Still on the age of Aquarius roll. The best part of this trend is that it designers are taking only the good things from the 1970s and not the scary polyester/bad outfit ones!

Lots of impressive booths Little Yellow Bicycle had a crisp set up with little sheds sporting corrugate tin roofs an occasion skateboard and the requisite yellow bike. Neat, read boy/teen boy but didn't narrow the them at all.

Trends- Journaling cards- we saw this a few months ago but practically every paper/and or sticker line had a version of journaling cards, often card stock die cuts or stickers with lines for neatly penned copy. Making Memories had a super cute baby version that was really practical for the new mom on the go.

Jenny Bowlin's booth downstairs in new exhibitors was terrific, I love her take on vintage. She had all different takes on the movie ticket. Loved the wiredress forms with vintage clips. dShe wasn't the only one using dress forms in her booth. Dressforms of all types, the foam covered ones and old wire ones are great in scrapbook store displays so keep your eyes peeled at garage sales and thrift shops.

Also in new products... Home Essence/Molly West great line of well-priced upscake albums- hand bound books that really had a fine quality. We liked the School Days album for saving memories from K-8. Great for the scrapper and non scrapper alike with lots of pockets so you don't have to scra-=just put the ephemera in there and let the kid scrap it when they get older!

Core dinations lack Magic line was great for distressers- black paper with a colored core for neat effects.

A shout out to Debra at Rubber Stamp Plantation who sported some great jewelry ideas that incorporated stickers based on vintage Hawaiiana (I made up that spelling but you know what I mean). Some stickers were put on chunky wood bangles, other mounted on metals that were rolled into frames. Neat art jewelry.

Clear Scraps acrylic sheets- Loved them especially the word sets because the letters were extended so that each piece of acrylic added to the word and the album wasn't as bulky.

On my way back out there to see what else is new. Check in later tonight!

Beth