POST RETREAT RECHARGE

I'm back!! and i am now in recharge mode. what a weekend, I had a fantastic time. The hotel was wonderful, food delicious, company completely nuts and the classes were fabulous . What more could you want from a scrapbooking retreat.
With 8 classes to chose from all weekend the schedule was pretty tight and by the Sunday I really had cropped till I had dropped.
The 2 classes I enjoyed the most had to be the brag book scrapperdashery class and the layout class designed by the talented Anna Bowkis. The papers she used along with my favourite embellishment at the moment - angel kisses went so well together and looked amazing. I will have to get some pictures taken just to show you how fabulous they really are.
And the new scrapperdashery collections are just beautiful in the words of Becky think ranger inks meets Shakespeare (to name just one writer used) as they have the words from all your favourite plays over them. gorgeous ! A very classy line i think.
I also got to share a room with the completely loop the freaking loop chell. Which meant that on the Friday night neither of us slept a wink. we went to bed alright at 4am but after an hour of talking, switching the light on and off and general stupidity, we decided we were never going to sleep so we went back down to the cropping room . giving us both the chance to finish quite a few layouts.
The next day although we had planned a nap in our time table come 3am the following night we still hadnt had so much as 40 winks! 6 hours shut eye ,all weekend is what you call serious cropping.
Another highlight I think for everyone was the Saturday night PJ party! 15+ woman all in the hotels bar wearing nothing but PJ's and the masks they had made well you can imagine the looks we got! it was hilarious. esp. when the games started, as the forfeit for losing was to stand up and sing at the top of your voice IM A LITTLE TEA POT along with doing the actions. people in the bar were actually cheering the girls on after a few rounds.
NUTS I think that is how the weekend will always be summed up for me. And as you can see by the pictures here of the moxley/nuneaton croppers , nuts sums them up quite well.

Id also like to take this opportunity to thank my mum for all her hard work over the weekend, the teachers for the fantastic job they did, and last but not least the girls that came because after all if it wasnt for you there would be no retreat. Thanks girls you were stars.

And a massive welldone to all the winners and girls that took part in the challenges over the weekend the layouts you produced were stunning.