I decided the other night that I would go through all of my photos of Drew and figure out what pages I needed to get done to be caught up. I'm in such a habit of scrapping my newest pictures that I thought I better get a lot of the earlier stuff done or I'm going to end up really far behind. It took about 3 hours to get through all my pictures, thank goodness I organized them in order or it would have taken a lot longer! When I was done I counted how many pages I needed to do and I couldn't believe it....83!!!!!! He's only 13 months old! That's not even including all the other pages I want to do about the rest of my family. I've got a lot of work to do!
This page was the first of the catching up game. My husband, Mike, kind of scowled at the fact that I used papers with pink in them. I couldn't resist using it though. I love all of the imagination project paper and embellishments and bought it all the instant we got it in. There are five or six different groupings and I've already used four of them!

I love my job!!

I 100% love my job! I work at Scrapbook Generation in Springfield MO, which is owned by my mom. When we first opened I had the pleasure of doing all the work nobody really wanted to do. (cutting die cuts, rearranging, etc.) At our 1 year anniversary of being open, Mom decided that each of us that worked at the store had to enter the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame contest. What!!! Did I hear her right! At that point I had managed to make about 2 pages in my whole life.
Quickly I found that I was kind of excited about designing some pages. I had an adorable little baby boy to make pages of and I always loved all the product that was being sold in our store. I managed to barely make the deadline and was really proud of my pages (even though I didn't get picked as a Hall of Famer). It was at that point that I was completely hooked on scrapbooking. I can't believe how addictive this hobby is!
I asked mom if I could display a few of my pages in the store and she said okay. I was shocked at the feedback I got on my page displays. I couldn't believe that so many people liked my pages. I figured based on my husband's bland "yeah honey that is good" reply that my pages were nothing to get excited about. I guess I was wrong.
Fast forward a few months and I am now a designer and teacher at Scrapbook Generation. I can't believe that I am so lucky to get paid to scrapbook! I'm now scrapbooking like a mad woman and constantly trying to get published. I entered the page contest at the Creating Keepsakes Convention in KC and ended up winning first place so maybe getting published isn't too far away.