Bugging out

Happy New Year!!! 2009 was a great year for me, so many wonderful things happened in my life like getting married to the most amazing guy. Thanks Jared for supporting my scrapbooking habit, allowing me to make a mess in the apartment and spend so much of my free time scrapbooking instead of laying on the couch and watching tv with you :) My new years resolution is to find a good balance of my time so I can do all the things that make Jared happy as well as do the things I enjoy too.

My best friend Marisa came up with a great idea for a birthday gift for me, a gift certificate for a private scrapbooking lesson at a scrapbooking store called PORTRAIT BUG located on the upper west side. My birthday was back in October but I was waiting to get all my supplies that I left in the Hamptons at my parents house so I finally went today.

This place is so amazing. They have tons of scrapbooking supplies as well as a potrait studio and a room where you can actually sit down and scrap right there.

My lesson was with a very talented girl named Harmony. She taught me a few techniques that I had been so curious about. We talked about how to journal, antiquing, and worked on a new layout. I got a lot of new ideas from our session and can't wait to put them to the test.

(I wanted to finish putting up layouts from my wedding album since its seems to be taking me a lot of blog entries to accomplish this)

I have a new project or challenge that I am going to do for 2010. For Hanukkah my mom gave me a book called 52 Scrapbooking Challenges. I had a great idea, just like Julie was inspired by the Julia Child cookbook to go thru the entire book and make every recipe. I am going to go thru this book and do every challenge. Since there are 52 weeks in a year, I figure what better then to give myself 1 year to finish this book. I will try to do 1 layout a week and upload the challenge when I'm finished.

I am so excited to get this started!!

Stay tuned...