Carmen Shirkey
Posted By Craft Corps on July 14, 2009
Carmen Shirkey
Name: Carmen
Age: 30 something
Location: Virginia
Profession: Web Editor, Professional Twitterer and Award-Winning Novelist!
Craft(s) of Choice:: *Digital* Scrapbooks
Blog: http://photostorybooks.blogspot.com/
I have shelves and shelves (and shelves) of scrapbooks – created through the years as my travels took me around the globe. Whenever I’m feeling down, sad, blue – whatever – looking at my scrapbooks always picks me up.
I always joke with people that if the house catches on fire, the first things out the window will by my scrapbooks (then the diploma, the cat, and us. Some priorities, right?) What they don’t know is that it’s not really a joke – I keep some empty garbage bags stuck behind the shelves for just an occasion, so I can quickly stuff ‘em in and get ‘em out quickly! Anyone who scraps knows how EXPENSIVE each book can be. There’s the cost of the book itself, then the papers, then the pictures, then the embellishments – each of my books is probably a representation of hundreds of dollars!
Over the years, I’ve still loved my scrapbooks, but the cost – and the time (oh the TIME!) spent on creating them started to get to me. The economy is in the crapper, the boyfriend was laid off with thousands of others, could I really justify the cost? Ta-da! I find out about digital scrapbooking, and I’m hooked! The books are just as nice, much smaller in size and bulk, and will more easily fit in the garbage bags if, God forbid, the cat starts playing with matches.
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