{"id":206,"date":"2015-09-21T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:53:43","slug":"retreats-crops-and-other-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/09\/21\/retreats-crops-and-other-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreats, Crops and Other Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/retreatspace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/09\/21\/retreats-crops-and-other-events\/retreatspace\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/retreatspace.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scrapbook Retreat Space\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/retreatspace.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/retreatspace.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Scrapbook Retreat Space\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The heart of our business is, of course, getting photos into albums so they can be revisited and treasured for years to come. One spectacular bonus to this richly rewarding hobby is the time spent with other creative folks when you attend an event where the focus is on finishing albums.<\/p>\n<p>CM Advisor Candace Bouldin shares some great tips and advice for anyone considering <a title=\"How to host a crop or retreat\" href=\"http:\/\/scrapinjpegs.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/how-to-host-day-crop-retreat-or-hotel.html\" target=\"_blank\">hosting their own crop<\/a> or <a title=\"Attending a retreat or cropping event\" href=\"http:\/\/scrapinjpegs.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/what-do-i-bring-to-crop-or-retreat.html\" target=\"_blank\">attending a cropping event<\/a> on her blog. She offers super advice on all aspects &#8211; even how to organize and prep layouts before you even leave the house!<\/p>\n<p>Fran Smitherman also recently shared a great article on how rewarding it can be as a member of <a title=\"The Scrapbooking Community\" href=\"http:\/\/celebratingyourbeautifullife.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/oh-pages-we-complete-and-good-times-we.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Scrapbooking Community<\/a>. Another great read on how important photo albums are as a lifelong reminder of relationships as well as forming new ones, too.<\/p>\n<p>We love hearing stories of folks who have connected and become lifelong friends as a result of scrapbooking. What&#8217;s your favorite connection you&#8217;ve made because of scrapbooking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heart of our business is, of course, getting photos into albums so they can be revisited and treasured for years to come. One spectacular bonus to this richly rewarding hobby is the time spent with other creative folks when you attend an event where the focus is on finishing albums. CM Advisor Candace Bouldin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95570245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[405515165],"tags":[16940],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-cm","tag-scrapbooking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-3k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76944,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2022\/06\/12\/worldwide-virtual-crop-2022-challenge-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":0},"title":"Worldwide Virtual Crop 2022: Challenge #12","author":"Creative Memories","date":"June 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeehaw! 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