Life Continues to rock...

Ali Edwards and Elsie Flannigan are my two favorite scrapbookers. It was so much fun to get to interview them!

I loved talking to Ali about her book: Life Artist. It is such a cool concept.

Enjoy! : )



And see more interviews here.

I love my job! : )

Remember awhile back when I announced that I rocked my own socks and things were going really well at work?

This is one of the things I was excited about.

Everyone, meet Elsie Flannigan. Designer of the Love Elsie Line of scrapbooking supplies, a fantabulous painter and photographer, and one of those awesome girls who probably doesn't know how cool people really think she is.



Thanks for the interview, Elsie!

Awesomeness

Created by Creating Keepsake's Scrapbooker of the year, Elizabeth Kartchner. Isn't it awesome? And I SWEAR I took the pic I posted yesterday before I saw this one today! : )

As time goes by...

Ashley and I aren't together anymore (he went back home to Wales, etc.) but I still wanted to make this layout about how I felt about him at the height of our relationship. We had a great relationship, and I wanted to remember how I felt about him while we were together.

You can't really see it here, but I scrawled a little message at the bottom of the brown strip of paper. It says: "Haven't I made this page before? I'm getting Deja Vu."

I have made it before. This is what it looked like:

The things I loved about him were written on a piece of paper in a pouch. This is what it said: "Blue eyes, honest, John Cusack-Look-A-Like, silly, different from everyone else, comfortable... and you always loved me, with no strings attached."

I love how some of the things that I loved about him were the same when we were going out for a month-ish* in Wales in 2003-04 and when we were going out for several months this past year when he was in Chico. There are definite similarities, but the way I felt about him deepend the second time around. I guess that's what happens with age, and with more time to explore a relationship.

*A month-ish isn't very long. We were chicken, involved in drama, and we had crappy timing. Let's leave it at that.

The Prodigal Return

How it happened...

A long long time ago in a far away land... Jaime scrapbooked all the time. And I mean ALL THE TIME. She had albums full of completed pages, a job at a scrapbook store, and a desk full of scrapbooking supplies. She even incorporated her senior project into a scrapbook. She loved scrapping and was told she was quite good at it.

After awhile... He love of the hobby dwindled. One day, a little over a year ago, she got irrationally angry at all the scrapbooking supplies that were taking up space in her room. She threw away the dumb stuff, packed up the good stuff, and did not scrap for over a year. She didn't miss it in the slightest.

A few months ago... Debbi found out that Jaime didn't scrap anymore and gave her a few little nudges back towards her once favorite hobby. Jaime starts checking Elsie's blog on a regular basis around this time.

A few weeks ago... Jaime saw Nikki at the Harry Potter book release party. They talked a little about scrapping and Nikki made it sound appealing again.

A few days ago... Jaime loos through some old scrapbooks, searching for a particular picture. She noticed how goos the books look. She is suprised.

Yesterday... Jaime visited the Scrappery in Cotati, on a whim. After seeing all kinds of new stuff, she left the store and went home. She checked her bank account balance, and sifted through old paper, adhesive, and embellishments to see what was what. She burns some pictures onto a cd, and returns to the Scrappery to buy some paper. She gets pictures printed at Target, and buys some adhesive and embellishments at Beverly's.

Today... Jaime creates not a scrapbook page, but sort of a scrapbook frame piece. It was fun. It is made in the style she left of with, but she knows her style will quickly update once she starts looking at magaines again.

Today... Jaime has returned to the scrapbooking world.

PS Jaime has to learn how to take good pictures of her scrapbook pages. This is a new practice, and thus was never an issue for her before. My, how the times have changed! : )

PPS Jaime loves the leaf she made for the flower. It's her favorite part of the project, besides the picture.