Home and Garden Show!

Last Saturday I worked my first event of 2012...the Fort Wayne Home and Garden Show! Doesn't this look so lovely, warm and inviting?
Too bad when I walked out of the building, I had to scrape a layer of snow and ice off my car. Good grief.

I love Home and Garden shows, and I was scheduled to work the closing shift, so I went a little bit early so I could meander around the place. The garden room was separate from the rest of the place, so I went there first. Took this picture - which will only mean something to my Financial Aid buddies. :)

I spent a great deal of time looking longingly at the hot tubs. It is one of my life dreams to have a hot tub. (Sigh...)

Then I ate my eleven dollar dinner...SIX of those dollars paying for a bottle of water and a medium Pepsi. My WORD. Concessions...not a 99 cent menu in sight.

I was very excited to find a larger than life picture of Phelps!!!

Sadly it wasn't this one: (Who, by the way, recently got a haircut. I'm in mourning. But I digress.)

Anyway. Back to the larger than life picture.

Yep - that was right around the corner from the station booth!

Know what ELSE was around the corner from our booth?

The sugar almonds. Oh. Be. Still. My. Beating. Heart. Do you have any idea how much I adore those? So I sat there and inhaled deeply...and may or may not have drooled.

This was the station booth. I thought it looked very springy and festive! (We had a lot of compliments on our flowers during my shift. I thought they were gorgeous.)

Here I am, all ready to work. You want to know what detail I did NOT think through very well? Wardrobe. What on EARTH possessed me to wear a fleece shirt to a room packed like a cattle stall? I about sweat to death for the first two hours. (Attractive, no?) Once the event began to wind down and the room emptied out, I was pleasantly comfortable.

I had fun meeting listeners...and several of them knew I was "the new girl." One even asked if my house had sold yet!

But here was my favorite story. I was just sitting there and this very nice woman came up and said "I love your blog! I saw you sitting over here and I knew it was you!" LOL!! That's the first time that has ever happened to me! So you know what I had to do of course!

Yep! Had to get a picture with my new friend Mary Jane! We had the best talk and she's FUN!

Loved my adventure at the Home and Garden show and also loved getting home without wrecking the car. (By the time I made it back to Marion, the bridges were solid ice. One even had police cars at each end, with lights on, to get people to slow down enough to make it safely across.)