In short, itwas fab. Great teachers, great friends and lovely location. The food was good too and even allowed me to stick to the diet without feeling deprived - major achievement!
It was lovely meeting up with old friends, they have been so kind to me this year and I really have appreciated that. Here are a couple of shots of some of the people we shared our weekend with:
Karen and Sue looking very industrious - it is all smoke and mirrors!
And Sarah looking quiet and reflective - not her usual style!
The classes were taught by Venessa Matthews from South Africa and Donna Downey from USA and what wonderful teachers they were! So often great scrapbookers can't teach and great teachers aren't great scrapbookers but they were both very inspiring, teaching new techniques and encouraging us to push ourselves just a little more than we might otherwise have done.
This little book was the result of our class with Venessa. Let's not dwell too much on what it entailed except to say that I suspect that we broke nearly every Healthy and Safety rule in the book and there was a strong smell of burning at the end of it!!!
I have also had fun making something I have wanted to make for ages. It is a Thread Catcher! Nifty little thing it is. YOu place it by your sewing machine and have a place to put all those loose-ends and fabric scraps while you work and also it has a pin cushion and scissor keeper incorporated into it.
I think that is really cool! But perhaps the coolest thing is that I have enjoyed being creative over the last few days and hope the mojo is back!
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