Scrapbooking Day

April 2006

Today I only got a few pages done but the experience was totally fun! The PHC Ladies set up a Scrap-a-thon day at the store Once Upon A Memory in Huntington Beach. It was so fun! You just bring your photos and whatever supplies and tools you have and you get to use their scrap room. Don't have the right paper... no problem! Walk out into the store and grab it and add it to your tab. Darn... ran out of glue runner... no problem! Run out into the store and add it to your tab!

The way I keep myself organized is through a filing system. I have a file folder for each month of the year and that is where I dump all of my memorabilia (ticket stubs, room keys, airline tickets, etc.) but I don't print the photos I want to scrap with them until I am to that part of the year.

So today I ran out of photos that I had already printed but I did get 8 pages done, although it took me 7 hours. I did a lot of meandering through the store for ideas, inspiration, and to take note for the future pages I would be doing. We grabbed Jack-In-The-Box for lunch and chatted while scrapping. It was bliss. It just reminds me that I need to get the rest of my scrap crap room set up and invite my bestie over to get down and do some pages.

At a certain point you just want to get the dang things in an album so you can catch up and move on. So many people are doing only digital books these days with the ease of Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery but to me you just lose something without the ability to attach ticket stubs and fun other collectables along the way. One blogger I stalk creates a digital book for each of her kids each year of their lives. Super cute idea, except I am hoping to do that for my kids with actual scrapbooks.

I re-created by God-son's book, spruced up some of the old pages, replaced the actual book and started to work on his book again. He is going to turn 6 in September and he is only about 6 months in his book. I gotta get those pics printed!!