It’s hard to believe that it’s been a week since we returned from CHA and that now, in a couple of days we’ll be leaving for CKC-Portland! If you are attending, look for us at the Saturday night crop! My father-in-law was diagnosed with lung cancer in December and I didn’t feel I could commit us to a booth at CKC without really knowing what level of help my in-laws would need. The good news is that, so far, my father-in-law has tolerated his treatments well.
As you’ve probably heard, there were several prominent trends at CHA.
One was the sewing theme and dress forms:
Here’s a dress form display from Making Memories
And another dress from display from Girls Paperie
Everything ruler was also big (maybe that could be considered part of sewing?)
Like this ruler ribbon from Tim Holtz (love it!):
Or this paper from Cosmo Cricket:
But… the trend that really stood out to me, was all of the banners:
Girls Paperie
Bottom line — look for lots of banners this spring (and I don’t think you could go wrong with them!). What trends have you noticed and liked?
At CHA, Cricket was giving away chef’s hats. I brought mine home for the kids. My little dress up queen instantly fell in love with it and thought we needed to get baking!
Then it transformed into a dress-up fest — we had a butterfly, a princess, and finally this! She is such a funny little wonderful thing!
Looks scrummy! I have been checking out some manufacturer’s blogs & T!m’s stuff all looks wonderful, as does Margies & the EK/AC collaboration is just fab! I can’t WAIT to get scrapping again – this enforced hiatus is killing me lol…I have just bought 2 pretty large dress-forms for my new scraproom {they are designed to hang necklaces but of course I will be using them to display my latest ribbons & braids} & I’ve also noticed a big trend for those {mostly white} decorative/embossed frames – like the little ones you included in a previous kit & I used up straight away! So sorry to hear the bad news about your DIL – good that he is responding well though.
Hey Tricia! First, I’m so sorry about your FIL. I hope he is doing well and that he recovers soon…
I’ve already ordered the new Dear Lizzy and JBS Homespun stuff… and I also fell in love with Lily Bee’s Hello Sunshine, SC’s Anthology, all the cool Maya Road flowers, chipboard and albums and Prima. Lots of great stuff! I am slso loving those banners — definitely a hot trend 
I am really loving LOTS of new CHA stuff this time around, more than ever!