Sigh. I used to go to that show every year with a friend and then she moved to NH a couple years back. 
The first one of its kind that I went to was in Woburn, MA in a local hotel and I was pregnant with my now almost-16 year old son. It was so much fun as they had a lot of companies from CA that I had only seen in magazines and catalogs. This was back in 1994 and internet groups were just starting out and there weren't message boards like this one. I remember almost hyper-ventilating when I walked in the room and saw all the cool stuff in person! 
The Springfield show was always a lot of fun but as the years went on there were fewer and fewer vendors and people - the last time I went it was actually sad. I miss the old days! There was a company called Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers and they were famous for their "rubber pit". They literally dumped mounds and mounds of un-mounted dies on the floor and you could sit around with like-minded folks and search for images you wanted. After a while we wised up and brought small mirrors so we could tell what the images were.
Tim Holtz went to several of those shows and also Suze Weinberg - two very talented people who work for Ranger. (If you like reading interesting craft blogs then check out both Tim's & Suze's - and Suze is fun to read about all her various crafty adventures - I like the way she writes. Both folks are also on Facebook if you are into that)
I have collected quite a few rubber stamps that I don't do much with these days but hope to dabble in it again some day. I loved going to the shows to see what others had done with the stamps.
There was also a show in RI at the Community College for a few years but then they moved it to Hartford, CT.
Anyhow...just wondering if anyone went and what they thought of it..
Jill ...who needs to go look longingly at her rubber stamps now....
The first one of its kind that I went to was in Woburn, MA in a local hotel and I was pregnant with my now almost-16 year old son. It was so much fun as they had a lot of companies from CA that I had only seen in magazines and catalogs. This was back in 1994 and internet groups were just starting out and there weren't message boards like this one. I remember almost hyper-ventilating when I walked in the room and saw all the cool stuff in person! The Springfield show was always a lot of fun but as the years went on there were fewer and fewer vendors and people - the last time I went it was actually sad. I miss the old days! There was a company called Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers and they were famous for their "rubber pit". They literally dumped mounds and mounds of un-mounted dies on the floor and you could sit around with like-minded folks and search for images you wanted. After a while we wised up and brought small mirrors so we could tell what the images were.
Tim Holtz went to several of those shows and also Suze Weinberg - two very talented people who work for Ranger. (If you like reading interesting craft blogs then check out both Tim's & Suze's - and Suze is fun to read about all her various crafty adventures - I like the way she writes. Both folks are also on Facebook if you are into that)
I have collected quite a few rubber stamps that I don't do much with these days but hope to dabble in it again some day. I loved going to the shows to see what others had done with the stamps.
There was also a show in RI at the Community College for a few years but then they moved it to Hartford, CT.
Anyhow...just wondering if anyone went and what they thought of it..
Jill ...who needs to go look longingly at her rubber stamps now....
