Scribbles 'n Scraps

Someone on Two Peas, posted something about their pea anniversary (the date they signed up to be a pea). It got me really thinking about my own personal scrapbooking time-line and milestones.

I started scrapbooking just before my son was born. I remember I had a friend who said, let’s go to this party together. They teach us how to scrapbook. I had no idea what “exactly” that was. But I went. This would have been 1994. I remember sitting there thinking… this stuff is so plain, but I’ve apparently been “scrapbooking” since high-school or earlier. I had albums full of photos that I had decorated with pretty stationary papers (about all you could find pre-1994), cut out titles and pictures to embellish the pages from magazines. I wrote directly on my page then, usually with just the date and who was in the photo, but sometimes I even included a poem and quote. Who knew I was a scrapbooker even then?

I never returned to a Creative Memories party again, but I did buy some things that night (an album, “safe” journaling pens, and a few decorative items). It wasn’t too long after that, I was in a Michaels and saw other types of albums, and then about 1 year later discovered rubber stamping stores and a year after that (in 1996) discovered a true scrapbooking store (Memory Lane in Mesa, Arizona … omg I miss that store, the staff (especially Pam… if you ever read this Pam, you were the absolute best!!) and a couple others.)

Eventually a few short years later I landed in Dallas, where I got a job teaching at the LSS, and then got the opportunity to teach at a GASC (gasp, that was way back at the beginning) LOL

I was an original pea – while I was still living in Texas. But at some point, the system crashed or their databases crashed and all that was lost. I think I even went through one account after that, but the account I use right now, shows that my anniversary is August 27. The day before my birthday. In 2003. Wow. It’s so odd to think of that. I’ve been a pea for nearly six years at this point. And if I remember correctly (yes I am getting fuzzy in my older age LOL) I first discovered two peas in early 1999, right before my daughter’s first birthday. So probably sometime in March or April. It is so weird to think of how two peas has grown since then as well.

Of course, my scrapbooking style has changed massively as well…..
Here are two pages I did in 1999. I remember that I loved cutsie, loved bright colors, didn’t have the first clue whether my photos looked good on certain papers, but hey I was having fun.

These layouts actually  make me laugh. I don’t know WHAT I was thinking, and am so glad that I have moved on, developed more “style” and I am able to obtain a wider variety of products now. I’m still VERY much a simple scrapbooker, but every so often, I make an elaborate layout… especially when I have time (ha! What’s that?!)

Here are a few more recent layouts (okay so they are at least six months old, because I haven’t scanned a layout in so long!) LOL

Hmm… I’m really glad I did this post. I realized, I need to post some more current layouts. I  have tons to choose from, and the scanner is brand new and awesome (I think I have to relearn stitching LOL) but I have nothing recent and I need recent. Check back often for some new pages.