Bead & Button show - who's going???

I think it's time to start a thread on who's going to Bead & Button.
Maybe we can all meet for coffee or something. I'll be there Thursday
afternoon - Monday A.M, we are staying at the Hyatt. Anyone who is
interested in getting together to talk, have a bead show n tell, etc.,
please email me offlist, ok? You can email me through my website at
www.pattiwhiteley.com or Beadseeker AT aol.com.

I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. I know all
of us will be taking classes, sightseeing, etc., but it will be fun to
try to meet each other in person.

Patti

Patti,

I'll be there - taking classes on Wed, Thurs, and Sunday. My Saturday
class was cancelled (:-().

Jan in New Zealand is coming over and I know last year I met up with JC
and Linda (Bluemaxx).

Barbara

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Patti wrote:

I think it's time to start a thread on who's going to Bead & Button.
Maybe we can all meet for coffee or something. I'll be there Thursday
afternoon - Monday A.M, we are staying at the Hyatt. Anyone who is
interested in getting together to talk, have a bead show n tell, etc.,
please email me offlist, ok? You can email me through my website at
www.pattiwhiteley.com or Beadseeker AT aol.com.

I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. I know all
of us will be taking classes, sightseeing, etc., but it will be fun to
try to meet each other in person.

Patti

I am at the Hyatt as well. Did not make it into Bead Dreams but got the
nicest encouraging letter to try again next year. They wrote that they
were overwhelmed with the high caliber of excellence of all the work
submitted so I am really looking forward to viewing the finalists.

I entered the non wearables with my own design, beaded NZ flowers. A
bunch of Red Pohutukawa and white clematis in a sheath and yellow Kowhai
by itself.

I have a notebook full of items I want to buy at B&B which are hard or
expensive to get here, plus stalls to visit etc.

Internet is great for finding out things and I even can read the menus for
restaurants. Not long to wait now.

Cheers, Jan

Say hi to Milwaukee for me.

-Su

Su,
We will. If I can tear myself away from the show, do you have any
ideas about sightseeing? I've visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. My dh
will be with me and looking for stuff to do while I'm in class. He's
into railroading, not into brewery tours. I've heard there's a casino
not too far away from the Hyatt. Any recommendations about restaurants
(I love the Thai one across from the hotel) or stuff to do would be
welcome. I'm going to try to squeeze in a day trip to Chicago, which I
didn't have time to do last time. I must admit I let the tornado
warnings - our town had just had one, a rare thing in NJ, scare me away
from doing a lot of traveling last time I was there.
Patti

Su,
We will. If I can tear myself away from the show, do you have any
ideas about sightseeing? I've visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. My dh
will be with me and looking for stuff to do while I'm in class. He's
into railroading, not into brewery tours. I've heard there's a casino
not too far away from the Hyatt. Any recommendations about restaurants
(I love the Thai one across from the hotel) or stuff to do would be
welcome. I'm going to try to squeeze in a day trip to Chicago, which I
didn't have time to do last time. I must admit I let the tornado
warnings - our town had just had one, a rare thing in NJ, scare me away
from doing a lot of traveling last time I was there.
Patti

Patti,

Go to Chicago and see the art, you will be glad you did so if you spend
half the day in the Art Institute to see 'La Grande Jatte' if nothing
else, and the other half in the Field Museum. They have a stunning
gemstone/mineral collection there.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ (King Tut's there from May 26, book early
if you want to see it!)

Get 'Ferris Buehler's Day Off' as research material for Chicago.

Danke schoen, darling...!

-Su

If you do make it to Chicago, I'd love to meet up.

Cheers,
Carla

Patti wrote:

Su,
We will. If I can tear myself away from the show, do you have any
ideas about sightseeing? I've visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. My dh
will be with me and looking for stuff to do while I'm in class. He's
into railroading, not into brewery tours. I've heard there's a casino
not too far away from the Hyatt. Any recommendations about restaurants
(I love the Thai one across from the hotel) or stuff to do would be
welcome. I'm going to try to squeeze in a day trip to Chicago, which I
didn't have time to do last time. I must admit I let the tornado
warnings - our town had just had one, a rare thing in NJ, scare me away
from doing a lot of traveling last time I was there.
Patti

Carla,
That would be fabulous!! We will be there on Friday, June 16th. I
need to go to the A.I. and maybe have some of Chicago's famous steak
for dinner! I have classes on Saturday and Sunday, and the show opens
on Thursday, so Friday is the only day I will have free.
Are you working or could we meet after work? Of course, I have no
idea where anything is....I'll just have to take cabs. All this is
tentative, of course, but I'm really going to try to go.

Patti (Beadseeker AT aol.com)

Barbara,
I'll be there Thursday night for the show preview, Friday I'm going
to try to go to Chicago, I have classes Saturday PM and Sunday A.M.
until Noon.
Maybe we can coordinate our schedules to meet sometime when we're not
in class. Sorry your Saturday class was cancelled, what were you going
to take?
I'm really getting excited, I desparately need a vacation.

Patti (Beadseeker AT aol.com)