Croptober Fest

Just got back from a weekend retreat in Wisconsin that my Creative Memories consultant puts on with 3 others. I had a great time. It was fun to connect with old friends and make new ones....holding hands around the bonfire singing the Girl Scout Friendship song was a hoot! Cool the connections and six degrees of separation. We were only 3 degrees away from Brad Pitt! LOL

Creative Memories it seems is getting with the times and has a new tag line - your photos - your memories - your way. I am happy to see that they are embracing the more "decorative" scrapper such as myself. I love many of their products and tools, but don't use them exclusively. It had been quite a few months since I'd been to any CM crops and seen the new stuff. The company seems to be making a shift to embrace all types of scrapbookers, not just the git r done type. That can only be healthy and great for the whole scrapbooking community.

There was a broad range of scrapbookers at the retreat. Everything from those that did the traditional CM triangle strip to a gal who used non-CM albums and lumpy bumpy everything. Her page with the turkey die-cut (and nothing else CM) won the best decorated die-cut contest.

There were a whole range women at the retreat, too. Younger unmarried without kids. Moms with small kids. Moms with tweens and teens. Moms with kids that were gone. Women with lots of money and women with not so much. Working women and stay at home moms. Everyone got along. A healthy interest in people even if they aren't exactly like yourself is good. How boring life would be if we were all alike. I feel sorry for people who think they need to find someone exactly like themselves to be friends with.

I didn't get as many page kits done as I would've liked. I still managed to complete 26 pages over the weekend. Pretty darn good. I still have a bunch more pages to go to get caught up on the girls' books. So that gives me some hope that I may be able to use up more of my stash. 26 pages stash page so far in October. I had done 6 pages earlier in the month and did 20 using only my stash at the retreat.