You stalkers are NOT gonna believe this...

Yesterday a group of jewelry gals went to Indianapolis to their spring 'round-up'. We don't normally go to the Indy round up, we attend the one in Elizabethtown, KY, but their special guest was Bob Bolander. He is the vice-president of marketing for Premier Designs. He is a really funny guy & a great speaker so we all decided to go. It worked out nicely that it happened to fall on Thunder over Louisville day. I like to be as far away from Louisville as possible on that day... We stayed the night to hang out & visit & I came home today.

After the round up, our group took a pic with Bob. Uhm-he's the only one with a Y chromosome in the picture.... Ok-so here's the best part of the whole darn story. So at round-ups the ladies in Leadership bring gifts. Just like cutsie stuff super cool jewelry ladies would want. Check-out bags, cute frames, purses, showcases, cutsie things to put on your jewelry table, etc. You can buy raffle tickets & then you put them in the items you'd like to win. So I check everything out & put tickets ONLY in the things I want. Then I put more tickets in the stuff I really, really want.

At the end of the day, they draw the tickets. And our group hadn't won anything yet. But I didn't put my tickets in a lot of the items because there was something I really, really wanted. A purse. Shocker... I had put quite a few tickets in that purse.

So they're drawing & the purse comes up. And I've got my tickets. And I'm reading my numbers. And I thought I heard my number. But of course I gotta double check my tickets because I don't wanna look like a moron by jumping up & screaming like a banshee if I don't have the right number.

But I DID have the right number. And I DID jump up & scream, "THAT'S ME!!!" And because jewerly ladies are so supportive, all my jewelry sistas were screaming & clapping with me! And I was SOOOO happy!!!! I really do need another purse... (You guys can sense the sarcasm, right?!)

Here she is in all her glory. Tell me you're jealous & you love it & wish you could have it. It's ador-a-ble. (Yes, that's my purple Vera Bradley travel bag behind it. Don't judge me...) (One of my hotel-mates said, "Are you taking a picture of that purse?" I said, "UH YES! It's for my BLOG!") It also came with a matching wallet & zebra striped flip flops. Score! However, I didn't really need the wallet because I have a zebra striped clutch with a "J" on it I got for Christmas. My jewelry Grandma, Gerilee, has a zebra striped purse. (It's just not as cute as mine. Pssssh.) So I asked her if she'd like the wallet & of course, she did! See, I can be nice when I want to...