FIVETRIBE

I started scrapbooking (i hate that word) about 7yrs ago. It was like finding my perfect fit. I threw myself into it with wholehearted abandon. I ate, slept and dreamt in layouts. I worked in a scrapbook shop. I gave lessons at the shop and then later from my home. I was passionate about it. Enter blogging about 4yrs ago. It was like finding another perfect fit. I threw myself into it just as hard and I have been an avid blogger since that day. Scrapbooking eventually became a distant memory. The common denominator? Words. Photos. My life. What am I missing at the moment? The arty side. The paper and glue side. Do I miss it enough to dive back in as voraciously as in the past ? No. Definitely not. But I miss it enough to do the projects that mean something to me. Not endless layout after layout after layout. I think scrapping got too hard - its easy to fight creativity and to make it harder than it has to be. To get complicated and keep putting stuff off. It was so much easie...

 It was a good day. :-) Setting up her world Playing armies while waiting for paintwork to dry Her completed scrapbook layout Bedtime stories care of Honey - very precious. Am now going to try get to sleep before 1am...something I havent managed to do since the man left town a few days ago. *yawn*. Not easy doing the single parent thing hey? I miss him muchly.

I stumbled upon this layout I did of Hooli about 2 yrs ago. It is really one of my alltime favourites and it certainly captured who he was at that time in his young life. Blogging is cool but documenting your life with paper, glue and photos is something very special. I have missed it. My kids have been paging through their albums and are literally begging me to continue - for them it is far more appealing looking through those albums than my blogging books. I remember when they were tiny and I was DESPARATE for them to grow up so we could be creative together - to create albums as a family. Now is that time. It is here and I almost missed it. I will be resurrecting my ScrapFan blog too - all new LO's will be posted there. Yayness. :-)