The end of an era

I had a lovely weekend with the wonderful Scrapbags as we scrapped our way through our last ever Scrapbags Retreat at All Saints.

Take a look at the photo above.  It was taken during our first ever retreat way back in 2008.  Didn't we all look so thrilled and excited?

Now take a look below at us posing for our photo yesterday.

Do you think we have changed?  A few faces (including mine) are a little plumper, some are thinner, and some (including mine) have acquired a few more laughter lines.  And haven't we all gone through several shades of hair colour during the seven retreats? We also have some new faces, but sadly a few faces didn't join us this year and we did miss them, but hope that they will join us again soon. 

I've added a slideshow above of our Ready Steady Scrap challenge layout and here are the winners, Jan, Chris and Sara.

Another highlight of the weekend was completing the classes designed for us by Lorraine and Sue from Scrap Revolution.  We also enjoyed all the lovely goodies that Lorraine brought us to peruse from her shop.

Once again it was generally agreed that three days is nowhere near long enough, and that I should think about a week-long retreat.  Dream on girls! Sunday evening came all too soon and as we drove slowly down the drive I felt a little sad as it's definitely the end of an era for Scrapbags, but only a little sad as I'm now already looking forward to and planning for the Scrapbags Spring Retreat 2012.  It's already booked for 23rd to 25th March at The Node , Codicote, and I think marks the beginning of a whole new era for Scrapbags.

So a huge big kiss, hug and thank you to all of the wonderful Scrapbags, for helping to make our weekends so special.  It really is a privilege and pleasure to be able to organise retreats for you all.

xx