The owner of Polkadot Whimsy offers a unique experience in her Whimsy Weekends which are listed
The weekend includes some lunches, snacks, and dinners that are prepared by Michelle. You are not limited to what is offered, there are various restaurants and stores in the area where you can pick up your own meals if you like. Since I do not cook, it was rather cool to eat the delicious homemade meals that were prepared for us instead of having to order fast food. I have posted some pics of some of the meals so that you can get an idea of what type of food was served.
Michelle did a beautiful job of making everything easy to serve and to create a fun family style atmosphere for us to enjoy.
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| Michelle (owner of Polkadot Whimsy) |
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| Haley and I having fun at the Whimsy Weekend Event. |
She offers these Whimsy Weekend 3-day crops several times a year and they tend to sell out fairly quickly.
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| Haley and Michelle |
She limits the event to 16 people so that each person can have the space they need to work on their project. Each person had an assigned seat that included a special paper pack, stickers, die cuts and a cute pair of socks with their own personalized skate name tag.
The Whimsy Weekends are not limited to scrapbooking. Several of the ladies attending brought their
sewing machines to use to work on various projects and designs. One person had a cool Beginner Style Janome Sewing machine that so cute. I love that you can get a sewing machine in a variety of colors and styles. I especially liked Keely Reichman's black sewing machine. It is made of heavy metal and can sew a variety of materials. It look pretty sturdy.
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Below is a picture of my friend Haley working on one of her planners.
I worked on several projects which included a no-sew blanket, my junk journal, and some time planning in my hobonichi planners.
Michelle has all types of crafting supplies available for use during her event
For a crafter, her craft supplies were sheer eye candy.
Below is picture of one half of the room set up. As you can see each person has a nice area to hold their supplies and work in.
She also had an outside area set up in a tent that had different machines available to use during the event. This included a sewing machine, iron, glue gun, Cameo, paper cutters and other fun items.
We also did two fun "Make & Take" projects that Michelle prepared for us to make. The first one was a really cute DIY Easter Rabbit Frame project. Michelle provided all the materials and each person was invited to make the project adding their own personal touch to it. It was a success.
All the bunny's were different and yet they all looked so festive together.
The second project we had a choice of making a "DIY Junk Journal",
a memory journal,
There was also a variety of raffle prizes that were given out throughout the crop event. Below is a pic of the grand prize which had some fun supplies in it.
The Whimsy Weekends are a lot of fun. Michelle is a wonderful host who really works hard at making sure her guests have a fun time. We enjoyed the wonderful meals she prepared, the fun projects we got to make. The whole weekend is just a fun atmosphere that it just seemed to fly by too quickly. My friends and I had a great time there and hope to go back again soon.
I forgot to add that this cute little dog (that Shawnie is holding) came to visit us for
a little bit on Sunday.
Note: I recommend that you get a hotel that is not close to the freeway so that you can get some sleep during the weekend. I made the bad choice of booking our hotel right off the 5 freeway and it was loud. The hotel was only a mile away from the event location so it was certainly quick to get back and forth. However, I think to truly enjoy the weekend, you need a bit of sleep. We stayed at the Day's Inn and it was so loud. I was fortunate enough to pack some really good earphones and play my music all night to cover the noise. However, if you don't have noise cancelling earphones, you may not get much sleep.
