SENZ is over for another year and I think it was the most eventful one yet. So many people had to overcome so much to be there. From earthquakes, to volcanic ash cancelling flights, to trains derailing and one lady even had her house struck by lightening. I was so amazed by two ladies in my class on Friday. They'd been to hell and back with the earthquakes so were looking forward to a weekend away in Auckland. Their flights were cancelled due to volcanic ash but they decided nothing was going to stop them. They got in the car, took turns driving, left Christchurch around 1pm on Thursday, 7pm sailing across the Cook Strait, drove all night and arrived in time for my first class Friday morning. We had to keep prodding them awake but 10 points for effort, it gave me the warm fuzzies thinking about all they'd been through and how hopefully SENZ could improve things just a little for them!
Anyway, my classes went well, I had one only about half full on Friday morning but the rest were sold out or close to it. I worked all day Friday, all day Saturday and then stood at the Scrapware demo table all day Sunday. It was GREAT catching up with everyone.
We had a lot of fun in class,despite not being in the most ideal spot. Because I was in the main hall I was competing with the noise of everyone else a bit but I think we all had fun (didn't we?!) I had taken a lot of layouts and projects to display, and I even took blu-tack to stick them to the classroom wall. Unfortunately I didn't have walls, I had partitions and no velcro dots! Argh! Anyway, best laid plans and all that… I enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones and there were some wickedly AMAZING pages created, so yay!
I think Decadent Details was my favourite class of the weekend. We visited alsorts of little techniques, from white-washing to Hybrid scrapping. Hands up those who have their Hybrid scrapbooking brownie badge now?!!! The Webster's Pages products were a favourite and most of us got our pages finished in class. I love the feeling of walking away from a class knowing that the projects all looked so good. I can't thank you all enough for putting the effort into your pages in class that you do. Sometimes a class atmosphere can be a little pressured, especially when the classes are quite large, so thank you ladies!
Cute girls, huh? One is mine of course, and one is Lucy's – those two are a great team – much like Lucy and myself, she was the best TA during all six classes (I'm so lucky to have such great support!) .
Will share more of my classes in the next few days. Things don't slow down for me for at least a few weeks, I put off a lot of other assignments to do last minute SENZ stuff and now I have some big elephants to eat. Just like my hubby says. One bite at a time. Lucky I seem to thrive on having elephants standing in the corner of the room. Can't complain.
Laters.
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