I am the sort of person who loves to shop for scrap booking items. I collect scissors, paper, adhesives, stickers, standouts, ribbon, and everything else that is fun to have when scrap booking. I even found an outlet only 5-7 miles from my home that offers some of these items for a fraction of the retail price.
The problem is that I have acquired so much scrap booking stuff, I haven't actually done anything with my photos in over a year. I have more paper than I can actually safely lift, and more stickers, ribbon and embellishments than I can attractively organize. My excuse in the past has always been, "I don't have the space to work". I would have to use the kitchen table, and would always have to work in the late night hours after Anna went to bed. The conditions didn't suit me, but that never stopped my scrapbooking shopping sprees.
Now that we live in a house with a room designated to computers and crafts, I have had the opportunity over the last few days to spread out my goods and try to organize my collection. I even went on another shopping binge to add more ribbon, stickers, paper, and so forth to the already full inventory.
I now have the supplies, working space, and motivation to get some work done before baby #2 joins the family. I may not be online much over the next few days, as scrap booking will be my project. If I'm lucky, a few of the pages I create might actually look attractive.
Let's not hold our breath on that.
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I think the organizing and collecting is one fo my favorite parts of the craft. I love Chatterbox printed paper and they just had it on sale for .20 per sheet so I ordered itonline since I missed all the store sales. It came the next day! Yipee! I have no idea where to put it but I LOVE IT! How awesome to have a full room.
I have now ordered prints of our digital photos and they will be delivered later this week. Too keep my momentum going, I'm creating a first year baby book for our baby boy who's due in December. I'm using the same idea Missy used in creating Anna's first year scrapbook. I'm about 1/2 done, and my next project will be to scrapbook different events in Anna's life. Her first Birthday, first meal on solid foods, and her first teeth!
Where did you see the sale for Chatterbox paper Missy?
I'm better at buying and collecting than getting any actual scrapping done too! Glad to know I'm not the only one!
We could all be in trouble if our hubbies start to think it's just a hobby to buy and collect, rather than buy and create.
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