There has been so much going on in the past few weeks, that I'm going to back up a little and catch up. ****For some reason, my photos have not been posting, so I'm trying yet again****
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled down to south Louisiana for a scrapbook retreat. I came down a day early so that I'd have time to visit with Valine a bit. When I arrived in Baton Rouge, she met me in town and after lunch, we headed to the LSU Rural Life Museum for a walk through the Windrush Gardens.
It was a hot afternoon, but we enjoyed wandering through the gardens, visiting and taking in the flowers, statues, and historic buildings.
The next morning, we drove to Rayne for the Treasured Memories annual scrapbook retreat. I'd never been to Rayne and our scrapping buddies were not able to come this time (we missed you Vanessa, Pam and Catha!!), so it was a completely new experience for both of us.
I haven't done much scrapbooking lately, but had brought a couple of projects to work on. The first one was a Summer Mini-book. Prior to coming, I'd cut out page dividers for both of us and found a couple of fun little albums on sale at Michael's for us to use.
We divided our summer activities into categories and assembled the book with a divider for each one.
We both had a few photos ready to go into the album, but will fill in the rest as the summer continues.
My album is already so full, I may have to switch to a different album, but am hoping I can keep it simple. I just need to add some journaling here and there to tell the stories.
There was a pirate theme to the weekend, so one of the fun things that they did was to have a treasure hunt. Rayne's official mascot is a frog. I don't really know why, but they have frog statues all over the city. Our treasure hunt took us throughout the city, looking for specific frogs that had been marked on a treasure map.
Using photos of the frogs, we then made a 2-page layout that could be entered into a contest.
I spent WAY too much time thinking about the layout, but it was fun. As the scrappers filed through the classroom, viewing and voting for the layouts, we noticed that people were talking about ours a lot, which we assumed was a good thing. Once we got to spot where our layout was laying, we saw why: the "Y" had fallen off of our layout, so that it read "AHO" rather than "Ahoy". We had a nice giggle over that, but in the end, we ended up winning 4th place. That meant a $40 certificate to the on-site scrapbook store, so that was a welcome treat.
There is not much better than spending a weekend with your BFF. And to get to combine some crafting with it? Perfect!
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled down to south Louisiana for a scrapbook retreat. I came down a day early so that I'd have time to visit with Valine a bit. When I arrived in Baton Rouge, she met me in town and after lunch, we headed to the LSU Rural Life Museum for a walk through the Windrush Gardens.
We both had a few photos ready to go into the album, but will fill in the rest as the summer continues.
My album is already so full, I may have to switch to a different album, but am hoping I can keep it simple. I just need to add some journaling here and there to tell the stories.
I spent WAY too much time thinking about the layout, but it was fun. As the scrappers filed through the classroom, viewing and voting for the layouts, we noticed that people were talking about ours a lot, which we assumed was a good thing. Once we got to spot where our layout was laying, we saw why: the "Y" had fallen off of our layout, so that it read "AHO" rather than "Ahoy". We had a nice giggle over that, but in the end, we ended up winning 4th place. That meant a $40 certificate to the on-site scrapbook store, so that was a welcome treat.
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I love it and I wish I could have gone as well. I want to know more about your little albums.
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