So I had my birthday this week! I turned the big 42. I ended up celebrating all week long which was fun and tiring! Friday I left for my weekend scrapbook retreat at the Marriott in Mystic, CT. It is a Croptopia Getaways event that we have been attending for several years. There were a bunch of us down there which it made so much more fun than if you went alone. I’m not sure it’s something I’d want to do if I had no one to go with. Everyone is very friendly, of course, I’m just more of an introvert and wouldn’t love sitting with people I didn’t know all weekend long. I drove down with my friend, Heather, and we unloaded the car outside of the hotel lobby it took TWO luggage carts to get our stuff hauled inside. The bellmen really make out at this event!
This is the ballroom at the hotel that gets taken over by scrappers. Outside of the room was a vendor area, chair massage station and a reflexology station (had to pay extra for the massage/reflexology if you wanted those services). There is also an Elizabeth Arden spa there but I was toooo busy scrapping!
I arrived to find birthday balloons, a birthday tiara, a card and gift at my scrap station all thanks to my girlfriends. How sweet. I love them. Heather also brought carrot cake cupcakes that her daughter had made for the occasion. It was so thoughtful.
We scrapped Friday through Sunday. The crop room was open from 9am Friday until 3pm Sunday with meals being served for Friday dinner, Saturday lunch, Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch. We ate in the hotel restaurant for Friday’s lunch. We had tons of snacks and drinks so we definitely did not starve! The food is always good at the hotel. The staff couldn’t be sweeter. The girl who runs these crops is amazing. She supplies about 15 Cricut machines, countless die cut cartridges, a Sizzix station and printers. It makes it so easy to go and not worry about bringing that type of equipment. There are also door prizes, a grand prize for $300 off another event and this year she had a t-shirt launch and I caught one! I also won a door prize and was gifted with a cool tool organizer as a bday gift from one of the vendors.
So now that I’m home again and realized that last year when I unpacked, I think I scrapped one day in the whole year and then packed it all back up again. This morning I took a few minutes to clear off my craft room counter and set myself up to scrap more often. The quiltiness has taken over my room and I’d really like to make it more balanced 😉
When I got home last night not only was the house clean, dinner ready as well as Oscar watching snacks prepared but I also looked on kitchen counter to see this!
Leah has a full blown pumpkin plant happening! She has an amazing way with house plants and this is no exception. Now I’ve been gardening long enough to know that this plastic cup arrangement is not going to work. The plant needs to vine and this flower is probably a male flower which means in another short while, there will be a female flower with an actual pumpkin. Any ideas on how I can keep this going? Do I plant it in something bigger or do you think it will die? Not sure what to do and I think Leah will be crushed if I don’t find a suitable solution….SOS, mayday, mayday….
I am recovering from a huge migraine this morning. The kind you wake up with, the kind that makes you want to close your eyes and hide in bed. I have pushed through it and now I am about to start the afternoon kid activities. I hope you had a great weekend! Tell me what you have been up to?
