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keepscrappin said:
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.
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It's lots of fun being able to chat with like minded people!
 
Karen said:
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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It really is a wonderful place! It brigs together such marvellous people!
 
scrapchyck said:
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!
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haha I will defiantly get on to scrapping that!
 
michelepixels said:
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!
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Oh how fabulousl! Farrah was one cool lady, I'm so glad you get to meet her in the "wild"
 
HavaDrPepper said:
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!
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Oh wow that is a great story! It's wonderful how we can make such long lasting connections with people! Thanks for sharing that with us!
Iowan said:
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.

We Met In The Lilypad Chat Room 2016

We Met In The Lilypad Chat Room 2016

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Oh I love the page you have scrapped with that fabulous photo of you two! I'm sorry to hear you have lost touch over the years. I too have some friends I have lost touch with from the digi-verse so I feel your pain.
littlekiwi said:
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.
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Oh it would have been so cool to have met Rae! My goodness she takes some gorgeous photos! I love seeing her posts on FB!
StefanieS said:
So happy for you both. What a special connection
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It was lovely!
bellbird said:
Naww! So much better than the Spanish Inquisition! And props for that Disney Emperor's new Groove meme!

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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No one expects the Spanish Inquistion!
I CAN NOT BELIEVE that you bumped into Kaye in TOKYO! That's fantastic!!! I used to be on her team yonks ago too and she is just the sweetest human. Seriously how is it we haven't caught up yet? Next time I'm down your way .. prepare for a message! Especially now I know you know the Spanish Inquisition!!!!

Oh and everyone PLEASE don't laugh! I have only JUST worked out how to multi quote!!!
No rush though........... It's only been years and YEARS :giggle
 
amandac said:
Oh wow that is a great story! It's wonderful how we can make such long lasting connections with people! Thanks for sharing that with us!

Oh I love the page you have scrapped with that fabulous photo of you two! I'm sorry to hear you have lost touch over the years. I too have some friends I have lost touch with from the digi-verse so I feel your pain.

Oh it would have been so cool to have met Rae! My goodness she takes some gorgeous photos! I love seeing her posts on FB!

It was lovely!

No one expects the Spanish Inquistion!
I CAN NOT BELIEVE that you bumped into Kaye in TOKYO! That's fantastic!!! I used to be on her team yonks ago too and she is just the sweetest human. Seriously how is it we haven't caught up yet? Next time I'm down your way .. prepare for a message! Especially now I know you know the Spanish Inquisition!!!!

Oh and everyone PLEASE don't laugh! I have only JUST worked out how to multi quote!!!
No rush though........... It's only been years and YEARS :giggle
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as you can tell i'm not good at the quotes either - or punctuation unless i have to be; i speak in run-on sentences anyway before i lose my train of thought! Totally let me know when you are headed south, as long as there isn't a Spanish inquisition ;-) Did you and Trish actually paper scrap? Or were you preaching hybrid at the paper people? ( i went to a few crops at a paper shop when DS was a baby but just felt like i was taking up a seat and table space that the others would have loved to spread 'real product' out over! i bought real albums & page protector things from the store but apart from looking (and shadow studying basically) the other peoples pages, i couldn't always relate and it was weird having people stand behind me looking at my screen while i drag things around indecisively - it was like performance anxiety!
 
bellbird said:
as you can tell i'm not good at the quotes either - or punctuation unless i have to be; i speak in run-on sentences anyway before i lose my train of thought! Totally let me know when you are headed south, as long as there isn't a Spanish inquisition ;-) Did you and Trish actually paper scrap? Or were you preaching hybrid at the paper people? ( i went to a few crops at a paper shop when DS was a baby but just felt like i was taking up a seat and table space that the others would have loved to spread 'real product' out over! i bought real albums & page protector things from the store but apart from looking (and shadow studying basically) the other peoples pages, i couldn't always relate and it was weird having people stand behind me looking at my screen while i drag things around indecisively - it was like performance anxiety!
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Right! The next time I'm down your way, it's on! (not the Spanish Inquisition though!) :giggle
Actually I did manage to do a couple of paper pages but I also took some hybrid stuff with me which I showed around (must show the world the magic of Rachel and Lynn's MM goodies!)

This is a photo of the two paper pages I made over the weekend (Not sure I'm happy with them as it feels very amateurish)
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and this is the Hybrid page I made with Rachel and Lynn's Choose MM Kit (much more my thing):
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Anywhoooooo I'm heading off to another retreat in August so I will just take some more Hybrid stuff with me :giggle
 
That's so cool!! I've never met another scrapper in real life! I've also never been to a scrapbooking retreat - sounds amazing!
 
kelley said:
That's so cool!! I've never met another scrapper in real life! I've also never been to a scrapbooking retreat - sounds amazing!
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It was pretty amazing. I was nervous to start off with but there isn't much NOT to enjoy about a whole weekend to craft and chat and sip wine in the evenings
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I love that you found each other at a scrapbooking retreat! I always hope to run into someone from The Lilypad lol it’s bound to happen someday!

I was delighted to ride an elevator with one of my favorite basketball players 20 years ago.
 
amandac said:
Right! The next time I'm down your way, it's on! (not the Spanish Inquisition though!) :giggle
Actually I did manage to do a couple of paper pages but I also took some hybrid stuff with me which I showed around (must show the world the magic of Rachel and Lynn's MM goodies!)

This is a photo of the two paper pages I made over the weekend (Not sure I'm happy with them as it feels very amateurish)
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and this is the Hybrid page I made with Rachel and Lynn's Choose MM Kit (much more my thing):
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Anywhoooooo I'm heading off to another retreat in August so I will just take some more Hybrid stuff with me :giggle
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love the sunflowers and border work but that hybrid page is much more 'you'. I always find 2 photo pages kinfd of difficult unless there's a template that does the placemnt thinking for me!
Some of my original paper pages are in this blog post from the other month if you want a laugh https://the-lilypad.com/reflections-on-two-decades-of-digiscrapping/
 
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