live.breathe.dream.be.: retreats

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Retreating... to a Crafty Zone

I'm heading off to a Scrap Retreat this weekend hosted by the Little Scrapbook Shop. It will be (hopefully) a lovely girly weekend with some crafty friends. I am aiming to upload some of my pages as I go, so hopefully I will have something to show for all of the time it has taken me to get organised and packed!

Time away with my own thoughts and crafty encouragement is just what I need at the moment. I'm still struggling with a continual headache (since March), and life is a little hectic at the moment. I definitely need to recharge a little to get my focus back for the second half of the year.

Wish me luck!

Tracey xx

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Retreats

I've been lucky enough to go to two scrapbooking retreats in the last month, which for me is something akin to scrapbooking heaven.

Especially as one of them I was just a customer. That's right. No organising music, or games, or taking massage bookings or working a shop or teaching classes. Just me, my friends and a whole lot of scrapping.

But did I get any more layouts done in all the extra time I had?

Of course not.

I did have fun though. And I am pretty happy with the pages I've been doing lately, some of which are below for your scraplifting enjoyment.

I've also learned a valuable scrap lesson - I'm getting way too old to stay up until 5:30am scrapping. I can't pull up the next day like I used to, and the pages I produce in the wee hours of the morning.... well.... they rhyme with scrap, lets just put it that way. So - could this be the end of my scrapbook all nighters??

Thanks to Lisa over at Storyboard Kits for organising a really lovely weekend, full of fantastic challenges that pushed me out of my scraping comfort zone. And to Kristen who organised the retreat at Collaroy full of such lovely scrappers.