Caketini welcome and Vendor night

A couple of Bellas hosted "Caketini", which was Thursday
afternoon before all of the Silver Bella opening festivities.
Several of us attended, big sisters met little sisters and
we all made new friends and visited with old friends.

The little caketinis were wonderful! Small cakes with
chocolate icing....yum!

Lori Oles and me....full of sugar and all smiles!

Now on to dinner Thursday evening, which was a feast!

Many different choices at several different tables. This is

Laura from 52 Flea, she was my roomie Kim's little sister.

Look at her cute swap, I believe a trim swap and the hostess

put the different trims in an egg container.

Besides having dinner with Laura, we also ate with Lulu and

her roomie Shelly. We had a wonderful time together. Lulu

was very good to meet several of us via ours blogs prior to

arriving in Omaha, so it was great to meet her face to face!

On to Vendor night and yes the theme was "Hats on

Parade". I believe Karla had the best hat!! It is a

hat with a bird cage on it and even one of the

birds is wearing a top hat.....too cute!

Me with the wonderful Amy Powers, she is such a sweetie!

I do believe she made her mini tophat, and decorated it

with all things vintage and Christmas. I loved it.

This is Heather and she has on a great top hat and too

bad all of the detail got lost in the background. She hosted

one of my swaps and it was great to meet her and spend time

with her as well. Don't ask us to solder anything for you,

we are a little slow at it... but had a great time!

Here's my lovely Atlanta friend, Suzanne. I always enjoy her

company. Hope to show swaps and projects soon, just a

little sidetracked with Thanksgiving right now!