General Discussion & Chat: Stop and visit, talk all you want. Pt 21, 0 by kwanjin

kwanjin wrote:
Good afternoon, everyone!!!

I had a FANTASIC time at the retreat! More fun than a barrel of monkeys! LOL I finished my vacation book. It's just a little one but it was my first and I never finished it. I purchased a new photo album. I started a family time-line with it. I started with some photos of my grandmother and grandfather on my mothers side. The pic I have of grandma is from 1914 and the pic of grandpa is from 1918. I wish I had older ones. Maybe Brother Scott has some. For those of you that know scrapbooking, you know that 21 pages is a lot! LOL the book got kind of scattered around 3am but I changed the name of the book to "My Life, In No Partcular Order". That should save me.

My ex-SIL, Debbie was there and, boy, was she sick. She came down with a cold the day before but wanted to come anyway. She just took a bunch of drugs and plowed away. She got more sleep than we did, though. ☺ My niece, Jean, brought three of her friends and they were lots of fun, too. I forget one girls name but the others two were sisters, Betsy and Susan. All in all, there were about 100 people there.

They gave prizes away in drawings and I won some very pretty colored paper. I also...(...drum roll here...) won the grand prize!!! A 14" x 14" picture frame. It's perfectly sized for 12" x 12" scrapbook pages.

Everyone was so helpful. You could just walk to another table and ask for ideas. Nobody was shy about telling you that something needed to be changed or to offer advise. Good advise, not just critisism.

Jean and I stayed up until 3am and we were very loopy by then. ROTFLOL We had the other tables laughing at us. LOL Got up at 7am. Breakfast was good and then we were back at it. I left at 3:30pm and was at work by 6pm. Home by 10pm, in bed at 11:30pm, up this morning at 8:30am. Good times...

Here's our table.