Digital Scrapbooking

A lot of people have been commenting or asking about my scrapbooking pages that I have on my blog so I thought I would tell you a little bit about it.

I just started scrapbooking about three months ago. I never got into paper scrapping before that because it was too much money, too time consuming and took up too much space. Yes it is very cute and even a great journal method but I am, unfortunately, much too practical. Chris' cousin, Wendy, introduced me to a computer program called Scrapbook Max that does digital scrapbooking. There are a lot of other programs available to do digital scrapbooking on but this one seemed to be the best deal for the money and was also very user friendly, thus, very practical for me. Digital scapbooking solved almost all of the issues I had with paper scrapping...much less money (I have only spent $50 so far and have completed about 75 pages of scrapping), much less time (let me repeat...I have completed about 75 pages in about 3 months...I don't know any paper scrapper that could do that unless they did it full time) and less space...I keep it all filed away on my computer until I am ready to print and then it will be nicely made into a book (a littler one then you can even do paper scrapping) that I can display on my shelf.) There are a ton of freebies you can download and additional kits that you can buy. Once you have downloaded the zip file. You unzip it, and then you can drag and drop any papers or elements into Scrapbook max when you need them. FABULOUS! It took me about 10-15 hours (spread about over 3 months) to do all 75 pages. The first couple might take a little longer but once you get the hang of it you can go pretty fast. I give digital scrapping two thumbs up.

Finally...some pictures!

OK...so I haven't posted any pics on my blog yet because I thought there was a problem downloading pics from my camera...(long story). My husband sweetly pointed out that it works fine and so here I am finally posting pics of Halloween.

I have to tell you this cool little story about Allison. She has this amazing little personality...full of spunk, courage, passion, laughter and compassion. She is not afraid of anything. Anyway, we went to Chris's work party for Halloween and they had this animal lady there that had a tarantula she was letting everyone hold...if they wanted. None of the other kids, including the boys (all older then Allie) would go near the thing. Allie just walked right up to her and said, "I will." Now, for those of you who know me...you know that I HATE spiders. Can't stand them! I have bug spray in two very convenient places in my house so that I don't ever have to deal with them. Even posting this pic gives me the eebbie-jeebies but I just thought she was the koolest little girl around. Every time I look at it I just think about what a good example she is to me in all aspects of life.

Here are some more pics of the kids from Halloween.

I love these pumpkins because they fit my kids personalities so well. I didn't realize it until after we had carved them. And yes! I realize Allison's wings are on upside down...she took them off anyway :)