Discovering scrapping..?

Woo-hoo! This is my first ever post to this blog, which is about to be about the journey of a mom into the mysterious world of scrapbooking!

I have never ever scrapped, and only got to know the entire concept last summer. Some of our friends came to visit the Uk and wanted to find crafting stores...for scrapbooking material. I was completely astonished and first did not know what to think about it - paying sums of money to be able to, store photos? In a nice way, ok, but still?

Then I did what all of us do nowadays as we face some new concept: I googled, and googled, and googled. After that I googled some more. Well, it seemed that scrapbooking is not such a bad idea after all - seemed like something that you could do even with a toddler perhaps. Or, maybe it could be mama's own thing, a way to be creative, relax and have a hobby at home? Hmm...AND you would get very nice albums of memories, photos of your dearest ones. Started to sound like my kind of thing.

Some time passed, as I was very busy with travelling here and there (we have family sprinkled nearly all around Europe and everyone wants to see our little sugar cookie baby girl as often as possible). Then we got stuck to one country, due to some formalities with our car. I was dying to get back home, to my own cosy spot where I could relax and have all my nice things around - plus start scrapbooking of course!

By the beginning of September we finally got back home. Just to realise our garden looked awful as it had not gotten any TLC for months, and also the house itself needed some maintenance work - our little baby girl needed her own room, I had to go through loads of her clothing to sort out the ones too small, the ones fitting and the ones too big. I had to go through mama's and papa's clothing, too - as it was becoming colder. All kinds of those little everyday tasks that prevent you from concentrating into something new and exciting.

Of course my main task - and very dear, too, is to play with and take care of our little precious baby girl. Actually, she might be officially toddler now, but for me she is still baby darling.

In mid-November I started preparations for starting scrapbooking. I got a brilliant, although little megalomaniac idea; I would START by preparing scrapbooks as x-mas presents for our families. Filled with our daughter's photos of course. And, at least 20 pages for each to start with - later on we could send them separate pages to put into their expandable albums, right?!

My husband agreed with this wonderful idea (he seems to have a great trust in me indeed!). So I started researching with my perfectionist character (it can be a pretty exhausting feature sometimes). I made a list of what kind of styles I like, visually. I also made a list of what ingredients ie. materials we'd need. And, before that I made a check on what we already have at home. Then I started tracing for what needed to be bought.

I'll come back with the lists and tales of how the hunting has been going on.

Meanwhile, pls wish me luck! It is less than a month left to Christmas, and zero layouts ready. I haven't been able to start yet, because - I have the block already. Too big plans too little experience - uups!