Pasttimes

I have hobbies as I am sure everyone has. I have always loved to make things with my hands but never thought of myself as that creative. My mom's opinion is I am very creative but then moms are suppose to be supportive no matter how bad we actually are. I have been scrap booking for years, way back when all you did was crop, punch, journal and add some flat stickers and that was a page. Of course scrap booking has become so much more now a days. There are some truly gorgeous layouts out there. I still consider myself to be a basic, simple scrap booker even if everything I do has to have some sort of bling on it. My hobby started out as an obsession with colour, glitter, scent, etc pens. Figured I use put all these pens to use that I was buying and collecting. Tried my hand at scrap booking when Michaela was 5, she is now 16. That first summer I spent over $500, I know this because I had a punch card at the store and had to get a second one by August of 2005. I finished Michaela's album until she was 6, Jason and mine wedding album, Frederick's first 3 years and a general family album. Then I stopped for no reason then the fact Jason did not like my work nor the fact that I cropped the pics I used. When I got remarried and pregnant it was time to start again. I have a ton of pics to do, from when Michaela and Frederick were young to now. I have Veronica's first year layouts done but not all the pics printed. I have layouts for Cara's album but again need to print out the pics. Want to start on a album for Michaela to give her when she graduates next year so have to start on that. Need to start on a album Tyler & my wedding as well as a general family album too.
Now in the last 3 years I joined sb.com and have been doing swaps and building up my supplies, which now I must start to use :) In the last year I have started to do card making as well, which I find very fun to do. This past summer I started to alter things for my scrap room which I one day will have, as well as doing some very creative swaps that have nothing to do with scrap booking but push my comfort zone in creativity. All this is good as once Veronica and Cara are in school, in 5 years, I will be going back to work. I will be going after a management job with my favourite store here called Scrapbookers Paradise. It seems that every 10 months or so they are looking for a manager, from what the staff is willing to tell me it is because the ppl they keep hiring have no clue when it comes to management and are limited in their creativity. I am hoping that when I am ready to come back to work that I will have quite a portfolio of different paper crafts/creations for them to see as well as my previous experience working for a national retail store in Management. I know that is far in the future but it never hurts to start planning now.