I'm going to a scrapbook retreat today!

I went to the same one with 11 other women for 15 years. It was in a cute house in Wisconsin, only an hour away from the Twin Cities. Sadly, the owners sold the house during the pandemic, so that's the end of that.

I really missed it last fall.

Have a wonderful time!

Jealous! I have never been to a retreat, but want to go.

There is actually one in Crystal River, FL I am looking into. Scrapbooking and river cruises to see manatees? Sounds good to me!

I hope you have a wonderful time!

Oh how exciting for you artbabe! Have the best time and let us know how it went.
So jealous.

Sharing is caring! 😊 I am thinking of making this my birthday gift to myself. It is in January of 2024.

Cruise and Crop

We still have a LSS and they host two weekend crops a year. grammadee and I go with three friends. Since it’s in my city I used to have three houseguests, but then they realized how nice it was to stay in the hotel where the crop is and not have to drive to my place late at night. We have a lot of fun.

I used to go twice a year but between one of the organizing groups folding, many of my group of scrapbooking friends leaving the hobby and then Covid, it’s been quite a while.

Have fun!

I need to run it by my DH - he's not a fisherman but he would probably enjoy the manatees and the festival. But that would be fun!

Have a great weekend, artbabe!

I love the energy and inspiration of a crop, visiting, seeing what other people are doing, sharing ideas and sometimes supplies, learning new techniques.

Packing and unpacking for a crop is the only problem for me. I never know what to take, so end up lugging way too much with me. If I start putting together kits, I think why not just finish this page now? Then it takes awhile after the crop to get everything back into its proper place in my scraproom. But that hastle is totally worth it.


You should just bunk in and stay with us!

Oh, I remember those days. Such good fun even if I got hardly any pages completed.

Enjoy!

Have fun artbabe! I used to fly to a weekend crop at a BnB; we rented the whole place and cropped in the living room. Sadly, the group members slowly rotated out and I didn't know as many people, so stopped attending. I would love to do it again.

I'm excited to be going to my annual retreat next weekend! My oldest DD and I go to the same one each year in February. It is hosted at a resort in the Black Hills (you can see the profile of Mt Rushmore from the deck) and is a great get away. It is only about a 25 minute drive from our homes but it is nice to get away - just the two of us - for a weekend. She has two small boys at home and no dedicated craft space so this is her only time to scrap. She is a whirlwhind scrapper (and very creative) so she gets a lot done in the 3 days we are there.

I plan to work on a book for my new DIL using their wedding photos.

Have a great time artbabe

Here is the link for the Crystal River crop. It actually popped up on my Instagram feed (my account is only for craft projects, so very targeted ads there). I was not actively searching for it, so maybe someone else has some other resources for locating crops that they can share. 😊

We used to have several different ones I would attend. Not sure if any have resumed. There are a few that have stopped though. My LSS has one once a month. But the hours have really been shortened. It used to be fifteen hours over 2 days, but now is maybe 11 hours for both days and it just seems like a lot of prep and travel for a noon to six on Fridays and a ten to three on Saturdays.

Don, that is a different kind of retreat! I mean in name it is different.