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17
Remember a while back when I was bemoaning my problem with snacking at night, and some of you recommended finding something to keep busy with? Like something with my hands so I’m not just mindlessly project-managing an entire sleeve or two of Saltines into my face as soon as the boys go to bed?
Well thanks a lot, dickbags.
You owe me a rapidly dwindling sense of badassery. Also, about $57.
But I probably owe you this dropped jeans size, so thanks I guess.
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Wow, you did a beautiful job! Those pages are gorgeous.
I have a friend who scrapbooks, and I know each page can take, like, hours, so I guess it is a good way to keep yourself busy, huh?
Dickbags. Heh. Nice work.
Really nice job…..my scrapbooking looks like a (let’s see how do I put this nicely) challenged, blind 2nd grader did it with only one hand. :)
Scrapbooking is fun but it is definately a money sucker :)
As long as you NEVER call it scrapping!
It’s friggin addictive .. you have been warned.
Don’t call it cropping, either.
My…um…my husband is the one who scrapbooks all of our photos. I don’t think I’ve ever admitted that in public before.
Those are gorgeous! I’m guessing you did these with Photoshop? It is friggin’ addictive, and there is stuff out there that’s relatively badass… obviously you stumbled on it and that shows there’s no reason scrapbooks have to be totally lame. Why don’t you start a digital scrapbooking blog? You could call it Badass Books.
You are totally a scrapbooker now! I never ever thought you’d go this route, Linda, I have to say. Your pages are really great though! I’m not a scrapbooker myself, but I did do several pages in the girls’ baby books in the scrapbooking style and I found it a… great outlet for my creativity. GEEZUZ, did I just say that?
Wow, I’m inspired! I guess it’s time for a trip to Michaels.
Scrapping never looked quite so badass to me.
Heh. That cracked me up. No one calls their readers “dickbags” enough these days.
I love the idea of scrapbooking, but my only foray into it was when my oldest daughter was born – to look at the scrapbook you’d think she was now about 6 months old…except she just turned 11. Yours are fantastic. :) i want to say props to your mad skillz – but have a feeling that sounds about as hip as saying “to the max!” :)
Wow, you are fantastic at it. The pages I’ve done have never looked anywhere near that good.
Scrapbooking and homeschooling? What’s next – denim jumpers? :)
I find I love it as a way to work with my hands, stay AWAY from the computer (since I’m on it way too much for work & play) and just be a little creative. And I can work on it and its done and stays done. I can go back and look at what I’ve done (as opposed to how much I do around the house that is never done or gets undone so quickly). I don’t always make fancy pages (yours look AMAZING–mine don’t look that great ever!) but I don’t care, it’s for ME. So welcome to the dark side. :)
YAY – another convert. I have had far too little time to work on the, ahem, baby books for my 4 1/2 and 2 1/2 year olds due to my bacon-bringing paid-slavery 100 hr a week some weeks job that I should quit – but you should see the books from before they came along – it was a great deterrent to early marriage potato chip binging. Your boys will treasure them always.
Tina: yes, those things are exactly what I like about it! I don’t think I would have been able to articulate the part about permanence of work, but YES, that is so true. I do so much stuff that just has to be re-done over and over and over, it’s deeply pleasing to work on something and be like, booyah, COMPLETE.
@Rachael- I think next up is canning of homegrown heirloom vegetables.
(Okay, fine, I’m just jealous, since my attempts at scrapbooking look like an expensive preschool “art” project gone awry.)
Linda, they’re beautiful! I love this. And admittedly, I can’t stop laughing. You’re SCRAPBOOKING! Look at you go!
Dear person who wrote this post: Where is Linda and what have you done with her?
(I KID. Love it, lady.)
Great pictures/pages! I started doing scrapbooks when my daughter was born – she’s 8 now. I have about 5 books all about her, about 1/2 a book about my next child (he’s now 6) and I think a whopping 2 pages for my youngest (2)…
I keep buying things for it. Same as I keep buying organizational tools. Maybe, if I buy it, they will be done? Or I will be organized?
So far, no luck with that. Where’s Kevin Costner when I need him! :)
Congrats, they are beautiful and a wonderful keepsake for your family.
Those pages are beautiful.
I’m pretty sure I suggested KNITTING, which is way badass. You could take someone’s eye out with a needle.
But the pages look GORGEOUS.
noooooo! You’ve been sucked into the neverending-money-gobbling hobby of scrapbooking!
I didn’t have time to read all 3,587 comments from your prior post, but here’s what I do: brush my teeth when I put the kids to bed. Helps prevent that late night snacking.
Next up: Linda shows us all how to knit fancy toilet paper roll covers for our bathrooms.
Kidding, obviously. It is really nice to pay tribute to these beautiful family memories you’re creating with something tangible that your boys will no doubt treasure when they are older. Well, maybe not treasure, because boys generally suck with such things, but I bet if they’re the marrying-women-sort that their wives will.
And clearly I need a similar hobby if I have time to babble as I just have in your comments.
I knit. I mean, I don’t really like knitting. And I’m not at all good at it. I have a good 20 or 30 scarves, because knitting in front the the tv keeps me from eating.
So yeah.
Everyone needs a nana hobby!
I nearly died the first time I admitted to anyone I scrapbook but it turned out ok (the laughter didn’t kill me) and now it is surprising to discover other people who scrapbook that I never suspected.
And just to turn the nana up on my scrapbooking, I am now currently putting together a gardening scrapbooking with a month by month guide and a page for each vege with all it’s planting details and care tips. NANA!!!!!!
Oh no. There’s no turning back now.
P.S. wanna buy my scrapbooking stuff??
NOOOOOOO!!!!
Was nice knowin you, babe.
I must admit – I’ve followed you for years, but now you’ve just lost me. Between homeschooling and scrapbooking, I just don’t relate anymore :(
You did a great job! Your pages look great!
HAHAHAHAHA! I refuse to even call it “scrapbooking.” I say that I make photo albums.
But MY out-of-nowhere hobby to keep hands busy is knitting. I know have approximately $250 in yarn in my house, and 78 started but unfinished knitting projects…
Wow! I’m impressed, these pages are awesome. I’ve never started this, this, whatever you want to call it because I’m afriad I’m not creative enough and it will just look like pictures and shit stuck to a page.
Aw, Kim. Well, it’s probably just as well, since I just purchased SundryScrapBookingandHomeSchoolingand SistersWives.com and plan to move all my content there. Whew, you dodged that bullet!
Um, you are really good at that! I’ve tried my hand at “scrapping” once or twice… with results that look like a distracted four-year-old’s masterpiece. But this – this is really good!
For a split second there I almost wanted to scrapbook. Then I laughed myself to tears remembering how I still have about a thousand photos worth of a three year long project that have been waiting to be sorted into albums. And all I’d have to do there is lift and insert.
Just be sure to let us know when you’ve moved your content to SundryScrapBookingandHomeSchoolingand SistersWives.com so I can update my google reader…
It’s like I don’t even know who you are anymore.
Kidding, kidding. I am super impressed! These pages are gorgeous!
“…SundryScrapBookingandHomeSchoolingand SistersWives.com…”. I’m busting a gut up here. Too funny. Enjoy the hobby. Like others, i’m “pretending” to knit to keep my hands out of the chip bag at night. Whatever it takes. Pages look great. I’d love to look back at something like that. But instead, I have a bunch of CDs of bad, untouched digital photos, and some really weird knitted scarves or doll blankets or whatever you want to call them.
You seem defensive about it. And lost as hell.
I put together a 1-year book for my first son and remember my best friend warning me not to do it, because ‘then you’ll have to do it for all your kids’ and well, she was half right…I shouldn’t have done it at all because now my poor seond child is short a book. Hell, his poor life is barely documented. Well, more power to you that you have to time and energy to do it. But if you start bedazzling stuff, I may have to have a chat with you. :)
the crossfit officially allows you to be a badass regardless of whatever else you do…so you are safe!
Beautiful! I’m afraid if I tried scrapbooking it would end up looking like something from Elmo’s World. I prefer boxes of unorganized photos, sticking together with age, devoid of any type of organization.
Perhaps Kim needs a hug?
Hahahaha! This reminds me of Al Franken as Stuart Smalley wearing an absolutely hideous sweater during one of his Daily Affirmations. He goes on to relate that the sweater was knitted for him by Melissa T, a recovering sex addict who’d taken up knitting as a hobby because it gave her something to do with her hands. Love the scrapbook pages.
You should print out these comments and artfully arrange them in a new scrapbook called “Dickbags.” Definitely an attention-grabber when realtors and possible buyers stop by!
You’re welcome.
Love the scrapbook pages, and will totally follow your sisterwives site if that’s where your hobby leads. :) Anything you write is gold in my book.
Beautiful! I get the Baby Steals emails each day, and I just noticed they now have “Scrapbook Steals” (www.scrapbooksteals.com) Great way to save some money on an expensive hobby.
Oooh boy, I’ve always heard that scrapbooking is the “gateway drug” that leads straight into a life of swingin’ group marriage and home-schooling at the family compound. I’d vote polyandry over sister wives, though.
I refuse to admit to scrapbooking. My excuse for buying pretty paper and stamps is totally the more macho art of card making. I also glue paper to the back of glass tiles, glomp on a bail or a magnet, and sell them, thus adding legitimacy to what it really just an outlet for my paper addiction.
I just laughed so hard I snorted at your new domain name.
Your troll is friggin awesome! Does she mean literally lost, like in the Oregon wilderness? Dang, are you scrapbooking from the river bank right now? Post artfully decorated “help” page if yes.
Can you add hoarder to that domain name too? They’re beautiful, and it means you aren’t shoving junk in your pie hole…WIN!
I don’t know about scrapbooking but I do know that the last scrapbook page appears to be about a trip to the Rogue River (where perhaps you hiked the river for a couple of days and stayed in some kick butt lodges) and I totally totally want to do this. I’ve been stalking this trip for years (I have little wee babies and so have placed this dream on a back burner.) But it made my mouth water!
I need a 12 step program for my scrapbook/paper addiction! I just came back from a scrapbook retreat weekend (yes I admitted it).I got 35 pgs completed too!! Love your work thanks for sharing them!!
PS I almost wet myself when I read “dickbags” love it!!
Are you taking requests? I’d like to see a page titled “Dickbags” featuring photos of your internet friends and followers. You can use my BlogHer photos if you’d like.
My mom made scrapbooks for us (her kids) and I still have them. I love them, have pulled them out and enjoyed them for years. I have her old scrapbooks of when she was young and gorgeous too; I also love having them. Great way to save memories (rather than a shoebox of unsorted photos like I have).
Call it what you like.
But isn’t blogging and tweeting just . . digital scrapbooking? More journal heavy, less photos, no embellishments but . . . isn’t it?
I have gone through and printed my tweets, chopped them up, mixed with photos and made some cute scrapbook pages. I am not so good at the journaling and realized I was *already* journaling! Tweeting is journaling in 140 characters!
Do you have books or something made from your blog? Those are scrapbooks.
I shrink & print emails and use them on pages all the time (in the baby pages are emails sent during & post birthin’ and the congrats emails we got back, the birth story, etc).
I love printing photos taken on cell phones- they seem more spontaneous somehow. And I love to take photos of stuff (kid art work, books, baby clothes, furniture) before I toss, sell or give it away. So much easier to store than all the kid art in a box! And years from now I think it will be neat to look at what I was reading the spring of 2010 or exactly how many shoes the baby girl owned, or how awesomely cool was my Startac phone!
Scrap on, Sister!
Scrapbooking is a gateway drug to stamping, and omg how you make me laugh!
It will be good when you finally do get moved and into a new (bigger) house that you will need for all your crafty stuff.
And my daughter the junky’s website http://amandaostler.stampinup.net/ for when you hit the wall of the dark side, lol.
Dickbags, ha! You kill me!
I don’t understand why anyone would bother telling you that they don’t relate to you anymore and that you’ve lost them as a reader. Seems pretty pointless- what, are you supposed to have tailored your personal blog to fit this person that you’ve never met’s interests? That sentence was terrible, but you know what I mean.
Also, watch this from minutes 1:30 to 4:30. Snarf! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iez441diT0
Couldn’t have said it better, Karen!!! Speaking of dickbags….
I totally relate to dickbag and will use it in a proper way tomorrow I promise!! Dickbags of the world unite!
So, my badass self makes greeting cards with pretty papers, little embellishments and rubber stamps. (It’s like ’scrappin’s younger cousin.) Except most of my cards look really bad and I don’t want to give them to anyone. Used to be I could say that my daughter made them, but now she’s 13 and I just can’t shame her like that. Oh, and the ones that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to give someone? I have a hard time giving them away because I maaaaaaaaaaaaaade that. Oy.
My new favorite word = dickbag. *Snerk* I am a scrapbooker, and really love to sit down and accomplish SOMETHING that gets done and stays done. I haven’t made the time to work on my books in awhile, and save the bulk of it for a twice yearly retreat at Wallace Falls Lodge in Gold Bar. I missed the last one though. My best friend and I go together, and we’re the smart asses in the corner, giggling at our own inside jokes. I can do between 40 & 50 pages in a weekend.
Your pages look great!!
“Thanks a lot, dickbags”!!!
No, thank YOU . . . that was awesome.
Your scrapbooking looks like you have been doing it for years…Maybe the domesticity of the other sister wives has worn off on you? ;)