The Retreat

OMG what a weekend that I'll never forget.

To be surrounded my lovely ladies some that I have known online for a year and the new ones I felt I'd known you for a year too.

Friday- Our Meet and Greet night. Lots of hugs going around, smiles, laughter, maybe a few tears of joy too. Just an awesome feeling to meet such wonderful ladies. My Mum ( Rosemarie ) helped out with the catering and it was just awesome food. Donna made everyone a apron for the weekend. And some handed out some goodies too.
Friday we just scrapped and talked the night away and went back to our bungalows at Adelaide Shores they were gorgeous and so comfortable. 3 bedrooms so each of us could have our own rooms. 2 rooms had 2 single beds in each and the other room was a double bed or queen bed. We had 3 of these Deluxe Bungalows and we did feel special to have such lovely accomodation with our own rooms. Anyway we all were back at our bungalows about 12:30am - 1am. I was buggered but still so wound up with excitement I couldn't sleep till after 2am. Then up again at 7am to get back to the hall to make Brekkie for everyone with my Mum helping me.

Saturday - Was a jam packed day. But so good. After brekkie we had the awesome Kathie Link.

My gosh what a class. She was superb. Professional, interactive, warm and friendly and made each of us special with her lovely comments. Her journalling class was what we really needed as I think most of us had forgotten the importance of this. It has opened our eyes and we have learnt so much from this. A big thankyou to you Kathie. You have made a huge impression on us all and have created many new fans. And thankyou for sharing some of your work and books and knowledge.

After the morning class we had a very yummy lunch and then got ready to head off to Scrapbook Station. With 11 of us in the shop with general customers we quickly filled up the shop and our baskets. Hope we didn't clean you out too much Janine and Karen. Poor Karen was flooded with with us all there but hey I don't think we disappointed with the amount we all spent there. Just that everyone will now need to hide their next credit card statements from their partners before they have heart failure. Anyway everyone had a good time shopping around and getting a few things for the shoe class later that night. By the time we left and headed back to the Glenelg Scout Adventurous Activities Hall it was just about time for the next class with the lovely Steph Caskey-Devlin.

This class with Steph was a real wow factor as no one at the Retreat has done this sort of technique she was showing us. It was new to us and very intriguing. Everyone made gorgeous layouts. Steph was lovely, very professional, warm & bubbly. She came around to see how we all were doing and had lovely comments for our progress. Some Layouts were adapted for a more boyish layout and they too looked gorgeous. You'll have to look in the Hub Members Gallery. They are stunning. Everyone was having a great time in the class and got a group photo of our finished class layouts. Thankyou so much Steph for taking the time out, for putting together a great class and all the background work and running around you had to do. Trust me its truly appreciated especially heavily pregnant. You are an awesome lady your work is stunning and I am in awe of your work. The impression that you left us with is " Oh I need to try this again." and " never tried napkins before will have to try again". I think everyone looks a napkins differently now especially in a scrapping sort of way. This is the gorgeous layout I created from Steph's class. Its a picture of me when I was about 12 - 15mths old and I picked some gerainiums for Mum.

Here is the class Photo of Steph's class too. We all definately enjoyed it. Many girls said they just learnt so much.

From L>R Back: Lee, Lea (me), Jane, Yvette, Elizabeth, Vicki.

From L>R Front: Lynn, Karen, Donna, Kirsty, Kerry.

It was such a good time. After a lovely dinner. We had Lynn sister in law Jody pamper us with massages and facials. It was divine. Most enjoyed the pampering. Steph you should have stayed for a pampering it was so relaxing. Like our aprons? Thanks Donna you talented girl.

Anyway after dinner and the pampering we sat down for another class ran by me. We were to do an off the page creation. And we made shoes. I have some pictures care of the photos at the Scrappers Hub, of the shoes we made. Poor Lee ( our residential Hub Rebel ) forgot to cut a little more out the template and her shoe looked like a wedge lol. Had a giggle at that but then good ol' Karen helped her out and fixed it to make a high heal like all of ours. Here are our shoes.

Oh these were just gorgeous, the pink one by itself is a friend Beth from the Scrappers Hub who did one previous to the retreat. After this we just kept scrapping till probably 1:30am then headed back to the bungalows.

Sunday details to be continued with some more photos and layouts. Stay tuned.

Lea