Getting Hooked

I'm pretty sure every girl has tried to scrapbook. My first attempt was when I was in elementary school. My sisters and I would scrapbook together and I loved things like stickers and cutting the pictures up in shapes or circles. Little did my sixth grade self know, my scrapbook was pretty dang ugly.

No really.

Don't believe me...

Pretty sure no decedent of mine will be interested in my cousins small portraits cut into shapes with strange stickers and scribbling in the background.

I'd since quit scrapbooking and realized that I like portraits in albums much better.

Years flew by and now I'm 24. Last October I waiting for the arrival of my first child, a little boy. My mother in law Kathleen came before my due date and brought some scrapbooking supplies to make a pre made scrapbook for my baby.

She (being the queen of scrapbooking) thought about making one for me and bringing it to me but she decided she would bring it as an activity for me to enjoy as well. She asked me if I was into scrapbooking and I told her that I liked the idea, but no, I didn't have a scrapbook or supplies or anything. She then sat me down and explained all kinds of principles, ideas, guidelines, and tools that would help me. I had no idea there was so much out there for resources etc. After we talked about what my style was and what I wanted the book for, we went to work. We scrapbooked for something like 7 hours straight without eating or taking a break.

We were in the zone.

I was so proud of the final result! I loved looking through our scrapbook over and over again, even though there weren't even any pictures in it yet! I have since filled the scrapbook with pictures from the hospital and the week after we took our little boy home.

After that, I was hooked. My husband got me some more supplies for Christmas and I want to build my supply as well as learn more techniques. I have a bunch of ideas for future scrapbook and can't wait to find more tools and methods and become a master scrapper!

This blog will be my guide to my growth. I hope to show my work, methods, tools, and review things I like and don't like.

Hope you enjoy!