Crop-A-Doodle-Do

Every year in the springtime a couple of friends and I get away for a scrapbooking weekend. A couple of weekends ago we all headed to a bed and breakfast called Crop-A-Doodle-Do in Arcadia, Indiana! (You can check it out HERE.) It's an adorable old farm house in the middle of a wide open field that has been renovated to cater to scrapbookers. (I still dream of doing something like this one day.)

I must say it was a very relaxing and restful weekend...two things I desperately needed! However...with all of the struggles that I had just getting out of the house...I wasn't sure the weekend was even going to happen.

I was suppose to drop the kids off to Jeff at his work after preschool, stop by the scrapbooking store near his office for some supplies, then hit the road...but NOOOOO! As I was leaving preschool pick up I get a call from my oldest son's school that he's complaining of his stomach hurting (a stomach bug had been going through our house that week...it was now Logan's turn to get it). Then Jeff had a phone call go long and he was an hour later getting to our house than planned. In the meantime I'm trying to arrange for a sitter to come to the house around 5:00 so the sitter can watch the kids while Jeff takes a prescheduled conference call, figure out how Frank and Logan were going to get to piano lessons from 4-5 (before I knew Logan was sick), and then get Frank to his 5:30 soccer game...and not feel guilty that I'm heading out of town in the midst of all of this.

Needless to say it all magically worked out and I made it to Crop-A-Doodle-Do in time for dinner.

Over the weekend I got a few pages and cards done, had a lot of laughs with some really funny women, got two full nights of sleep (don't think that's happened in a long long time), didn't get out of my PJs all day Saturday, and ate everything in site! It was a good weekend!

Here are some of the pages I did...










I'm sure you noticed how some of the pages don't have pictures on them...that was another road block I encountered while trying to pack up and leave...our printer ran out of ink. So I just did the pages with papers and embellishments I liked and figured that I'd find pictures to match them later. This method was actually a little bit easier for me because I wasn't all caught up on the color in the pictures and the paper matching perfectly. My motto for the weekend was "Don't over think it...just do it!"

This layout I put into my new hanging frame that I bought from a friend's Creative Memories party. Where the 12x12 layout rests is magnetic...so it can easily be changed out. My plan is to change this with pictures taken from what is going on around here that month. It's my hope that this will allow me to keep up with a family album. A BIG hope...I'll let you know how that pans out:)

Well, that's all for now...