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Danzdol
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04-21-2001

Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Danzdol a private message Print Post    
Thank you....anyone else want to post some of their pages?

Cher
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08-18-2004

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cher a private message Print Post    
I love to scrapbook - I am not sure how to share some of my pages yet so I will just check in now and then to get ideas from everyone and just chat about scrapbooking.
Danzdol - Great page!!! :-)

Danzdol
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04-21-2001

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Danzdol a private message Print Post    
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Just bumping this thread up....what has everyone been up to lately?

This is one pf the pages from my son's 2nd bday party where all the kids were in full swing playing....



Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
Great layout! Very colorful and cute!

Where has everyone been?

Anyone scrapping for Christmas presents? I made an album for my parents.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, December 31, 2004 - 11:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Lucky you to have time to do an album. I read when you didn't have any customers that one day and felt bad for you, but I know it will pick up. It was just the wrong time of the year or something.

I have a lot of scrapbooking supplies and no time. For the last year and a half I've been rearranging the house in order to have a place for scrapbooking and other hobbies. Maybe later in the year I'll get a chance. Sure hope so!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 1:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
This is the first year I haven't done a scrapbook for the kids for Christmas. I had actually started one, but never got around to finishing it.

It is definitely a time thing for me. When I work on them, I like to devote hours at a time to them and these days it seems like I don't have that much. I hate to pull all the stuff out, get it organized and then realize I don't have enough time to do more than a page or two before I have to start cleaning it all up.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
That reminds me of when my kids were little, War. I finally put away all my own hobbies for years including painting, because I had no place to do them without having to put them away each and every time. It was a time for the kids to learn and play. Now I finally have a place if I could just find more time.

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
My DD did not scrap for 4 years after her second child was born. As War expressed, by the time you get everything out and organized, there just is not enough time to do much.

Urgrace, thanks for your concern. That day that no one came in the store it was freezing cold and rainy plus it was Sunday. If I had a choice I would be closed on Sunday, but I do not set the hours or the days.

Good news! Last Thursday, one lady came in and spent $700.00. Since we had tourists in town, we have had a few good days. THe store is actually doing okay to be new. I have some regular customers now.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Wow, one person spending $700 probably makes up for those days you don't have many or no customers!

It's not just dragging everything out and getting it organized, but I find that when I do get the time to do something crafty, I end up with the kids sitting down to work with me. I love doing crafts with them, but I find that I spend most of the time helping them and getting nothing done of my own. Like Gracie says though, it's really a time for them at this point in my life and that's ok. I'll have plenty of time later on, probably right around the time they decide hanging out with me isn't so cool anymore, lol.

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Monday, January 03, 2005 - 8:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
THat is great that you do crafts with your children, War.

DD gave both Noah and Noelle cameras for Christmas and scrapbooks. I am anxious to see how their first rolls of film turned out. They took pictures of each other taking pictures.

THey also did a mini album for one set of grandparents that do not see them very often.

ANd yes, War you will have plenty of time later to catch up. Just take lots of pictures now to do later.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
*sigh* I just bought a new house and almost had a room dedicated to crafts (scrapbooking and needlework primarily), but then I decided to let a friend move in. :-) The den will just have to do double duty for now.

Sometimes when I can only grab an hour or so to scrapbook, it helps to have all the materials for the page put together ahead of time. I tend to sort pictures, pull paper and stickers, and stick all that in the in a plastic expanding file folder so when I have some time, I just grab that and the appropriate box(es) of accoutrements from my shelves. I have paper cutters and adhesives all in one box, scissors in another, and punches in a third. I can do most pages with just those three boxes, and when I have more time, I can do the fancier ones that have more embellishments, or even go back and punch up other pages. But at least I get something done, so it gives me a feeling of accomplishment.

Most of my scrapbooks are travel books, although I have done two about my father, one for my parents 50th anniversary, and one about my gardening. I have a friend who checks out my scrapbooks before planning her vacations so she can get an idea of where to go. :-)

Maybe I'll get the digital camera out tonight and take pictures of some of my favorite pages. Hmmm...I could also photograph my needlework before it goes up on my new walls...and then scrapbook it!



Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
Would love to see some of your layouts and your needlework!

Kearie
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07-21-2005

Monday, January 02, 2006 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
I finally got a digital camera which will make this hobby less expensive.

I've been scrapping for about 2 and a half years.
I've posted some of my favorite layouts in my folder at the ANIMAL FARM/Stalls....I'm ALY KAT over there.

Take a peek and tell me what you think. Would love feedback from unbiased fellow scrappers.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 02, 2006 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Kearie, I have to say I love my digital camera specifically for scrapping! There's no more running to the store for film or going back to have it developed and having to spend a fortune. Plus with some of the scrapbook programs out there now there is so much you can do with your pictures. I love that I can crop them into shapes and don't have to cut myself, that there are borders and clipart I can print out and that I can make my pics whatever size I want. It's not only made scrapbookin less expensive, but much easier.

Kearie
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07-21-2005

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
I haven't tried using my computer much for scrapping. I have an old printer so it's not worth messing with. I have the fiskars Shape Cutter set and that's what I use thus far.

I learn eventually how to do that stuff on the puter.

sounds like it will be fun, you and your daughter doing a book together. I wanna see when you get going. I enjoy sharing layout ideas.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 9:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, well with her theres not much layout involved. She picks a couple pictures, glues them on the page and then choses some stickers or glitter to add. It has been fun though. She's at that age where she still enjoys spending time with me so I'm loving it while it lasts. I figure her idea of fun isn't always going to be spending time with mom working on crafts, why not have fun with it now.

I want the shape cutters and the alphabet punches but I really don't have much room for more stuff. Being able to use the computer cuts down on that for me. One of these days I'm going to have to go through all my craft stuff and figure out what I need, what I don't, what I can put up and what I can get rid of so I can buy more, LOL.

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
I am doing inventory of the store. Ugh! I had a big sale on paper the entire month of December so I would have less to count. I have not started on the roll stickers, yet. My rep told me one store owner is having a big sale in January so she can get rid of alot of merchandise. She needs money for the show to buy NEW. So I am having a big sale next weekend when there's a 3 day crop going on at one of the hotels. I want to buy NEW, too, at the show.

Knightpatti
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12-06-2001

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Knightpatti a private message Print Post    
Kearie - loved your layouts and your book!

I love my digital camera and I have the printer,too. Now I just snap lots of pictures and then delete the ones that are not good. We went to my brother's wedding and dh took lots of pictures. I had a disposable, too and none of those turned out = too dark. My Mom used a disposable and she had the same problem. SHe said I could send her some pictures. What I did was make her an album for Christmas and then I made one for my sister with the same pictures. Who knows when I will do it again for myself!

Emmy
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05-05-2004

Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Emmy a private message Print Post    
Did 6 pages last night! Love it! Scrapping is helping me get out of bad funk! I'm working on Moondance's wedding photos now (April '04). Anyone up for a page challenge?

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 11:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I just started a scrapbook for my cancer journey. I'm not crafty so it's gonna be very basic.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i'm not that crafty either mocha. usually it is just pictures and words, but it's my memories. and i just don't want the pictures in some picture envelope that noone will know what they mean. or that someday when i have alzheimers, i won't know what they mean.

Kearie
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07-21-2005

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
Emmy...what's a page challenge?

I might be interested.

Emmy
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05-05-2004

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Emmy a private message Print Post    
Kearie...We can challenge each other to complete ___ pages by ___ . Makes us get off our butts and just do it.
Mocha... GOOD JOB on starting your album! You DON'T have to be crafty at all. I teach people how all the time. I keep it simple, mostly, but I still have fun.
Y'all come over and scrap with me... NOW!!!!

Kearie
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07-21-2005

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kearie a private message Print Post    
Okay....sounds good to me....

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol Emmy. Well I need to stock up on some materials, I've been cruising ebay....