Ready, Set ...Retreat

I'm getting ready for the retreat sponsored by Keepsakes By Design, the store where I work and teach. You can see the blog here: http://keepsakesbydesignmt.blogspot.com/ . I'm packing up my stuff, with many thoughts running through my mind as to what I want to get accomplished and what fun I'm going to have - similar to the "visions of sugar plums dancing" through the heads of children on Christmas Eve.


To give you a bit of an idea of what I'm going to be doing between now and Sunday afternoon, here's a bit of a tour. I will be teaching a class to twenty ladies. Its an acrylic album, similar to the one that will be published in Scrapbooking and Beyond in the next few months. Here are a couple of photos of what the ladies will be making:

And, because I'm teaching this class, the whole retreat is free to me. That is a real blessing as far as I am concerned. So, now you know what I will be doing Saturday morning.

The rest of the time I will be working on my own new project and taking one class. I have lots of sketches, photos printed and supplies gathered, but of course I never know what the end product will look like until I get there. I'm hoping to use these to make a few tag books with Christmas themes. (See what I now realize is a sideways photos just below this line and on the left - remember, I'm still learning!).

I spent an entire evening last weekend dying these shipping tags to be just the colors I wanted. I've got ideas "dancing in my head" of glitter, silloettes, swirls, twigs and textures to make little books that tell the Christmas story. I'll let you see what I come up with when I get back.

For my other projects (mostly scrapbook pages), I've gathered some of my favorite papers:

So, you can see that I will be having fun and getting (hopefully) a lot done. Can't wait to show you some of my projects after the weekend.

A special note to Dana: Hey! I'm so glad to hear from you. I use a Pentax ist*D and love it. I already had Pentax lenses, so it made so much sense for me to stick with it when converting from conventional photography to digital. Not the most common equipment, but I am happy. Love to see some of what you are doing with the digi-scrapping. I don't digi-scrap (not good at PS), but I am often inspired by what I see in digi pages. Email me something of yours so I can see what you are doing and get an update on your family!

I'm off to have a great weekend. Hope all of you do too, and I'll try to post on Monday, hopefully with some eye candy to enjoy as well!