Cropagogo Saturday 8th December

I had a fab day on Saturday at the christmas crop, Shimelle was teaching the class, and we made a brilliant journal which also contained pictures of things we love.

I also received a wonderful sparkly christmas bauble made by a very talented lady, it was made of lovely sequins and looked like a Christmas pud, it now takes pride of place on my tree. Thanks Karen for organising this swap I know it scrambled your brains nearly!

Lorraine and Janice of Scrapagogo made the day so special for us, and there was a lovely buffet for us at lunchtime and refreshments on tap all day, if this is what their crops are like just imagine how good the GoGo retreat is going to be.

Shimelle supplied us with some lovely cupcakes and I couldn't resist taking a crafty photo before I devoured it (what decent scrapper wouldn't)

I was lucky enough to win one of the great raffle prizes and I had my eye on the yummy stamping up markers that came in the most divine pastel colours

In the evening part of the crop I caught up with the Shimelle Christmas journal, and managed to grap a photo of me with Shimelle to add to one of the pages and Shimelle very kindly added a preface to my album ! How about that, Can't say this was my idea, as it wasn't Karen had this little plan all cooked up already and I just borrowed her idea

Thanks karen...

Here are some pictures of my journal

Lastly I have been making some Christmas gifts today, with instructions I have gathered from different sites on the internet

A stationery set based on this very talented ladies instructions, you can find her blog here, an address book from here, and a bookmark