I would LOVE to attend! We recently moved and I need to get my creative juices flowing again. Oh….the inspiration that would be there! I would bring my crafty friend Heidi!
I would love to attend to learn more about blogging, and to learn more crafty things!! And I would take my mom since I don’t get to see her enough since we live in different states.
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Oh my gosh!!! I would LOVE to go to this!! And it is fairly close to where I live! I LOVE being creative with projects whether it be sewing, furniture upcycling ….crafting! It is my LIFE! I hop blogs daily! Who would I bring??? Hmmm I think I would bring my friend Aly, we get together and talk for hours about blogs and projects! A girls weekend is just what we need!
I am a 15 year old girl with a passion for creating. I have my own extremely small business and would love to learn how to make it bigger and blog advice. I just LOVE to make things and hope to be a famous mommy craft blogger one day. It would be so exciting and cool to win this so young to be able to learn things to help me in the future. It is also just after after my 16th birthday so it would be an amaxing present! I would bring my mom because she supports me in my passion of creating and has helped to start pursuing my dreams. She has also helped me purchase things for my buisness and I would want her to see my dreams coming true.
I have also posted this on my blog.
Alyssa
Wowsa! Playing with the big dogs. This is why I would love to come hang with you. You are the best of the best. The big one. I have been watching as people post about attending, teaching, etc. The projects are there, I just am not sure where to go with all of them. My dear friend from elementary/high school would be who I select to join me. She has an online children’s boutique, and I know of the benefit to her as well. It would be a great reunion for us as we do not live close, but share our craft love via email and facebook. Thank you for offering up this incredible prize. What a great chance. Graciously, thank you.
http://www.little-vintagegirl.blogspot.com
Alyssa
this is for the 5 extra entries…
I added your button to my blog! http://kerriemore.com/
Second entry for adding your button to my blog. http://kerriemore.com/
I would LOOOVEEE to attend the creative connection event for the obvious reason-amazing inspiration and knowledge. OH! And to meet the ‘who’s who’ in blog land! Wow. So great. AND I would take my older sister because she is my best friend and there is NO one else in the world I would love to spend the time with. She is my travel buddy and idea finder, constantly sending me new projects to re-create because she loves them and wants them. AND because she is awesome and spoils me-she even surprised me with my first serger for mothers day (because my 3 year old couldn’t afford it on her own!). I could never repay her for all the does-but this would be a fabulous start!
When I ran across the Creative Connection conference today, I was thrilled! Finally a meet up with handmade artists and crafters. this is exactly what so many of us have been waiting for, so thank you!!
I will post on my blog, and ask my readers to see who would like to join me :)
Laura
It has been 3 or 4 years since I have attended a creative event and I’ve missed the experience. I’m a corporate gal and balancing that with family and other obligations has kept me away, but this would give me the push to attend and I know it would nourish my creative side and flow into other areas of my life – it always does.
I have never done a creative trip with a friend, so I think I would take one of my dear college friends who have known me the longest.
Thanks
Julie
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Tweeted it!! http://twitter.com/#!/lauratrevey
I blogged about it on my very NEW, and somewhat unpolished blog…. I want to win this prize so I can figure out how to add all of the bells and whistles! http://kerriemore.com/
extra entry for adding the button
Blogged it!
http://brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogher-handmade-at-creative-connection.html
Entry 2 for Blogging it!
http://brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogher-handmade-at-creative-connection.html
Entry 3 for Blogging it!
http://brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogher-handmade-at-creative-connection.html
Entry 4 for Blogging it!
http://brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogher-handmade-at-creative-connection.html
Entry 5 for Blogging it!
http://brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com/2011/08/blogher-handmade-at-creative-connection.html
I would love to attend the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event for the chance to meet all the wonderful bloggers who have inspired me and to just soak in all the fun and knowledge that is sure to come with the event. I would take my friend Lila because she is going through a deployment right now and could use a fun getaway. Thank you so much. :)
I “like” you on facebook! :) Thanks!
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WOW! THANKS for the giveaway. I have been dragging my feet about starting my own business….this fall both my kids are in school full time. What’s my excuse now? I’d take my mom. She taught me how to sew. ;)
I would love to go to The Creative Connection to meet all of the bloggers and creative people that give me ideas and inspire me to try new things. I would bring my girlfriend Randee because she is so crafty and fun to hang out with!
Just tweeted! @scarbroughk
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I would LOVE to win this! I have never been to anything like this and would love the chance to go. My sister-in-law and I like to craft together so I would bring her:) Being around so many creative people can also help me improve my blog!
I also tweeted this! http://twitter.com/#!/imperfectpolish
Why do I want to attend the BlogHer Handmade & Creative Connection Event? Because I have been looking forward to it for 2 years. What a wonderful opportunity to connect with all things creative! I was supposed to attend in 2010 but like so many others I suddenly found myself out of work. 22 years as a graphic designer and suddenly without work. This was devastating for me not only financially but mentally as well. For months I mourned the loss of a job that I had hated for over 3 years (I used to cry every morning at my way to work). Then I found my true calling. I took a job with a local nonprofit. Unfortunatley we are still trying to recover financially. I would bring my daughter with me because she is my best friend and I just can’t think of anyone who deserves a creative getaway more than her.
I would love to attend to be able to be surrounded with amazing and creative people and to learn how to take my business to the next level. I would probably take my best friend – she’s an amazing photographer and I think this would be motivating and inspirational to her too! Plus, girls weekends rock!
I liked you on Facebook too!
I wrote about the giveaway on my blog!
http://nylundfamalam.blogspot.com/
I tweeted too!
http://twitter.com/#!/foreverbela
I would love to attend this fantastic event because last year’s event was so powerful for me and increased my self-assurance to follow my creative dreams. I’ve been slowly but surely trying to build my fabric and pattern design portfolio so that down the road i can approach the fabric houses of be a part of Surtex or Quilt Market and it would be so meaningful to hear from more creative souls who have made their creative dreams a reality. I had so hoped to make it to this year’s event regardless but it is not in the budget as all of our extra income has been tied up with the medical expenses of trying to have a child (my other greatest dream and wish and prayer!) If I was lucky enough to be the winner, I would bring my friend Laurie as she is another wonderful spirit and creative crafter and was so intrigued by the event when I shared it with her last year.
I tweeted about the giveaway!
http://twitter.com/#!/tammikins2000
I have the button on my blog!
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I like you on Facebook!
I have the TCC button on my blog!
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Here’s my first entry for my blog about the giveaway –
http://artalphaadventure.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-might-be-winner.html
Here’s my second entry for my blog about the giveaway –
http://artalphaadventure.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-might-be-winner.html
Here’s my third entry for my blog about the giveaway –
http://artalphaadventure.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-might-be-winner.html
Here’s my fourth entry for my blog about the giveaway –
http://artalphaadventure.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-might-be-winner.html
Here’s my fifth entry for my blog about the giveaway –
http://artalphaadventure.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-might-be-winner.html
Another Tweet for Good Measure!
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Win a full pass and hotel for you and a friend to BlogHerHandmade&The Creative Connection Event!” ht.ly/5Ped4 #tccevent11.
I would love to attend this event and bring my mother, Judie. I am 13 months unemployed and told I’m over-qualified for every job I find. Without the money coming in, I can’t afford to attend TCC, but I have just enough airline miles left from all the traveling I did when I was employed to fly my mother and I out were we to win. We live a 5 state drive from each other and don’t get to spend nearly enough time together. She’s retired now and has been exploring her creativity. I’ve been diving into my own creativity more and could use a bit of couching and encouragement to help me start my own business since jobs are so hard to come by.
TCC… take me away!!!
I would love to go with my friend Mary who took me a few years ago to our local store, Crafty Planet, to take a class on making a tote bag. I hadn’t sewn since junior high and after taking this class it inspired me to get a sewing machine and to learn to sew. Now, it’s a family affair as my 11-year old daughter also has been bitten by the sewing bug.
I just ‘liked’ you on FB. I really do like you, you know ;)
To attend this event would be a few days of creative heaven. To have the opportunity to spend a few days being surrounded by a multitude of creative, talented and experienced woman. I’d bring my best friend along with me – over the years we’ve had few opportunities to spend time together dreaming and expressing our artistic souls. We’d have a blast attending this event and connecting with other like-minded woman.
Just sent out a promotional tweet
http://twitter.com/#!/Sharon_Sews
I would love to attend The Creative Connection Conference and Blogher Handmade Event! I think it’s just what I’m needing to push me on toward my dream of creating and designing patterns and fabric. I would also love to learn more about blogging! I enjoy reading unique and creative blogs about cooking, being a mom, sewing, and anything GIRL related! I would definitely take my friend who told me about this contest! She and I both have been trying to figure out a way to attend! P.S. She has pretty big dreams too AND we haven’t seen each other in over 13 years!
would so luv to attend your event and would bring my DD with me so we could make a week of it and stay for Scrapfest at MOA :-) Ive been wanting to start my own website and Ive even bought the site name but can’t get organized to get it going and think this would be the perfect conference to get me past my fears. Thanks for a great giveaway!!!
Luv You on FB :-) Thanks for a great giveaway!
I have dreamt for a long time about about sharing my creativity with the rest of the world by starting my own business, but have always been held back by fear. My best friend, Katie, recently went through a divorce after a long marriage where she was never encouraged or supported in her artistic endeavors. After all the supportive and encouraging talk I have been giving her, I realized that I need to follow some of my own advice. I am ready to let go of my fears and jump off into a new adventure, and I want her to be able to do the same. The Creative Connection Event would be the perfect place for us both to take the first step into the rest of our lives, where we can both FINALLY do what we’ve always dreamed of doing!
I added a badge to the sidebar (top left) on my blog.
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I liked your FB page – and have been commenting as you posted the Pitch Slam winners!
I would love these tickets! I love to craft & would love to be able to get a fresh look from this amazing event! I would take my amazing hubby since he is my biggetst fan and supporter of my crafting obsession!!!!
I would love to win the prize!!
Mary M. from WI
Okay soo excited to find out who wins this giveaway! Just looked back through the contest and realized we have to post separately for each entry… I have 5 down… here’s another!
I would love to go to The Creative Connection just to be inspired by so many wonderful women in so many walks of life. I started blogging in January and can’t believe how some of the friendships I have always wanted, were out there. I would take my mom because she has supported me in all of my dreams (& crazy ideas!) she is actually the one who convinced me to take on my new blog/shop fulltime and I’m so glad she did!
This is my 3rd entry for blogging about it. :) http://www.iheartnaptime.net/2011/07/the-creative-connection.html Still crossing my fingers… :)
And here is my fourth … still hoping and praying I win! :)
This is my fifth entry for blogging about it! WOo I really hope I win! :)
And this is my final entry (2nd chance for putting the link on my side bar). iheartnaptime.net.
I’ll be crossing my fingers, toes, legs, eyes… okay everything until Friday!! I think I’d have to do a special happy dance if I won! ;) xoxo
I am a new stay-at-home mom with my first baby. I have always been interested in business and would love to combine the two together: mom and business owner. This event is a great way to get started and to learn from the experts. I LOVE to be inspired.
I would take my friend Cara. Until I moved across the country, Cara and I would work on church social events together. We were a great team combining our talents to coordinate a church social that was trendy, but on a strict budget. We also loved to shop for decorations for our own homes.
I would love to go for a million reasons! Just had my 3rd daughter and I’m finally getting out of my pregnancy funk! I would love to bring my bff Beth with me, who is in her 2nd year of ER residency. . We live 12 hours apart & haven’t spent much time together in the past few years.she is the most creative person I know, &never takes time for herself. She would love it!
I have yet to go to a “blogger conference” …..and this one seems like the PERFECT one to start with! I absolutely LOVE crafts!!! Kinda live & breathe them! My friends & I run our website together and I just KNOW any of them would just love to go to this with me!! Hope we win!! :) Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to attend the conference because I would enjoy meeting all the wonderful people and be inspired by them. This conference is who I am. I want to meet MaryJane! I enjoy from- scratch and seasonal cooking, knit, spin, veg garden, bake most of our bread. I want to learn about pastured poultry, vermiculture, and extended season gardening.
I would love to have a bakery out of my home and feed lots of people yummy freshly baked poems!
I would bring with me my dear friend of over 30 years, Gigi. She keeps bees as a hobby and raises low-line cattle. She is the strongest woman I know and the most hard working. She and I together? Who knows what could happen?
I already like you on facebook!!!!
I blogged about the event. http://thejourneyoftwo.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creative-connection-event/
Entry #2 for blogging about the event. http://thejourneyoftwo.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creative-connection-event/
Entry #3 for blogging about the event.
http://thejourneyoftwo.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creative-connection-event/
Entry #4 for blogging about the event.
http://thejourneyoftwo.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creative-connection-event/
Entry #5 for blogging about the event.
http://thejourneyoftwo.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/creative-connection-event/
entry #2 for tweeting last night
I work in a 3-D sculpting department which is not my true creative outlet (unless it’s a doll)…I am more of a crafter in every medium I can get my hands on and have always wanted to go to a creative event but either no time or not enough money….I get nervous and excited thinking about attending….I would take my sister in law Kim who has never flown in a plane, one to make her fly finally and two because she is very creative and as a vet-tech is always looking for a creative outlet.
I want to go, because I would like to know how to present craft projects that I make. I also come up with ideas that I would like to see if I could get mass produced (ex. tee shirt logos) and I don’t know how to do that. I want to bring my friend Jean, becausee I think we want to start or become part of a craft co op when we grow up (retire).
Final blog post entry! I’m using the powers of ‘The Secret’ to ensure I win! bwha ha ha!
http://myveryeducatedmother.blogspot.com/2011/08/creative-connection-event-giveaway.html
OK, for more chances to win this fabulous prize I added it to my new blog too! http://creativelyinspireme.blogspot.com/
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After just getting concerning health news about my husband, I would really need a creative break and to connect with others really take my business to the next level venturing into new territories. I would definitely take my best buddy, Leah. Thanks for this wonderful chance at this awesome giveway to change a persons life.
I would love to win this prize. I would take my daughter, and we would have so much fun meeting new people and exploring new ideas!
My sister and I have never attend any event, let alone an event like this together. We live in different parts of the country, and over the years have found our own artistic voice while encouraging each from afar. Both of our lives would be enriched by attending this event together, and neither of us have any idea what to expect. So the canvas is blank awaiting the first stroke. Thanks so much for this wonderful giveaway. susan
Here is one of my blog address.
Here is my other blog:-) susan
Additional entry — I liked the Creative Connection website on facebook!
I would be so excited to win this and spend time with Mary Jane’s Farm family.
Additional entry — I want to take my friend Pam who is makes handmade bags and designs her own fabrics. She would be so inspired by the custom fabric workshops, and she really needs a break from caring for her mom who has Alzheimer’s.
I blogged about the contest and the Creative Connection Event on my new blog. I even figured out how to post a picture :-) Now I need to create a banner and add some pizzaz (baby steps!) I would love to win this prize so I can learn from the experts!! http://www.kerriemore.com
I want to attend because there are so many people there I want to learn from!! I’ve been a crafter for years, and see so many names and faces I admire! I want to be there so badly!! Thank you for the chance!
Sorry – forgot to add who I’d take. I would invite my dear crafty little sister – we would have so much fun together, and I know she loves learning as much as I do!
And I just tweeted it. Thanks!
http://twitter.com/#!/rebecca_lovell
I just liked you on Facebook as well! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1456553300
I need a getaway and this would be perfect! I would take my sister, we would have a blast!
Why you want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event and who you would pick to take with you and why.
Sign me up! How much fun would this be? I’ve been looking for more ways to be creative. Plus, I’ve always dreamed of owning my own business! Maybe I could be inspired by watching other women do the same thing.
Of course, I’m bringing my BEST FRIEND in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD! She’s just as creative and deviant as me! We get into lots of trouble together, but we usually have lots of laughs in the end.
I’ll be in MN that weekend visiting my best friend Heather. She moved to MN from Chicago last year and I miss her a lot. Of course I’d take her with me to the BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event. We are both moms to little ones and we enjoy sewing and crafting and making our homes and lives lovely for our families and friends. This event would be a great inspiration!
Oh my…Where to begin. This is everything I need wrapped up in one area. I have been trying so hard to jumpstart my crafty stamp business and keep running into roadblocks. I would love to have the opportunity to learn from those who have already paved the way. I would bring my best friend, Marla, who has such a knack for color combinations (much better than I). The two of us make one big creative mind. Thank you for the chance to win!
I have the Creative Connection on my side bar. I’m so excited!
http://Lazycowgirl.blogspot.com
I’m bloggin’ away about your amazing event! It sound so exciting to be there.
http://Lazycowgirl.blogspot.com
I would LOVE to attend the Creative Connection Event because I love ALL things crafty! I am a cake pop maker, party planner and mother of three little girls that are all ready loving “Craft time with Mommy!” So many people I would like to take with me, hard chocie between Jennifer, Kristen, Aimee and Jenny!
I tweeted, @partytreasures
I would love to attend such a wonderful gathering of talented people, it would truly be a dream come true, and I would take my best friend of over 45 years with me, she battles MS and has been since 1983 and is confined mostly to her home. This event would just make her beyond happy and me too, to be able to have a best friends time of our lives at a fancy hotel without the day to day worries.
I know this would be a once in a lifetime event for her and myself so please make it happen for us!! Without her I would have never purchased that old Singer from her many years ago and learned to sew and craft.
Thank you!!!
Penny
Having a hard time get the button on my blogs, but I think I got it. I hope very thing lines up in the universe, because I need and want to be there with my sister!!!!!!!!!! susan
I would love to go just to get some time away and I love crafting! I would bring my sister with me! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win because I love being around inspiring women who share the same passions as me! I would probably bring my crafty fiend Amy as I know she would appreciate it as much as I would :)
I think I forgot to comment yesterday about liking Creative Connection Event on Facebook, I did that too.
I am a fan on Facebook !! :)
I added a button-1. Thanks again for a great chance to attend!
Button-2 thanks again!
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Oh my goodness I have wanted to go ever since I heard of it. Would love to meet any of the fabulous speakers. I love to blog and would love to learn what more I can do. I would bring one of my bestest friends Erica. We are sisters at heart and talk craft daily!
I am going off to add the link on my blog! thanks for the chance!
Link for blog fixed (I was so excited I typed it wrong :)
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I would LOVE to win a trip to this conference! I have never been to a blogging conference and I’ve been starting to look into it! Oh man, winning might actually let me meet some of the fantastic people out there in blogland and hang out with like-minded people! I would take my sister (blogging partner and crafter-in crime)!
I just posted a link on the sidebar of my blog. I have now done everything I can to win this fab prize. http://creativelyinspireme.blogspot.com/
I would love to attend my very first blogging event! It would be amazing to be surrounded and learn from other bloggers in the creative field. It’s a toss up of who I’d have join me–my business partner and husband, my crafty sister who’s new to blogging or one of my three new blog contributors!
I tweeted about the giveaway!
New Facebook fan and posted on your wall since FB is a bit slow at allowing me to tag new likes!
I would cherish an opportunity to go to the Creative Connection. My job has recently been downsized and that has kinda kicked me to realize that it’s time to start my own art business online. I have researched and organized and am trying to understand how to do it by myself. Attending this event would be just what I need. Connecting with a community of creative, inspiring women and learning from them would be an incredible opportunity and give me the courage to leap.
I would take my mother with me. She has been the one who has believed in me since I was a little girl and it was her creativity that always inspired me. She encourages me every day. She’s a wonderful artist and hasn’t pursued it for awhile, but always is longing to. I think this would be wonderful for her too.
I would love to win!!!! Thank you for the opportunity.
If I win, I would take…..(shhh, it’s a surprise; she might see this!) :-)
I have a CC button on my blog at: http://robanstudio.blogspot.com/
I also liked you on Facebook and put it as my status on my Facebook biz page: https://www.facebook.com/robanstudio
WoW !! I found this just in time. It ends tonight !! I would love to attend this amazing event. I’m a stay at home mom who really needs this. I have one child with 2 chronic diseases and this would be a great event to attend. I could learn more than I could even imagine. I would bring my sister…my best friend with me. We’ve always just had each other and I would love to share this with her.
Thanks so much !!
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Hi Everyone:
I “Liked” you on Facebook AND posted all about the event on my FB! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lazy-Cowgirl/116055808474291#!/?sk=lf
I’m so excited. :)
This sounds almost too good to be true. The chance to get to attend a conference designed specifically for people who create and then write about it…for FREE?! Heaven. Absolute heaven.
I would definitely bring my best friend, Mandy, a fellow blogger and mama of multiple littles.
I can’t even imagine how much fun we’d have and inspiration we’d glean.
Thank you so much for the opportunity!
I liked the Creative Connection Event on FB!
P.S. This is showing my entries coming through on August 5, but it’s still August 4th, Central time, so I hope you’ll accept them!
Blogged about it!: http://www.fivedaysfiveways.com/2011/08/creative-connection-conference.html
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My mom used to have a retail home and gift store which my sister and I helped her run. Since she closed it, we’ve been looking for a way to do what we loved with the shop in another form/outlet. (My sister has also moved out of state since then making it even more challenging.) This conference sounds perfect for helping us find direction. I’d love to win this opportunity for myself and her.
I would love to win so I can learn more about crafting, crossing my fingers!!
I would love to attend this conference as I have been contemplating re-opening my crochet business but not sure where to start. . .I would kidnap my BFF Tracy, who isn’t crafty but could use the girlie weekend for sure! Thank you
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I would LOVE a chance to win a trip to The Creative Connection, I belong to Art-Is-You and everyone talks about The Creative Connection, I would like to see what you have to offer and what I can learn from everyone attending. I would take my girlfriend Maria, because she doesn’t seem to “understand” art and it would give her a chance to see what wonderful work these people and artists do!
Winning this giveaway would give me a creative kick-start and help me polish up my small business.
I would take my husband. He hasn’t had a vacation this year.
Happy Birthday! I would love the opportunity to win tickets! The opportunity to be inspired by crafty -bloggin ladies I admire would be just the ticket as I am work on bringing my love for crafting and sharing to the next level. I would bring my mom along because she’s amazing and my number one cheerleader! Thansk you!!
I would LOVE a chance to get away with a girlfriend and come to such an awesome event with so many creative people!
I would enjoy going to the Creative Connection since I am retiring and would like to learn more about crafts for my retirement. I am going to take my friend Heather who is very crafty (partly out of necessity) because she has 11 children. She is extremely talented and even home schools. I think she could use the three days away and the motivation to keep working on her beautiful sewing, scrapping, embrodiery, photography, etc. etc. etc.
I would love the pick me up and to be surrounded by people with similar interests as my own. I would take my high school best friend with me. That would be so much fun!
i liked you on FB. I just found out about this wonderful event filled with classes/info that with enhance my newly discovered creative side. i would bring along a colleague from work, who is frequently told that she is one of the most creative women alive, but needs some inspiration to make it public.
thanks for providing this wonderful venue to the twin cities.
The reason I want to attend BlogHer Handmade and The Creative Connection Event is I am stepping out with my fiber arts to create a business and I believe this event would enhance my journey. I would take My friend and fellow artist Ellen with me, she has inspired me to go for my dreams and she would fully embrace the event also. And I would love being in the creative energy of this group. Joyfully, Margie
I would love the opportunity to attend this event! How amazing to absorb so much information, education, and so many skills. I’ve sewn for many years and have never been to an event like this–I would forever cherish it! If I won, I would bring my mom.
Why do I think I should win? Being creative has helped me keep my sanity, until……..(jaws music)…. MY HUSBAND IS RETIRED AND HE’S DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!!!!! Please take pity on me and pick me for these passes so I can go to another event after this one and get away!!! AAAAAHHHHH. I love and really do adore my husband, the problem is that he’s “just there.” I feel like my creativity box in my mind is getting smaller and smaller! I need help to focus on a project, I need Jo to take my hand and tell me I’m not crazy and then buy me a fruity drink! Or I’ll buy her one! Hope you PICK ME and my friend Amy Boland who is signed up to come too!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox-cindy craine Lillyslace.blogspot.com
I would really love the chance to get some free tickets or a discount on registration. If I won the tickets I would bring my business partner. We are in the process of getting together and online presence and it has been a journey. It would be awesome to learn from the experts and pick up some proven tools and techniques. Thanks for the opportunity!
I subscribe to Where Women Create, and I’m currently enrolled in Kelly Rae Roberts ‘Flying Lessons’ ecourse. . .and where these two life blessings intersect for me is this event! My dream is to take my creative work to Pitch Slam. I am a St. Paul native who has moved to Colorado and I want to live my creative dreams. I would pick to bring my BFF who is a Martha Stewart soul sister with me to this event, because she has believed in my talent and my dream from the beginning. My line of jubilant botanical characters, who spring to life from fresh flowers and watercolors to produce joy are called Photosynthesillies. I need the opportunity to bring them to pitch slam so they can find a licensing agreement and ‘home’ in the world. Two passes and hotel would be the opportunity to bring this dream to reality. I am a single working mom who would relish this chance to attend this amazing creative connection with other women who can provide the inspiration and mentorship that could help me transform my life and bring my joyful line of ethereal images to life! I have been working twords this dream for ten years and need the partnership of other supportive souls. Thank you for your consideration, Lori Arndt
I would love to attend this event. I am a quilter so I am natually creative. What a wonderful opportunity. I would bring my Daughter who is a Scrapbooker that I am trying to make a Quilter.. Please let us win!
I am a crafty wanna be! I love the satisfaction of making something and having someone love it!
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I happened to stubble upon this event last summer and thought it was fabulous! I’d bring my friend Monica who shares my enthusiasm for crafting and we’re always seeking inspiration.
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