Scrapbooking

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.

Antique Chairs

With all the redecorating we've been doing, one of the tasks I've been really excited over is finding the perfect living room parlor style chairs, preferably American or French 1800 Victorian style. We found this chair at a local furniture store, but we didn't care for the price. But as you can see, overstock.com offers it for a killer deal. Although I really like this chair, I've always wanted something that is a true antique that is just candy for the eyes. I found the perfect chairs to fit that description at antiquariantraders.com, it's under chairs, row 5, 4 over. But as you can see by the price tag, this is not something I could possibly afford. The 4,000 dollars would be better spent on Levi and I bicycling through Europe. Not all hope is lost though. I did find some beautiful antique chairs at ebay 1 & 2. I still view the 4,000 chairs as the most beautiful, but at that price they'll have to find a different home.


**I just found another chair that is a little more fancy than the overstock.com chairs and has a classy style at bombaycompany.com.