HAD A WONDERFUL TIME SCRAPBOOKING, BUT NOW BACK TO THE REAL WORLD.

I managed to get everything accomplished at the scrapbooking retreat that I wanted to.  I made a cute mini album for a baby boy that has yet to be born, and I loaded up my Project Life scrapbook with lots of pictures that I had taken during the year and never done anything with.  You know, those occasional photos you take that really turn out cute, but they're not part of an event that you would scrapbook in a few pages.  That's where Project Life comes in handy.  You can put the single photos you take of everyday life and put it in a page with some journaling on a little card right beside it.  My biggest problem was that I hadn't bothered to put dates on a lot of the pictures, so I had trouble getting them in chronological order.  That took 1/2 day in itself. 

The snow stayed on the ground for the whole time I was in Sevierville, and we never did get water in our bathroom but by the day I left, the weather had warmed up and no snow was in sight.  I took some neat pictures of it when it was freshly fallen, and they turned out so pretty!  But now I'm tired of winter, and I want spring to arrive.  Unfortunately snow is forecast again for tomorrow and a couple days next week.  I am not a winter person, and this year I didn't get to take my yearly winter trip to sunny Florida - too busy.  I guess that's why I'm so cranky.
Good news, though, I have a new work table for my craft room, and I hope to be making some videos again soon.  I have to get over the bronchitis that I caught during my retreat in Sevierville first.  Have a good week-end.

STILL CROPPIN' AWAY

I am still here at Whispering Winds with 8 other ladies scrappin' away.  I didn't have all my Cape Cod vacation photos developed, so I took the rest of them this afternoon over to Walgreen's to get them done.  Now at least I can get them all in the album - just leaving tons of journaling to do.  That's my least favorite part, of course.  While I was going through all the photos on my flash drive, I found LOADS of pics of the grandchildren that I had never developed (or maybe forgot I had developed them already), so I had those printed off too.  There were three times as many of those as I had vacation photos!  Those will have to be taken care of another time, I fear. 

Tomorrow is my last day here, as I want to be home on Sunday, and I'm sure my husband is ready for me to come home too.  Our new TV has arrived, and it's going to be hooked up on Monday.  We're both looking foreward to that.  And then, I am through traveling for the year.  I'm ready to stay home and continue to work on my craft room, which will always be an on-going project.  I will make a video or two of the projects I've worked on here.  I just can't do it with everyone else working around on their things - too much noise.  I must say, we have eaten well.  We've all taken turns fixing lunches and dinners, and each one has been better than the next.  Tonight we had pork barbeque, coleslaw, rolls, corn salad, and then frozen pistachio ice cream pie with graham cracker crust for dessert.  It was marvelous!  Here come anothe 5 lbs., I can feel it.  Here's a picture of today's lunch spread:

 

Our cooks were Sharon and Kathleen.

MORE OF MY RAINBOW LOOM BRACELETS - ON SALE AT ETSY, FINDINGTHERAINBOW

I have found myself totally addicted to my Rainbow Loom, so that now, if I sit down to watch TV, I am also making a bracelet.  Here are some of the ones I've made that are for sale (at a very reasonable price, I might add) in my Etsy store:  "Findingtherainbow".

I'm going to be at a scrapbooking retreat starting this Tuesday through Saturday.  I'm taking my computer so I can blog about what goes on.

CRAFTIN' MY ART OUT!

I'm finally up here in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains (close to Gatlinburg) settled in with my friends at our home away from home for the next 4 days - doing nothing but scrapbooking and papercrafting.  I've got a mini Christmas album that I created tonight to put this year's Christmas photos in.  I think it's going to be really cute, so I took a photo of it in progress.  It's the same pattern I used to make my "Mini-Album In a Day" series that I posted a few months ago, so, if you want to know how I did it refere back to that series of videos.  It's going together rather quickly, so I wanted to send you a pic.