The Winners!!!!

I am soooo sorry for the long delay. I was sooo busy last week trying to get ready for the retreat that I was going to that I didn't even have time to come in here to post about where I was going. Truly truly sorry. Here are the winners of my Pay-It-Forward RAK.

Yu'er
brainybairn
Ruey

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! (or is it commiserations to win a handmade gift from me?!?! LOL) Will all of you please email me your mailing address so I can make those RAKs and send them out to you. Now you need to PAY IT FORWARD on your blog! :) :)

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I went to a retreat with some great friends over the weekend at Portsea. It wasn't a commercial scrapbooking retreat as such, just one that friends all got together, scrapped, chatted, ate ..... didn't have a full shop setup but Trish and Anne-Marie brought along their latest arrivals from Scrapanalia with them. I still managed to spend about $30+ .... not bad for a weekend huh? :) Most of us brought our own food, eg casseroles, curries, rice... etc. Jorja even cooked bacon and egg breakfast for us on Saturday morning, and made satay chicken on Saturday night for dinner. She is just the bestest!! I call her Mom .... probably my first time being taken care of !! :)

I scrapped.... boy did I scrap! LOL.... I aimed to do 10 layouts, but only managed 9, and altered 2 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. I am extremely satisfied with what I created though. I will finish up my journaling and take some photos when I can. I think the reason why I was that productive, was because I was scrapping without inhibitions. Although I have a few DT layouts to do, I refused to do them over the weekend cos I tend to ponder more over those layouts. I just wanted to create freely without any rules. I really needed that. I needed the weekend to be about me and not answering to anyone, .... no offence FK, Addicted to Craft and Blueye Dezines. :) :)

Ask me if I missed my kids..... sorry LUVS! I missed the bit that Phaedon comes to bed to snuggle up with me in the morning, but I got over that pretty quickly. LOL ...

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I am also busy setting up Crop For Kids' first online class. It'll be held tomorrow, Thursday 20th September 2007. Our first tutor on the list is Lou Spiden! She is truly a very funny and great person to be with and learn something from. If you haven't registered, go to Crop For Kids blog now and be quick!!!

There is also a very cool competition going on CFK .... Design-A-Chippie Competition! You get to design your own chipboard embellishments and stand to win a very cool $50 prize pack from Scrapware AND a $50 gift certificate from The Scrapbook Establishment. The winning design will be manufactured by Scrapware and sold by Crop For Kids exclusively!!!! All proceeds will go to Crop For Kids, and official fundraising event for Royal Children's Hospital's Good Friday Appeal.

So there! You get to design, you stand to win, ..... VERY ATTRACTIVE PRIZES, winning design gets manufactured, sale proceeds go to charity ..... is this a win-win-win situation or what?! So start sketching and doodling my friends!

Ok... it's 2.40am.... time for bed ..... bit of a zombie now....

Have a great week ahead!