A very sweet (re)treat.

(and a really fun road trip)

I am a bit slow getting back into the swing of things.

That might well be because a 4 day trip away,

involving some gorgeous women,

lots of sewing, chatter and coffee,

a handful of op shops

and the most fun you can have on a road trip (and back)

from Adelaide to Bacchus Marsh,

made it very difficult to return to the reality of

cooking dinner. helping with homework and getting woken at 6am every morning.

While it was great to come home to sleep in my own bed

(oh, yeah, and meet and greet the hubby and kids),

the 2nd Annual Crafty Mamas retreat 2010

was as much fun as you could hope for.

4 of us South Aussie girls piled into a car

(now affectionately dubbed The Tardis

as she seemed to cope with everything that we bought at the op shop

in spite of the fact that she seemed full of stuff already)

and ventured over the border.

We stayed the night in Horsham

(visiting Spotlight,

as you do,

when you have just travelled 6 hours in a car

but when the sewing gods are smiling at you

and give you a quilting evening with late night shopping and great discounts,

what can you do?)

Then enjoyed a leisurely morning of op shopping

and made it mid avo to Sunnystones.

Set up more for school camps than us crafting mums,

it was perfect.

Casual, meals provided,

ample beds and bathrooms,

log fires.

Rumour has it that it was lovely outside

but we wouldn't know.

We didn't get that far.

2 days of sewing and crafting,

eating and drinking,

talking and laughing,

learning and teaching,

discussing and supporting.

Everything that I have come to expect from these lovely women

whom I know so well on line

and am getting to know so well in real life.

(See I did get some sewing done!)

Here's to the next one, girls!