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Another Metamorphosis
It must have been a dream, probably caused by the pressure of graduate study and teaching. Yesterday, I took a break from my teaching assistant duties in the history department at Notre Dame to call my mother and wish her a happy 60th Birthday. Before I could get the words out of my mouth, she…
Why Do you Scrapbook?
I’ve been scrapbooking since my oldest daughter was 12 years old. That’s 23 years of scrapbooking. When I first started, I had 13 years’ worth of pictures in plastic shoe boxes. Before I started scrapbooking, I dabbled in stamping. I made all sorts of beautiful cards, although I sent very few of them out. And…
To Print or Not to Print – that is the Question
I scrapbook with real printed pictures. Why do I do such things? Why do I bother? After all, I have thousands of pictures in my google account, Facebook account, on my phone, at Shutterfly, Amazon, etc. My scrapbooks/photos could burn up in a fire, be damaged in a flood, etc. My children, gasp, may throw…