Scrappy true confessions time

Same here. DD is 14

I absolutely love what you said. I swear I need to have that made into a wall plaque---"playing with paper is enough".


The "book" for me were postcards I bought during a field trip in elementary school. I loved how each postcard told a story with just a photo. I loved the glossy cardstock they were printed on. I still have those postcards and the love for paper tom foolery that followed. Thus, my pea name. Lol

I had a similar book that was gifted to me when I was in my teens. It was sold at the scholastic book fairs (my aunt worked in education). I was able to find it doing a quick search for “90s paper crafts book”. Like you, I didn’t make anything out of it, but I really loved looking at it, and the idea of making things from paper. I’d forgotten all about that book!

It was called The Complete Book of Papercrafts. I almost want to see if I can find a copy second-hand somewhere. What a hoot!

Yes, please! Thank you!!!

I can’t be the only one who had the Michael’s Book of Papercrafts, right?
Here’s an eBay link.
www.ebay.com/itm/403117303566

It’s also on Amazon and a few other sites.

My confession is that I have way too much stuff. I try to purge but I still manage to fill a decent sized office/craft room with mostly crafting stuff. I recently limited my crafts to paper crafting and fabric crafts but I still have a lot of stuff. (I gave up on most yarn crafts and painting and other intro kits/ideas that I thought I may someday try…)

I need to use my stuff ..probably organize my stuff better…
but shopping is fun and takes a lot less time than actually using the stuff!

wow, to that person i say,  judgy much? i think we are all guilty of buying stuff with the INTENT to use it or maybe because we just want to have it.  then the time comes when we no longer want or need it and it's perfectly ok to purge it. 

Confession: I spend more time cleaning and organizing my room than I do creating in it. This is also due to so many purchases I have made, that need to be organized lol

Last night I purged 100's of photos off of my phone from Jan-April 2022.  I was feeling pretty proud of myself until this afternoon.  We had a big ol' buck just wander into the back yard right after I filled the bird bath.  He snuck up behind my husband and then proceeded to drink about 10 feet from me, rummage through the bird food bag and then went a hunkered down on the dirt right in front of me.  I'm back up a good 50 photos!  Now if you took away the pictures of wildlife and my dogs... I don't have a ton to go through!

I am secretly praying for snow days and bad weather so I can finally have some scrapping time. After a full work week, family and housekeeping I am lucky to get 3 hours on a weekend. Which means I only get half a page turned out and a mess to clean up.

I will never use up my stash in my lifetime - but I do have dgd's who would like to play with my supplies. I used to hide the good stuff from them, but recently let them choose what ever they wanted to use because I will likely never get around to using it!

OMG....the bind-it-all brings back memories! i HAD TO HAVE IT too.  i drove 45 miles to the nearest store to buy it.  i think it was $50 back then.  considering there was no other binding option, it was fine.  but that small gadget was not steady and you could only bind about 4" at a time.  because it was unsteady, you had to use both hand to steady it while punching and then you make sure you applied the same pressure to get the coils to look the same when they closed. nevertheless, as a tool hoarder, i bought the pink bind-it-all when it came out.  no major improvements.  it was just the latest version so, like a crazy person, i had to have that too.

then The Cinch came along.  <<cue heaven's choir singing>>  now this was the binding tool the BIA only wished it could grow up to be.  the base was bigger and more sturdy.  you had a wider punching and coiling area.  the handle only required one hand to use.  i could go on and on.  LOL. and like a true tool hoarder, i started with the Cinch with round holes and then bought the one with the square holes when it came out.  (or was it the other way around? i can't remember.) one machine in blue and one in yellow.  now they have the "mini" but that just harkens back to the BIA days so i'll just stick with the full size machines i already have.

i love this!  ok you now bring out another confession from me---i bought 3 or 4 collections this year too.  it started off with one person's collection back in february. most were stamp sets and dies that i used to beef up my own stash. i sold the doubles. the rest, i had to push and shove into my own hoard too. it was like stuffing a turkey into a straw.

the money i made from the doubles, i used to buy another person's collection to beef up my stash some more.  i wasn't actively looking to buy collections but they just came up for sale here and there. i need to stop looking at marketplace sites.  idle time is the devil's playground.  but like you said, the thought of them getting trashed brought out the rescuer in me. at least that's what i'm telling myself too.  

Thanks! It was a gift from justjac--who knows me way too well!

My confession: I have spent hundreds of dollars on stamps in recent years because I like the IDEA of stamping. But 9 out of 10 times, I don't include any stamping in my projects.