About Me

A blog...hahaha...Not sure why I'm doing this but I thought I should have some place to show off my scrap pages and give some insight on products I use and some tips and tricks. I'm not an expert on anything but I think I can give enough to help someone.

I am a mother of 3 wonderful boys. They are my life, and I really enjoy making pages for them. It's fun to try new things and have these beautiful memories for them later in life.

I started scrapbooking wayyyy back in 2002 after my first son was born and I suffered from Postpartum Depression and turned to crafting to give me something to do. I fell in love instantly. I started simple and grew from there. I'm doing things in my pages I couldn't imagine doing back then. I browse layouts and read up on techniques and try them myself, sometimes it's successful and...well the ones that don't you probably will never see.

I feel that scrapbooking is also a great way to cope with things in life that throw you a curve ball. As I said before with my first son I had postpartum depression and scrapping was an outlet for that. But in 2012 it swooped in and helped me heal from another tragedy. In april of 2012 we lost our daughter at 12 weeks pregnant. It threw me into severe depression and I felt that I could never heal. Then one day while looking through photos I found the 9 week ultrasound for her. I decided then I was gonna make a page for her. I thought if I could make one thing for her...just one thing...then I would feel like I had done something for her. It was incredibly painful to make that page, It had to be right and I spent probably about 12hrs on it...it had to be perfect. When I finally finished I looked at it and for the first time in months I felt at peace. It was what I needed to do to start the healing process. It was amazing to feel that. To think that scrapbooking can make someone feel like that is incredible. So if you have that one picture that you can't get yourself to scrap because it's too painful I think you should do it. It may make you feel better, t in the end you'll feel a great sense of accomplishment and you can take that next step to healing.