So clear back in the day, before I even had Kate, I signed up to be a Close To My Heart consultant. It's a scrapbooking/stamping retail company that has tons of neat stuff. I started out making cards and things like that but never got into scrapbooking. After I had Kate I ended my career of being a consultant, if you can call it a career. I never really got good at selling things to people...I just don't like to feel like I'm pushing people to buy things. I had a descent amount of stamping/scrapbooking stuff by that time, however, I then lived in a small apartment with a baby. There wasn't enough room to spread out (those of you who scrapbook know that you need an insane amount of space to have everything you need close at hand) and if I did get my stuff out, I had a little angel that would come by and steal things and eat them or hide them. Anyway, now I'm in a house and have been for over two years. I have this great room that is perfect for craft stuff, and it wasn't until now that I've really utilized it. I was asked to make a 2 scrapbook pages for my mom's-in-law birthday. Since I was coerced into actually getting all the stuff out and actually creating some pages, I decided I'd go all out. And I did. I've been working on the pages all week and have spent hours doing them. Jason showed his concern about how much time I was putting into this, but I told him that I was actually having fun! I get to complete something that won't just be undone again, like the laundry or cleaning the floors or fixing dinner. This would actually get to stay done! That is an amazing, empowering feeling! I'm sure that if I did all this more often, I could get faster at it....and I just may. But for now I'm really excited and proud of my little craft project. I'm sure seasoned scrapbookers could find all sorts of scrapbooking "no-no's" on it or tell how they could make it look so much better, but that doesn't matter. I think it looks great and that's really all that matters.
