back posting, look what we've been up to!

I'm back!!!!!!!
OK, it's been way, way, way too long I know. To be honest, I didn't even want to bother with it anymore. But, I've been thinking about how business is these days and everyone wants to see facebook pages, twitter notes (no, I'm not starting a twitter account just yet, one thing at a time) and blogs. So I'm going to attempt to do it again.
Now it's not going to be long posts to start with at least, I just don't have the time to be able to sit for too  long and our just turned 2 year old daughter, makes sure that doesn't happen.

Oh I guess I do have a good excuse for not keeping it up, a time demanding girl named Cassandra!

So to just get back to the re introduction of the blog, I'm going to quickly review of last years cruise with Crafting Cruises.
2011 - the 2nd Annual Australia Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa Kennedy. We had a great time and a really good size group this year. The cruise was a 7 night Tasmania Cruise. I had all my family on this one with our 7 month old daughter who had more than enough baby sitters. 4 classes all held on the sea days and lots of ladies enjoying the open work room all day and night throughout the cruise!

2012 - A busier year this year for us, we had 3 cruises in Australia early this year.
3rd Annual Scrapbook Cruise with Melissa. This year we were on the bigger ship, the Radiance of the Seas. The sailing was a 12 night South Pacific cruise going to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A little bit of a longer cruise, so being a bit more expensive, we didn't have as many sign up this year as many of the usual group from the last 2, had mentioned they will go on the 2013 cruise. It was a small group, but they had a blast being able to socialize more together.

We also introduced 2 new cruises, the first was a quilting cruise.
The first Australian Quilt Cruise with Dorothy Clee on a 10 night South Pacific cruise. Dorothy was on our scrapbook cruise and has been teaching quilting for quite some time so it was a perfect fit! She has a B&B Russellee bed and breakfast where she has retreats for both scrapbookers and quilters. She was such a great help putting it all together and would spend many, many hours, along with her helper Larainne, in the work room helping the ladies with any questions and help working on their projects. Dorothy has sailed on the Rhapsody so many times, she new it very well.
Classes again held on sea days and the ladies had the chance to work when ever they wanted in the room. We were restricted at night though as security wanted the irons and any large scissors, locked away usually by 9pm. But everyone was very understanding and had a great time.

The third cruise was the first Australian Stamping Cruise with Rachel Grieg of Darkroom Door on a 12 night South Pacific and Fiji cruise. Rachel has such a great following in Australia, the cruise sold out very quickly. Again, Rachel was a great help and spent lots of time in the work room helping the ladies with projects. Rachel's husband Stewart, was also helping out by selling product onboard. They had set up a shop onboard so the ladies had everything they wanted and more!

So now we come to our 2013 cruises. This time we will have the 4th Annual Scrapbook cruise with Melissa and our 2nd Quilting cruise. The fun thing about this one is we have a couple of ladies who have crossed over from scrapbooking to also do their quilting onboard. Yes, these two cruises are actually on the same ship at the same time!! More on that next time,