Founder's Circle 2012: Doing It All...My Way!

This morning, I woke up 5 minutes before I was supposed to be in the lobby for my big adventure! Whew! I scrambled and made it down before the van left. And I have just finished testing my alarm to make sure it won't happen again tomorrow!

Today was a busy day!! My outdoor adventure rappelling and zip-lining was incredible! I have never done anything like that before, but our guides were amazing and so helpful!

 This isn't me on the rope, but it will give you an idea of the 60 ft rappels that we did.

Here's a photo of me at the top. If you look closely, you can see the crowd below me, to the left of my hip. See those tiny dots?

After our outdoor adventure, we went to lunch. It was so great to connect with new friends and get to know other Founder's Circle Achievers. I enjoyed some downtime in my room and visited the Gathering Place to snap a few pictures and play plinko (I got "two of a kind" and got to pick two packs of DSP!!).

To cap off the day, we had our pajama party and business share. We each received tote bags for our swaps and a Tips & Tricks swatchbook printed from My Digital Studio.

And then -- we swapped!! 120 of us lined up in the hallway and trading cards.

 Look! I found my pajama twin!! Rolanda Patton and I were wearing the same jammies!

I checked out all the swaps back in my room. They are wonderful, of course! I picked out my favorite ten and will post them another time. For now, it's time for bed!!

 

Oh! How could I forget! One more photo: our pillow gift tonight was a super soft striped blanket! 

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Founder's Circle 2012: I'm here!!

It has been a very long day of travel and considering I only got 45 minutes of sleep the night before I left (or rather the morning that I left!), I am officially exhausted. And I've given myself a time limit for blogging tonight. I only have a few minutes before my time is up, so I'll share some pictures and write more tomorrow.

I'm here!! And Southern Utah is GORGEOUS!! And nothing like flat Central Illinois. I need to get some sleep because tomorrow morning, I'm going on my first of two outdoor excursions! I will be rappelling and zip lining! I've never done either one, so I'm excited and nervous -- and I can't wait!!

 Scenes from the bus ride from Las Vegas to Utah...getting close to St. George!

 Can you guess the theme this year?

 Right off the bus and checking into my room. MY room! I don't have to share!! I think that's one of my favorite parts of this retreat is having my own space and being on my own schedule, doing whatever *I* want!

 My battery died taking photos in the Gathering Place. I'll snap more tomorrow. There was candy everywhere and I got to play Plinko for a roll of free ribbon!

 

The event staff is amazing! Their attention to every little detail is astounding! Notice the glass on the left with the blue bottom? It has the Founder's Circle 2012 logo on it! We were served yummy lemonade at the Welcome Reception and get to keep the glass! And look what's in the little package left for me at the dinner table. Can you  believe it!? A personalized stamp with my name on it!

After the welcome reception, and dinner, and meeting lots of new friends, I returned to my room to find my first pillow gift! Supplies for make and take projects! The (brand new) stamp set in the middle of the package isn't visible. It's a great new set of sentiments, mostly quotes, I think. Looks like we'll be making scrapbook pages. Can't wait to see!!

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Top 5 of September 2011

I am getting ready for my Founder's Circle trip...I feel like there is so much to do before I go and I am running out of time! I plan to blog while I am there, so be sure to follow along and see the fun things I'm doing in southern Utah!

I have some new projects to share too, which I hope to photograph tomorrow. In the meantime, let's rewind and take a look at some favorite projects from last September. Click here to see all of my September 2011 projects.

 

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