My idea of scrapbooking pretty much used to be cut out pictures in silouette form, slap them in a piece of stationary I found at Office Max, then sticker sneeze some pictures I'd gotten at Walmart or the Hallmark Store.

I know.  I'm cringing, too.

What's really funny to me, looking back, is that I honestly thought I was making these WONDERFUL scrapbook pages.  Even though as I have time, I'm making new pages with the same pictures (luckily I only used copies, I didn't butcher any original pictures!), I'm keeping these pages in the scrapbook.  Because they're a part of who I was when Jake was a baby.  And I still think they're kind of cute (despite being horribly designed.)  Umm, and they make me laugh.  Really hard.

And the reason I'm SHOWING these pages to you (and embarassing myself a bit) is to prove that everyone has to start somewhere, and even people who make kind of bad scrapbook pages really do have their heart in the right place.

Ok, now to prove that I have gotten better, click here for some current pages from me that I actually like.