Hello world, it’s me – Joanne. My guess is you are reading this section of my blog because you’d like to know something about me. Insightful huh? OK then. If I could use one word to describe me, it would be “Busy”. Other’s might call it a short attention span, but basically I like to be doing stuff – lots of stuff. Sometimes multiple “stuff” at the same time.
I have a great career in Human Resources. Seriously. I also have a full and wonderful personal life involving my darling husband and dear daughter. There’s a cat too. I am an active volunteer for worthwhile organizations. I like to record my memories through scrapbooking and I like to make things for people: Cards, gifts, that sort of thing. If it’s crafty, odds are I’m trying it out.
I started scrapbooking when I was a child – you could say I’m a pack rat – I kept art from school, projects, report cards and poems, tickets to events and that sort of thing. My first “real” scrapbook subject was the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Such an innocent time that was. Then there was Corey Hart .. but really, let’s not go there.
In my early 20s, I stopped scrapbooking and frankly, looking back, I think I felt a little lost. Years later, I met my husband and the scrapbooking journey began again — I still have the ticket to the first movie we went to: Snake Eyes. What a stinker! But it was a good date. A few years later, we got married and I made some quicky scrapbooks to show at the reception that followed a week or two after our exotic destination wedding. Then, a few years after that, our daughter was born. That’s when my current journey into the land of memory making began.
A little while after she was born, I attended a “stamp camp”. An afternoon of card making that my cousin was hosting. There, I met a great girl named Michelle and I decided I wanted to do what she was doing: Sharing the fun of using rubber stamps to make cards and enjoying creativity. More about that later. As you’ll soon find out, this blog will be all about Sharing what I Love with you.
I hope you enjoy yourself as much as I will.
