It's funny

I don't consider myself a scrapbooker, yet I have spent the past week frantically "scrapping", I guess. I have always kept albums for the kids...they each have their own. And I have always filled them with photos, but when the whole scrapbooking thing became big, the sheer range of products seduced me. When I was an exchange student, I had a book filled with photos and ephemera which I would spend hours decorating, so I guess I've always had it in me. And as you have seen from this blog, I take a lot of photos. So when I was tidying the study the other day and actually looked at the 2 shoe boxes filled with photos that needed to go into albums, I got on with it. I was only a year behind!!! Times that by 4 albums for each of the kids...and, well, it means a lot of cutting, pasting, stamping, photocopying etc. I have made very little progress considering how many hours a day I spend on it. I have to work during the day as the light in this room is terrible.

So here's some of the fruits of my labours. I am more interested in recording our history than making fancy pages about 1 subject. Having moved so much, I think it's important that the kids have these memories in a book that they can look at (and they love them). I include as many photos as I can. Sometimes they'll look back at old photos and notice a toy in the background, or something on the wall. So I try to keep in all the "background noise" for them too.They're nothing like the wonderful stuff my sis in law Chelsea does (check her out: just asked to be on the designe team for 2 peas in a bucket), but I like 'em.

It will be months before I'm up to date I'm sure, so until then the study will be messy.

Ella brought home this cute little 'published' book today. She wrote it about hamsters. And illustrated it. I have included a sample page and the 'about the author' page which I hope you can read as it's very cute.