One of My Favorite Hobbies

I enjoy scrapbooking. I haven't had much time to enjoy it lately, but I am gearing up for a 4 day/3 night convention in Mandeville. It's not until the beginning of September, but pre-planning pages, shopping for paper/embellishments and getting pictures printed is prep work needed in order to make the most of Scrapfest Fall 2007. Click here to see photos of Scrapfest 2005 where I enjoyed the pleasure of winning 2nd place in the page layout contest (entering the contests always help pay for my habit... if I win.) I'll never forget the first scrapbook convention I went to nearly 5 years ago. WD thought I was crazy... he just couldn't believe that me and a couple of girlfriends were going to caravan down to Biloxi, stay at a casino/hotel from Friday morning to Sunday night to, as he called it, "cut and paste". It took some trust on his part to see me go, but when I returned I had a few scrapbook pages done, lots of fun stories and photos (double click photo above to enlarge enough to see part of the convention room) to prove that nearly 400 women had been all together in a huge convention area "cutting and pasting" from 9AM to midnight every day/night we were there!