In Which I Continue My Earlier Post

Okay, well I couldn't figure out how to continue my post after all those pictures (the formatting was really weird) so I decided to start a new one.

Anyway, today I was sitting around feeling sorry for myself because I'm sick and being sick sucks (the runny nose! the raw, red nose! the coughing! the ickiness!) and decided to see what I could whip up. This was the result.

It's a layout about the first time I got to visit the JoAnn warehouse in Visalia. The copy's kind of nerdy but I'd rather have funny copy (okay, just realized I'm calling it copy...further evidence of my yearbook background) than boring copy.

It's kind of funny, because there's always this big debate in the scrapbooking world about why and how you scrapbook. For example, Ali Edwards (big scrapbooking personality) is big on words and photos and telling stories, not letting other things get in the way. Other scrapbookers are very chronological and feel like they have to get "caught up" and scrapbook every picture. I'm not like either of those groups. Mostly, I just love the pretty scrapbooking stuff and want to create something with it. Almost always, my process starts with a new scrapbooking goody or technique I want to use, and then I adapt it to a photo or project. Every once in a while I come across something that really makes me want to "tell a story." A good example is this next project.

I was organizing some papers a couple of weeks ago and came across this copy of a note my (recently passed) grandfather wrote my grandmother a while ago. (My grandfather was a carpenter and so to explain his absence one day he left this note.) My grandmother gave us a copy of this note at Christmas as a promise of a book she was writing about our grandfather that wasn't done yet. This note was to be the cover.

Anyway, I found the copy of this and suddenly I just had to do something with it. (Don't worry Gran, I didn't cut up your book.) It took me a while to come up with something, because my normal style (frou frou, girly, pink) just didn't fit. Finally I came up with this and am really proud of it.

The flip side.

Anyway, that's my musings on the whole scrapbooking process and all my current projects. I just ordered a brand new album online that I can't wait to get my hands on. I have so many ideas, mostly inspired by this album that I love. And this baby I just saw online a couple days ago-beautiful!