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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Bugs & Butterflies Retreat

I have just had the most wonderful weekend at the Bugs & Butterflies retreat held at Waihi Beach, NZ. The food was wonderful, the company was great and the layout and technique classes just kept us all really busy.
The first 2 layouts were done with the new Lost and Found papers and I managed to get a theme going with mine, with which I was delighted.
So my first one was of my daughter at 14 months who is now in her 20's. I have always treasured these pictures of her.

The second was of her daughter at about the same age. Our little treasure looks so much like her mum, it is almost quite scarey. I love her to bits.
The next layout class we did was a school type layout and I chose to do my eldest granddaughter on her first day of school last year, encouraged by her little brother. This is what mine ended up looking like.

 I found the challenge pack papers were excellent to work with and managed two layouts with mine. The first is a self portrait I did at dawn of new years morning 2009.
The second was of a special member of our family who passed a couple of years ago, but is still so fondly remembered.

And lastly a pic of some of the final product of our techniques sessions throughout the weekend.

I had the most awesome weekend, met some wonderful people, caught up with those that I only knew online. Thanks Gals.