The Evolution of Scrapbooking

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. ~ Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

I really love scrapbooking! I have been doing it now for over 12 years! But, boy have things changed! When we moved to Moscow I started to really get into scrapbooking. I was not working outside of the home and set up my scrapbook room in the dungeon, oh! I mean basement. I would spend hours down there with the spiders and the laundry, creating mini masterpieces! I was addicted to twopeasinabucket and spent a lot of time reading the message boards and posting my layouts. I was really into paper piecing back then, and Tami V and I bought almost every paper piecing pattern from twopeas. My layouts would take me days to complete. I am not kidding!

I would post my layouts on twopeas hoping to get tons of "praise" - check out my gallery for a good laugh! These are my layouts from 8 years ago! So funny to see how far scrapbooking has come! I still love these layouts tho and would never re-do them. I think my style has not changed that much...I still love cardstock and I still have a hard time with pattern paper. I am a "simple" scrapbooker now and try to focus on the photos and the journaling more than the cute embellishments. I no longer journal on the computer, but write all of my journaling in my own handwriting. This has not only saved me tons of time but is a big deal, since I hate my handwriting! I don't scrapbook chronologically anymore. I scrapbook the pictures and memories I feel inspired to work on at that moment. And...I don't want to every get caught up! I love it too much to ever stop!

Here are just a few of my all time "favorites!" from my scrapbooking archives!