Me & Scrapbooking

I started scrapbooking maybe 7 or 8 years ago. My sister, Jennifer, went to one of those scrapbooking parties at someone's home and therefor introduced my mother and myself into the world of Scrapbooking. I've really only created 2 albums so far. My wedding album and one for 2001. I am a slow scrapper. I work on one layout for days. I have to leave it and come back to it with new inspirations. And I'm never happy with it! I want it to be perfect and my biggest problem is my thoughts are always "What if there's a new embellishment or paper out there that would make it look just right". So I'm always delaying on working on something just so I can look at new items. You could probably call me a scrapbook supply collector instead of a scrapbooker!! Richard & I have moved 3 times so I've never had a designated scrapbook area and I always hated getting it out and making a mess in the living room so I rarely scrapbooked. I would in just spurts.
So when I had Cailey my scrapbooking was at a standstill. I didn't have a place for all of my stuff since my craft room was turned into the nursery. I finally did 1 page of her 1 month proffessional pictures. I did that on my dining room table while at home during my lunch breaks when I still worked. And that was it!! Again, back to my problem of afraid of not having the perfect accents and wanting her baby album to be perfect!!! And also not wanting to pull out a big mess on top of the mess that's already there!
Well, jan/feb 2006 we decided to convert the garage (Not totally converted), into a craft studio & Playroom. We are still working on it, but the main stuff is there and all my supplies are organized and cailey has a tv/dvd and tons of toys out there to play with. I've really enjoyed having the space! It's the first time I've been able to have my stuff out and viewable and it makes everything so much easier. Cailey is getting where she will play by herself or watch a video without me right with her playing or her sitting on my lap while she watches tv. I'm just so excited that I'm able to really start back creating! I've really missed it. But I completed my first layout in over a year today (5-3-06) and so I started this blog for me to post my creations and also to give me an incentive boost to get layouts done so I can post them! As I know my other blog has made me take more pictures. I have a lot of catching up to do so hopefully I'll have a few layouts to post each week (if I'm lucky!).