What a weekend!!!!

WOW!!!
What a fantastic weekend I have had.

Friday:
On Friday afternoon I headed down to the Embellished Retreat at Cool Waters. It was a fantastic weekend full of scrapping, socialising and jumping (the jumping pillow down there is just so much FUN!). It was great to meet so many of the girls that I know through the web site and to be able to finally make connections from names to faces IRL. On Friday night we had free scrapping time which was great as it gave us a chance to just chill and get to know everyone. I was able to complete a couple of LO and do a lot of chatting ( I know that those of you who know me would be very surprised to discover that I was chatting).

Saturday:
On Saturday morning we were up and jumping on the jumping pillow straight after breakfast. It was great fun but I think that the kids thought we were slightly crazy. Saturday morning we made a beautiful Felt, Flower shaped book designed by the fantastic Kristy. I had so much fun - there was heaps of stiching - and the album looks fantastic. Thanks Kristy! It was so fantastic to get to be taught by such a funky designer.

Before lunch Ali announced the new Design Team Members for Embellished and I am very HAPPY to be able to announce that I am one of the new designers. I am SO EXCITED!!!!!! It was fantastic to be able to meet all of the current design team members from around Australia and New Zealand. I am really looking forward to working with them. Kirsty has already given me a list of jobs which I am looking forward to tackling.

Saturday afternoon the wonderful Kelly Slattery from New Zealand taught us a LO which she challenged us to get completed in under an hour. In the afternoon we had free scrapping time and then it was time for me to get ready to party.

Saturday night I had an engagement party for my friends Jenny and Dean in Rocky. It was great fun and I got to catch up with people who I haven't seen for a while. Now we start the count down to the wedding in November. In other exciting news from the night I found out that 2 of our other friends got engaged on Saturday morning. Congratulations Pete and Christine!! After my action packed day it is no wonder that I slept soundly.

Sunday:
Sunday morning I was up early and ready to head back to Cool Waters for some more scrapping action. This morning Ali taught a beautiful mini album using acriclic. It was just beautiful. We worked on the background of it so tomorrow I will have to add my photos and journalling. I have no photos to upload of all of my work over the weekend yet as I decided to have a nap instead of finishing my projects and photographing them. I will upload them later this week. So now the countdown begins to next years retreat. I am looking forward to it already. After such a busy week I am glad that this week is only a 4 day week cause I think I need I few days off to recover.