Another Easter Scrapbook page

The boys coloring Easter eggs.

Aren't they cute?

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Easter layout.

I know Easter was awhile ago, but I finally got a layout finished.

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The first Interview of my Interview Series, my son Cody

Today when Cody came home from school I told him that I had a project I needed him to do. I handed him a sheet of paper and asked him to answer all the questions. I told him he had to read them one at a time and answer them without reading all the way through, and NO I wouldn't read the to him and yes he had to write down the answers. He rolled his eyes a few times and then got to work. The result is my first ever blog interview and a pretty sneaky mommy prank.

April 22nd 2009

Cody,

This is a questionaire I made, I would like you to answer these questions for me ok?

1. How old are you right now? (major eyeing rolling and a HUH)? 10

2. What grade are you in? 4th

3. What is your favorite class at school? Math

4. What is your LEAST favorite class? Reading

5. What are you reading right now? Cyberia

Do you like it? Alittle

6. What is your favorite song on your Ipod? Love lockdown (kanye west), So what (pink)

on the radio? Love lockdown

7. What is your favorite movie? (all of them mom.....) Babylon AD

8. What is your favorite TV show? George Lopez

9. What is your favorite Video game? gta IV, cod4, cod5 (for those of you who don't speak video game that would be Grand Theft Auto 4, Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty 5

10. What do you want to be when you grow up? No clue....

11. Hey do you remember when I asked you to write down 10 things about being 10 so I could make a scrapbook page about it? Have you done it yet? In my head

12. I think you have now ;-) Thanks. I love you.

~Mom

(oh MOM that is so cheap)!!!!!!!!! complete with eye rolling and head shaking.

Yep, it was pretty cheap, and sneaky too.

It's good to be the Mom.

I hope you enjoyed my first interview. I plan to have many more, and not all of them will be family members LOL.

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Why I decided to go digital

Maybe a better title would be HOW I decided to go digital.

It all started when we went to Florida. It was our first family vacation, the first airplane ride for my boys. I got a "better" digital camera for the trip. Looking back now with my DSLR that "better" camera seems like a piece of junk LOL. Anyway, when we got back from florida I went to shutterfly to make a photo book. I was almost happy with the book, but their templates left alot to be desired. Not to long after that I was at the store and found a magazine called Digital Scrapbooking Magazine. I was intriged. The mag had a list of all these online companies that sold Digi supplies. It was in that list that I found Scrapgirls, which would soon become my home away from home. I went to their website and spent months learning all I could about this new thing called "Digital Scrapbooking". It included lots of my favorite things, computers, digital photos, adobe software!!! It brought me back to my youth LOL. Ok, maybe I should explain that. I have a degree in Electronic Publishing that I haven't used in FOREVER. It was digital scrapbooking that made me realize how much I miss it.


There's lots about digi that I love. I have been a scrapbooker off and on for decades. But when I had the boys, lugging out all the papers and CUTTERS and glue and stickers, well......
It just became such a chore and a safety hazzard. Besides no messes, I like that you can use your supplies over and over again, you can change the color of a paper or embelishment to better match your layout, and it is much more portable. I can sit in the living room with my boys and scrap while they do homework or watch a movie or whatever. I can scrap in bed late at night when everyone else is asleep LOL. Mommy the night owl. Or at Caribou or while on vacation....

If you would like to learn more about Digital Scrapbooking look on the right of my blog, find the blinkie thing that says Scrapgirls, click on that you can go to that website and learn tons.
Oh and while you 're there, stop by the messageboard and look me up, my screen name is Shelbi.

If all that is still too confusing for you, give me a call I'd be happy to help.

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