A Little ABBA & A lot of Laughs.....

Last week 6 of us spent 4 days at this beautiful scrapbooking retreat at Fawn Meadows in Delburne, AB. Just 2.5 hours from Calgary right on a golf course. It was amazing! Each of the guest rooms have a private ensuite and the entire lodge has beautiful views of the golf course. Thanks to Betty, we had a great variety of music - even though Deb thinks we played too much Abba.... . . "how can I resist you. [twist, shuffle, slide] Mama Mia . . . Here we go again [jump, twist, splits] . . . my, my" . . . (thanks Ashlyn)! Each day the breakfast buffet was more than enough, we skipped lunch and prepared our own meals for supper, using their on-site BBQ and ordering home-made pizza from the locals. We relaxed, scrapped, and laughed until our insides hurt! There is nothing like good belly laughs with great friends. I took several projects to work on and was happily suprised by how much I accomplished. Can't show much on here right now as a lot of it is for the wedding but I WILL share this cute little frame that I made as a gift for someone special.

I bought this inexpensive wood frame at Michaels and painted it with vanilla acrylic paint. After letting that dry I painted a thin layer of crackle paint over top of the vanilla and just when it was tacky, I painted the golden brown acrylic paint and let it sit to dry and crack. I then used a Crafters Workshop template mask and mixed Teddy Bear brown acrylic paint with fibre paste to get a nice thick mixture. I painted this over the mask to get the small square pattern along the bottom of the frame. This turned out better than I thought and it was hard for me to resist painting the entire frame in this manner. I routed through my scrap stash to find the perfect embellishments to decorate with.

And a couple of close-up shots of the embellies. Love the Graphic 45 door knob and the cute vintage wooden buttons. Easy Peesy and I love how it turned out!