I'll start off with the crafty things. I attached two butterfly's to a 13 inch background fabric- buttercup Kona I believe. I used interfacing on the pink and tried to wing it on the light blue. I know to use the interfacing for the rest of them! I'm going to use the cut outs of the black hexagons for the bodies of them and then will embroider the antenna on. Hopefully that will be today's project.
I forgot to grab a photo of where I started this granny square yesterday. I had a little time between sessions and stitched this on the porch of the store at camp in a comfy rocking chair, listening to the birds tweet and the sounds of nature all around me. I'll finish this one off today and add it to the pile.
I was going to spend the whole weekend at Sisters Retreat this weekend - Friday night until Sunday morning, but I opted for the day only on Saturday. I'm so glad I did but it was a long day. I live about 25 minutes from camp, and got there a bit before 8AM. I left a bit after 8PM last night. I just got up for the day around 3PM Sunday! I did get out of bed a few times but managed to go right back. I know I drank a lot of water and some electrolytes but a headache started this morning, and I probably just overdid it after being sick all month! It is a good day to rest!
This was the group photo taken right after opening ceremony on Saturday. That is the porch where I sat in one of the rocking chairs and got some crochet stitches in.
We were split into 3 groups to go around and attend the sessions. Unlike an encampment with the girls, as adults we have options to skip sessions if we want and walk around camp or have turtle time. I believe it is around 600 acres.
I started the morning at the big firepit where we learned some camp songs. The minions (teenage girl scouts that volunteered to help out this weekend) led us in some songs. We noticed that some from different areas of the country have slightly different wording in their songs.
We moved onto a newer event we provide for the girls they called a courage quest. We got a little plastic container with a lid and decorated it up as we wanted with scrapbook papers, stickers and whatever else we wanted. With the little kids, the idea is to write something good that happened to you each day. You can share with your family once a week or month and just find the positive. For the older girls, they can write down a worry/issue and then at the end of the year or month, they can choose to revisit or just have a burning party with their family and get rid of those worries.
Then we moved outside the lodge and to the Pixie Habitat. We made terrariums. Using plastic containers (like large chinese take out soups come in) and made our own to take home. The girls had made these in November at the Harry Potter event, and we adults wanted to play too!
Things fell over in transit. The elephant is taking a nap and the light post needs to be reset along with all the animals.
We had a little store time/wandering time built in and then had some table talk discussions. That was when I visited the store and got Emily's badges and had some peaceful crochet time.
Lunch - our cook is the greatest! Lynne does a wonderful job feeding us. It was potato bar, and the potato was huge! Some were the size of a dinner plate! Your choice of toppings, broccoli, melted cheese, chili, beans, peppers and onion and of course sour cream, butter and bacon bits. Lots of fresh fruit was out as well - apples, oranges and banana.
The afternoon activities were hour long sessions instead of 30 minutes. We started with the Pheonix Fire Circle. Each of us gathered twigs and made a fire starter and then used a match to light our fire. We each got to roast a marshmallow over our fire to make a smore. Perfectly cooked!
We next headed to the archery range and did some shooting at targets. I did hit it once! I guess I need more practice but that is always a fun one.
Then we headed back to the lodge and did some enchanted pages. The older girls had done this a couple of years ago at the Harry Potter event with the word Always and we adults wanted to do it. We got to use the cutting tools, so I think ours was a little easier. It involves marking pages at certain parameters, cutting a little notch and then folding it back. This is the one we are making, and one person has finished theirs already! They worked on it a lot yesterday. I am at the beginning of the g in girl scouts!
Then we had dinner - pasta bar. Three kinds of pasta choices, choice of meatballs, sausage, chicken and then a white or red sauce, garlic bread and salad. Desert was cupcakes! Did I mention our chef's camp name is cupcake? She makes great ones.
I had the chocolate raspberry one. Delicious!
After dinner we did a weaving your story session. It was 15 prompts to journal a bit and then turn it into a painting. I was too tired to think, but painting is fun! I'm too lazy to go out to the car and get it for a photo, but I was thinking a yellow sun, for a positive vibe. Well, it turned into a sunflower with a bright blue background on the top and some darker blue (water maybe, as I am a water sign, and it is my calming thing) at the bottom. Simple and easy.
After helping to put tables and chairs away, I checked out with the lead person at camp and headed home a little after 8PM.
The dog was very excited I was home. I left before he woke up for the day so I guess he missed me! The cats were oh so happy Mom had a long sleeping time as well, and were cuddled up to me.
