Hello Friends! It's that time again. The time of year when my dedicated Curly Girl staff and I lace up our travel shoes, pack our cutest outfits and head out to sell our wares at the trade shows. It's a bit like a traveling circus….we put on our tutus and a little rouge and twirl around for everybody hoping for applause (or in our case, the ordering of fun Curly Girl product by fun stores so that fun you can find it there!). Through the years we have made some dear dear friends at these shows and get to see their pretty faces when we roll into town. It makes the whole process feel more like a community than you might think.
This year, we made a dramatic change in our presence at the Atlanta Gift Show. We moved our booth out of the temporary section of the show (where we would set up and break down a big booth each time we came to town) to a permanent showroom in another building of the Mart. This was a big decision (that you can read more about here) and I have to say, that as I walked up to our bright and shiny space this morning and turned the key to open it (instead of building it!) I felt pretty darn good about it.
IT'S SO STINKING CUTE!!!!!! I just love being in here and I think that our buyers do too! (Here's hoping!) So, if you are a buyer, and you are coming to market PLEASE come by and see us! We are serving champagne after 4pm most days and are just generally looking forward to seeing everyone! We are in Building 2WW #690a.
Because I will be here in this nice cool showroom in one of the hottest places on earth most of the week, and because I get to be surrounded by all of this cute stuff all week, I think it's time for a little give away!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEAL!!!
I just got to see and hold our new Curly Girl Luggage Tags from Santa Barbara Design Studio and they are so cool and each one is so cute that I can't decide which one to put on my own bag!
So, the winner of today's give away will receive not one, not two, but a whole set of 7 Curly Girl Design Luggage Tags!!! One for each of your adventures! Just comment on this post (one comment per person please) and tell us where your traveling circus has taken you this summer. While you're at it, share this blog with a friend who you think would love it (no extra points, it's just the nice thing to do.) We will pick a winner Friday July 15th. Good Luck!!
xoxo
I love those cute luggage tags. I just discovered your blog today, have been in love with your company forever! I just got back from 2 weeks in California and am heading to Japan next week to visit my sister and help in an area that was hit by the earthquake. Should be an epic adventure! 😉
Adorable – and am in desperate need of luggage tags for my beach bag. This traveling circus is off to the coast of Maine for the summer – and I have the same beach bag as my sister-in-law and my mom – one too many times going home with the wrong bag!!
i just returned from a week in SoCal (palm springs, san diego, and los angeles) with my girlfriends. i’m now on my way to louisiana to work as a youth camp counselor for a week, then i’ll have about two weeks to recuperate before jetting off to chicago for one last vacay with a friend. i could really put those luggage tags to good use! 🙂
Congrats on the Atlanta space! Loooove the luggage tags….and all things Curly Girl!!!
Me and my BFF are opening a cupcake shop in a few months and will be traveling to Indianapolis, Denver and New Orleans to do “research”. We will drive a day, laugh and eat cupcakes for day, drive another day….repeat. If we would have known you would be in Atlanta, we may of shown up there. It’s a long way from Nebraska!
Our family’s circus has taken us to weddings galore – one in NM, two in Chicago plus showers, plus weekends to make stuff for said weddings, etc. etc. Love love love your work and your blog! xo
I needed your luggage tags this past year. I did not know if I was coming or going. Last November, my husband and I pulled out of our comfortable life, to a life unknown; bags packed, never-ending road trip, living with family. Finally we have settled. 2,000 miles from our families. And now this time, we’ll be flying back, luggage in tow, full hearts and minds.
So you see. Last year I could have used your tags. This year, I really could use them…joyfully traveling back to our family and everything known.
I’m going to a family circus this weekend! For the past 18 years my grandma and her 8 sisters have hosted an annual girls weekend (age 21+ up only and no men!) at a lake in Wisconsin. We’re a bunch of Irish women who love fun, food and family!
There is a group of 50 or so of us, 3 generations deep, that come from around the country to bunk in a couple of cottages on the lake. The weekend includes a night at the bar, a themed event (roaring 20’s this year!), relaxing on the lake, lots of great food and a Catholic mass overlooking the lake.
I am in love with this luggage tags. Even if I don’t win, I will definitely buy one or all for anyone and everyone!
My adventures this summer takes me to St. Croix for a destination wedding—not my own, but good friends.
Happy trade show days!
Since I live at the beach, and I have the whole summer off from teaching, I like to go visit cities…kind of a reversal of most people’s vacations. This summer has included Charleston and Boston, with D.C. and a possible Vegas trip thrown in. And oddly enough, I go to Phoenix in the summers to wilt and visit family.
My family circus enjoyed quaint and rustic Maine – detached from TV, Cell, Internet. It was the best reminder that the greatest adventures in life are made by the people you are sharing it with!
Getting ready to take my grandson on an adventure in Boston. (We live in San Jose, CA). Curly Girl would make a MOST EXCELLent travel companion!
How cute!!! My traveling circus has taken me on a roadtrip across the United States… From Washington State to Miami, FL!
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and maybe a surprise getaway that’s yet-to-be-determined!!
My traveling circus has been one of INTERVIEWS! We have finally ended up in Western New York but there is much traveling still to be had as we go back to visit friends and family!!
The luggage tags are beyond cute! I started summer with a trip to Hungary and will spend the rest at home until late August when I head to Maine. I need cute luggage tags for sure!
This traveling circus, and with 3 boys that’s a good name for it, just returned from an 11 day road trip to WI from NH and back. Looking forward to our restful trip to the beach in Maine soon. Congrats on the beautiful space in Atlanta!
Love these tags! I have my bags packed and I’m ready to go…my travels are kicking into high gear as we take off tomorrow for Cleveland, OH for my girlfriend’s wedding. It’s the beginning of a two-week celebration with our closest college girlfriends…capped off with my wedding the following weekend! It’s wedding season, and love is all around us. We’re so excited to see all our planning and hard work come together in a beautiful day to share with our friends and family. We’re taking a mini-moon after the wedding for some R&R in New England, with our honeymoon booked for Antigua in December 🙂 Can’t wait!
I just returned home from my “oh!” birthday trip to Montreal. The Jazz Festival is an amazing event featuring over 300 artists over 10 days. A real treat was discovering Alex Pangman, a young Canadian singer whose song selections all honored the organ donor who made her double-lung transplant possible. You’d never believe this powerful singer ever had trouble with her lungs! I had so many challenges with airports and airlines (my return trip got completely deleted thanks to inbound cancellations). I’d love to have some luggage tags to help me navigate future circuses! 🙂 Thank you for bringing a smile through your creations!
I love following Curly Girl online. I discovered your products a few years ago at a quaint little art gallery in Holland, MI (I live in Lansing, MI) and identified with the style more than any other stationary product to date. I continued to order online and “follow” the web site. Only within the last year or so did I discover this blog, and your social media platform. I love watching what you are doing and keeping it as inspiration while I create my own work.
I am traveling to Alaska to visit my cousin in a couple of weeks. I love the outdoors and the forest and water are inspirational and peaceful for me. Last year, I went for the first time and was truly able to regroup and think about my next steps with my own products and business.
Please keep up the amazing work!
OoOOoooOoh how adorable! I would love to use these on my mini-moon to Newport in August, or better yet, for my *real* Honeymoon to Turks and Caicos in November! That is, if I can survive the wedding! [gulp]
I first discovered your products in a little art gallery in Holland, MI. I loved them and identified with them more than any other stationary to that point. I continued to visit your web site periodically and use your style and words as inspiration in my own work. A year or so ago I found your social media set up and have been following regularly ever since!
In a couple of weeks, I am traveling to Alaska (from Michigan) to visit my cousin. I feel most at peace and inspired when I am in the woods and by lakes and streams. Exploring helps regroup and focus my products and my next steps as I develop my own business.
Keep creating-i love seeing what comes next!
Leigh,
Love the luggage tags. I’ve been traveling around the state of South Dakota for work this summer, but I’m headed out for a big adventure in October. Three couples will travel to Italy for an 8 day bicycle adventure. I could use a tag for my luggage and for my bike. While you are in Hotlanta, be sure to stop by Mary Mac’s Tea Room for some authentic southern fare.
This summer I’ve been all over the state of Texas visiting my girlfriends, their hubs/significant others, and children. It’s been lovely to spend time with people that I love & be able to take my work with me. I’m hoping to take my traveling circus (including my pup Molly) on more adventures before fall arrives. These tags would be the perfect compliment to my bags 🙂 Can’t wait to see more! Your designs never cease to bring a smile to my face!
Cheers,
Miss L.A.
I’ll be traveling back home to Saint Louis, Missouri to visit my family :0)
squee! these are so awesome!! I would love to keep a couple and then give them as gifts to all my travelling girlfriends. LOVE!
Cheryl
I LOVE CURLY GIRL even when my tiaria gets rousted a bit and my cape gets blown backwards with all the craziness at work! I still find myself SMILING!!!
I travel every week with my job and the luggage tags would be very busy being shown off in all the airports. For vacation i am going to see my mom who lives in Montana which will be nice break from the sweltering triple digit summer here in Dallas,Tx! I also have your laptop skins and they are a hit everywhere i go! I;m huge fan and my home is decorated with Curly girl as well as every card i give out!! Love ya.
my traveling circus has kept me close to home but includes trips to craft classes, the beach and bbq’s!
My traveling circus will soon take me to my brother’s wedding in Texas.
I’m so excited for him. After three deployments to Iraq, he deserves a circus-like fun time!
My daughter introduced me to Curly Girl. Now she is wanting new luggage for Christmas…what could be better to add to the gift than luggage tags to go with it.
my circus has brought me through intense knee surgery and now physical therapy. my circus will start traveling throughout the midwest and east coast with a high-level soccer team in august!
So, I am checking in from Costa Rica on Facebook this morning and see this contest! Even with very limited email access, I am not going to miss out on an opportunity to win something Curly Girl—especially these fantastic luggage tags. I get back from CR and start a brand new job that is all travel, all the time, both domestically and internationally. What a perfect piece to make me smile each time I grab my bag at the airport!
I have loved Curly Girl designs ever since I saw your canvas Tiara quote in the Pittsburgh airport. I looked up your website and have been hooked ever since.
My travels this summer have been the most adventurous ever, especially since, by nature, I’m not a very adventurous person. But there is always that part of me that whispers..“enjoy this..it will be fun!”. So this spring, I have sailed the British Virgin Islands with my husband and children – for 10 days we lived on the sea – sleeping under the stars and exploring the islands and ocean. Next week we are heading to Belgium, The Swiss Alps and finally Paris, France. But my favorite place of all is still close to home. Our lake cottage in upstate NY sits on the quaint Finger Lake called Keuka or “crooked lake.” It is a place so peaceful and blessed that I never get tired of sitting on the deck waiting for the perfect sunset that never ceases to amaze me by its brilliant beauty. Now, if only I could have all that AND perfect hair…but I am still content.. I just need some luggage tags to make my joy complete! :o)
Those tags are so cute and would just go so wonderfully on my luggage that I seem to be using almost every week.
The first week my summer I had to house sit for a family friend in Annapolis so I packed my bags and was there for a whole week. Then I had a week of downtime and it was time to hit the road again but this time with my family. We’ve been driving to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina for 13 years now for our family vacation. It was a wonderful two weeks and then on the way back up the east coast my brother, sister, and I got to stop at my grandparents house in Myrtle Beach, SC for a week. The next place I’m heading off too is Martha’s Vineyard to help in leadership for a camp up there. Then after that is the long drive back up to Illinois for my third year of college. These tags would so help me see my luggage from everyone else’s when I fly home for breaks. 🙂
Hope the show goes well and you have a great time.
Very cute luggage tags…they give me inspiration to replace my tired old bags (I mean suitcases!) My traveling circus is all about family this summer – new grandchild arriving soon! Quick trip back east visiting family on the Cape – a little slice of heaven! A taking along Curly Girls would be just grand!
This year I was lucky enough to have been able to take three trips! Vegas (an annual trip), San Fran and right now I am in Denver visiting fam! A lucky year for me.
LOVE the luggage tags. This summer my traveling circus has taken me to the mountains nearby a couple of times, and I’m hoping it will take me somewhere requiring an airplane ride later this summer or early this fall. Maybe California or Europe…
Too perfect!!! I’m so blessed that a woman that shares a shop with me and 10 other women sells your wonderful wares! My family has decided to keep our money in the U.S. this year and we are going to Boothbay, Maine! I’m a wife and mom with 3 sons, a husband, and father in law-they all love the beach so we usually go somewhere hot with a beach. This year is my kind of vaca-seeing something other than ocean water (not that there’s anything wrong with that)! Water skiing, fishing, boating, horse-back riding and, yes, I’m still talking a real vacation and not a box of tampons. I love your art!
this summer, the traveling circus and i will be headed to Charleston, SC darling! My first time to go and I cannot wait! Me and my sister and a group of friends will DEFINITELY have luggage – so we’re in need for the cute tags! Thank you!
This circus (sans Phoebe the Wonder dog who’s staying home with the teen) is headed to Hungary, Austria, Belgium and Czech Republic.
Let’s take Curly Girl INTERNATIONAL!!!
I’ll have no problem talking to strangers about my luggage tags~I’m known for talking to anyone..
Life is a circus, even if we’re not travelling to much besides softball and baseball games! But we did go to Port Angeles, WA to help sister and family pack up for move to Laramie, WY. Made time for a bit of sea glass hunting. We’ll get to the beach and other lovely Oregon spots with CA family in August. LOVE Curly Girl. Have a great show!
I have been to Cleveland once already this year and will be going again in September for a “new” cousin’s wedding. I say “new” because last year I found my biological father thanks to the wonders of Facebook! My first trip this year was for a surprise 25th wedding anniversary party for my “new” aunt & uncle. They said they were surprised by the party but even more surprised to see me!
Western Ohio for a family reunion and that is IT! 1st kidlet is going off to college this fall, so it is budget, budget, budget!!! 🙂
Western Ohio for a family reunion and that is it! Our 1st born is off to college in the fall, and so we are really watching those pennies!
I would love to include your adorable showroom on my own traveling circus tour this summer but every free day off (I’m a nurse.. I have a lot of them) has consisted of a mini-trip to somewhere: Costa Rica, San Diego, Nashville, Canada… not to mention a road trip from Tennessee to Seattle where I just relocated to only to turn around and fly to Boston to see my little brother sing the National Anthem at the Red Sox Game last Thursday! Next up: Vancouver, Los Angeles and then finally a bachelorette party in Las Vegas to celebrate the end of summer! =) I’m sending this blog to my favourite friend to travel with… we studied abroad in Italy a few summers back! =) Ciao, {curly} bella
Lovin these tags! What a great thing for people to see as they stand there waiting (and waiting and waiting…) for their luggage to make it off the plane. I may just let my luggage circle a few times for the enjoyment!
The Soozie Buns show takes a road trip, is how my hubby refers to our vacation plans. We’re leaving Phoebe the Wonder dog (who looks just like the dog above!) home to care for our college bound daughter while we head off to cruise the Danube. We’ll visit Hungary, Austria, Germany, Belgium and Czech Republic.
How fun to take Curly Girl International!!??
They’ll be the perfect addition to my cape and tiara t-shirt I’ll be wearing on the plane.
THESE are adorable!! And, I would use these sweet tags to travel for my HONEYMOON in October!! I am sure I will have more than one bag, so the set of seven would be PERFECT! 🙂
I absolutely love those tags!! My traveling circus has lead me to Boston MA this summer, as well as Cape Cod!! Mmm nothing beats te fresh seafood that we are unable to get here in Rochester, NY. Hoping to head south later this summer to visit some family – those tags would be the perfect addition to the luggage! Love my Curly Girl 🙂
So far my summer travels have been a weekend trip to DC. I am heading to Boston late summer and think I need a CG luggage tag for that big adventure!!!
I love your artwork & all your products! The luggage tags look great, and it would be nice to have something on my luggage that doesn’t look blah, bland, boring & “institutional”. This year, I’ve gone to see family in Delaware, and hope to see more family in Kingston Ontario & friends in Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba also. My dream trip this year (because I’m turning 50) would be to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. I’ve always admired their work, so it would be nice to volunteer there for a week, to participate & see it up close. Those are some of the places I would love to take your luggage tags, to spread Curly Girl around the world as much as possible. 🙂
I am hoping (fingers crossed) to be going to visit a pal of mine in Pennsylvania this fall. I would LUUUUUUV a set of tags. L.U.V.
I’ve been a traveling fool! There was Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Venice Beach, San Diego, and Kentucky. And to end the summer…… Italy & Greece!!
My traveling circus has not traveled this summer, but rather is consumed by fixing up our new (to us) house!
My traveling circus has taken me from Minnesota to Florida for an exciting adventure at both St. Pete’s Beach and Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando. I absolutely love everything that comes out of your line because they always say just the right thing.
My traveling circus took me to Houston on 3 different trips to celebrate my brother’s wedding… 2 showers and the wedding itself. Every trip was an awesome delight & we had the BEST time together!
For the 3rd trip, my dog – Henry – got to go along. He travels like a carry-on under the seat (thank you Continental – I refuse to call them United) for fee. He played with his doggie cousins and went swimming in Grampa & Gramma’s backyard in a baby pool… man, is it HOT in Texas for a little dog! Anyway, on the flight back, the flight attendant gave him his “wings” when she was passing them out to all of the children on the plane. It was hilarious – but who can resist his sweet puppy face? Clearly no one!
I’d LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win the tags… Henry would, too!
Well, my summer has been spent studying for my first board exam of medical school! Talk about stressful. I have been good to myself, as I think we all should be, and found time for some rest and relaxation. I’ve visited Nashville, TN, returned to my family in the north Georgia mountains, ventured to Asheville, NC where I found likeminded people around a drum circle. I have moved from Denver to Colorado Springs. And will travel to Santa Barbara in the coming weeks. All this with a large suitcase of books and flashcards, but not quite as in style as it would be with Curly Girl Luggage Tags ;o)
My traveling circus has taken me to the relaxing beaches of Manomet, MA.
Leigh…My crazy traveling circus look me to Appleton Wi to meet you at Scatter Joy! We had the best time and it was truly one of the best parts of this crazy summer (except for the speeding ticket and getting lost on the way home)… but I have huge hopes of traveling more in the next year and would love some cute luggage tags! My god-daughter just turned one and lives in Kansas and I need to go snuggle with her… I was thinking the luggage tags would be the perfect excuse to book a ticket, cause you know I would have to show em off! Sending love to you!
I live in Kansas City, MO and my traveling circus took me home over father’s day weekend to Minneapolis, MN to visit with all of my family, and my friends from high school. I flew in early AM and was with my Grandpa and father at my Grandpa’s VA nursing home by 8AM.. We spent the day walking around the park and then there was a lovely picnic and bbq. It was a perfect day. The real reason I was in town, however was to surprise my good friend Pat (we call him MUH) who had a surprise party thrown for him by his wife because he was being deployed to Iraq. It was so nice to get to see my best friends again, especially under the circumstances. Everyone looks a bit more precious when you know you won’t see them for awhile.
My traveling circus has also led me back to my college town Ames, IA. It’s been one year since I graduated from Iowa State and Truly, Literally, Absolutely everything has changed for me since I lived there. My two best friends Kayla and Rob still live in Ames so I love to go back and see them, walk around the campus, frequent our favorite bar with the amazing tacos 😀 and remind myself of the crazy girl I still can be. I’m in a completely different place now, with new perspective, and 200 hundred new things on my plate and a whole new city of friends… I miss Ames so much but I wouldn’t change any of my situation for the world.
Traveling circus describes THIS girl perfectly. Because I don’t mind bringing the show—my stories, the fun and laughter, to the people I love. It is only when we get together that I feel complete, and it is from painful airport particulars, hours of driving, all of the ridiculous tiredness and there-is-never-enough-time-what-should-we-do-first-i-missed-you-so-much! stuff that make me realize how much I treasure the people in my life.
Future circus-freak traveling: fingers crossed I get to reunite with my other homeland, Hawaii this winter! It’s a shadow of an idea but I hope it happens.
Thanks!
Oh, wow cute!! Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to travel yet (no holiday) but I took a few wonderful camera walks to a lake nearby!:-)
Love the new tags! Of course, I love everything curly girl. Most recently my summer.adventures have taken me to eastern Tennessee and Western Carolina to spend some time with family and friends. Lawrence, Kansas, is wonderful, but it is a long way from home.
My traveling circus has kept closer to home this summer, due to the economy… BUT it will be taking me to Birchwood, WI, for a week in August with the YaYa’s: a group of friends, cobbled together from different areas of the midwest and parts of our lives, into an indispensable collection of well-traveled, life-embracing, wine-appreciating, always-dependable, bargain-finding, giggly-happy, bursting-with-love( AND huge CG fans!) women who mean the world to me. These FAB-u-lous luggage tags would be perfect for our next adventure!
I would LOVE to have these luggage tags!! My summer is one HUGE adventure, more traveling than I can wrap my head around.
It started visiting family in MO, then taking kids to sleep away camp in the Poconos. I’m at Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas right now and next week I take my youngest daughter on her first trip to NYC! After that, it’s a week Stowe, VT and a week traveling around the coast of Maine. Then, back to the Poconos to pick up the camp children and finally, Home Sweet Home!
It’s a lot, but I love it! I’m so grateful for all the adventures this summer! Thanks for the chance to win!
My travelling circus took me from my drab cubicle in Texas to the very Grand Cayman Islands to swim with the Stingrays (eek!)!
I spent a wonderful week in the sun and sand and was able to come back with a nice sunkissed tan 🙂 I Love Vacation!
And….It was my first time to see water that blue!
I love your work! Your prints are all over my house! I would love to add the luggage tags to my collection!
What a fun set to share with friends!
This summer, my honey and I were moving and had a month between new jobs. We were able to travel up and down the east coast (FL, PA, NJ, CT, MA) to visit friends and family!
It was lovely and we are so lucky to have an amazing support network. We hope to see them all again soon:)
From mid-May through June, I travel for work. I’ve been to 3 cities in Missouri, 2 in Oklahoma, 1 in Louisiana, and about 17 in Texas. Whew! It’s a good thing I am a girl born with “go” shoes.
Your luggage tags are fantastic!
Love love love Curly Girl!! So far I’ve been able to find some pretty little fancies in three states (NY, GA & CO) and I’m on the hunt for more! Wouldn’t these luggage tags be the perfect accessory for my bags as I travel on my quest for more Curly Girl?! 😉
This summer, my traveling circus took me to Wyoming for a photography workshop. Took tons of pictures of horses with the beautiful Grand Tetons in the background. Truly a wonderful experience. I had the chance to reconnect with old friends and the opportunity to make new ones. Not certain if I have more travels in store for the summer, I only know that I’m looking forward to whatever the summer brings.
Thank you for your wonderful cards and their messages. Truly enjoyable!
I am going to Madison and Milwaukee Wisconsin next week (my boyfriend is working there for the summer!) and I was JUST thinking I want a cute luggage tag for my new luggage… What a great giveaway!
Love these luggage tags and they would have come in handy with my travelling circus a week or so ago. I was sent on a business trip to Southampton, UK to do some training representing our Corporate offices. Then next week in Southern California we are preparing for “Carmageddon.” One of our major freeways is closing for a weekend and it will be chaos on the roads, so essentially we are gonna get a room down at the beach and try to avoid the whole mess. Then at the beginning of Fall we will be embarking on a 7-day cruise leaving out of New York and travelling along the East Coast and Canada. I’m super excited because the travelling circus will take us to Boston as one of our ports of call where I’m hoping to block out a couple hours to come visit Marmalade….get so giddy and happy just thinking about the possibilities.
Love your stuff! My traveling took me to Myrtle Beach this summer!
This summer I went to Vegas to celebrate my 21st birthday! I went with all the women in my family! If I won I would give everyone that joined me on my journey a tag! I am so thankful for such loving people in my life! & I love your blog so much! & your message!! Thanks curly girl designs! <3
My traveling circus was a full move from one province in Canada to another. Big to small. It has been quite an adventure! So, everywhere I go this summer, I am experiencing something new…in the place I live!
I love your creations. Your sense of humor is awesome and I totally enjoy your writings on your blog. Your perspective on life is infectious (in a good way :o)
The luggage tags are so cute as is everything else that’s Curly Girl.
My travels took me to the Carolinas where I welcomed a new grandbaby into the family and applauded as another one graduated from high school.
I hope I win!
Hello to all the Curly Girls out there! My travels have taken me to New York City, the beach .. and Columbus, Ohio! Hehehe 🙂 I can honestly say that my suitcase would be much better off with a Curly Girl luggage tag than with that yucky thing the airlines stick on there!
Happy Summer!!
My travelling circus has just taken me to the Berkshires where we were proud to announce the January 2012 arrival of my daughter Samantha’s little sister or brother. We made the long drive from St. Louis to the Berkshires with a car packed of 2 labs, 1 toddler, 1 husband, 1 pregnant mommy, and many many bags that would have been way happier with a cute tag from Curly Girl!!
In two weeks, I am taking the trip of a lifetime with a friend to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN to for a college leadership seminar! We are SO SO SO excited to learn some fundraising ideas, take a tour of the hospital, AND play with the patients <3 Not much of a circus trip at all,however the REAL circus will come in when the two of us 21 year olds get dropped off at the airpot at 4am and hope somehow we figure our way around. This will be my second time on an airplane and my first time doing it on my own! I can’t see how we would lose our luggage with such adorable luggage tags?! Besides we certainly are packing up our potential and heading out to change a few things ;)! Much love to the CurlyGirl Fam! We LOVE your stuff!
LOVE the luggage tags!! Road trip last month from Salem, OR to Chico, CA. Later this summer, some weekend trips to some Oregon beaches…LOVE the Pacific Ocean!!
My traveling circus took me to the boundary waters between Canada and Minnesota. Oh lordy, it was absolutely fabulous! I just finished my first year of teaching in the Chicago Public Schools. It was a whirlwind of a year (I LOVE teaching more than I ever thought possible) and the peace of the boundary waters was just what the doctor ordered. ahhhh….
My BIG travel was to see my fiance in Burma earlier this year but I have the joy of leaving next week to see my oldest & dearest friend (from high school) at her new home in Texas. Alas, that is my only summer trip but this fall my family is off to Disney World (fun at ANY age!) before I plan to head back to Burma in the new year.
It would be so much fun to take your whimsy and joy with me on my suitcases no matter how near or far I travel 🙂
Not traveling anywhere this summer because my husband just got a new job, and no vacation time yet! Love all your work, thanks for the givaway!
we drove to tennessee this summer for our first ever RV trip. does that count?
love me some curly girl!
I haven’t traveled anywhere fun this summer yet, except I have been enjoying the fabulous city of St. Louis! I know if I had those CUTE luggage tags I would have to go somewhere just to show them off! I am from your hometown and everyone here wants to see them too..so please pick me!! Or I am telling your mom!:)
Good luck with the show and stay cool in Atlanta!
I haven’t traveled anywhere fun this summer, but I have enjoyed the fabulous city of St. Louis! I know if I had those CUTE luggage tags I would have to go somewhere and show them off! Everyone in your hometown of St. Louis want to see them too, so please pick me!!…or I’m telling your mom!:)
Have fun at the show and stay cool!:)
My traveling circus has sadly brought me nowhere but back and forth from my house to my internship. However, there are many beach days in my future once school is out.
I have some very special travels coming up!
First up, my father-in-law’s wedding on a beach in FL. Next my dream trip to Rome for a week followed by a week cruising the Med. We really booked it this time – it is happneing this late Aug & early Sept. I can’t wait!! We delayed our vacation time last winter/and spring so we plan to use one more week in the late fall. We plan to go to Cancun, Mexico. Finally this Christmas will be spent traveling to see my husband’s family in Dallas, TX. This will be my biggest 6 months of travel in my life, so I would put beautiful luggage tags to good use!
Great tags, Leigh! I would be so happy to have my luggage sport the cuteness! Our summer travels took us down the St Croix river and through the river bluff country of Minnesota and Wisconsin, with good friends. They travel on their motorcycle, we travel in our vintage convertible. Such fun. I’m still hoping to take a trip to San Francisco yet this summer to visit my son. Summer time and the livin’ is easy! Cheers!
We have traveled to the beautiful city of Edenton, North Carolina and have an upcoming “mother-daughter”, they’re FINALLY 21 group trip, for fun in the sun!
Love to put those luggage tags on ALL our bags, even THOUGH one of them is only full of shoes, ha!
The past couple summers, I have taken off across the country. This summer it hasn’t worked out, so my “traveling” has consisted of helping out at a summer school program for 3 weeks. Everyday we brought our students somewhere into the community to help them with functional skills. Such a blast! I believe I learned more than the students in those 3 weeks!
This is my first official summer after starting my career as a teacher 4 years ago. I have been teaching in a year-round school, our school year would begin at the end of August and finish at the beginning of August the following year.
My first three weeks I taught summer school to students who had just finished Kindergarten! A lot of fun, I usually teach older students. Since July 1, I have been visiting my family and 3 month old niece in the beautiful Pacific NW. I return back to my home in a few days, and am excited to have some down time exploring my own state and the neighboring ones.
Well I have been visiting lovely friends who normally work all the time…my perfect idea of a staycation!
What a wonderful summer it has been and will continue to be! The main traveling I have done so far is to Atlanta, GA to spend time with my wonderful family. Also, my husband and I have traveled to and from Nashville, TN for scans and doctor appointments to follow-up on my Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (I’m young for this disease ~ I turn 35 this coming Sat. 7/16! Yay!). My next trip will be to Glacier National Park in Montana to go to First Descents (http://www.firstdescents.org), an AMAZING organization that provides outdoor adventure therapy to young adult cancer survivors/patients through white-water kayaking, rock climbing and surfing. I’m SO excited about this trip! I’ll also be heading to Pawley’s Island, SC, a little later in the summer with my husband and family.
Because I have been on this “cancer journey” the past 4 years, I truly treasure any traveling I am able to do, especially when it is with family and friends. Although I don’t get to travel nearly as much as I like due to my disease, I enjoy everything about this life ~ enjoying the “little things,” traveling to amazing places in my mind and soul, and the most important thing in life ~ treasuring the special relationships and LOVING everyone! I absolutely love your products ~ I have many of them in various places around my house to provide me with inspiration ~ and I give lots of your products as gifts. I would be truly honored to receive your beautiful luggage tags. They would go with me on my travels as well as to all my doctor and hospital visits, all the while, providing me with inspiration and a SMILE. 🙂 Thank you for sharing your amazing gift with all of us! HAPPY summer!
My circus has taken me to the zoo and the waterpark! Other than that we love to hang by the pool until we can afford a “real” vacation!
Thus far my summer travels have found me in Houston and Dallas. I’ll soon be off to Louisville and Washington DC. I’m most looking forward to vacation in Oregon – Ashland, Eugene, and Portland! As someone who travels every week, these bright and fun luggage tags would get a workout adorning my Travelpro!
LOVE Curly Girl Designs and would LOVE to take you traveling with me when I go out east to see my best girlfriend since Jr high school! She lives in Lancaster, PA!
I’m sad I missed this but still have to comment: My fav Curly Girl card is the one about all my travels and journeys….the road leads back to you. I fell in love with that sweet card and had bought several for friends and family and then one day noticed that the map on the card is the EXACT ROUTE I take home (from Virginia to Buffalo, NY via backroads in PA). Talk about tears of joy 🙂 It’s framed in my kitchen next to a photo of my Gram’s fruit cellar and I adore it!
Where can I get these luggage tags? I couldn’t find them anywhere.