When will I meet Shelli?

Shelli Gardner. How often have I heard this name! I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Shelli....and maybe that should be a side story in itself - the Adventures of Beverly as she trys to Meet Shelli!

It does appear - to me - having not met her - that meeting Shelli and having your picture taken with her is something akin to the Holy Grail of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators! Next is having touched someone who is "right up with her" on that grand level of the Stampin' Up stars!

So for me, this is a bit curious. When will I meet her? Will I meet her? are the pop-ups in my head when I see a picture or Youtube of her, I can't help myself - it just pops in there. If I dwell on it, then I start thinking "What are my chances of going to Convention!!!" Which then brings up a hundred pop-ups, so I shut down thinking about that - because going to "ConVENtion" is another maybe lesser Holy Grail for another post.

So I start entertaining the thought about if we will have the pleasure of a Regional in Toronto? And did we ever have a Regional in Toronto - I would have to think we must of, seems reasonable! But I am a relatively 'new' demo, and that would be something I would have to look up - so its not without some slice of glee that I entertain the possibility of seeing Shelli come to a Toronto Regional.

For some other lucky bandits - who stole her away from the bulk of us with their wonderful results in a SU Challenge, Shelli will be attending their very own workshops this coming year! How's that for those demos, they must go to bed now with ongoing dreams of the moment Shelli crosses through their doors? Maybe I will be lucky enough to attract one here later to tell us what that was like! Like living vicariously through some lucky demo!

Imagine that she is coming to your home - what will you entertain her with? Maybe while they are dreaming of her coming through their doors - in such a lovely manner, then they start to panic in their dreams because their beautifully decorated cupcakes have been eaten by the dog! And there are cupcake icing paw prints all around the house! Darn - why did we get that dog! But wait! the dreamer thinks! "I have stencilled kitchen towels (thoughtfully made with out fabulous Decor Stencils - just like I saw in the picture of Shelli's lovely and stencilled wardrobe) - so I'll whisk one out and wipe them up! " And Shelli admires her with a "Aww - you are so co-ordinated!" .....ok, now I have just had another jealous thought - what IF Shelli shows up with a decorated tray of cupcakes! It's not faaaaairrr!!!

So it appears that I have - unwittingly - become part of this conscious SU demonstrator wave that thinks of 'Meeting Shelli' - sort of like the one consciousness of the Borg - it is inevitable! Do not resist! [please do not make comments to me if you are a Star Trek fan - unless, you are a Star Trek fan AND a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator .....wait, that would be me! ]

And that means I will reserve a special section simply called "Shelli" because there is so much that does revolve around her - she is the lead image of the company, she commands a lot of respect for the very first reason of being a woman entrepreneur - even before now where we think being a woman entrepreneur is no biggie.

So this is all starting to make me think...."when WILL I meet Shelli?"

oxox

Beverly