I bought this binder back in January from the office supply store with basic page protectors. They don't really make 8.5x11 scrapbook albums anymore, but I wanted to go all the way back to the beginning.
So it's appropriate that all I can find nowadays for an album was office supplies because, besides some stickers and colorful cardstock, that is all there was back then.
Oh and patterned scissors... in 1996 I cut pretty much everything with those.
A few weeks ago I had an idea and quickly stamped this messy title page for this binder I bought back in January. I used to do that in scrapbooks...have a title page, with a current photo of me and a volume #.
The last one I have is volume #11 started it 2010. Ironically, it say's "this is ridiculous...how many scrapbooks?"
That particular scrapbook is stuffed with pages, but ends in 2012...where scrapbooking sort of ended.
Thankfully not completely, there are still mini albums and lots of Project Life. However the days of page after page, volume after volume are in the past.
I am so grateful for what I do have documented, but I am sad for the moments I missed out on...especially while Mac was in high school or when I started teaching. I just didn't craft up tons of stuff and write about the details behind the images.
So I think I might now know the answer to, "this is ridiculous...how many scrapbooks?"
Never enough.
But tomorrow is NSD, National Scrapbook Day, and I am celebrating by starting volume #12.