So, no pictures. I have to delete everything and reload it. I really hate that.
Saturday was crazy busy. Lots of running around. I stayed up all night Friday (for maybe the third time this week?!) scrapbooking. The 2008 book is all finished, and I have done the Barcelona section of the Europe cruise book. It's coming along just as I planned, not in my usual style, but a much more simplified way. I took a page out of my MIL's book, which she sent to Rob maybe 7 years ago, and am doing no patterned pages and lots of typed-out passages taken direction from the Europe blog. Normally I do lots of embellishments, but I'm hardly doing any in an effort to let the pictures and words speak for themselves. I am doing lots of different-colored background pages and ink, though; I just gotta have color!
I really didn't know if I would like it, but in the end (okay, the end of the beginning), I really do. What a relief! Plus it's way faster this way.
So my first stop was to my Creative Memories consultant, just around the corner, at ten in the morning. I waited from about 0600 - when I ran out of my CM tape runner tape (my favorite scrapping adhesive) - to call her, using my sub-par Scotch scrapping tape in the meantime. Ugh, I hate it. It works well, but it's so cumbersome. ANYway, this is not a scrapping blog, sorry!
So I get over there, full of apologies for bothering her so early and barging in on her when I knew she had to go somewhere later, but she was just as sweet as can be. I love my CM Consultant, Jeannette, because she always gives me lots of freebies as thank-you gifts for ordering! Free gifts go a long way with me when it comes to loyalty. And then we chatted for a good long time, because I accidentally-on-purpose made the mistake of asking about albums that I can stuff full of pages. Do I ever make a thin scrapbook? No, I do not.
She got out all kinds of product and showed me the albums and pages and options, and offered me a discount if I ordered right then. Well, hell. I needed the album and pages anyway, for the Europe book, and truthfully it was much better quality than the ones I get at Michael's. So I bought. Rob, of course, shook his head and laughed when I came home with what was supposed to be just a couple rolls of tape! He excuses my scrapping purchases because, though it is my hobby, the result is for the whole family to enjoy. (Maybe I should do more knitting for him to get the same treatment of my yarn buying?)
Then Jeannette and I got talking about digital scrapping, which I honestly just don't get. Do you do it all online and then print it out and pu it in a book? Or do you just keep it all online and not have the nice, physical book to thumb through and show around? I wouldn't like that. But I am admittedly clueless when it comes to digital scrapbooking.
On the other hand, I have become increasingl conscious of the fact that paper scrapping generates an awful lot of waste. Much of it is paper, which I recycle, but a lot of it is plastic packaging, for all those embellishments. I go through a lot of garbage when I'm scrapping, and it depresses the environmentalist in me as much as the act of making my books soothes the crafter in me. So maybe there is something to this digital stuff.
Anyway, I'm going to cut this post here, since in the end it is all about scrapping, and move on to another one.
Fin.
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