Thursday 14 February 2013

Lucky Snapping - Lets Reflect February

I was looking forward to logging on to the Lucky Snapping in 2013 blog on Monday morning to see what Anne had in store for us on the second part of her Lets Reflect challenge.

Impossible was the topic for February and I was immediately stumped. This will take a lot of thinking was my first thought but suddenly today, something went ping in my head when I thought of the great weekend I had just spent with my scrapping buddies.

Its my best pal and UKS teamie Heather's 50th birthday this week and although I knew she didnt want a fuss for her birthday I knew she would just love to spend time scrapping with friends. The planning took a few months and at first it looked like a fairly impossible task. It was a feat of organisation which at times, looked like being near on impossible for a combination of reasons, including me having no car for the last couple of months, Jules breaking her leg and Lesley being involved in a horrendous crash with her gorgeous Grand-daughter which wrote her car off., but in the end we all got there, coming from all parts of the country with Dee coming from Donegal, Donna from Langbank, Me from East Kilbride, Julieann from Wellingborough and Jill from Leicester on a combination of planes, trains and automobiles!! and to meet up with the local girlies, Lesley and Julie who were putting us all up and co-ordinating the collections from airport and metro, and local teamie Wendy and Pam and Pauline also from the crop. In the end we did it and the look of shock, delight and every other emotion on her face when we all jumped out of cars in front of the hall on Friday night was just priceless and made all the months of planning and all the little white lies we had to tell worth it- some of us are never going to make it to heaven Im sure.

We had a great time cropping all weekend, being joined on the Saturday by our UKS teamie Wendy and also Pauline and Pam. We cropped all day, stopping only for a chinese takeaway in the evening and rounded off the weekend with another cropping session on Sunday followed by ten of us hitting the local carvery for Sunday dinner before we all had to disperse again. It was just great and Im sure Heather has now forgiven me for all the "porky pies" I had to tell to keep the secret.

Just goes to show that sometimes you can make the impossible happen.

I will leave you with a pic of some of us from the weekend - 8 out of 10 from our UKS team the Rik Rak Ravers.  Somehow or other whenever we arrange a meet up 8 is the maximum we get together but maybe just maybe the impossible will happen and we will get the full 10.

16 comments :

  1. Suzy - another tear to my eye - it was a fabulous weekend something to remember forever XXXX

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  2. That's such a beautiful and inspiring story, Suzie ! How great, with everything against you all, that you still managed to meet for this week-end. That shows that when people believe something can happen, they make it happening ! So pleased for you ! xxx

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  3. Aaww what wonderful friends you all are! I am sure Heather totally forgave you for the little white lies after such a lovely surprise! I am glad you all had such a great weekend after all those struggles and planning :)

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  4. It was a fab weekend and organosed for such a special person. You captured it so eloquently Suzi x

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  5. Suzy, thats lovely - summed up our perfect weekend (wipes tear as well)

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  6. It was a perfect weekend and wouldn't have missed it for the world.

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  7. Congratulations! Great meeting - a excellent weekend!
    I really like this:
    "Just goes to show that sometimes you can make the impossible happen."
    HUGS

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  8. Looks like you had a great time, fab photo.
    C xx

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  9. That's a fantastic story! You are all lucky to have each other and I'm sure that someday all 10 of you will meet for another wonderful weekend.

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  10. well done for beating all that that thrown at you and managing the get together. Sounds like a great weekend, hope you manage to get the full team one day :)

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  11. I truly believe where there is a will, there is a way. You have proven this to be true. It looks like you all had a wonderful time.

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  12. Fantastic story and loved reading it. Aren't retreats and meeting up with teamies wonderful. I bet all 10 of you meet one day :)

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  13. What a wonderful way to spend a weekend and so nice to hear how the internet has brought you all together to form such good friendships. Well worth all the effort by sounds of things. x

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  14. what a lovely story and aren't you lovely for organising it all.

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  15. Glad you all had such a great weekend.

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  16. Such a fabulous surprise, but how are you going to top it next year lol

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