Thirty Days of Meme: Day 20

[vixalicious]

Oh, I am worn OUT. I played two hours of tennis tonight (a match, and then practice on top of that), and combined with yesterday's 3 mile trek and a single's tennis match, I am feeling the aches and pain. But it was fun, and I won my singles match! I was expecting to get killed because I haven't played singles in forever.

Valentine's Day weekend was nice - I got a box of candy for the first time ever that was not from a friend or relative, so that's exciting :D We weren't really celebrating since we're going out of town next weekend. We saw Youth in Revolt (which was enjoyable) on Saturday and hung out with friends on Sunday. Good weekend :D

And because I am going to finish this meme:

Day 20: A hobby of yours

I scrapbook. I am a scrapbooker. I think it sort of has a stigma against it, like only old or weird people do it, but I love it. I started for a couple of reasons. My mom has always just kept photos in boxes (until last year when I helped her put them in books), and it's a jumble of what year is this and who's in that photo, and it drove me crazy. Also, as we age, memory is not a strong point of my family. So someday when I've lost my memory, I look forward to thumbing through these books and wondering who the pretty girl who went on all these adventures was. :D


My craft area (a little messy, as I'm starting a new album for my trip to France in 2006)


A row of finished albums


I like to buy the plain albums, and decorate the covers as well. It's both more economical and more unique!


Some page views:








Day 21: A recipe
Day 22: A website
Day 23: A YouTube video
Day 24: Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25: Your day, in great detail
Day 26: Your week, in great detail
Day 27: This month, in great detail
Day 28: This year, in great detail
Day 29: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30: Whatever tickles your fancy

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I was really into scrapbooking for a couple years. It's fun! I sort of fell away from it because I find it easier to do with a group than to get out all the stuff and make myself do it at home, but the friends I did it with are kind of far away, so it was always a long drive, and I'm not really close to them anymore.

[vixalicious]

Huh, I've never thought about doing it with other people! It's sort of an alone time thing for me.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I just don't have the motivation to do it on my own because it means getting out all the stuff and finding a place for it (which we really don't have; it was nice to do it at someone else's house where they had tables set up).

[vixalicious]

I can see that. It used to take me an hour to pull everything out and an hour to put it away. The first thing I thought when I walked into my rec room was CRAFT CORNER. :)