ScrapCamp 2007

That time of the year again, only this time it was a different time of the year! Held the last weekend in March.

Katrina and I travelled up from Christchurch together. Our flight was delayed by 15 minutes due to the late incoming plane. Pleasant flight up. Sent Jenny a text to say we had landed and there she was to meet us at the luggage area. Well we waited, and waited, and waited until Jenny went to see the baggage man who made an announcement to all passengers that there was a delay in the luggage being taken off the plane. A second announcement to let us all know that they were short staffed due to a Union Meeting! 50 minutes later, we saw our baggage. Took longer to retrieve our baggage than it did to fly up to Wellington!

The next surprise, well it wasn't really a surprise, because I had guessed that we were going to Sharlene's for lunch! Lots of cuddles with the NZScrappers newest member Jessica and she was such a good girl taking us all in.

Same venue, Forest Lakes at Otaki - needs a bit of a clean up now though.

An amazing denim bag full of goodies.

First game was to tear off how many pieces of toilet paper you thought you might need - the catch - however many pieces you took you had to introduce yourself and tell something about yourself for each piece. They didn't find out much about me because I only took one piece!LOL

Lots of scrapping took place despite the heat (yes it was really very, very hot) and the flies. Some time later I discovered I had forgotten to pack my deoderant - what a dilemma, wondering if spray perfume would do the job!

Some of us had lots of fun trying our hand at doodling - the latest craze to hit the scrapping world. Scraobooking Bingo game - I managed to win that!

Jo took a class on covering and decorating our large wooden letters - some had chosen a word and some had chosen letter.

The food was self catered this year and was very scrumptious and I must give credit to Jenny and Marie for making this happen.

Can you believe that one person stayed up until 5.30a.m. scrapping? Maybe the fact that she is a Kiwi turned Aussie might explain the insanity. Not only that, but she survived on only 3 hours sleep both nights (or rather mornings)!

Sunday was show and tell and judging for the best layout, best photograph, best journalling, best covered notebook and best decorated word. There was some seriously wonderful works of art and judging was indeed very difficult.

Time to depart and hit the road after cleaning up. Good run of traffic which meant we were at the airport early so had time to people and plane watch.

Can you believe that I had to drive part of the way home in rain again? At least there was no fog this year and I did get my baggage on the same flight as me.

By the way, I managed to do 14 pages over the weekend which must be a record for me! I still have to do some finishing off as you don't really take EVERYTHING with you when you are travelling by plane