Is Cropping Just About the Page
For me cropping is not just about the page I create. It is a reason to meet up with a dear friend who I have known close to 3 decades. She lives a few hours away and we do our level best to get together a few times a year either at a group crop or meet at her home to scrap our memories and hash the old ones. This happens to be the weekend. I have been looking forward to finding a date for quite a while and this weekend is it. We took care of being sick last week. Snow hit the week before so it looks like clear sailing. Knock wood that we will be west bound and down this weekend.,
My dear friend got me into scrapbooking about 10 years ago and as much as we love doing the work we love sharing the hobby. I pile my 3 kids in the suburban along with more than enough scrapbooking supplies to last 10 people a month and head off for a weekend. Her gracious husband helps unloads the stuff down the stairs into her dedicated scrapbooking area. We use her house because she has such a large area to work. Lord knows we need room to spread everything out. We proceed to get to the work of cropping and scrapbooking.
Her kids and my kids soon find something to do whether it is tending to their zoo full of animals or creating boys against the girls alliances. During the weekend we usually escape the house and leave her husband at the mercy of our combined brood of children to head down to the local scrapbooking store. After going there a few times a year for the last 7 years they greet by name. At some point in our weekend we also find time to stuff our faces, sort out the world issues and debrief on the goings on of kids, families and work. Even though we scrapbook to nearly dawn for two days I always leave feeling refreshed and ready to take on life again.
Part of scrapbooking is purely social. It creates new friends and solidifies old friendships. If you have been doing this long enough you know what I mean. If you haven’t had time to crop in a while or connect with that dear old friend make a phone call, get your stuff together and refresh your soul with a good crop this weekend.
