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Scrapbook retreats are full of surprises!

A few weeks ago, my bestie convinced me to attend my very first paper scrapping retreat. I was incredibly nervous and spent the first two nights pretty much sticking to my own space. By the final day, I finally built up the courage to walk around the room, admire everyone's work, and chat with the other crafters.

While chatting with two lovely ladies about our favourite art styles, one mentioned she usually did digital scrapbooking rather than paper. I instantly blurted out, "Me too!" and eagerly asked where she hangs out online. I could not believe my luck when she said The Lilypad!

We both completely geeked out, swapped forum names, and realized we already knew each other. It was none other than the wonderful Trish (@G.T. )! Naturally, as scrappers, we had to document the moment with a photo.

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Meeting a member of our online community in real life was absolute magic!

So tell me, have you met someone while you were out and about that was delightfully unexpected?
 
How fun is that!!! Yay and thanks for sharing the photo... I love TLP meetups!!!
 
How fun! It really is a small world.

I love meeting online friends in person. I miss the scrapbook expo and digi night out retreats I went to in Utah. I met lots of digi scrappers at those.
 
This is just the coolest story ever! I love that you two met up IRL and could bond over this wonderful place here at TLP! :D
 
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Scrapbook retreats are full of surprises!

A few weeks ago, my bestie convinced me to attend my very first paper scrapping retreat. I was incredibly nervous and spent the first two nights pretty much sticking to my own space. By the final day, I finally built up the courage to walk around the room, admire everyone's work, and chat with the other crafters.

While chatting with two lovely ladies about our favourite art styles, one mentioned she usually did digital scrapbooking rather than paper. I instantly blurted out, "Me too!" and eagerly asked where she hangs out online. I could not believe my luck when she said The Lilypad!

We both completely geeked out, swapped forum names, and realized we already knew each other. It was none other than the wonderful Trish (@G.T. )! Naturally, as scrappers, we had to document the moment with a photo.

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Meeting a member of our online community in real life was absolute magic!

So tell me, have you met someone while you were out and about that was delightfully unexpected?
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I have met a few digiscrappers in real life in the past and it is an absolute hoot and a half! Glad you got out of your comfort zone and went around and chatted with folks! Now we need to see digital scrapbook pages about your PAPER pages!
 
That's so cool! I've never met anyone from TLP in person but I've met fellow scrappers "in the wild" on occassion!
 
Circa 2010, a group of us from another digiscrap site (no longer in existence) purposely planned a meetup. It was a few hours drive for me and involved a hotel. It was fun! And then on my road trip in 2021, I met Farrah, who used to be active here at TLP. I've never randomly run into another digiscrapper though.

Glad you two met!
 
I've met some great people at retreats. The ones I went to were actually organized on a forum I frequented (from around 1999 to 2015). So there was nothing accidental about it. I know of one of them that has frequented TLP in the past.

One time one of the members of that forum who had a scrapbooking store in a large city in my state, had a day crop at her store for those who wanted to attend. That was the first time I met a lot of them. I was in my traditional scrapping era at this time (19 years ago). I was sitting next to a gal and as we were talking, we ended up realizing that we had actually known each other from an AOL board in the late 90's. We were both Longaberger Basket consultants at that time and interacted on an AOL Longaberger board quite often. A few years later I would get together with her, another girl I met that day and a 3rd girl that all lived about an hour from me. We had monthly day crops for several years and when my dad passed away, the 2 that were at the first day crop came to the visitation to see me (girl #3 had to work but I had just seen her several days before my dad passed). They've been good friends for many years. The gal I was sitting next to wasn't feeling well that day. She found out not long after that she was pregnant with her 5th child! That child graduated high school last week! Time sure does fly!
 
Very cool. I got to meet up too with a fellow scrapper. Great pic too.

Diane Howard @dvhoward, and I met in the Lilypad chat room and were surprised to discover that we lived only 15 miles apart. Before long, we arranged to meet in person at a library that was conveniently located between our homes. We also spent time together at my house, chatting in front of my computer, sharing scrapbook ideas, and exchanging helpful scrapping tips. We had wonderful a conversation and learned a great deal from one another. Unfortunately, we both eventually moved away from the area and lost touch over the years.

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We Met In The Lilypad Chat Room 2016

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I met Rae @bcgal00, about 20 years ago at a scrapbooking crop weekend in Vancouver with my mum. It was just before or around the time I exclusively went digital though I know for that crop I was still paper scrapping.
 
Naww! So much better than the Spanish Inquisition! And props for that Disney Emperor's new Groove meme!
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So tell me, have you met someone while you were out and about that was delightfully unexpected?
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As a Queenslander and TLP-er from way back, I am sure you will appreciate this serendipitous and fan girl moment i had. We were waiting on some amphitheatre steps in the twilight for a night show at Disney in Tokyo, like halfway across the world and I hear an aussie accent sitting on the other side of my son, and it turned out to be ex-TLP designer Kaye Winiecki (i could never spell her last name) and her fam, among literally thousands of people. Doesn't get much more random than that - no i don't have a photo but you can quiz Kaye if you're still in touch on FB, it was a kind of quick and crazy convo before the show started where i probably came off as somewhere between stalker and fangirl but she was lovely about it.
 
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