So Close

One of my favorite craft stores near where my parents live is Craft Warehouse. I always try to take a trip there when I go home for a visit. Well when I was last there in February I remember seeing a poster about a contest to be on the 2009 Design Team. It sounded like something fun to try out for. Well I completely forgot about it until the beginning of April.

I remembered about it while watching Conference at Tom’s office. I looked it up and discovered that the deadline was the following Friday and that all entries had to arrive in the mail on that date. That gave me about three days to pull it all together. Possible? Well I decided to give it a try.

I shopped Saturday night for some supplies and got to work. Monday I ordered some pictures for the scrapbook pages and shopped for some more supplies. Worked on it till around 11pm on Monday and then got back at it on Tuesday morning. I took pictures of the five items once they were completed and then rushed to the library to upload them to Wal-Mart. Then I was off to Wal-Mart to pick up the pictures and then went straight to the post office. I made it with about 20 minutes to spare. Whew! Now I just had to wait to see if my entry would arrive on time and luckily for me it arrived on Thursday.

Well now for the hard part. I didn’t get the call on April 15th saying that I had made it on the team. It was sad but at the same time I wasn’t overly surprised. I think my entry was great but I had feared that I didn’t use enough products that Craft Warehouse carried. The nearest store to me is over an hour away, so a trip to the store was out of the question. I used some scrapbook lines that I knew they carried on some of the projects, but for the others I just used what I could find here in Eugene.

Well they did announce that there were many wonderful entries and that they had a hard time choosing. Since they loved so many entries they decided to do an honorable mention list this year. At the time I didn’t really care about that. I figured they would have a list about 15 people long and what kind of recognition is that? Well I didn’t think much about it until Tom texted me to tell me that I made the top of the honorable mention list which was only 5 people long. Yay! Yes I was so close to making the design team. But oh well. I am just happy that I gave it a go and plus I get to keep everything I made instead of giving it to the store to keep. :o)

Maybe I will try again next year and actually use the whole 2 months to prepare instead of just the 3 days. Craft Warehouse Design Team 2010 here I come!