So I woke up this morning (late) and as I was rushing around the house getting kids up and off to school and myself ready for the work day I noticed the bag of recent scrap supplies I had bought at our local scrap store (TOM). Although the supplies were for one specific project they sat forgotten in the brown paper bag leaning up against the leg of my desk.

I've passed by that bag so many times in the last month I can't even count them but still those supplies sit there waiting for me to make time in my crazy schedule to pull them out, admire them and turn them into a memory of an event that happened over a month ago now. (I bought the supplies before the event fyi)

I have to laugh at myself for although I have good intentions it seems like scrapbooking doesn't happen for me unless I designate an afternon or evening with my friends to do it. Sad but true and also one of the reason's I love GYSO. I feel the itch to get out my supplies, take over the dining room table and be creative but when I look at all my "to-do's" it doesn't seem very realistic to me to give up a couple hours for scrapping. All that being said, the itch will build up and before long I'll find myself ignoring the "must do's" in favor of the "just for me" time of scrapbooking. Until then I expect the brown papr bag with new scrap supplies will sit, patiently waiting for me to come to my creative senses.

Over the few years that I have been scrapbooking I have made lots of pages that portray all the really fun, playful and romantic episodes in my life. In the reading of many scrapbooks, newsletters etc the idea that we need to scrapbook the good, the bad and the ugly of our lives too so that there is a "real" record of our lives has been buzzing around. I'm not really sure how I feel about this idea. I don't necessarily want to look back at a page and see the grief I experienced when my grandmother died or we lost our cat that had been with us for twelve years. I know those moments are part of life but I already carry them in my heart and I'm not sure I am up to a visual reminder that tugs at those deeply embedded strings. However,  I do feel sometimes that my pages are a little too rosy....so the decision what to scrapbook still rages within me. For now I look through my materials, look through my pictures and see if anything inspires me. It works for the moment so I guess I'll keep at it.