SENZ!

What a wonderful weekend. Great company, great company and great company. Oh and Wellington turned on it's best weather and the shopping was an added bonus!

After a great drive down, stopping and checking out a few places along the way, my SENZ highlights would have to be catching up with friends, both old and new! The fact that I got to scrapbook, shop, and do some classes was an added bonus.

Like most I was a bit disappointed in the amount of stalls (still managed to shop though!) in comparison to other SENZ weekends, but really the classes were good and the organisation superb. Yep, one class we hadn't recieved the class list so most of us didn't have the right supplies, but heck the class itself was wonderful and the person taking it isn't at fault, it's the people behind the scenes who are meant to get all that side of it done. It just wouldn't be SENZ without a few hiccups - that's what memories are made of!

Loved the fact that I arrived on Friday and lined up for my goodie bag and along comes Beverley. Then off to my class and I ran straight into Janine (Angelgurl) now that was just awesome. Loved that we went down to the shops afterwards and these two woman came up "are you Trace?" Yep, that's me..."we are Bronwyn and...(sorry the names gone out of my head!) from Timaru, you look just like your avatar!" Now that's cool! So neat to see such familiar faces all around the place. Loved that whenever you went to the VIP room there were people that I knew. Loved our dinner out at Cobb and Co - they were fab - well organised, super friendly and it was a great night.

Speaking of which, they tried to kick us out of our motel on Saturday. My sister had arrived back from a bit of shopping and the moteliers came over wanting to know if there was a reason we hadn't checked out...ummm yes, because we aren't meant to! They had double booked the room, but we had it first, so some other poor souls had to find somewhere else. Better them than us with our scrapbooking bags, clothes, food...We went to the crop on Saturday night where I ate one of Beverley's famous and delicious cupcakes for dinner - I know there are photos on other blogs, and I have to say they looked to darn good to eat (but it didn't stop me!!) At the crop I managed to cut out a circle and do some strip journalling. That was it. To busy talking, which really was far more fun...oh and I shopped some more...AND then on the way home to the motel Lee, Mandy, Annette and Davina started telling jokes, and most of them had tears seeping down their little cheeks at one point or another!

On our drive home the weather was just stunning and the mountains looked at their very best. We stopped at a couple of markets (three actually) because we hadn't done enough shopping...I was well behaved, only buying veges, a jar of apple and mint jelly (for my roast lamb) and two books to cut up. They were expensive, twenty cents each. I'm kicking myself just a tad though. I don't own a cuttlebug (oh I heard that collective gasp of shock!) I do have a sizzix sidekick and don't use it all that much (even though there are five alphabet fonts sitting with it) and so didn't want to rush out and get a cuttlebug just for the sake of the embossing folders. But now I do want one. Just for the embossing folders LOL. They had them for ninety nine dollars at SENZ, but I thought I'd wait till I got back to Auckland and get one here. I can't find a shop that still has them for ninety nine. Shouldn't have hesitated, should have got one at SENZ. So if your an Aucklander and you see them at this price, please let me know.

I've come home to a clean house, sun kissed sheets (his words!), the tiling in the kitchen done and the carpet booked to go down the thirtieth of November.


Okay will throw more photos in during the week. For now I'd better cook some dinner and do a ton of ironing (all that washing from SENZ!).