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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Why I Scrapbook

Why this hobby? Why spend so much time - not to mention money - on this craft? How has this endeavor that started out as a night out turned into such a passion for me? In other words, why do I scrapbook?

I've thought a lot about this question in the last year or so. I am a high school teacher and I often write alongside my students. Earlier this year one class completed an expert project - writing about, researching and sharing something that each student knew a lot about. I chose to focus my project on scrapbooking (although other options on my list included keeping preschool age children entertained in the car and laundry.) My students were unimpressed when I told them I scrapbooked, but they were even less impressed with my other topics. There is nothing like a cool teenager to make a 30 something teacher question her motives! Between their skepticism and the writing prompts we completed, I discovered much about myself as a scrapbooker this fall and in true scrapper fashion, I turned some of those discoveries into layouts.

The journaling for this layout actually came from a writing prompt I completed for the expert project.

7 comments:

  1. Congratulations Connie! How wonderful that you did your students' assigment along side them! Wonderful start!
    Kathy-K2S

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  2. Great start, Connie. I enjoyed reading your profile and your first post. Keep it up!

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  3. Great start--and I like your assignment.

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  4. What a great story! Love it! Great to see you blogging now!

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  5. What a wonderful start to your blog! I love your idea of doing the assignments right along with your students! It sets a great example, and like you said, it's amazing what you learn about yourself, as well as the assignment. Great way to see what works/doesn't work with the assignment.

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  6. Ah, this is great with the layout. :)

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  7. Ciao, Connie. I'm Eli, and I one of your colleague in Paper Thrills DT. I really like your words and your motivation and I wanted to tell you I'm happy to work with you in this new adventure

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