It has been a long time!!!
Last night for the 1st time in almost 5 years I started scrapbooking again!!! I have made 1 or 2 attempts before but not really seriously; but last night i dragged out the tote and the pictures and got to work. It is was lots of fun but sad to know that I am missing chunks of photos that either my Mother, sister or brother have. The good thing is that if I do get more pictures I can also stick pages in as I have to..... One good thing about these books.
I did notice how scrapbooking has changed since I first started... Now there are soooo many things that you can add to the pages. It is neat to see the difference in the pages I did about 6-7 years ago and the ones I am doing now!!! I think that maybe some time I will go back and change them... but I think its neat to see how I have grown... That way if I am slack one day.... you can't tell the difference!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
What has kinda kicked my ass into gear is the fact I had 2 full shoe boxes of photos under my bed. Since moving to my new place I have been on a kick to cut back on the shit I have. So i figure if I can scrapbook all the pictures I want into albums the rest (that I want) can go into a book .... some great kid pics just don't go and I don't want to throw them out since I know I am missing years of photos. I must say that I love the fact that I have about 3 years of photos sitting on my hard drive... with a couple of back up copies... don't fret!!! They are not taking up room!!! The other thing is that a friend who is very crafty, Shelly, has started selling, hosting or whatever you call it "Stampin' up". http://www.stampinup.com/ca/enc/default.asp You can also check out Shelly's blog in my Friend section once I get it added.
Now I am not nearly as creative as Shelly but I don like to do these things and some of the stuff I think I can use so I thought "If i start scrapping again maybe I can learn some of the new techniques that people are doing". So look forward to seeing some cards and different things coming your way made by Liz...the uncrafty scrapbooker!!!
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I've been really bad at keeping up with my scrapbooks too. I need to get it in gear again. Before my year of maternity leave was over, I got everything finished up until the "pregnancy and waiting for baby" section (only 8-10 pages or so). I had it all scheduled and laid out, and just needed to get it done. I still hadn't even started on Owen's books, and he was rapidly approaching the 11 months old mark.
That was last December.
I still haven't finished those 8-10 pages ( I might have gotten 2 done - whoopie!), and now Owen is 14 months old, and I havne't done anything except clean all teh scrapbooking stuff up and put it away (when we thought we were moving). I probably have the first 9 or 10 months of Owen's life (in scarpbooking) all mapped out with what pictures I want on each page with a hint of a theme here and there, but that's it.
The only thing I am an top of now is getting my photos printed - at least I have them all in date order too. What I need is a weekend (or even a full day) where Gabe takes Owen and I have the house to myself to mess all up, and just work, work, work.
Sigh. Owen will probably be 5 before that happens.
nice read! thanks, from the uk
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