Where In The World Is Lance?

Blog Hop Winner

Good morning Rusty Pickle fans. Thank you all for participating in the blog hop. It sounds as though everyone had a good time and found lots of inspiration. So without further adieu the winner from lances’ blog is Amy Myers! Congratulations! Please email rusty pickle your contact info and one of the chefs  will also be contacting you on your personal blog. So congratulations once again…and many thanks once again to everyone who stopped by. Have a  Pickle-licous week!

I am in Japan and loving it (Sumo Rocks)

(blog hoppers-look below for the blog hop post)

So after a long hiatus,  I am back to my blog.  I was up at 5 am and  that is so not me.  But only in Japan, I am a morning person at least for the first week.  I got here a couple of nights ago and went right to my hotel to sleep my first night.  Then I woke up early and headed to the Sumo Tournament.  It is Day 6 out of 15 and I LOVED IT.    

I took the subway from my hotel to the Sumo event and as I got off the subway I wasn't sure exactly where to go and then I saw a Sumo in his ??? and then another and then another.  Sumo were everywhere.  So I just followed them to the stadium. 

I got there early in the day.  Sumo is an all day event that lasts from about 8:30Am until about 6pm when the Grand Champions wrestle.  I learned so much about it.  First of all, the seats are so uncomfortable. You sit on the floor with a pillow.  A really thin pillow.  As a westerner, I am so unused to sitting like that and after a day of it, I just began to hurt.   The tickets were relatively cheap.  General admission was about $25 and ring side went up to about $200 for ringside.  The cool thing was for most of the day you can sit ringside and watch it until about 4PM when the top wrestlers come out.   I had Sumo Soup for lunch and that was fun and an adventure.  

More to come about my Sumo Adventure but for now I have to leave to teach at Sakura in Tokyo.

Rusty Pickle Blog Hop

You made it to the last stop on the rusty pickle blog hop. Hopefully you had fun along the way and don’t forget to take part in all of the giveaways that the blog hopping Chefs have on their blogs! I’m sure you found lots of inspiration and are dying to get off the computer and start scrapping! Lance too loves seeing comments on his blog…so why not leave him a comment for a chance of winning a completely AWESOME prize! A name will then be drawn at random and a prize can then be sent out. Don’t forget to check back…because if your name is picked we’ll need your mailing address to send out the goodies. This prize giveaway will be open until midnight pickle time on Sunday the 20^th. Thanks again for participating…we hope you had as much fun as we did putting the hop together! You guys rock in the most Pickle-licous way!

Remember to hop back to Rusty Pickle's blog and leave a comment with what your favorite project was to be entered to win a fabulous prize from Rusty Pickle!

Look out Japan!

Lance has arrived in Japan to spread the pickelicious love!  More highlights to come... 

One great sale, TWO awesome classes from Lance!

We've teased you with the news that Lance will be teaching classes during the annual Rusty Pickle Warehouse Sale- and now we've got details!  Lance will be teaching TWO classes (check out the gorgeous project photos below!) and the rest of the week he will be teaching at CKU-Provo! If you're in town for CKU or happen to live nearby- come check out the deals we have in store for you! Our chocolate fountain will also be running  (you know, the one we only whip out twice a year for CHA) so you can indulge your tastebuds while you melt into scrapbook heaven! There will be drawings and tons of prizes. Bring a girlfriend and make a day of it!  You'll be sure to walk away with loads of bargains and a cool technique or two to help you use up those great products!

Tuesday, August 5th
7pm - 9:30pm - Way Cool Pop Star Album
 

10pm - 12:30am - My Lucky Treasure Box

Email [email protected] for questions regarding the sale and classes.

CHA Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone who visited Lance's blog over the last few days.  We hope you'll decide to stick around and visit regularly to see what Lance is up to and where in the world he's off to next! We also encourage you to subscribe to the Rusty Pickle monthly newsletter (email [email protected]) for even more great Rusty Pickle updates and ideas!

Now for the winner of Lance's Summer CHA Giveaway..

Posted by:Julie M | July 21, 2008 at 01:51 PM

Julie is the lucky winner of the following FABULOUS CHA goodies:

• a Candy Land paper pack
• a Costume Party paper pack
• Rusty Pickle Bling Jar pack (one jar of each color!)
• PLUS a Chocolate Covered Cherries t-shirt (size XL)

Congratulations, Julie!  Please email us with your mailing address so that we can send you your prizes! Thank you again to everyone who played along- until next time, happy scrapping!

THE FINE PRINT: Winners will need to email [email protected] in order to confirm their prize as well as submit their mailing address. In the past, we have asked entrants to wait until shipments arrive to our warehouse before they were sent out to winners. However, due to your feedback, we have decided to only offer giveaways this week that are already at the warehouse- which means that these items will be available to ship as soon as we return back from CHA.  Therefore, winners should allow for approximately 4 weeks for their prizes to arrive.  We thank you for your patience.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via the blog's email address.

CHA Giveaway!

Lance wanted to get in on the fun and excitement of the Rusty Pickle Blog's week-long CHA giveaway and also thank the loyal readers of his blog, so he's hosting a giveaway today, too! We will announce the winner sometime tomorrow; until then, leave a comment within this post and we will choose the lucky scrapper at random!  What do you win?  Well...

One lucky winner will receive..

> a Candy Land paper pack

> a Costume Party paper pack

> a Rusty Pickle Bling Jar pack (one jar of each color!)

PLUS a BRASS KNUCKLES t-shirt (size L)!

To enter, just leave a comment within this post and we will choose one winner at random sometime tomorrow!  Please note that the shirt is ONLY AVAILABLE IN A SIZE large due to the fact that they are printed in VERY limited quantity and usually only go out to Rusty Pickle employees who work at CHA shows! Thank you and good luck!

THE FINE PRINT: Winners will need to email [email protected] in order to confirm their prize as well as submit their mailing address. In the past, we have asked entrants to wait until shipments arrive to our warehouse before they were sent out to winners. However, due to your feedback, we have decided to only offer giveaways this week that are already at the warehouse- which means that these items will be available to ship as soon as we return back from CHA.  Therefore, winners should allow for approximately 4 weeks for their prizes to arrive.  We thank you for your patience.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via the blog's email address.

Lance is in Chicago and you know what that means..

CLASSES!  Yep, Mr. Pickle himself we be in town throughout next week teaching at several stores in the area!  If you are from the Chicago region or are in town for the Show, you won't want to miss this awesome opportunity to take a Rusty Pickle class from Lance!

Monday July 21st.
Scrapbook Friendz
Contact Maragaret 309-665-50051701
E Empire St. Ste 310
Bloomington, IL
6pm On The Go

Tuesday July 22nd
Scrappin It
Contact Jackie or Janet 217-221-1110
1849 Broadway
Quincy, IL
9:00am Stars of My Life
2:00pm Way Cool Pop Star album

Wednesday July 23rd
Scrapaganza
Contact Beth or Kelly 563-391-00992176
West Kimberly Road
Davenport, IA
10-1 Experience Life
2-5 Rustic Journey
6-10 Way Cool Popstar Album

Thursday July 24th
Scrapaganza
Contact Beth or Kelly 563-391-00992176
West Kimberly Road
Davenport, IA
1:00pm Way Cool Popstar Album

A Message from Lance in the UK!

I am so excited to come over and teach in the UK.  I just got in from teaching today.  I was in Rotterdam tonight and at scrapware earlier today.  And as it is 2 AM I am a bit tired but its 6 PM back at home and they are just finishing the week up.  I

am all over the UK over the next week. Sunday afternoon, I am at the event.  I teach the coolest Lucky Box ever.  On Monday I am going to Scrap Geanie.  I am teaching a Teach the teachers class.  It is a fun class.   I teach a couple of projects and while I teach I tell them what I am doing to help teachers learn more about teaching. Did I say teaching enough?  Tuesday I am with Altered Treasures.  I think that is what this post is about.  Wednesday, I am at the Scrap Book Shop up north.  Thursday is in Edinburgh with one of Rusty Pickles amazing designers Becky.  Then after a quick Air Lingus flight I am off to Dublin Ireland for a great little mini event with the Scrap Book Store by Annamarie.   I get to teach with Donna Downey.  She is AWESOME. 

We had a blast this week on a bit of a whirlwind tour.  Monday was Scrapbook Mate in Holland.  Tuesday - early, off to France by way of Geneva.  Wednesday in Belgium.  Voulez vous scrapbook avec moi ce soir?  I had some great fries in Belgium - oops I mean chips.  Then back to northern Holland for Simpel Scrappen.   Then, Donna was off to the UK and I was left here teaching until tomorrow night.  It is a good thing that I can sleep on flights. 

Helen mentioned there was a question about if I had taught these classes already or if they are old.  As for teaching old classes. Some are and some aren't.  For Altered Treasures, Girl Unexpected is but Pocket Pop Up is about 8 months out.  But these two are my favorite of all the classes that I have taught in the past 4 years.  Besides, if you didn't take take it with me then it is now - new to you.  They are also the most technical and maybe the most difficult to teach but they are the best classes that I have taught and I have figured out how to teach them to people of EVERY level (and all in the same class).  I break them down so that beginners can get through the class as well as an advanced scrapper.  These were designed by Karen Burniston.  Karen is one of my favorite designers for my classes.  Every kit that she does for me - moves, flips, pops or is just way too freaking cool.

The girl unexpected I believe that I taught it in Whales last year. And as for the pop up, I taught it in Holland last December (sort of).   I didn't have the actual kits and so I had to fake it.  I ended up teaching the pop up part of the kit and then we put it into another kit that they received  during class.  They were then sent the kit a few weeks later.   

Here are some revisions to my supply list.

POP UP kit  - Do not to worry about the needle nose pliers.  I have changed how I teach this class - don't bring them.  You should bring a Tacky tape (glue dots don't really cut it -If this is a problem email Helen or me at [email protected]   A scoring tool is Critical (But I also have a bunch of these).  Finally, I also recommend a wet adhesive OR glue stick for both projects.

I get on a plane tomorrow for the UK and am a little anxious about renting a car and driving on the "wrong" side of the road again.  Cheers.
Lance
Mr Pickle

PS: if you see me just give me a "BRILLIANT".  I love that word, but only with an English accent.

Japan Update

Check out Donna Downey's blog for a peek at Lance in Japan (he's featured about halfway through the video)!  More peeks to come from the trip so stay tuned!