Do you know how you got here?

Somewhere around 1999 I found the CK message board...I think I found their site from their magazine and was looking for a scrapper in my area to connect with (never happened!).  After being on the CKMB awhile and seeing everyone linking 2Peas gallery where they posted their work (CKMB didn't have a gallery back then) I joined 2Peas to post to the gallery as well.  On occasion someone on CKMB would post about the NSBR at 2Peas and I'd lurk and read the posts.  I have no idea when or why I started posting at 2Peas.  When CK changed the format of their board my "friends" moved to the Simple Scrapbook board (where we were hated because we "took it over" when in actuality it was a pretty dead forum).  SS closed and we moved to a Proboards message board.  At some point I abandoned the CK board all together and started hanging out at 2Peas.  When I had an accident and was out of work for 6 months in 2010 I became much more active. 

I found the old Two Peas when I started buying scrap booking things. I was looking for reviews of products on the Internet and found the General Scrapbooking board. It was awhile before I found NSBR and I lurked for a loooong time-- 2 or 3 years.

I found the old 2 Peas via the Creating Keepsakes message board - I found the refupeas quite by accident!

I originally found the site in 1999, when scrapbooking first came on my radar, probably from reading about it in Creating Keepsakes.

In 2003, I stumbled on it again, but this time, I found NSBR and there was an epic battle
(version 1._) going on between Lauren and another Pea whose name escapes me (I think she was from the Boston area) I was fascinated and appalled by the level of viciousness in some of their exchanges, but like a train wreck I couldn't drag myself away. I've been hooked ever since. 

There was a thread about 2Ps on Scrapbook Addict, how we should avoid NSBR because it was so hateful. So, of course, I had to investigate. I didn't lurk much on NSBR but I did on the scrapping page. Later, after I stopped scrapping, I went over to the dark side.

I was searching the Internet. I had just started a part time job (prior to college) in a scrap store and I wanted to be on top of product trends, industry news etc, so I searched for somewhere online that provided it. It came up on a Google search.
I think they were only open about a week or 2 or a few days or something when I found them, but I lurked often for well over a year before I signed up as a member. Then it took me another 2 years to even post a layout.
I pretty much only hung out at the gs board, then became a visitor to nsbr in the last year of 2ps

I think my first exposure was the 2peas gallery and I just started clicking around. The rest is history.

Yeah, my mom explained it all to me when I was young.   

I was on another scrapbooking board and heard about 2Peas.  I joined 2Peas in 2000 when I found their store.  I had heard about the NSBR board on the other site so I checked it out.  Lurked for a long time and only posted occasionally.  I just never felt as comfortable posting there as I do here.

It was during the great Tear Bear Wars of 2006 (I think that was the year?). I was on the eBay boards and the topic was brought up there with a link to the fighting at two peas. I signed up but didn't post much for a long time.

I was on bed rest with DS1, and bored to tears. I started with SCS, and some random baby mb, bs I'm sure heard of 2 peas via SCS. However, I lurked for years- and it was the NSBR board that hooked me. I don't think I ever really used 2peas for anything else.

When they closed, someone had my email and filled me in on the RFPeas, I hopped right over!

Well, when a man and woman love each other sometimes they hug with no clothes on and *wish* for a baby..........
^. this is what my mother told me and I believed it for a looooong time.

In other news, it was 1999. And I saw an ad in Creating Keepsakes Mag. I started lurking but didn't sign up for a while. I remember my very first thread I started. I was scared to death, hahaha. Yungmom (Patty) was one of the first people to post and welcome me to the pod. And the rest they say, is history.

I started scrapbooking in 2008 while I was living in Singapore. I lurked on scrapbook.com and ScrapJazz but ended up on SJ because it was smaller and less intimidating. It was there that I heard about the "veggie" site, and when I dabbled in digi, I got my kits from 2peas. I got my social at SJ, my scrappy inspiration at sb.com and NSBR provided my train-wreck fix. I only discovered about UK Scrappers much later.

I was a member of the old Cricut/PC, CK, and SCAL boards. When I switched to digi in 2009, I purchased digi supplies from 2Peas and ventured into the message boards hoping for ideas.