What a weekend

Well, I'm back from Glen Tui and it was wonderful. You guys have a wonderful little spot there to get away and have a scrapping retreat! The hosts were amazing, the food stunning and the company so welcoming. Thank you to Adrienne for a GREAT weekend and thank you all for being so welcoming!

So  thought I'd share some photos I have from the weekend....

First off here's some of the little fudge packets I made up for my class participants. I found this idea on Lowri McNabb's blog, and just had to give them a go. They are super easy to use, and fitted just the right amount of fudge in nicely.

I flew down on Friday and the lovely Megan Gourlay picked me up at the airport and took me out to the retreat site. Thanks Megan. Glen Tui. I got started straight away on one of two classes for the day. This one is my first Smash Album class.

We had sewing, and embossing

Painting and inking, masks, cutting, painting, glimmer misting, a whole range of wonderful, fun, messy things to do..

We all got totally messy but came away with big smiles.

I think we're missing a few people here? I LOVED how everyone ran with the eclecticness (is that a word?) of the album. Everyone took my ideas and ran with them in their own way. It was FANTASTIC. I think 'most' people got their albums finished or 'just about' over the weekend and to see them all developing was so exciting!

I also took a LO class during the evening. And we had a lot of fun too. We had a wonderful chat all about what they have been through with the traumatic events of their earthquakes. I made a few feaux pars this weekend, but one of the worst had to be when I stamped my feet on the floor to get the people downstairs to come up to class and half the women in the class thought it was an earthquake. OMG! I'm still cringing. So sorry ladies!!!!! Although it became a great laughing point of the weekend.

The next day Adrienne, Heidi and I went for a wee wander down the 150 steps to this meadow and a river even further down in the valley....

All the way down the path, there were beautiful blackberries growing. I just had to pick some to eat. They were GORGEOUS!

Finally at the bottom we found some cool sheep (nuff said ;) ).

And a gorgeous wee river. There weren't even too many mossies. Bonus!

We did have some great laughs! But I'm being good. What goes on tour stays on tour. Grin.

At the end we had some lovely photos with everyone who was at the retreat....

And a fabulous typical Trina 'yahoo' photo. We had lots of fun yahooing our way through the classes. Grin.

Again, thanks so much to Adrienne for asking me to come along, and to the whole group for making it so much fun. I can't wait to see other photos around the web!