I live in a small rural Midwestern town. On any given afternoon you can find a minivan with Cherrios on the floor parked at our local grocery store. Inside is the driver, she is just picking up some snacks for the kids so they will sit quietly and watch Madagascar while she and the ladies do their scrapping. She is also picking up a bottle of $5.99 Chardonnay and some Carl Buddings chipped beef, cream cheese and pickles. She is planning to make those fancy little pickle wraps where you roll up the pickle in the middle (aka hillbilly sushi). Her husband has been shoed out of the house for the night he will be at one of the five bars downtown this evening swilling Budweiser and playing darts till at least 9:30 he knows if he comes home early there will be 7 or 8 women at his kitchen table clucking away and furiously snipping photos. He plans to just stay out. The women will no doubt have the following conversation:
Amy: I thought you invited Jenny this time
Lisa: I did
Melissa: I don’t know why she never comes, I always see her with her camera out taking photos
Amy: Plus she took lots of art classes in school, so I know she likes art. JOSHUA TURN IT DOWN!
Melissa: You know, I always see her at the craft supply store. Can you hand me that stamp, please?
Amy: She showed me one of her oil paintings and I told I bought a mat-board cutter, so I could mat it in any color she wanted and do you know she said no thanks. JOSH I TOLD YOU TO TURN IT DOWN! DO YOU NEED A TIME OUT?
Melissa: What a waste, you have all those colors! Oh that could’ve been cute.
Tammy: I didn’t know she liked art and stuff, how come she never goes to the craft show then? They have such cute things there.
Amy: I know that’s where I got this Easter sweater, see look it has little removable sequined duckies in the knit eggs, cute huh? I just don’t get it I know Jenny goes to the art museum whenever she can. JOSHUA-ZACHARY! MOMMY IS SCRAP BOOKING RIGHT NOW… ONE! TWO! TWO AND A HALFFF! Damn kid pushes my button whenever he can.
Tammy: Maybe she doesn’t think she’d be good a scrap booking. I love your sweater Amy!
Melissa: Yah, way cute sweater!
I know, I'm sooo cultured. Yeah, while this converastion took place I was probably home watching "Survivor" and eating Doritos.
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btw I do love the fancy little pickle wraps.
LOL at the Mona Lisa scrapbook page!
I studied art history in college, and consider myself a pretty good artist, but there's some crafts I don't like. Anything cutsie, sequiney, etc. -- ugh. That said, I do have a collection of scrapbook supplies (though I haven't even come close to finishing an album lately) -- but I'm definitely more into the simple style pages with captions rather than one pic surrounded by stickers, cute sayings, borders, etc.
I'm with you. I prefer white backgrounds and a name and date scribbled at the bottom in pencil. It doesn't take away from the photo.
I think everyone needs an artistic outlet and if creating a scrap book with carefully cutout lighthouses and bumblebees satisfies that need then I am not going to poo-poo it. But ... hee hee ... your post did make me laugh :D I can see those sparkly ladies in the kitchen feeling like they are at the cutting edge of design. Bless 'em
I know, I know... I'm just not sure why I have to be dragged in every time. Bless their hearts.
Remind me to never show you my Nelson Family scrapbook album. I started it MANY years ago and made it from high school dating through Emily's first birthday.
Yeah, she's going to be nine in three weeks. It fell off the list of things to do.
I'd love to see it, just don't ask me to help you with it.
I make those pickle wraps with ham.
I bought all the supplies to make Nathan a baby scrapbook, one page for each month from birth to one year old. He's seven now. It's still in the box.
What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.
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