My Scrapbooking Record

I arrived back home from a scrapbooking retreat Monday evening. I was amazed at how many layouts I completed--30. That is a record for me. I'm happy if I can get a dozen layouts done so this amount doubles what I usually hope to get done at a retreat. Something clicked with my scrapbooking muse and I was able to get a lot of pages done...actually, I completed the Disneyland segment of our California trip album. Next pages to work on are my Hollywood and beach pages, which I'll work on during a retreat I'm attending in September.

These are some of my favorite layouts from the weekend:

And since this was a Disney themed retreat, I brought along some cropping friends and made them a background.

Cropping, Shopping, and Signing the Weekend Away

I spent Veteran's Day Weekend at a scrapbooking retreat at the Wisp Resort in McHenry, MD. It was a wonderful getaway (even with a snowy Friday morning) to spend time enjoying my hobby, hanging out with friends and making some new ones. There is just something about being around other crafters that energizes me and allows me to create a lot of pages, even though I spend just as much time chatting and shopping as I do scrapbooking. My new scrapbooking obsession is Kiwi Lane Templates. I've used them in the past and was hooked on them again this weekend. Part of it was because a friend of mine took some classes and was creating some amazing layouts and allowing her to try out a new style. Next crop, I plan to take one of the classes to learn a new technique or two using the templates.

I meet a lot of new readers and they kept me busy at my signing table (which trilled me!). And, I even meet a new reader who we have similar interests (Christmas decorating, Hallmark movies, love of Disney) and I do believe we are on the way to a friendship. I met many other lovely scrapbookers and readers this weekend but this new friend stood out to me because it's similar to how the friendship started between my new heroine and her best friend.