My First Post!

Welcome to my little space on the web! I am completely new to the entire blog world! I know - have I been living under a rock for the last ten years? Apparently there are entire blog communities and everything! I guess everyone will just have to bear with me during my growing pains!

My obsession is digital scrapbooking. I realize that any Google search will bring up a ton of digital scrapbooking sites and blogs that already exist (and are likely a bit more flashy than this one!). Why would you want to read another? I find that although there is a lot of digital scrapbooking information out there - a lot of digital scrapbookers have lost that purity and simplicity that came with traditional paper scrapping. I love to keep people guessing. The biggest compliment I was ever given was, "Is this digital scrapbooking or pages you've done and scanned?"

I guess it all started when we moved to the country. I was used to being able to run anywhere - any time of day. Cabs, buses even my own two feet could get me to friends' places for coffee, malls, book stores or the library. What a shock to the system, moving to an area that is a 45 minute car drive to the nearest town. And I mean town... think small town... very small town! Don't get me wrong - I love country life now and I don't think I could ever be a city dweller again, but that first year or so was horrible!

I had dabbled with scrapbooking a little bit here and there for years, but after the move it became a full time hobby. I met a few ladies from my church who also scrapped, so it made a wonderful venue for meeting new friends! We scrapped on my kitchen table quite a bit before discovering a little scrapbooking store in town (you remember - the very small town!). We then made it a monthly tradition to scrap together at the store and then go out for lunch.

I loved my traditional paper scrapping! The only problem was that the "neat freak" part of me was always a little disgruntled when a page protector didn't lay completely flat, or a bit of ribbon was sticking out of the top of my scrapbook. I loved the look of the embellishments, but wanted it to be tidier (if that makes any sense at all!).

I actually discovered digital scrapbooking while reading a magazine article about three years ago. A lady had made the same layout traditionally and digitally. It was amazing! I was hooked right away! I ran to my computer and Googled "digital scrapbooking" as fast as my fingers could type! The rest is history! I just sold all of my paper scrapbooking supplies last summer. I kept holding on to them, just in case. I know now that I will never go back.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed getting to know me. I will try to update regularly. Maybe start a gallery of my work!