Awesome Ladies Live is heading to Seattle! We’ll be spending July 17 + 18, 2027 together at the Astra Hotel Seattle, hanging out, crafting stories about our lives, learning new techniques, and making things that you can only make when you’re all in the same room together.
This is our first Awesome Ladies Live outside of Michigan. I know we’ve got lots of awesome ladies in the Seattle area, and I hope this is an opportunity to make the weekend a little more accessible to our West Coast friends. I’m so excited that we get to bring this on the road next year and all hang out in person in the PNW.
If you haven’t heard me talk about it before, Awesome Ladies Live is the only Feminist Scrapbooking Retreat on the planet. We spend two days together making things, taking classes, and working on projects about our lives.
The Awesome Ladies Project is a special little club for people who love to tell their stories with pictures, words, creative supplies, and the bits of life we pick up along the way. It started as a way for people who didn’t really see themselves represented in the general commercial scrapbooking world out there. That was over 15 years ago at this point. Some of us have been friends online for that long, and getting together for Awesome Ladies Live is our little way of taking our small internet community and bringing it together in real life.
One of my favorite things about scrapbooking has always been the people. I love making things by myself, and I love sharing what I’m making online, but there’s something really special about getting a bunch of creative people together in the same room for a whole weekend.
One of my favorite moments from Awesome Ladies Live this year was when we all gathered around a big table to swap pages for the mini-books we’d been working on. Everyone had spent the weekend making collage pages, and it was super cool to see everyone create things that were so different from one another but so distinctly awesome in their own right.
It was so much fun for everyone to look at it like it was a little art gallery, and they got to choose one piece from every other artist in attendance. I loved seeing everyone go back to their seats and start putting together their books with pages that could only be made because we were all in the same room for the weekend.
Awesome Ladies Live 2026 was my first dip back into working after Charlotte was born. It was amazing to have a weekend where I could prioritize creativity, making, and hanging out with the Awesome Ladies. I’ve missed teaching people, seeing the cool things they’re making, and solving creative problems together.
And you’re welcome to come even if you’ve never done anything with the Awesome Ladies Project before. You don’t have to be a longtime Awesome Lady or have been scrapbooking for years.
Sure, there are some of us who have known each other for years, and some of us who talk regularly on the ALP message boards or in the ALP Zooms. But that never matters when it comes to new folks joining us for Awesome Ladies Live. As soon as you walk in the door, everyone is going to welcome you. We always have new folks, and they always leave as friends. We’re so grateful they took that brave step and came to hang out with us for the first time.
We provide everything you need to make our signature projects, but you’re more than welcome to bring any/all of your creative supplies and use them for the project, share with friends, or get some extra scrapbooking done. There’s time for me to teach and for us to try things together, and there’s time to keep working, ask questions, see what everyone else is making, and just hang out.
For 2027, we’ve got an event space at the Astra Hotel Seattle with incredible floor-to-ceiling windows, natural light, and great views. We’ll provide a full breakfast each morning, so you just need to wake up and come down to the event space. We’ll start breakfast around 8:45 and ease into our day of projects, classes, and just making cool stuff.
July 17 + 18 is a Saturday and Sunday. There will also be some people around on Friday doing more touristy stuff, and that’s completely optional. There will definitely be groups of folks going out to lunches and dinners, and we’ll figure out all those details closer to the event. We’ll also have a WhatsApp chat for the weekend so everyone can stay in touch and up to date.
Since this is our first ALL outside of Michigan, things might look a little different in a couple of small ways here and there. But the major things—creating, learning, and friends—will absolutely be the same.
Registration opens November 27, which is Black Friday here in the US. I wanted to introduce the weekend now so you have some time to think about coming before registration opens.
Early bird registration is $599 through December 31.
There’s also a three-payment option of $200 per payment, as long as your first payment is received by December 31. The second and third payments will be due February 28th, and April 30th, respectively.
On January 1, the price goes up to $649.
I’m keeping the early bird price the same as last year to account for the slightly higher cost of lodging in Seattle. I want to keep this as accessible as possible while still providing a great event.
Registration includes the workshops, everything you need for our signature projects, exclusive merch, games, prizes, and breakfast both mornings. Lodging is booked separately, and you’ll get the hotel booking link as soon as you register. There’s no obligation to stay at the event hotel.
I’ll be sharing more about Awesome Ladies Live as we get closer to registration opening. In the meantime, if you’ve got questions about coming, reply and ask! I’d love to spend the weekend making things with you in Seattle.
xoxo,
Kristin