klee73010
I might have a thing for drummers
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I went to Hobby Lobby this evening to pick up some stuff for my busy boxes. They happened to be having a 50% off sale on albums and refill pages, so I went ahead and bought my 8x8 albums and found the 4x4 pockets I was looking for. DH and I had agreed that I wasn't going to print the "art journal-esque pages that are 'just for me'" because, well.... no one but me truly understands the emotions I put into them.... well, photobucket was having a flash sale a couple weeks ago on 4x4s (50 free or something), so I went ahead and printed my art journal layouts, and then just had to pay a little over $3 for my layouts. (DH agreed after the fact that this was acceptable)
Okay, so. I had my prints, and knew I wanted to be able to flip through them at any given time, so I bought the album and pocket pages. As I was putting the prints in the pages (in no particular order), my daughter is exclaiming how pretty they are. She's three. Lol. But whatever, as she's excited about looking at them, I feel so validated that I went ahead with printing them! I also pulled out the only other album I've ever printed, or made, for that matter. She gushed over those pages, too. She has no idea that the bigger album has freebie products from 5 years ago, or layouts with pretty much no shadowing, or lack of design principles. I can still tell her every story I intended to tell with each layout.
I'm feeling overly sentimental, but I know now that I could be completely done with my Christmas shopping at this point, knowing I will have the rest of my scrapping prints on the way (delivery on Thursday), and albums picked out and ready for assembly. My kids are going to love the albums, and they are not going to care that every moment they've been alive is not yet in a book. They are not going to care that the layouts do not necessarily match from left side to right side.
My albums will be done before our family get together for thanksgiving next week, so all of my family can enjoy them. it was just amazing to be reminded of it....
This is why I scrapbook.
*love*
Okay, so. I had my prints, and knew I wanted to be able to flip through them at any given time, so I bought the album and pocket pages. As I was putting the prints in the pages (in no particular order), my daughter is exclaiming how pretty they are. She's three. Lol. But whatever, as she's excited about looking at them, I feel so validated that I went ahead with printing them! I also pulled out the only other album I've ever printed, or made, for that matter. She gushed over those pages, too. She has no idea that the bigger album has freebie products from 5 years ago, or layouts with pretty much no shadowing, or lack of design principles. I can still tell her every story I intended to tell with each layout.
I'm feeling overly sentimental, but I know now that I could be completely done with my Christmas shopping at this point, knowing I will have the rest of my scrapping prints on the way (delivery on Thursday), and albums picked out and ready for assembly. My kids are going to love the albums, and they are not going to care that every moment they've been alive is not yet in a book. They are not going to care that the layouts do not necessarily match from left side to right side.
My albums will be done before our family get together for thanksgiving next week, so all of my family can enjoy them. it was just amazing to be reminded of it....
This is why I scrapbook.
*love*
