I don't remember seeing trees bend like that before...

Wow, what an experience today has been. Irene just "blew" through. Now we can say we have seen part of a hurricane. We moved to North Carolina just a year ago and since we have been here we have experienced the hottest summer on record, the real first snow for Christmas, a tornado in April, an earthquake last Tuesday and now a hurricane. Can't imagine what will come next. Guess we can go home now to California. We've seen it all...........

Let me introduce myself

     Hi, let me introduce myself.....I am a first time blogger. So I will be learning as I go. So at times I may look silly but silly is okay with me.
     To say that I am a scrapbooker is only part of the things that I do. I have been saving things since I was a child. I hold on to EVERYTHING! Ask my husband. My first memory of scrapbooking started when I was in about 4th grade. At that time we had little "autograph books" that we would take to school to have our friends write in them. Mostly girls wrote in them at that time. We would write secrets to each other. I would save lollypop wrappers, show tickets, gum wrappers, pressed flowers, coins and small pictures from the photo booths at the malls, or fair. Just about anything small enough that would fit into my little book would be put in there. I still have that book.
     My next recolection of a scrapbook was a book I made when I had returned from Girl Scout Camp. I came home and put the camp picture in it along with photos that myself and some of the other girls took on out little "Brownie cameras". I was 9 years old then. I still have that scrapbook too.
     Over the years my style of books have changed. That is only because I was growing and so were my scrapbooks. There were a few more over the years and then the "really important" one was made. That was when I met my husband. We were in 7th grade and we were 11 years old going on 12! That book became many books because we went together all through junior high school and high school and finally married a year and 4 months after high school graduation. We will celebrate our 42cd wedding anniversary in Dec.
     So needless to say it has been a life time of scrapbooking for me. Two grown daughters each with 3 children of their own, (6 grandchildren), and numereous  vacations, celebrations, and life itself stuffed into hundreds of books, big and small.
     So you see, I'm just like you! We all have a story to tell so tell it!

Here comes a dinosaur

Okay, into the modern age. My girls have called me a dinosaur before when it came to "getting with it" about having a "debit card" and not writing checks any more. Now I have my friend (?) telling me I should have a "blog". So here comes that dinosaur again. I will do my best to keep up with all of you. Just remember, everyone's best is different. See you here Cathy.............smile..................