Ok When Do You Know You’re Hooked On A Hobby?

[Winnie G]

I have a friend who hooked me on a hobby, scrap booking.

I am always on the look out for scrap booking stores. I have hundreds of dollars invested in equipment and paper. I have gone to conventions over weekends.

If I go on holidays (vacations) I look for stores and every photo is taken with that hobby in mind.

Now mind you my husband loves the end product, and tell me never to stop scrap booking and even budgets my hobby in our family budget. You dont want to know.

My friend knowing this tells me I need a 12 step program.

My son-in-law tells me the grandchildren will be blind by high school from my camera flash. The three year old looks for places for me to take her photograph. She’s a real ham but so much fun to scrap book.

So what I’m asking is at what point do you know you have gone to far?

[angelbaby]

I think as long as you're not going broke buying things, and as long as you aren't doing it 24-7, and are able to find other things to do, then there really isn't a problem. Every one has things they enjoy doing. Yours is scrap booking. Do you have Creative Memories there? They have some great stuff LOL. My friend was a consultant and got me into scrap booking.

[StrawberryFields]

Keep on Scrappin!

We are highly invested in scrapbooking!

I love to collect materials of all kinds. I think it is great that your hubby supports you so well in this. I believe that it is only a problem if your familys feels neglected..apparently they DON'T! :)

I believe that scrapbooking is a valuable hobby. Preserving memories of a lifetime to pass one is one of the best things we can do for our family. IMO

[CaptainTux]

When you live in a box and are trying to score some glue and construction paper in the hood, that is when you know you went too far.

[Dr T]

LOL Tux

[Winnie G]

My friend, bless her saved all my photographs from the albums I had my photos in.

Those albums were you pull back the page and they stick to the glue strips.

I had no idea in time they eat their way though your photographs. When she told me that I went home and pulled out my old albums and Oh was she right! She helped me use dental floss to save the photos. I lost so many and I spent hours rescuing all my memories.

They are now in photo boxes waiting for their turn to be placed on archival paper in albums.

Creative Memories dose a crop night at the Jr ranks club once a month, but I find they are not keeping up with the changes in scrapbooking, but I go to be with fellow scrapbookers.

No my hubby does not feel left out. He even moved a big plank table we use for big dinners or BBQs in to the living room. It sits behind the loveset so I can watch TV with him and work at the same time.

At the end of the evening, he comes over and says, “OK let’s see the damage”?

The truth is if I had a choice between a day at the hairdressers or the scrapbook store, I choose scrapbook store.

Today my hubby came home for lunch and handed me the phone, it was ringing the hairdressers. My gray roots are showing. LOL :)

There are many pluses to my hobby one is my children always know what they can get me for gift.

They have learned mom’s hobby does require them going though all the albums I have worked on since their last visit.

It reminds me of the slide shows my aunt and uncle use to make our family sit though when we visited as a child, at lest mine are self explanatory and less painful.

I have 12 albums on the go that is why my friend tells me I need a 12-step program.

I have been working on one for my husband and his 26 years of military service.

I plane on giving it to him at his retirement dinner next month. It starts with old photos of him as a 17 year old at basic training. Most of them have him with a beer in his hand and his friends giving the camera the bird. There funny and it shows him growing up. I love the pages I did for our courting and his baptism wedding and him becoming a stepfather of four at 30.

He dose not know I have been writing his old friends for journaling and photos.

They have been grate and funny.

My big project is the one I am doing to incorporate my family history and old family photos.

My husband sees the scrapbooking rooms in the magazines and says I can build that.

But I remind him if he did I would not be watching TV with him, I would be in another room. His reply is a TV and a lazy boy can be moved in to that room as well.

I am spoiled.

[Guest MrsS]

I am spoiled.

You are truly, and eternally loved. You are so blessed Winnie.

[Dr T]

My wife used to scap book a lot. Now she spends most of her time taking pictures and adjusting them on the comp.

Dr. T

[john doe]

My wife doesn't just scrapbook for a hobby, she actually has people who pay her to do theirs as well. Plus, she works at the corporate HQ for a major scrapbook supply manufacturer/demonstrator company, so she stays on top of the trends.

She keeps telling me how disappointed she is that Creative Memories doesn't change their page sizes to industry norms, because while she does like their product, she just doesn't like to be forced to use only their stuff. Apparently it's difficult to integrate the pages from CM to other types of books and papers. She likes to be free to use paper and product from other manufacturers to create what she wants.