La-La Gala photographs

Last night was awesome! I enjoyed every moment of it! I have a few photos to share.

This beautiful cake was made and airbrushed by Geri (owner of Cranberry Hill Mercantile). She took an empty Copic marker, filled it with food coloring, then airbrushed the cake! Not only did it look fantastic, it was SO delicious!

A layered dip made by Geri that is to die for! So yummy!

I didn't get a chance to munch 'til later, but I did manage to take a picture of the spread!

Irina gave a terrific speech to kick off the grand opening.

Irina read a few character descriptions written by Mark Peterson. Here, Irina is reading about Fairy Lala.


Irina and Mark

La-Land Crafts stamps are revealed!

So grateful for our customers and friends who came to show their support!

I didn't get a chance to take many photos during the event so I missed out on taking photos of Irina with individual friends. However, I did manage to get these taken!

Irina, Michelle VanWiggeren, and Jane

Nancy Grant and Jane

Irina and me

Hope you enjoyed the photos!

Edited to add (by Irina).. One of our customers took this photo during the Make-and-Take and had emailed it to me.. Thank you Carol!



.. and even more photos on Nancy Grant's blog.

tomorrow.. tomorrow!!!

I feel like I am dreaming, I feel like I am on cloud nine, I feel like I am in the La-La Land!! Tomorrow is the Great Opening of my store, La-La Land Crafts, and it still does not feel real. Somebody pinch me!!

Just to remind you, the celebration will start with the reveal of the stamps at Cranberry Hill Mercantile in Sunnyvale, CA. The party is scheduled from 6 pm to 9 pm (see details here).

The website will go live at 11 pm PST. To celebrate the Grand Opening in our online store, we are offering a 10% discount storewide!! This is a limited time offer, it will only last for the first 24 hours!!

As a special treat for those of you coming to Cranberry Hill, we are going to have two very special guests there!! Jane Matsumoto is my Design Team coordinator and she will be doing a make-and-take at the store with you. If you have not met Jane before you will see why I have chosen her, she is as sweet as she is talented!! The other guest is Mark Peterson. You don't know Mark yet.. Mark is my friend and a writer. As soon as my website goes live you will see very cute character descriptions there for every single stamp. Mark writes those for me!!!

See you tomorrow at Cranberry Hill or in my online store, see you in my La-La Land!!!

Oh, and we will ship internationally too and also will sell wholesale.

Hugs to all!!
Irina