As I make the final travel preparations for my trip to Tucson, several questions keep running through my mind. How will I manage to see all the things I will want to see? How will I find and spend time with all the friends I only see at these shows? And most important, how am I going to muster up the willpower to keep myself from buying all the fabulous things that I will see? I always allow myself a few purchases, inspirational or impulse, and of course I get to pick up some supplies for the magazine. But it is really overwhelming to be literally surrounded by all of the things that let me do what I love to do, which is simply to create, and not get it all. It is so rewarding to come home with new treasures I do buy, but it never fails–life takes over and the treasures get neatly tucked into a container with a promise that one day I will get back to making whatever it was I was going to make. So, this year it is going to be different. I promise to come home and make something.