Shawn's Blog Challenge

What made me start scrapbooking...

First of all, let me just say that I had a hard time understanding this hobby. I've always been fairly crafty, and I remember wandering around Hobby Lobby and Michael's and thinking, "Scrapbooking? That's what photo albums are for.."

Just before Christmas, when Zion was two months old, my sister-in-law gave us a mini-album. It was the little baby boy kit that they sell all over the place - the blue one.

She had taken pictures in the hospital the day Zion was born of things I didn't even know had happened! All kinds of beautiful black and whites.. it was such an awesome book it brought me to tears.

That sealed the deal for me - I was a scrapbooker from that moment.

My mother-in-law hooked me up with a scrapbooker from her church, who referred me to SD. I checked out the Independence store first. I think I was in there for about four hours, just wandering around looking at the layouts on the wall, and realizing just how expensive this hobby could get.

Almost two years later, and I was right - it's a really expensive hobby! I've taken a part-time job just to support the habit.. sigh. It's worth it, though, right? Passing down through the generations, telling your story (and everyone else's). I keep trying to convince my husband...