So here I am starting

Hi there everyone and welcome.

My name is Ruthie. I am a thoroughly addicted scrapper and have no desire to give up so don't bother me with a twelve step programme. hehe...

Five years ago my Mother died. She was the most awesome woman in the world, a dear lady and a great friend. Before her funeral my sis and I went through all the family photos to see if we could learn more about her, and put together a picture board for the service. And three things struck me. Firstly, there were masses of photos from her past, but none of them were in albums. They were all piled up in a box in no particular order. To make matters worse, there were no stories attached to them. Not even little notes written on the backs of them. So we had no idea who we were looking at or what the occasions were. And lastly, it became apparent that Mother, busy with four small children, didn't have time for taking photos. There are only a handful of my entire childhood.

So I resolved then that I wouldn't let that be the legacy my children are left with. I found all the photos I had and put them into albums with little cards telling the stories behind them until I could find a better way of displaying them. And a little over a year later, I met a woman who scrapbooked. I loved looking at her albums, but felt that I was nowhere near crafty enough to do anything like that myself. But she kindly let me use her tools and papers one day with some photos and I had a go myself. I've been scrapping ever since.


First ever layouts

I have really enjoyed looking at other people's scrapping blogs. I think it's a great way to show off the work that we do. So here am I posting. I'm sure I'll chat about other things on here too. I'm way too chatty not to.

Anyway, enough for now, I'll go find some more up to date layouts for you to have a squiz at. Thanks for your interest. Ka Kite.