A little while ago I was chatting with my mom about my little side-career here with Close To My Heart and how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE what I'm doing. It can be a little frustrating, though, because as the title of this blog suggests I'm a student, so MOST of the year I hardly have time to myself to THINK let alone scrapbook, make cards, or run my business! PHEW!! And, honestly, before I joined CTMH I wasn't a scrapbooker - I knew NOTHING about scrapbooking, paper-crafting, or anything. I used to do like, 'photo journals' - just glue the pictures down and write about them!! But then I was so madly in love with Little Miss I wanted to do a little more, yet not TOO much, for her. Anyway, I quickly stumbled upon CTMH, SIGNED up, and the rest is history!!
SO Mom a little while ago mentioned that even with the setbacks I have with my creative-time and everything that it's fantastic that I am in this business because I get so much family scrapbooking done, which I realized was true. Even though it's not all currently in order or totally finished or whatever, it's getting done, which is great. THEN I thought, nuts to THAT I don't ONLY want to do work-related-scrapbooking! So we bought a brand-new album and some fantastic supplies and I'm incorporating some of my old not-so-great work in with my new I-know-what-I'm-doing work and making Little Miss a book. A baby book, I guess, only it will probably go on longer than the 'baby' period - she's 21 months and has yet to have that first hair cut!! hahaha
Do you see just ONE of the amazing products I found in the Idea Book to get things together (and finally off my desk!!):
Memorabilia Pockets!! Oh how I love them!! They worked beautifully to hold in Little Miss' hospital...anklets (hahaha!) as well as the card with her information and my hospital bracelet - the card is made of cardstock but is it all archival acid-free paper, pen and marker??? Doesn't MATTER 'cause it's in its own POCKET!
Anyway, I was super-stoked about this. And don't worry - there are other pages with her name, DOB, weight etc. etc. I'm not an idiot. Well...about this, at least! ;)
OH, and DON'T FORGET to check the deal-a-day today - IT'S ANOTHER GRAB BOX! WAY too much fun! I know some of you (oh, okay, US - me too!) have been really enjoying deal-a-day and the anticipation of the (superb!) grab-box deals, so DO NOT forget today's!!
