What's in Store for the Pampered Chef Conference in Chicago?

[MissChef]

NOOOOO!!! No stopping! I need to go soooo bad! I LOVE MY GIRL TIME!
I need to go shopping too!
43days and COUNTING! J/K! LOL!

 

[MissChef]

42 days!!!! I'm still counting!

 

[straitfan]

I went shopping over the weekend and got sandals and 1 new outfit. Getting ready!

 

[soccermama]

OK, FINE! Keep counting....

 

[MissChef]

I will! 41......!!!! LOL!

 

[soccermama]

:::::I'm not looking, though:::::: LOL Once I see a big sales month for June, I'll be ready, then I'll know that I can afford the trip!!!! lol (I already paid for the plane ticket and conference.... but I'm planning on SHOPPING and eating LOTS while I'm there!!!! lol)

 

[MissChef]

:::::I'm not looking, though:::::: LOL Once I see a big sales month for June, I'll be ready, then I'll know that I can afford the trip!!!! lol (I already paid for the plane ticket and conference.... but I'm planning on SHOPPING and eating LOTS while I'm there!!!! lol)

I'm with you Celeste! I am praying for a big check also!

 

[JAE]

I am going to wait until the last minute to get anything new. I am hoping to be a size of two smaller!

If you want to lose a size or two, walk at least a half hour every day, no exceptions. AND eat oatmeal, the slow cooking kind, with no sugar, every day until conference. I add golden raisins, bananas, or frozen blueberries (picked fresh and frozen by me last summer). I make sure I get fruit in every bite or YUCK. Cinnamon added is good too. I just forget sometimes. I'll be rooting for you!

 

[pamperedalf]

I can't wait for conference, I am going to have a great June, and I can't wait until the paycheck comes. Chicago watch out.

 

[MissChef]

If you want to lose a size or two, walk at least a half hour every day, no exceptions. AND eat oatmeal, the slow cooking kind, with no sugar, every day until conference. I add golden raisins, bananas, or frozen blueberries (picked fresh and frozen by me last summer). I make sure I get fruit in every bite or YUCK. Cinnamon added is good too. I just forget sometimes. I'll be rooting for you!

Adding some splenda would help make it sweet. I also put a small amount of walnuts in there with the cinnamon!

 

[soccermama]

My June should really be great! I currently have held 2 shows and I'm sitting just under $1,000 I have 3 more cooking shows and a catalog show going. I'm still trying to book some more shows..... I might hold my own "Shop & Go" show for a quick show to bump up the sales a bit (and hopefully the bookings, too )

 

[straitfan]

Shop & Go?

..... I might hold my own "Shop & Go" show for a quick show to bump up the sales a bit (and hopefully the bookings, too )

How will this work? Just a cute name for an open house, or is there something more to it? I HAVE to do something to get my June going!!!!!!

 

[soccermama]

I guess it's basically a no cooking demo show. Most people I've talked to just are soooo busy, that I thought I could offer them a "Shop & Go" show by making a recipe at home and brining it with me. Then at the show, I'll have an on-time drawing so we can start ON TIME, I'll have 1-2 games (depending on the group, I think) and just do a quick Queen of Shoppers or Catalog Walk. The guests can eat, shop and GO.... should be about an hour (or less) Sales might not be as high, but it's better than NO SHOW at all.....

 

[straitfan]

So you still need a hostess--or else do your own. Hmmmmmmm I might offer that to some of the on the fence hostesses. I also need to look into pampering a business. The girls from the huge bridal shower I had a couple of months ago all work in the same dental office. One of them was going to host, but then backed out the week before. I thought I might take the show to them!

 

[soccermama]

I have a couple "on the fence" hosts that I'm going to offer this to, and I'm also planning to have one myself!!! I will invite all my customers, especially those that haven't bee to a show in awhile.

Good idea on taking the show to them, after the show got cancelled. I love it!!!

 

[lacychef]

OK, 40 I think we're the only countdown still going, lol!

I like the "shop & go" name! I may do a "shop & go, & see my new house!". I've gotta come up with another couple shows....

 

[MissChef]

Lacy! Where have you been?! I just kept on counting down, wondering where you were!
40 days! Wow this is the amount of time that Noah spent on the Ark!
I did a little shopping yesterday, but I'm not going to take off the tags, cause I'm jumping on my South Beach diet phase 1 and I'm going to do it, I'm heading to the grocery store in just a minute and loading up on fresh veggies and lowfat cheese and whatever else I can eat on phase 1, it's the only way I'll make it! My cabinets have to be stocked with the stuff I need or I will backslide!
I'm hoping to pull off some weight and go about 2-3 sizes smaller! I need to start walking today too or riding my bike, I like that idea even better, than the kids will join in and have a blast!

I stood in the dressing rooms yesterday and just looked at myself and almost cried! And those darn mirrors don't lie!!! Dang, they slapped me right in the face and punched me right between the eyes! ! I can't blame it on the 'camera adding five-ten pountds, it wasn't a camera!
I need to do this for my happiness and for my health! I can do it, I know I can!

 

[lacychef]

Cathy, you crack me up! I hope to meet you You all were just doing such a good job, I was letting you count down!
I know what you mean, I need to drop a couple sizes too. I'm going to drag my old 10speed bike out of my parents' basement I think. I've been walking a lot, but I need something else.....actually I should say my 95 lb chcolate lab has been walking me, lol

 

[MissChef]

Well, I know Rae and Carolyn have set up a meet and greet in one of the hotels but that is for wave 2, and I'm not about to fly in 2 days early and pay hotel costs to do that! lol, I mean I love all the cheffers but I'll just have to be content with wave 3!
What I'm trying to say here is that maybe someone here in wave 3 could organized a meet and greet in one of the hotel's little lounge/restaurant area. I'm not a great organizer but I'd help out and I'd surely go. They are going to do it I think the 2nd night after the exec banquet. What do you all think?

 

[Brandi2007]

OMG! We had our cluster meeting last night... the LAST one until after conference! It was soooo energizing and exciting! We got our special binders and talked about the fun we are going to have all night long! WOO HOO! I really need to get shopping.....!!!!!

 

[lacychef]

Brandi; aren't team meetings great for that?! We have another meeting next week, as well as one the week before we leave.

Cathy; what hotel are you staying at? I'm at the Sheraton....& I"m no good at organizing things either!
I think I'm going shopping this weekend, my mom & I are going to a river-festival out of town where they actually have stores besides the dollar stores

Hey, 39

 

[AJPratt]

Hey, 39

WOO HOO!!! 39!!!

 

[MissChef]

Lacy~ uhhhhh...... ummmmmm...... I don't know! My Advanced director has it all set up! I know I have a room because I was one of the first to tell her to count me in! I need to e-mail her and find out.
Now, if worse comes to worse we can just make an announcement of where we'll be and invite everyone and see what happens from there! Most of the time the ladies that I'm with stay in one of the main hotels. I'll find out and let you know!
39 days! I can't wait!
My daugher is counting down her own countdown, today is her field trip, tomorrow is her birthday, and I always take in a really huge Choc.Chip cookie made on the lg rnd stone, decorated with chocolate frosting and happy birthday on it! I've done it for my son for years and last year I was going to do it for my daughter and she came down with strep throat the afternoon before her birthday!
I also make for her whatever she'd like for dinner, this year it's breakfast for dinner! Pancakes, eggs, country fried potatoes, sausage, bacon and english muffins! And of course it will be served on the Celebrate plate because that's our tradition! Dang I'm going to be pooped by the end of tomorrow night!

And then she's excited about Saturday, cause that's her party! So tomorrow I'll be working ALL day in the kitchen. Cause I need to make her cupcakes, and she wants me to make her and ice cream cake! oh boy! this is my first!
Wish me luck....!

 

[SummerG]

I'm at the Sheraton

I'm staying at the Sheraton too!

I would love to attend a meet-n-great! I'd be willing to help out.

 

[pamperedalf]

My group is at the Sheraton as well. We should set up a time to meet!!

 

[AJPratt]

I'm at the Sheraton, too! (Like how I just invite myself?!)

 

[pamperedalf]

Yeah Anne, I will finially get to meet you. You didn't stay at the Sheraton last year did you?


Invite yourself, that's what I did.

 

[lacychef]

Awesome! Sounds like lots of us are at the same hotel We stayed there 2 yrs ago; I know there's a restaurant with an outdoor patio.....hmmm

Cathy, how old is your daughter turning? My dd turns 8 eek: ) next Thursday. We're having her first slumber party & will have 7 other girls. We're having a hula party--we went crazy with the Oriental Trading magazine--got leis & grass skirts for each girl & they'll hula to a DVD my parents brought back from Hawaii, then they're going to limbo (my dad made a limbo pole out of some wood & pvc pipe he had)....not sure what else yet, but it will look festive with fake palm trees, parrot, flowers....oh boy!

 

[MissChef]

38 days!

outdoor patio, huh?! Hmmmm does sounds very intriguing (sp?)

Lacy, my daughter is 7 today! We are not doing a big party, just family. I think maybe next year we'll think about it! And the thought of that many little girls in my house.... scary.... my 11 year old son would freak!!!!
But we'll see! I just might do it to torture him! J/K! LOL!

 

[pamperedalf]

It's a hamburger place, and let me tell you how good that burger was. It was a little $$ like $9 but it was so good.