Ashpot Cottage

... in Lincolnshire was the venue for out retreat. Had a lovely time, Sarah cooked fab food, and although i forgot my photos .....

:(

I did manage to make some pages, as i could remember what pictures I had, now just need to add them to finish off the pages!

Thanks girls for a lovely time... and if you live near Spalding in Lincolnshire check out the craft outlet at Springfields, we picked up amazing scrapbook papers and other crafty goodies for about 30% of the original cost.. A win/win weekend for all!

Birthday LO

I had a fab weekend away with my friends, made 7 layouts,

and laughed myself stupid.

We had a pyjama party theme, and along with onesies, Wee Willie Winky and a glamorous vintage 70s style nylon number similar to these lovelies:
I think every possible type of nightwear was on show with the exception of babydolls....(huge sigh of relief here!) I hope we manage to get away again next year.

Here's a page I made before I left. A few small photos of Katie blowing out the candles on her cake,

and some lovely Imaginisce autumn papers made for Katie's birthday layout.

The title is made using Tim Holtz alphabet masks, inking the edges and hand cutting the letters. Not used them for a while, glad to see I still like the effect.

Hope to upload some of the retreat layouts before JYC begins again.

3 days and counting.........

A Fab-u-lous weekend

daaaaarling!! I returned from a weekend retreat in the glorious Shropshire countryside last night after having had a great time scrapbooking, messing about, drinking champagne and being generally very silly.

The venue was a gorgeous Grade 1 listed cottage called Cronkhill farmhouse, we stayed in the brick service wing (left above) of the 17th century house, complete with beamed ceilings, huge rooms, wonky floors and room to sleep 14. As there were only 7 of us we had loads of space and I managed to make 3 and a bit pages for a fabric CJ, and 6 other paper layouts for my 12x12 albums.

It wasn't all scrapping either, we had a rags to riches day on Saturday, spending the daylight hours dressed as tramps, and the evening glammed up drinking champagne and eating canapes!! The best thing about Saturday was waking up to a couple of inches of snow, and seeing a fox trot past my bedroom window as the sun rose.

It felt like a fab start to the Christmas season, talking of which I will be taking part in Journal your Christmas again this year, so might upload my album ready to start tomorrow.