My friend collects daylilies.

Another friend collects rubber duckies.  Her bathroom is filled with them — and for each holiday, you can find a plethora of ducks to match!
My brother collects 50’s furniture and ceramic dogs.  (Yeah, ceramic dogs.  WTF?)
And my buddy from Hawaii collects Pinky-Street Japanese dolls.  Actually, he seems to collect lots of things [...]

My friend collects rocks.  She picks one up from every hike, every trip.  Each rock has its own story — and if you ask, the story unfolds to reveal an exciting adventure.
My sister collects yarn.  She has a treasure chest full of yarn that she draws inspiration from.
Most of us have some sort of collection.  [...]

For your viewing pleasure, I am excited to share the layouts of our scrapbook challenge.

I used the GT April/May Kit.  (The papers in this kit are vibrant and perfect for your summer layouts.  More on kit contents later.)

I ended up with a lot of journaling so the picture flips open to reveal the story.
Journaling : [...]

are sometimes really challenging!
As I ran through the neighborhood this morning, thoughts of scrapbook challenges overwhelmed my brain.  My friend Laura and I are hosting our own scrapbook challenges through my blog and the current challenge, Then and Now, is turning out to be more difficult than I imagined.  The layout is due tomorrow and [...]

This challenge was hard for me, especially the journaling piece.  Here’s a look at what I came up with (using bits and pieces from the GT March Kit).

Journaling :
I scrap to tell stories –
To tell my story,
To tell his story,
To document our story,
To remember my mother’s story,
To record my father’s story,
To reminisce childhood stories,
To document [...]

My friend Laura and I live 541 miles away. We’re both west coast girls from Oregon and California.  We love to scrapbook and have plenty in common.  We met each other while standing in the registration line at CKU-Anaheim.  We hit it off then and have been good friends since.  We see each other at [...]