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Tina and Margaret

We are so excited that Tina Cockburn and Margaret Scarbrough will be joining us at the house July 24-26.   Just looked at Tina's blog http://www.tcphotography.typepad.com/ for her photography studio (Tina Cockburn Photography)and wanted to share with you.  She takes amazing photographs and I had so much fun looking through all of them.  It just made me smile looking at all the cute faces!  The best part for me (and could be for you too!) is that she will be at Sweetwater House July 24-26.  We are lucky enough to have her join us! Tina Cockburn’s photography (and her beautifully simple layout designs) have been featured on Simple Scrapbooks magazine covers multiple times, and she shoots professionally in her hometown of San Diego, Calif. Come and join us to ask questions and get personal instruction on how to improve your photography!

Joining Tina is Margaret Scarbrough.  Margaret’s work shows up all the time in Simple Scrapbooks magazine, and she’s been a featured contributor to three of Simple’s top-selling books: Real.Life.Scrapbooking, Beautiful Basics, and The Scrapbooker’s Almanac. She’ll guide you through the creation of an adorable mini-album of your own, sharing the tips, tricks, and techniques that help her keep her projects beautiful, meaningful, and above all, simple. You can also read her blog to get more insight about Margaret -  http://mks.typepad.com/

This weekend we are having a special women's  bible study retreat.  We are using a program called Chocolate Boutique - so I know we will be eating chocolate!  I will post pictures from our fun weekend next week!

Simple Scrapbooks at Sweetwater House!

We are so bad at blogging but we have made a new resolution to keep up with it!!  We have had the oppourtunity to meet so many nice people at the house and we thank each and everyone of you for coming!!

This past weekend we had the pleasure of having Angie and Wendy from Simple Scrapbooks magazine host a retreat at our house. They had a contest where the grand prize winner was awarded a trip to the Sweetwater House.  Jeanette and Amy from Minnesota  were the lucky winners of this prize and we also had 11 more people join in the fun weekend.  The weekend was full of fun and laughter Angie and Wendy are so fun to be around and we loved meeting new people and seeing people who have come to our retreats before.  Here we all are on the front porch of the house

                                                 

Thanks to everyone for coming and we hope to see you all back soon!  We do have more exciting news to share - Simple Scrapbooks Magazine is coming back for 7 more fun-filled weekends starting in July!  Some of their celebrities will be coming to join us and teaching all sorts of fun things.  We will have a more detailed description of who is coming and what they will be teaching soon.  If you are planning on a retreat you won't want to miss these.

To see more of the Simple Scrapbooks weekend visit Angies blog http://www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/blog/

Lets hope that it doesn't take us a few months to blog again!!