This weekend was our lastest twice annual scrappy getaway with the girls... We hired a fancy cottage in the country and I spent all weekend away with my most wonderful group of friends. We scrapped, we laughed, we drank wine (well I didn't but the others did) we caught up and we had the most wonderful time.
We have had several weekends away now, maybe 4 weekends over the last couple of years and in previous years we have hired out a YHA youth hostel, but this year we decided to step it up a gear and we upgraded to a gorgeous holiday cottage near Reading. Sadly I didn't take any photos of the house itself, but it was gorgeous. We had a wonderful scrap space, a lounge to escape to in the evenings and thanks to glorious weather all weekend we could also make the most of the countryside to walk and of course take photos! We found a card in our house detailing a local walk... so off we went...
And of course if you take 11 scrapbookers away for the weekend, there will be plenty of cameras and lots of photos taken! I think as a group total we took over 800 photos on this one walk alone! I took my dslr but also my instax mini for some fun tiny photos!
A new venue meant new opportunities for group photos! I have several group photos from years gone by printed and hanging on my wall at home and I am looking forward to adding this year's addition to a frame!
You can also be sure that if you follow any of these girls blogs that these photos will all be appearing on several layouts soon! And if you don't follow these girlies.. then please let me suggest that you do. They are all awesome scrappers (and other crafts) and their blogs are fun too. Let me show you where they all live...
I was so excited to meet these tiny ponies on our walk. The footpath led right through their field and there was about 12 of the cutest tiny ponies that your eyes ever did see!
So of course we stopped for some photos... which led to a couple of interesting bumpy looking pics!
I am 19+2 weeks now, so into week 20!! yay! I took a few maternity shots over the course of the weekend but I will share these in another blog post.
I am collecting a series of bump photos and hope to create some sort of photobook once baby arrives with a collection of photos throughout my pregnancy and these pony ones will fit right in!
They really were very friendly and made me wish for a pony!
And now for the scrapping! Maybe not drinking wine actually helped to boast my creativity, I would normally average 10 layouts over a weekend like this but this weekend I rocked out 14 layouts!! So I am super pleased that I busted A LOAD of stash and have a lovely pile of layouts to show for my efforts.
And of course if you take 11 scrapbookers away for the weekend, there will be plenty of cameras and lots of photos taken! I think as a group total we took over 800 photos on this one walk alone! I took my dslr but also my instax mini for some fun tiny photos!
A new venue meant new opportunities for group photos! I have several group photos from years gone by printed and hanging on my wall at home and I am looking forward to adding this year's addition to a frame!
You can also be sure that if you follow any of these girls blogs that these photos will all be appearing on several layouts soon! And if you don't follow these girlies.. then please let me suggest that you do. They are all awesome scrappers (and other crafts) and their blogs are fun too. Let me show you where they all live...
I was so excited to meet these tiny ponies on our walk. The footpath led right through their field and there was about 12 of the cutest tiny ponies that your eyes ever did see!
So of course we stopped for some photos... which led to a couple of interesting bumpy looking pics!
I am 19+2 weeks now, so into week 20!! yay! I took a few maternity shots over the course of the weekend but I will share these in another blog post.
I am collecting a series of bump photos and hope to create some sort of photobook once baby arrives with a collection of photos throughout my pregnancy and these pony ones will fit right in!
They really were very friendly and made me wish for a pony!
And now for the scrapping! Maybe not drinking wine actually helped to boast my creativity, I would normally average 10 layouts over a weekend like this but this weekend I rocked out 14 layouts!! So I am super pleased that I busted A LOAD of stash and have a lovely pile of layouts to show for my efforts. I won't bore you with them all now and as I don't tend to ever have time to scrap during the week I will blog them throughout this week.
Firstly some speedy scrappy of photos taken last weekend...
I have not made a commitment to scrapping a dedicated pregnancy album and several pregnancy layouts and info has and will be included throughout my document 2011 album but I figured that if I end up with enough seperate maternity layouts then I could put them all into one album. That way I am likely to end up with a pregnancy album but I won't have to stress about "having to complete one". Not sure if that makes sense to anyone else, but it makes sense to me!
Then some even speedier scrapping as I scrapped some of the instax photos that I took that afternoon for instant scrappy glory!
All weekend I had friends, tiny photos, scrapping and photographs, what more could a crafty girl want in a weekend away?
It looks like the next weekend will be in November so with baby due in September I am sad to think that I will need to skip the next one. But we might pop in for some baby cuddles instead!
Firstly some speedy scrappy of photos taken last weekend...
I have not made a commitment to scrapping a dedicated pregnancy album and several pregnancy layouts and info has and will be included throughout my document 2011 album but I figured that if I end up with enough seperate maternity layouts then I could put them all into one album. That way I am likely to end up with a pregnancy album but I won't have to stress about "having to complete one". Not sure if that makes sense to anyone else, but it makes sense to me!
Then some even speedier scrapping as I scrapped some of the instax photos that I took that afternoon for instant scrappy glory!
All weekend I had friends, tiny photos, scrapping and photographs, what more could a crafty girl want in a weekend away?
It looks like the next weekend will be in November so with baby due in September I am sad to think that I will need to skip the next one. But we might pop in for some baby cuddles instead! 
10 comments:
Geez speedy blogging too ! Thanks for the great fun, see you soon xxxxxxx
Another fabby weekend with scrapping friends!
I would like to know if you coloured your Instax photos yourself (if so how?) or do they come in coloured frames? I have an Instax camera but haven't seen the coloured frames. Love the page!
Love the little kraft letters - who are they by?
Your LOs are fab as always - hope you are keeping well :)
Awww love the pony photos :-) You are looking fabby :-) Looks like you ladies had a great weekend. I so wish I had like minded crafty friends that I could do the same with :-) v.v.v jealous!!!
It looks like you all had lots of fun :) I love your photos, they're all so creative!
Looks like an amazing weekend away Laura, gorgeous layouts. I can't wait to see more :)
Looks like u all had a fab time! Gr8 LO's :)
Love it! Totally understand your thoughts on a dedicated album too for your bump. I put far too much pressure on myself to complete things - best to just go with it! Can't wait to see the rest of your LOs.
Sounds like you had a fab time. Love the photo of the girls with over the log.
Wonderful layouts as always. And yes I totally understand what you mean about the pressure of completing an album, but a happy chance if you have enough to make one.
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