{Glitter and Glue Makes a Girl Grin}

Can you still call something a hobby if you haven't done it in eight months?

I'm way out of swing with scrapbooking, but it was calling me. So, I answered by

making it a goal to do a some recently.

I got preoccupied with putting most of my photos in albums. (It seemed like the most

logical thing to do considering the amount of digital pictures I wanted to get into flippable

pages.) But I knocked out two layouts in March, and I was pretty happy with that.

For the first one, I ordered an 8x10 collage (Walgreens, $3.99) to help me get started.

It's from all the hiking we did when my brother, Pam and the kids came out to visit us

in Arizona two Decembers ago. We had such a good time together, and I wanted to

document the fact that the six of them flew all the way to the desert.

I decided to go with a photo that didn't include people for the second one. It's clean,

simple and proud. I like it.

It felt good to get back to this -- to finish a page and put it in an album.

National Scrapbooking Day is May 7th. I was thinking an all-nighter might be in order

-- like the old days -- but then I remembered I'm asleep by 10PM pretty much every

night. So, it may have to be an all afternooner.