Book of Memories

This afternoon I looked through a few of my more recent albums. I have been scrapbooking for almost ten years (!) and my style has definitely changed and developed over the years :) I decided to photograph and upload some of my favourite layouts. I will share a few on my blog each day this week.

Let's start with an oldie, but a goodie... newly pregnant at Christmas time (many years ago). Hence the title, "Glowing". Ran out of the letter "g", so it was substituted with the number 6. Sssshh. Don't tell... but it is something I often have to do every now and then. Got a love hate relationship with Thickers / alpha stickers for that reason :)

Photographs taken at an indoor garden center, in the middle of winter. I was soooo cold and tired, and so glad to be once more indoors. Brrrr!! Please note, this was one of the first titles I created with help from the Silhouette.

More photographs at the indoor garden center. Please excuse my funny hat. If you were super cold, I'm sure you would have worn something similar :)

Looking back at these pages is bittersweet. Time passes so quickly... too quickly. Looking at these photographs reminded me to enjoy and saviour life, every moment. Make every day count. And for the love of pete, start scrapbook more often, LOL.

Crazy for AC

Yup... crazy is definitely one word that comes to mind when describing my latest scrapbooking haul. OMG. I could scrap from this selection for the next several years, LOL. I'm not sure what got into me. Okay, I'll admit it... perhaps my 29th birthday, celebrated now for the past seven years?? Well, that's the story I'm going with... this time around :P Yeah, right.

I purchased all of these goodies online, courtesy of Archivers, a US based scrapbooking store chain. And the free shipping offer at the time represented no limits, obviously, LOL. One cannot find these items around here (all from the Dear Lizzy and Amy Tangerine American Crafts scrapbooking lines), so I went to town :) When the package arrived in the mail, I was literally shaking with excitement, and very eager to go through and look over all of my new goodies. Let me share and possibly enable. You know you want to :) Okay, here we go...

Isn't this stuff great? 12x12 5th and Frolic collection package, a selection of four 6x6 paper pads, and a total of 22 different (not all were photographed separately, ekk!) embellishments, buttons, flairs, word stickers.... I almost feel guilty. Almost, but not quite :P And it's not as if I needed anything else for my scrap stash. Believe me, I'm set for life... and several lives in the thereafter :P I truly will have a difficult time opening the packaging and using these items. I might have to hoard, errhh, save these items for awhile. Believe it or not, I'm still awaiting a *few* more packages in the mail. Yikes! My mail man is gonna love me! Ha! I don't usually buy a whole lot of my items online, for real, LOL. But sometimes a girl's got to do what a girl's gotta do. And well, I *had* to shop :)

Welcome / Howdy / Ola!

Well, hello there. Thank you for being the first person (or so) to wander over and randomly find this here scrappy - crafty blog... one of many... probably, one of millions of creative blogs out there on the world wide web :P

What sets this blog apart from all others? Most likely, not much, LOL. It will be my area to display my recently completed scrapbooks layout designs, share my scrapbooking hauls (anyone got a U - Haul truck at their disposal come Black Friday?? :P)) and scrapbooking stores (online and otherwise), pass on information about upcoming crops in my side of town, etc...

So whatcha waiting for? All you gotta do is sit back and enjoy the ride!

A little information about myself... I am a woman in my mid-thirties (still going through my 29 forever phase) and currently have one young son. Photography, crafts, cutting and pasting, journaling and shopping are some of my favourite hobbies - so that only leads to the fact that scrapbooking is my most favourite hobby of all!

I've been an avid scrapbooker for close to ten years now (damm, I'm OLD!) and have made so many friends via crops, retreats and online groups via this hobby... maybe we can be new friends too? :) I'm looking forward to get my scrap on, get my photographs scrapped, and share my completed layouts (and tidbits of my life) with you.

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Now that is out of the way, I can slowly start up this here blog. Wish me luck. I think I'm going to need it :P