retreat pics

Nina, Trish and Carolyn enjoying a few minutes break from scrapping!
Vickie is using our fab tool table- thanks to those who bought sewing machines, cricut, laptop and printer etc.

Me and Rachel sitting, Trish and Karen pottering.

Nina scrapping and Jules chatting.
Vicky and Karen working hard :)

My memory card has died on me! The shop changed it for me- but sadly I lost all my retreat and holiday photos. Thankfully Chris Gregory emailed me some that she had taken- thanks Chris. The more I think about our retreat the more I want to go back and have another!

It's the crop tonight so we will see what everyone else thinks- but my guess is we will have to work out some dates,

A huge success!

It was a fab weekend- worth all the hard work. Everyone seemed to have a great time and made some great projects. Our barn was amazing! Luxury living- teamed up with fantastic views of the rolling Derbyshire hills and lots of sunshine. What more could we have asked? Thanks so much to all of you for your support and hard work. Everyone did what they agreed to do and we didn't even need to send out for food- everyone bought so much yummy stuff with them. Sadly, my bad back rebelled agains the sitting up for hours scrapping, and I ended up having to go home on saturday night. I was gutted to leave, but had no choice. I will take better care of it next time (yes, next time!) Start saving girls :) I have some great photos- but am having problems with my camera at the mo- but keep checking back. Best memories of the weekend:- Louise's chocolate fountain, Trish's lasagne (why is it always food with me????), little Rachel's enthusiasm and smile:), lovely books to browse through, being mothered and looked after, Karen's fabby book and instructions, Trish's class, 14 scrapbookers getting down to scrapping (yes, even Shell), Carolyns camera action, and lovely lovely people to be inspired by and to spend time with. Thanks everyone!

retreat :)

It's here! The retreat weekend has arrived at last. My car is choc-a-block with scrapping goodies. I literally could not get anything else in (other than a little bit of space for Shell who's coming with me). My goals are to make a grattitude journal and to relax and enjoy good company. Should be easy :) I've got goodie bags for everyone attending, a class to make phot cubes, and a demmo of my new love- beeswax! This amazing stuff is fantastic to work with. It smells wonderful and can be scraped, smoothed and used as glue. You can layer embellishments into the wax so it looks like they are floating. Will have to post the cover for my journal when it's done.