Scrapbook Retreat Weekend

The first weekend of February I had the pleasure of attending the annual Nightowls Scrapbook Retreat. This is a retreat that I've been attending for at least 5 years if not longer and I always have such a good time. This year was no exception. I've been wanting to talk about it and share some of the pages I did while there, but time and life has gotten in the way.

This year the retreat was at Walnut Retreat Place and it was perfect for us! We had the place to ourselves from Friday at 11:00am through Sunday til noon!

I met a my friends Gina and Joan at Memory Bound Scrapbook Store Friday morning, but believe it or not, I only spent about $10 bucks. Since we could "check in" at 11:00, we headed that way after shopping so we could get our cars unpacked and get settled and then head to lunch.

Once we had our workplaces and sleeping arrangements all settled, a few of us headed up to the street to Taqueria Sonora for lunch. The food was great! I thought it was a bit pricey for the menu, but I can't fault the fish tacos that I had.

Kathy, Lori, Judy and Brenda do such a great job organizing and putting on this retreat every year. Friday night, they had two different soups and a big salad for us for dinner and we had tons of snacks too! I brought some pumpkin muffins, a Tuscan cheese dip and some tortilla vegie roll ups.

I stayed up until about 1:30 Friday night/Saturday morning before falling into bed....I was on a roll and I didn't want to quit...lol We had the alarm system go off on us Friday night and the owner of the facility had to come by and get it turned off. It was quite annoying for a while, but we all just took it in stride.

I was the first one up Saturday morning and I probably had two pages done before anyone else was up. The rest of the day was spent scrapbooking, eating and even a bit of shopping for me. I took a break and headed to Valley West Mall to use some Christmas gift certificates. Once back, the gals had all the fixing for walking tacos for lunch. We were going to call out for pizza Saturday night, but everyone was so full from just snacking that it was decided to nix it. I stayed up again until about 1:30 so that I could finish up the pages I was in the middle of working on. I felt good about how much I had accomplished, so I told myself to sleep in...

Which I did! Slept until about 9:00, came down, had a cup of coffee and some eggs for breakfast and then started to pack up my scrapbooking supplies. Normally I would have sat down and worked on more pages, but I finished everything that I had brought with me. Besides, it was Super Bowl Sunday and we were invited to a party that I needed to bring a dish with us, so the early I could get home, the more time I'd have to unpack the car, put things away before having to head to the party.

Here's some of the pages I completed during the retreat -

Later......