Anywho, the summer after my senior year of high school I spent hours and hours scrapping every picture I could find from my birth through my senior year of high school... My whole life up to that point fit neatly into about ten or twelve 2" binders with the extra pics stuffed into shoeboxes on a nearly shelf... I was so proud... I even took a few of the binders with me to the dorms that first year of college...
Well, the summer following my first year in college, while no one was home (my mom, my pop, and I were all working that afternoon), an overloaded electrical outlet in my room shorted out... The outlet was near my bed and soon a small fire turned into a 3-alarm blaze... It destroyed everything I owned in the world from pictures to clothes to stuffed animals and even melted the $2000+ computer I had bought with my own money the previous summer... poof! just like that, all my memories gone forever... Hours and days of works destroyed in a matter of minutes...
The upside is that no one was injured... We even had a brave neighbor who broke down our front door, knowing our 2 dogs were inside, and searching for both of them until he was able to get them out of the house...
Anywho, I guess I was sort of disheartened... not that I was deterred from ever crafting, but more discouraged from scrapping... But lately especially, I have been feeling the pinch to put something together for the kids to have when they get older...
I found the perfect contest to keep me motivated this summer:
So, go! Check it out!
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