Scrapping in the rain

Today would of been the day to call in sick to work and just stay home. Walking to the subway in the down pouring rain is NOT fun. Getting majorly splashed by a big puddle thanks to a wreckless livery car driver is even less fun.
New York is a great place, but when it rains its a complete disaster.

I joined Scrapbook.com about two years ago when I was new to the art of scrapbooking. I had only gone on to the site a few times usually when I was working on a specific project. When I started doing the "wedding" scrapbook I found this site to be very resourceful. There a thousands of users who access this site a week. For those of you who don't know much about scrapbooking it is a 3 billion $ industry, it falls under the umbrella of Crafting which is a 30 BILLION $ industry. Here a some statistics to make you understand just how big of a industry this is.

* Over 25 million people in the United States alone consider themselves to be scrapbookers.
* Almost 30% of all U.S. households have at least one family member who scrapbooks.
* Scrapbooking is the fastest growing sector of the craft and hobby industry and now considered to be the third most popular craft in the nation. From 2002 to 2004, sales of scrapbooking products increased by over 27% across the United States.
* As of 2003, there were over 4,000 independent scrapbook stores in the United States. Most major craft stores, such as Hobby Lobby and Michaels Crafts, also have extensive selections of scrapbooking supplies.

So recently meaning since the summer I have become obsessed with this website. Fellow scrapbookers post there Layouts for other people to see and you can make comments etc. I just started posting mine and its great to see what other people think of your work.
I find that lately I haven't been able to do any of my other favorite things like reading,laying on the couch and of course spending as much time with my husband & dog as I would like.
So to continue with what I have been working on. Here are some Layouts from my NY shower which was at the yummiest restaurant Blue Fin at the W Times Sq hotel. The shower was so beautiful, there was sushi and cotton candy which are my favorites, and the whole place was decorated with beautiful flowers and a huge cherry blossom centerpiece...LOVED!


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this photo is of my mom's best friend Margaret and I, she threw the shower for me with my mom. She did an amazing job, I love her so much.
I love the colors in this layout, especially the paper I used, it has a very soft feeling to it.


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I love this picture of me with my mother and mother in law, its a great shot. The flowers I used really bring out the color in the photo.


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These pictures are of me opening up my gifts at the shower, boy was I happy, lol.
I got some awesome gifts, it was so much fun.
The used Jolee's shower embellishments on this page and it make it look really cute.


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Jared showed up and surprised me at the end of the shower like most fiance's do, its usually not much of a surprise, but he definitely caught me off guard. He brought the most ridiculous bouquet of flowers, when I got home I had to put the flowers in like 5 vases.
I love this Layout it has so much going on, the layering and flowers really make the page.
So that's it for today, gotta do some work that actually makes me money.
-Scrapaholic