Convention is coming -- and the pre order for the Holiday catalog with it

Today when I was checking my favorite blogs, 'Crafting up the Coast' reminded me that Stampin' Up convention is coming up. With that is the holiday pre - order for demonstrators. I am creating Holiday cards with leftovers that I have from last annual catalog, but I will be very excited to see the new annual catalog. I want to host my first ever Christmas in July event when it does come out. I'm guessing that the catalog won't be open to customers at first, however... it may be Christmas in August. But I definitely don't want to wait as long as we did last year to start on Christmas cards :)