A guest post by Andrea Stenberg
While I’d love to be an artist, I can’t draw anything more complex than a stick figure. The only painting I’ve done in the past five years is my living room wall. I can’t sing a note in tune, nor can I play an instrument. However, I have found an outlet for my artistic urges: scrapbooking.
As any scrapbooker knows, there’s nothing more pleasurable than taking a stack of family photos and creating a beautiful keepsake you’ll treasure forever. It’s more than slapping photos into an album. It’s choosing the right background paper to go with the photos. It’s adding stickers, mats and commentary. It’s creating a work of art.
And while spending a Saturday afternoon at your dining room table putting together your scrapbook in between fixing snacks for the kids is a lot of fun, it can sometimes be frustrating finding the time. After a while you can become stuck in a rut and lose your creativity. You just can’t find another new idea for your photos.
That’s where a scrapbooking weekend comes in.
Plan a getaway with a couple of girlfriends. Bring those photos that you just haven’t had time to get to. Then spend a weekend laughing, eating, drinking and scrapbooking uninterrupted.
- You can bring your finished scrapbooks and have a bring-and-brag session. Then you can look at other people’s books to get inspiration for yourself. You can share tools and trade papers. All without the kids (or husband) getting underfoot.
- When you need a break, have a great meal that you didn’t cook, soak in a hot tub, go for a walk or treat yourself to a trip to the spa. Then back at it with other like-minded ladies who understand your obsession … I mean hobby.
A Scrapbooking Retreat at a Blue Mountain chalet
At the end of the weekend you’ll be relaxed and refreshed, plus you’ll have made some new friends as well as some new pages for your scrapbook. I can’t think of a better reason to get away.
Andrea Stenberg is a full time marketing consultant and part time scrapbooker and rubber stamper from Owen Sound, Ontario.
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