Time Slips Away...

Time slips away so quickly and lives get so busy.  Blog posts become lower priority items and the next thing you know 2 years has gone by.  I rarely craft anymore which I really miss.  I basically get two weekends a year that I dig all my supplies out, load a choice selection in my car and head to my scrapbooking retreat 3 hours away from home.  I am far enough away that I can concentrate on being creative but close enough if anything major happens, I can be home relatively quickly.  If I didn't have these weekends, I think I would have gone insane long ago.

My next retreat is coming up soon and I am so looking forward to it.  I am already digging through supplies trying to figure out what I want to take and what I want to work on.  I don't tend to get much done but I am always happy with what I manage to get finished.

My last retreat was in November and I managed to get 4 layouts done.

This one is of my father doing a demonstration in the forge for Pioneer Days.  Using a lot of metal embellishments and twisted wire made sense for this layout.  It is also a cleaner layout than my usual style.

This next layout is more me - lots of layering, fussy cutting, flowers, die cuts and embellishments.  Basically, the more the merrier.

When we were home last, we did a session of family photos.  This one is of my mom, me and the kiddos - three generations.  There are three lady bugs incorporated into this layout.  When I was growing up there were always three wooden lady bug magnets on my mothers fridge.  It just seemed right to add them to this layout.

Every retreat, everyone is given the same paper to use in a challenge.  It is always fun to see how everyone does something different with the papers.  The next two layouts are made from that challenge paper.

Two very different styles of layout but both are "fan" pages and are using photos taken at ComicCon.

Hopefully, it will not be two years before I post again.  I have started bullet journalling but I am using it more for keeping track of my life than being creative...although, I can't resist every once in a while adding doodles, embellishments and some kind of over the top decoration.  In many ways I am hoping that it will lead back to more scrapbooking and card making.

Have a good Saturday.