Cedaroma Lodge

Well hello there friends!  I know it's been awhile since I've posted.  I did start a post a week or so ago, I wanted to let you know about my winning a week's stay at cabin here in Wisconsin.  I liked Discover Wisconsin on Facebook awhile ago. I entered to win their giveaways every so often but have never thought much about it.  Isn't that how it usually goes?  Well sometime around Christmas or shortly thereafter a friend commented on Facebook something to the effect of how did it feel to win?  I was puzzled and typed huh?  She typed you didn't know you won a week's stay at Cedaroma Lodge in St Germain, WI?  I typed no...of course I was in the process of checking it out for myself.  Sure enough!  It was there on the Discover Wisconsin page and the Cedaroma Facebook page and then I got the email confirming it. I was on the quest of who to take with me.  I thought of my sons first, we all need a break.  Then a dear friend mentioned that it would probably be more fun to do a girl's getaway. So I contacted friends and family who I thought needed a break.  I thought it would be fun to craft/scrapbook/make cards together.  So many couldn't get away for a whole week.  Which I was beginning to doubt myself as I'm a temp worker with no benefits.  I emailed Lynn the owner of Cedaroma Lodge and asked if I took part of the week and would it be okay to gift the rest of the week? She gave me the okay.  Well finding someone to take the rest of the week was just as difficult.  I did find one friend that was able to go with.  She works with Mitchell at Goodwill and we've been scrap booking together for over a year now.  She is one of the nicest people I've met since moving to this area.  She is always positive and kind just what I've needed after all the ups and lots of downs I've been through.

We decided to go over this past weekend.  My birthday was on Monday the 4th, and I thought it would be fun to just be able to relax, scrap and of course eat!  We had wine and other liquor with us, but only drank the wine. Our first night there it was minus 10 degrees F. We did turn on the gas fireplace to warm up our toesies.  Sooo cold that Dawn's van did not start the next day. Thankfully, she is a member of Triple A.  We got some good scrappin' in   Sunday and Monday morning. We packed up and left on Monday,  a day early because of an impending snowstorm.  Neither one of us wanted to drive in that.

I must say that you really should give Cedaroma Lodge a visit! Whether you're a winter sports fan, a fisherman or like Dawn and I enjoy the indoors while crafty our little hearts out. Believe me, if it were warmer weather Dawn and I would've done more outdoor things. We both enjoy fishing, hiking and nature photography. 

Lynn the owner, is such a nice person always responding to my emails and coming up to the cabin to meet us.  Another great tidbit, she is allowing me to come back next month to finish off my stay since I was not able to take a week all at one time! How cool is that?  Here are some photos of the cabin and how we set up our scrapbooking stash.  Now believe me Dawn has all her scrapbooking stash in her van, so my stuff is about 1/4 of this stash here. Grins.

Scrap goodies

How we finally set up since the light was best here

Dawn scrappin' away

Morning view from our cabin's porch

Cabin number 5, our cabin

Our cabin from the parking spot

I had to include a photo of the fireplace going

I also want to tell you that March and April are perfect times to go to Cedaroma lodge to craft your little heart out, whatever your hobby may be. Right now they're having a promotion, the 3rd night is free. The promotion runs until May 2, 2013. The beds are super comfy and the towels very plush.  If you're like me and like a good hot shower with the water full blast, you'll get  one here!  So often you stay somewhere and the water is so light and just drips out of the shower head. 
That's it for now, I'll put up another post showing you the things I did accomplish while scrappin' in the cabin. Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas!

Oh My, it's been so long since I've blogged I wasn't sure I'd remember how to. :D Just trying to get through the holidays. I've been working as a temp, hoping to find a permanent position soon. Haven't had much time for scrappin or card making but did get a few things made. I will share the photos with you, sorry that some are blurry but I hope you get the gist of it. We R Memory Keepers Merry January - another color combo I just love!

Here is a Altered Frap set I made using Bo Bunny's Winter Joy line. Such pretty colors! One of Mitch's co-workers was the lucky recipient.

Mitch has been working too, started off as seasonal, but will be permanent soon. Hoping he'll get set up to go to college next semester. He sure enjoys his job and they really like him there. He had an end of the year review and got great reviews. We drive into work together and then he walks from Panera or McDonald's as he doesn't have to start as early as I do.

Time sure seems to fly by these days. I really miss getting a chance to blog hop and leave comments, sure hope you understand. I stop by scrapbook.com every so often, but even then it's not as often as I used to. I'm hoping the new year will bring me my own place to live, with the boys of course. We would rather live in the city we work in, instead of having to drive there 35 mins one way. We've gotten lots of snow too, we were stuck in the city one weekend.

Well I'll let you go, as I'm sure you're super busy with the upcoming Holiday preparations! Wishing you and your family and Very Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year!

Hugs,

Carmen

Snow, Snow, Snow

Okay so here in NW Ohio we do not have has much as the NE or even Wisconsin for that matter! But for the past two days things have sort of come to quite a slow down here in Toledo. I wish I could get some awesome photos like Angela does of Here, Now. Look at that shot of the cardinal! She lives in MD and I read today they have like 40+ inches in the last week or so. Angela you can correct me if I'm wrong ;). Ooh and look at her layouts, she really does some awesome clean and linear layouts. What a treasure they will be for her family in years to come! Here are my photos from today:







Yesterday I got some exciting news! I've been on Facebook only since the end of December. I have a lot of scrapbook type friends and fan pages. One of them is Croppin Circle and they have their crops at The Heldrich in Brunswick, NJ. I thought man would that be fun to go to one of those crops. They suggested adding the Heldrich to my fan pages, I wasn't sure because our current situation does not allow for travel, but then the Heldrich had a contest for reaching 2500 fans. The Grand Prize is 4 days 3 nights, $500 food and drink and $500 for travel. I thought I so could use a vacation so I became a fan. Well yesterday I was emailed that I was the Grand Prize Winner! I was so thrilled. I can choose from any of their properties. I'm leaning toward Virginia Beach, so if you've been there, let me know. I called to let them know and they will be sending me all the information. Here is the link for the Grand Prize notification.


As you know I haven't really had time to create, but when I learned about a friend's dad passing away, I had to send a card. I had looked at the galleries on scrapbook.com and splitcoast to see what inspiration I could find and this is the
what I came up with.


Thanks for stopping by,hope you have a wonderful rest of the week!!

I'll be back soon

Sorry about the lack of posts from me. A lot of stuff going on here, family wise and I just am sort of out of the creating mood. I'm doing some things, but it is slow going. I hope to back in the swing of things soon hopefully by the weekend.

We did get snow on Saturday and Sunday. It looked like a blizzard Saturday, but none of it stuck. Sunday we got a little more but it only was a dusting and was only on the grass in shaded areas. Monday it snowed and stuck for awhile on cars and such, but no real accumulation. It sure has gotten cold though. One day I went out on the front porch to get the mail and noticed the welcome mat was away from the door so I went to kick it back and it didn't move. Thankfully I didn't kick it too hard or I might have pulled a muscle haha!

Tomorrow Tim has chemotherapy and then we'll be getting the house ready for Thanksgiving. We are having Thanksgiving here. So wish me luck!

Today I decided to make Apple Crisp. I love Apple Crisp and wanted to warm up the house. So I baked that then rolls to go with supper and then Chicken Stuffing bake. Kind of a small version of next week, except that it is all in one casserole.

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Wednesday, soon it'll be the weekend woohoo.