What an awesome day! The Tour de Thrift was so much fun. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet so many new people and hang out with some of my awesome friends. I feel like I made so many new friends too. I loved it! My dearest friend Monica came all the way from Ohio to visit her family just to come to the Tour! 😉 We had 3 people come from Tucson, 1 from Prescott, and of course oodles from the Phoenix metro area.
Before I left in the morning my husband told me to make sure I good a time. Since I am prone to stressing over every little detail, I decided to take him to heart and just focus on having fun. This means I only took 3 pictures the whole morning! So I am going to be borrowing some pics from the other ladies. Thanks ladies!

We started out with brunch at Mimi’s cafe. Right away everyone got to write their name on the Chalkboard name tags. We had Chalkboard markers to use but once everyone takes them home, they can be written on with regular chalk. That was my contribution to everyone. I’ll be doing a post on them later.

Back to breakfast… I’ve never eaten anything from their breakfast menu before and it was delicious. Our servers were such troopers too. It wasn’t easy serving so many people AND dealing with their computer systems being down.

At Mimi’s Cafe, everyone received their swag bags. Jax and I spent an eternity a little while making eleventy billion fabric flowers to decorate each bag. I really think they made the bags extra special and crafty of course. {I’ll be posting the tutorials we used, as well as a tutorial of my own for all the different flowers we made.}

Special Thanks to Behr Paint, Choose the Writing, the Crafty Chica, DISChangers.com, DoChara Photography, Goodwill of Central Arizona, Gorilla Glue, Krylon, and Mod Podge Rocks for stuffing our swag bags!

As everyone ate we did some drawings for door prizes. We had such great sponsors that donated some awesome prizes! They were SO generous that half of all the attendees were able to win a prize. Sweet! We added it up and the door prizes were worth just under $600. Whoa!

Next we were headed out to three different Goodwill stores, but not before we surprised everyone with the $5 gift cards that Goodwill provided for everyone! Thanks Goodwill of Central Arizona! I wish I had been able to record the shrieks of delight at the Goodwill gift card.

Here are a few shots of the fun! Be sure to check out the linky at the bottom to see all the coverage of the event.

I had a total blast and I can’t wait for second annual Arizona Bloggers Tour de Thrift! Next year I think I will be bringing along a photographer so I can still have a blast AND have pictures of everything.

I am including the link party on this post too! Please add your posts about the Tour de Thrift so we can all see!

Thanks for the pictures Aly & Ash and Lil’ Luna.