March Pin Trading Night at WDW Resort
Last nice my wife and I met up with some other DisneyPinForum members for Pin Trading Night at the Walt Disney World Resort. We have been to a dozen or so events before, but this one, by far, was the best event we have been to. Though we were tired already when we stepped in line at 5:05 PM (we had spent the whole day in the Magic Kingdom), meeting some of the characters from the message board here quickly pepped up our night.
Quickly we re-discovered the whole reason we started pin trading to begin with. It is such a great social activity. We met four of our fellow forum members. Each of them brought knowledge about the hobby: we learned from all of them along the way. One of the reasons why we did not enjoy some of these events in the past is because we were always so bored. We always felt like since we did not have a lot of pins to trade, there was so little to do. But sitting at a table close to new friends was all the difference.
Finally, the pins: our new found friends were able to help us trade for some great stuff for our collection, even though we came with few "quality" traders. We had spent the day collecting new 2011 WDW cast lanyard pins. We traded six of them for
After that we traded a 2 AP's, 2 LE 1,000, and 2 rack pins and ended up with 2 nice JUMBO pins for my wife's stitch collection,
Finally we traded the Narnia set listed above for a nice Star Wars set, which is more in line with what I collect:
Of course, we got other pins all along the way, some for both my collection and my wife's.
To recap, Pin Trading Nights with PinTradingForum members equals a new found awesomeness!
Quickly we re-discovered the whole reason we started pin trading to begin with. It is such a great social activity. We met four of our fellow forum members. Each of them brought knowledge about the hobby: we learned from all of them along the way. One of the reasons why we did not enjoy some of these events in the past is because we were always so bored. We always felt like since we did not have a lot of pins to trade, there was so little to do. But sitting at a table close to new friends was all the difference.
Finally, the pins: our new found friends were able to help us trade for some great stuff for our collection, even though we came with few "quality" traders. We had spent the day collecting new 2011 WDW cast lanyard pins. We traded six of them for
After that we traded a 2 AP's, 2 LE 1,000, and 2 rack pins and ended up with 2 nice JUMBO pins for my wife's stitch collection,
Finally we traded the Narnia set listed above for a nice Star Wars set, which is more in line with what I collect:
Of course, we got other pins all along the way, some for both my collection and my wife's.
To recap, Pin Trading Nights with PinTradingForum members equals a new found awesomeness!