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Today is a very disappointing day. In March of this year I booked to attend the Inspired retreat in October, I'd just come back from the February event which was fantastic. We have all been paying our money with the final installment on 1st September. Last night the news broke that it will not be happening, the hotel was cancelled back in June. You can imagine how annoyed everybody is today, me I'm just completely disappointed. Two reasons really the first that I was sooo looking forward to it, the second that nobody has communicated anything 'officially'. Fortunately the payments were being made through Scrap shed who immediately stopped and refunded the final payments made through them. Very impressive! Where oh where do I find another retreat? Hopefully UK Scrappers will have another cybercrop soon.

I am so happy I signed up to the Cathy Zielske workshop now, I downloaded the pre class tag book and spent last night decorating it. I love it and have begun jotting down my random words. I then spent a couple of hours choosing my papers and getting all the cardstock together. I'm using an 8.5 x 11 album I bought in sale because it was cheap !?! The problem is the workshop is portrait, my album is landscape. I could buy another album and protectors, but I really want to use up exisitng stash. Hmmm! I'll have to ponder this over the weekend, while I'm sitting in the sun. Yes sun! Here is my little tag book.
I've stamped each page with butterflies and I love it! the workshop starts on the 16th September and you can sign up here. I'm all ready and waiting now.

Comments

Unknown said…
What a lovely tag book. So sad that the retreat is cancelled it's so diapointing when you look fwd to something I am sure you will fnd something else out there

Love Dawn xx
Joanne said…
Love the colours on this, amazing how different they all look when everyone used the same template.
pmk said…
Gorgeous tag book! What a pain about the retreat - hopefully you'll find something else, but in the meantime the CZ class will keep you busy!

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