Wow! What an amazing trip this weekend was! I was blessed to be able to go to Utah for the weekend to take part in an amazing, scrapbook filled weekend, hosted by Close to My Heart staff for their consultants. This was a closed event, for consultants only - I just love being a CTMH consultant!!!
The Album Retreat was exactly what it sounds like, one weekend to create a complete scrapbook album. The theme – me. Now, I have to confess that I didn’t know what the theme of the album was going to be about when I signed up for the retreat – I was just ecstatic that I was going to be able to participate in an album retreat from CTMH. I have always heard awesome things from everyone regarding the past album retreats and I knew I didn’t want to miss this one if I could help it. Once I heard the theme, I was a little nervous – I mean who ever scrapbooks about themselves. We scrapbook about our kids, our husbands, our trips and travels, just about everything else but never ourselves!
The homework started rolling in (homework -i.e.., what we want you to do to prepare for the retreat) and I was having to find pictures and journal about my favorite things, people, best friends, spaces, colors, etc. – WOW, was that tough! I think this had to be one of the hardest projects I have worked on in a long time but the end result – AMAZING!!!
Over the next several posts I will share some of the things we received and created, people I saw, what’s going on with Close to My Heart and so much more but until this check out this cute gifts I received as soon as I arrived.
This is a picture of a lanyard that one of my roommates made out of our For Always Textiles. The beautiful flowers were made using our paper flowers, sparkles and Black Tulle Ribbon. Isn’t it gorgeous!!!
Kristine Winfield from our corporate office, recently did a video on the Textiles and how to use them. You can watch it below.
If you would like to try the Textiles – you can get some here on my website.
Can't wait to see the scrapbook you made about you!
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