Monday, March 22, 2010

A Secret You Will Never Know... ( Unless You Read My Blog)

At this time in our lives, I think we are all trying to figure out ourselves. We are trying to understand who we are, what our passions are in life and so on. Sometimes I feel like I'm being dragged in headfirst to a sea of people all alike and my true own self can't even breathe. This also seems to happen when you're in a "relationship" with someone, even if you two just "like" each other. It's not that it's a bad thing, but people just tend to see you as a single entity, and you lose your identity really quickly. Unless you take some time to keep figuring out who you are, who your friends are and growing yourSELF. Which brings me to my little secret I have.  When I have extra time in the day, I find myself hidden down in my room with things I love to do. I'll probably do a post of things I love to do later but right now I'm going to spotlight only one of them. This is it:



I...


Love...


Scrapbooking.



Okay, you can laugh now. It's funny, I know. It started back in middle school, when I would take pictures and then have them developed and have nothing to do with them. So I would stick them in an album, write a little caption and put a sticker on the page. I called it scrapbooking. This year my scrapbooking habits have gotten so extreme that I will go shopping for a food item, a dress or new clothes and suddenly find myself in the back corner of the store where they've hidden all of their stickers, papers, buttons, glue, glitter, chipboard, letters, ribbon, yarn, matting, and embellishments, literally drooling at the selection. And I won't realize it but suddenly all of my money is gone because I've bought a billion of these scrapbooking supplies.
It's a problem.
I know.
And it's cheesy. It's something you hear cute  mommies doing for their time off when their children are taking naps. Not high school senior girls. Or maybe there are a plethora of us hidden away scrapbookers, I just haven't caught you all yet...
Anyways. It's my passion. It sets me alive. I love making something that isn't just a paper with words and pictures but actually has something to do with my life. That has some meaning to me, and happens to be a work of art. It appeals to the eye, and enlightens my creativity. Some people I've heard when talking about scrapbooking say " I just don't have the ideas for my scrabook!" And I laugh because ideas is the least of my worries. Creating a new idea in my mind is something to look forward to, something to push me through my homework so I can work on it afterwards. Scrapbooking keeps me being me. So you can laugh now. :) That's all.

9 comments:

  1. hahahahahahahahaaha. there. I laughed like you told me to;) just kidding. Whitney, that's awesome! Scrapbooking can be pretty fun sometimes, and I'm glad you have found happiness in this hobby. haha :)

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  2. Well thanks Alex! :) I'm glad I have your approval haha.

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  3. I laugh, only because I still have the developed pictures from third grade waiting for me to even put them in an album. I take pictures....and then don't care. This is why facebook is useful. :)

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  4. true haha :) Facebook is great for that. You can pay me and I'll scrapbook for you! just kidding :)

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  5. I know what you mean. I love creating things - new worlds, new languages, etc.

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  6. Haha creativity is a blessing :) without it we would all be so boring!!!

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  7. Whitney, you are so funny! Wanna come finish all my scrapbooks for me? I was all caught up when we moved here, but that was, um...three years ago! Hope you can keep up with it, it's a fun way to journal what's going on in your life and your kids will love looking at it one day.

    (Cute blog...I found it on Michelle Estrada's blog.)

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  8. I would love to finish them for you:) haha. If you want to pay me I will! haha :) But that is so funny I didn't know how many people read this but I guess they do!

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  9. I know you! Over 3 years from your last post on this blog, actually. I will personally give you 20 bucks if you can find me and ask me for it. It shouldn't be difficult, except that you may not actually check into your own blog (cuz you be older and more college like and shit now). I DARE you to do it! I sooooo totally feel safe from having to hand it over though. Nanners.

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