Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the Michaels Creative Crew event hosted by Michaels in Dallas Texas.
It was such an exciting two days that I’m thrilled to share here. Here is a bit of the behind the scenes look at a fun two days.
Once we landed in Dallas, we had a limo ride from the airport to the Gaylord Texan Hotel. Cindy from Skip To My Lou was the first to greet us on the limo. No matter how old I get, a limo ride will always be so exciting. You should have heard us all giggling about it. 🙂
We stayed at the beautiful Gaylord Texan. I had stayed at the Gaylord in Nashville for Blissdom Conference back in January. These hotels are giant beautiful hotels! It was so fun to stay there.
When we arrived to our rooms, there was a “Welcome Package” full of craft supplies including a box of Sprinkles cupcakes. It was so nice!
We all met for dinner at the Gaylord Texan’s restaurant Zeppole. The food was excellent!
Before dinner we had time for chatting with the Michaels Creative Team and all the creative bloggers. Here I am trying to master the “one armed self portrait” with Cindy of Skip to My Lou and Amy of Living Locurto.
There we go…I got one good one (sort of – wink wink) with Jo, Jen and Amy.
Here is a photo of all the Michaels Team along with all the creative bloggers who attended:
It was fun to meet all the bloggers that attended!
Ashley of Make It and Love It and Alison of How Does She laughing with Jo.
Jo, myself, Amy Atlas of Sweet Designs and Jen of Tatertots and Jello
Me with Jen of Hostess with the Mostess blog
Kari from Ucreate laughing with Ashley.
Before dinner started, we got to learn all about felting from Jo and Kathy Kromer two of the best on Michaels Creative Team. We each felted a small canvas tote bag. It was fun to just chat and craft together.
Here is Amy Locurto and Kelly from Make Grow Gather and Amy Atlas felting at my table. If you have never tried felting before, I highly recommend it! You must try it with the multi-needle tool for faster felting. It makes it so much more fast and fun. Here I am using that tool:
Dinner was so good. I ordered the filet for dinner and the Tiramisu for dessert. (I had to share the most important details of the night.
During dinner, we got to hear from Tiffany Windsor and hear about the history of Crafting. Her mother Aleene Jackson (as in Aleene’s Tacky Glue) was a pioneer in the crafting industry.
Tune in tomorrow for Day 2 of this fun event where we craft up a storm, and visit the Michaels Headquarters.
Here are a bunch more photos from the first day:
*In full disclosure, Michaels Craft Stores did pay for my travel and accommodations for this two day trip. I am in no way obligated to mention this event here, I just wanted to let Michaels know how much I enjoyed this event. All these opinions are %100 my own.
*Also thank you to the nice people at Empower Media Marketing who were so great to work with.
gina says
how amazing! what an awesome opportunity and so well deserved! thanks for the great documentation so we could all live through you!!!
:)gina
kami says
Thanks Gina! It was amazing!
Amy @ Living Locurto says
That was such an amazing time! So happy to get to hang out with you. My re-cap is going up tomorrow:-) Have a cute photo of you on the swing!
kami says
I loved it! I loved chatting late into the night with you and Jen!
We need to do that more often!
Thanks Amy!
alison says
Whoo that was fun! Lets do that again!
kami says
Thanks Alison!
YES PLEASE! Let’s do it again soon! I loved it!
Erin says
What a fun trip Kami! Loved all of your pictures. I have NEVER been in a limo and you know what’s funny – Ellie has! Lucky little seven year old. 🙂 Fun post!
kami says
Thanks Erin! That’s funny! I probably acted like a 7 year old when I was in it. 🙂
Amy @ Positively Splendid says
What a fun time, Kami!
kami says
Thanks Amy!
Ellie G says
Ummm…..hello??? There were some people there that I wasn’t aware of and that were not discussed at lunch. (insert: Hostess with the Mostest? Whah???) Guess we need to have lunch again. 🙂
Kami says
Ha Ha! Oops. Yes. Jen was there, and she was so sweet!
Let’s do lunch again. That was so fun. Thanks for coming down!
Jen says
Yea! You were in my neck of the woods! This looks like such a fun event!
Amy @ MoMomma says
This looks SO fun! I love Michaels and I THRIVE on creativity! I’m posting a 4th of July Wreath on my blog tonight – Keep an eye out for it 🙂
whatever DeeDee Wants says
Looks like a fun time and amazing opportunity!
Ashley says
Oh my gosh, it was so great meeting everyone. Do you think we could bribe Michael’s to do this for us every 6 months??? Kami……you’re adorable. TI wish we could have spent a week crafting and chatting.
Ashley