...and it begins

This is a whole new venture for me, so I suppose I should start it off right. Here we go....!

Hi, my name is Catherine. I have a wonderful husband, four beautiful children, two dogs and two cats. I do all kinds of needlework, but am totally in love with sewing, smocking, and knitting. I have been making rubber stamped cards for about 4 years now, but always hated scrapbooking. I wanted to like it, and knew it was something I should like, but just never could convince myself that it was fun. Then one day, I stumbled into the world of digital scrapbooking. Within days, I had a full fledged obsession!

My first layout took about 20 hours to complete - I had to have everything *perfect* because it was for posterity. A couple more LO's down the road, I realized that this logic was not working for me, so I started just going with what I was drawn to, and all of a sudden I was having the time of my life! So much, in fact, that I hardly sew at all now, and really don't miss it! Scary, but true. I wake up every morning with a goal to work on some sewing projects, but it always seems that I sit down to check my emails, and next thing you know, I've got PSP opened and am working on my next LO. Then before I know what happened, the day is gone, no sewing is done, but I have a couple shiny new pages to add to my albums lol!

Ah well. Maybe it's a good thing? I mean, I am really a much happier person when I'm creating, and scrapping seems to do just as good a job at making me happy as sewing ever has, and there is NONE of the frustration of ripping out stitches, or making sure the finished product fits. And the biggest plus is that I never have to worry about ironing the pages so the kids can wear them!