April Srapbooking Retreat

Our next scrapbooking retreat will be April 23-25. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Gabby of the Week - Gizmo

This little guy is just too cute. He decided all on his own to join our group picture {see him to the right of Julie T's head}. We were quite happy to let him join, too. Want to know his super trick? He can take the lid off of a bottle. He took the lid off this water bottle in about 5 seconds.

April Scrapbook Retreat

The April Scrapbook Retreat will be April 23,24,25 and we decided to do a Easter theme. So get out your Easter Bonnet girls. Also put your gift in a basket for the Chinese gift exchange. I will send out a detailed letter the first of January as the first half of everyones payment will be due by January 15th and the second half due by April 16th. It is getting harder to top each retreat and I don't know how we do it, but we have more fun each time.

Anthologies is always a great place to get together for a crop night, so anytime anyone wants to go give me a call. We can always get a group together.

What a Weekend!!!!!

The scrapbooking weekend was a blast. It was great to see all my friends. Connie, Catherine, Melissa and I went out Thursday night and enjoyed a great dinner at the Fireside Grill. We had a fabulous dinner and the laugh was on me as I went to pay for my dinner I whipped out my credit card and a few minutes later the waiter returned looking over his glass at me with his hands on his hips and siad, "REALLY....Dillards!!!!" I burst out laughing...it was dark and my Dillards and Mastercard are both black. I gave him the right card and we were out of there. Our waiter had a dry sense of humor, but was alot of fun. We arrived at the Covered Bridge Inn around 9:00 pm. We leasurely unpacked and got our stuff set up. Friday everyone arrived and the fun began. Lots of laughs and catching up with everyone. It was Shannon's B-day and we sang Happy B-day as she arrived. We had lots of door prizes and made a trip to Nana's to buy the latest and greatest. We took a group shot of everyone in their Gabby Sweatshirts. It was a late night and back up early on Saturday to begin another fun day scrapping, shopping and laughing. Katy came out to visit with us as she was unable to attend the weekend. Robin's husband brought out their new baby Bella and she was the Belle of the ball. Saturday night we had a Super hero night and some amazing costumes.

Sue was Super Grammy
Cari was Super Blogger
Julie was Incredible Mom
Lauren was Super Boss-y
Connie was Super Sunglasses Senorita
Andrea was Scrapologist Dr. Trout...cure for scrapbook addiction
Melissa was Sir Knight Sweats
Catherine was Flash...Hot Flash
Susan & Sandy were Super Freak

Connie was the Grand Winner

We did our group photo on the main stairway in Pat's house....thanks Pat. We also took a group shot of our bendable people and it was just hilarious. Also had our chinese gift exchange which makes for more laughs. We have such a great bunch of women who are so full of life, caring, energetic, great sense of humor, compassionate, intelligent,and are so giving. It is such a pleasure to spend a weekend with this wonderful bunch of women. The food was fabulous as usual and the weekend wrapped up on Sunday as we said our goodbye's until the next weekend in April. We missed Autum and Angie as they were unable to come as well. But we were glad to meet Terry and Rae-ann and hoped they had as much fun as we did.

Gabby Scrapppers

Well our weekend is fast approaching.... and I have lots of goodies...laughs... and prizes for everyone. So look out Weatherford the Gabby Scrappers are coming to town.

Honorary Gabby of the Week - Pat

Pat is our amazing hostess and fellow scrapbooker when we are at the Covered Bridge Inn. She is an amazing scrapbooker; we all love to scraplift her ideas. Thanks for making our weekends so wonderful Pat! See you in a couple of days.

Miss ya

Hi everyone, its Autum. I wanted to tell everyone that I am going to miss all of you next weekend at the retreat. This is the first time I am missing one of our Gabby Scrapper retreats since this all began. Please make sure to have a great time. Eat lots of Julio's chips. Enjoy Pat's cooking. Finally, please get lots of great pictures of the Super Hero weekend.

Until next time

Gabby of the Week - Sharon

Sharon's nickname needs to be Mrs. Creative. She is a Stampin Up distributor and always has great classes and ideas. We also need to get her to attend more crops so we have more pictures. This is the one and only one we could find, but it sure is a good one!

Gabby of the Week - Julie B

Chips, yum, chips, yum, yum, yum. Julie brought the first bag of Julio's chips. They are made in Del Rio where Shannon and Julie's husbands were stationed in the Air Force. What can we say? Our hips are forever sad, but our taste buds are forever grateful. Julie has four young children {2 are twins} and has their scrapbooks caught up. How amazing is that? She used to complete 10 pages to only one of mine before I turned to the digital world. She is super speedy.

Gabby of the Week - Sue

Sue is the most well organized "collector" of our bunch. She has pulled out the perfect item to complete some of my pages on more than one occasion and completely filled my "high maintenance" need. Sue and Connie also went to high school together. Isn't it a small world? They reconnected at a crop all these years later.

Gabby of the Week - Dede & Dottie

Dede and Dottie are sister-in-laws, and I think it is just great that they get along well enough to get away and spend the weekend together.

Dottie is one of the new Mommies in the Gabby group, and she always does amazing projects. Just check out the cross below. If memory serves me right, she sold it before the weekend was over, right Susan :-)?


Dede, well she is the life of the party as you can tell. I still don't know how on earth she came up with the Bear Breasted Biker Chick costume...sooooo funny. There was one retreat I was able to make where she couldn't, and it just was not the same. I think I said more than once that it was just too quite. Dede is also one of the first ones to start blogging. I can't wait to get her started on her first blog book.

Gabby of the Week - Anna

Anna has a huge servant's heart and loves her kids and grandchildren. It has been so much fun getting to know her.

It is OPEN

Update: Both Susan and Dede were in line waiting for it to open!

Yep, Anthologies opened up in Hurst {corner of Harwood and Norwood}. Lauren and I went to check it out this evening, and these two below went yesterday. Does it really surprise you that our ringleader and shopping queen would arrive on opening day? I heard that Dede was actually in line waiting for the doors to open. You go girl!

The store was great, and it was so much fun to see so many faces that I remembered from Recollections. So many of the same great people in a new happy place is just well, GREAT!



Hmmmm. I wonder when my posting privileges will be revoked so I can't hijack Susan's blog? :-)

this makes me laugh

So I am looking through pictures working on the Gabby of the Weeks and found these. It is funny that there was not one but three pictures of Julie watching her race and that someone took the pictures in the first place. What a hoot we are. A room full of memory makers taking a picture of something that the other 19 people in the room new was definatly a memory. Love ya Julie. It is also a pretty cute prego picture.

Do you know me?

I marched in the Cotton Bowl Parade, performed in the Cotton Bowl at half time in 1971, and was on National TV. Do you know me?

Gabby of the Week - Amy

Amy is one of our super scrappy quilters who is originally from Colorado. She actually makes at least one quilt a year to donate for an auction. How sweet is that!

Gabby of the Week - Betty & Wendy

I'm back! Thanks Autum for helping out for a couple of weeks. Our Gabbies of the Week are the dynamic twin duo Wendy and Betty. It is sad not getting to see Wendy's smiling face everyday at work, but I know I will see her in November for an entire weekend! Yeah for our retreats! Wendy is our embroidering, quilting and scrapping Gabby. Betty is one of the Super Teachers in the Gabby group, and she makes amazing cards. Love you two ladies.

Do You Know Me

I work for a law firm, I like to scrapbook and quilt. I also live the closest to the Covered Bridge Inn. Do you know me?

Little known fact:

Anthologies is a new scrapbooking store that will be opening on October 2 in Hurst, Tx.

Gabby of the Week

Teri and I have the same taste in names. We both have a daughter named Gracie. Teri loves to stamp and work on projects. She had made several cute things on the years that stick out in my mind. Do you remember the cute Halloween paperclips or the large letter G? Teri is often found cutting up with her good friend Dede. Even though she is quiet, she is pretty funny once you get to know her. Her favorite movie is Momma Mia!

Gabby of the Week

Cari is one of the charter members of the Gabby Scrappers. She is always thinking of others and goes out of her way to help. She is quite the planner. She used to be a "slow poke" in the paper scrapbooking world. Now she is moving at lightening speed with digital scrapbooking. But as always, she wants to help others by passing along all she has learned. Cari is now hosting ditigal scrapbooking classes.

Do You Know Me

I come to the scrapbook retreats but stay at the Hotel down the street. I have lots of scrapbooking supplies. Do you know me?

Do you know me?

I love scrapping with all the girls. I am on the sub list and come whenever I can. I also sell a line that is very popular. Do you know me?

Gabby of the Week

Julie is known for her love of Disney, but in my opinion she is one of my favorite scrapbook artists. Her style is clean, colorful and always draws me in. She was on of the firsts in the group to by a Cricut. A pioneer I tell ya ;-)

She is often found cutting up with Susan. And even though she moved to the Midwest, she loves us so much she flies in to scrapbook with us. We miss you Julie!

Do you know me?

I help supply most of the pictures for the blog. I also wear some of the best costumes. Do you know me?

Do you know me?

I was recently on the local news promoting a local event? Do you know me?

Gabby of the Week - Shannon

This week's feature Gabby is Shannon. She brought Julie into the group which brought us all "the chips". Our hips and backsides are forever grateful. Shannon has a very large amount of patience, which is was required when I paper scrapbooked. I admit it to the world. I am a high maintenance scrapbook friend. Thanks to Shannon and the rest of the group.

Do you know me?

I am the Queen of the blogs. I am teaching a class on blogs at the retreat. Do you know me?

Do you know me?

I was in the first group to stay at the Covered Bridge Inn on it 's opening weekend. Do you know me?

Do You Know Me

I am an Army brat and have lived in many locations, I also love to shop. Do you know me?

Sooz News

We will be having our Chineese gift exchange on Saturday night $20 value.

Gabbies of the Week - Melissa & Catherine

This week we feature Melissa and Catherine. So glad I have gotten to know these two ladies. To think, a car running over Catherine almost stopped her from coming to the first retreat! From what I hear, if you wear a matching shirt, you can be their best friend! {They were wearing the same shirts the day they met.}

Do you know me?

I travel the furthest to get there and I bring the most popular snack. Do you know me?

Gabby of the Week - Angie

Our Gabby of the Week is Angie, and I do believe she always has a smile on her face. She makes just the cutest little hats, sweaters, scarfs around. See for yourself in the second picture. Lauren just loves it that we have matching hats and scarfs, and it is all thanks to Angie's handywork. You can check out some of her other cute things on her crochet blog.

Do you know me?

I work for Target and have a beautiful 4 yr old daughter. I love to scrap using lots of glitter and ribbon. You should know me!

Gabby of the Week - Robyn

Our second {belated} Gabby of the Week is the newest mama of the group.

If overalls, Sonic, matching hats and flip flops are involved, chances are so is Robyn. I am so happy to report that Robyn and Bella are both doing well.

Gabby of the Week - Andrea

I realized on Thursday that I totally missed getting the Gabby of the Week post up. Just so you know, Andrea has been the master supplier of pictures for our weekly features. Thanks for your help Andrea. Who can forget her "Tropical Depression" Halloween costume. How funny {and original} is that!

Little Known Fact

Connie & Sue went to high school together and ran into each other at a Scrapbooking retreat at Beaumont Ranch. They hadn't seen each other in over 35 years.

Do you know me?

I majored in elementary education, I love peanut M&M's, my favorite drink is Pepsi Wild Cherry, and I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Do you know me?

Do you know me?

I was born in South Dakota but have lived here all my life. Do you know me?

Do You Know Me?

I was invited by a friend to come to this retreat. When we first met we were wearing identical sweaters. Do you know me?

Gabby of the Week - Katy

Got Sonic? We have Katy in our Gabby group so we do.

Robyn and baby Isabella Grace

Robyn and Grant are the proud parents of Isabella Grace. She was born at 6:12 this morning at
2 lbs. 13 oz. She is at Cooks in th NICU. Please continue to keep Robyn and Isabell Grace in your prayers as they stablize and gain their strength. Our much love and prayers to the family.

Do you know me?

I am the wife of a Methodist minister. Do you know me?

Do you know me?

I am part Cherokee Indian and I have an Indian card? Do you know me?

Do You Know Me

I wanted to be an FBI agent and I graduated from UTA with a BA in Criminology & Criminal Justice. I also speak 3 languages. Do you know who I am?

Robyn & baby

Please keep Robyn, Grant and their baby in your prayers. She was care flighted to Ft. Worth from Granbury. Her blood pressure is high and they are trying to get it under control. She was given steroids to help with the babys lungs. They will be taking the baby by c-section soon. Cari will be posting on Robyn's blog to keep us updated. They are asking for no visitors at this time.

Little known fact

Connie is a Master Gardner. (as if you couldn't tell by her photos)

Do you know me?

I came to my first scrapbooking retreat wearing only one black boot. Do you know me?

Little Known Fact

Did you realize that we have 4 sets of twins in our scrapbooking group.
Cari is a twin ( sister Jill).
Wendy and Betty are twins.
DeDe has twin girls.
Julie B. has twins...a boy and girl.

Gabby of the Week - Autum

We have another Gabby who just had a birthday. In fact, Autum and Susan share a birthday. Hope you had a great week Autum, our digital scrapbooking trailblazer.

Do you know me?

I'm always cold....I always need a hoodie.....I also love peanut M&M's...who am I?

Gabby of the Week - Susan & Sandy

I am playing around with the design a bit. I am sure you all know how long it takes me to put a layout together. That is why I love this digital stuff. Can you say "template"? Ahhhh...music to my ears. This week we feature Susan and Sandy. Susan is our awesome ring leader and party planner. Sandy is our fashion queen and I think almost always the last one to arrive the first day. She is always "fashionably late". It also just happens to be Susan's birthday this week. Happy Birthday Susan. I could not help but include some pictures of the two together since there were so many cute ones to choose from. Notice how many pictures there are of Susan laughing. Does your face hurt from laughing so much when you head home after a fun Gabby weekend? Mine sure does. Click on the layouts to view them larger.

Group Shots

I found lots of group shots sifting through pictures for the Gabby of the Week layouts. Anyone else have some that I missed we can add?

Inaugural Retreat for the Gabbies March 2007
{PJ night group shot missing some ladies}



September 2007





April 2008 Hat Theme



April 2008 Group Shots



I still laugh thinking about this. Put a bunch of scrapbookers together and you would think we would have known to put our heads together to start off with.





October 2008



Most of those who dressed up for the Halloween theme.



February 2009 Mardi Gras Theme