HELLO!

Hi, my name is Donna and I am a scrapbooker in New Zealand (NZ). I started scrapbooking again after a 12 year break and I am now officially hooked! I've been doing this for just over a year now and have created six lovely albums of photo memories. Needless to say that now all our photos are in a more pleasing format and not just all shoved into an album that doesn't really tell the story or highlight the photo, my children and other family members love regularly flipping through and reliving the memories, and that's the whole point of taking the photo in the first place...right?!

When I first started it seemed everyone was doing it but after my break I've searched for scrapbooking clubs in Auckland, New Zealand with no luck...so I decided to create this blog in an attempt to draw out other scrapbookers in New Zealand for chat; sharing ideas and to help those who are just starting out or thinking of starting.

In this blog I will share what I know, my work (though I will block out the faces to protect others privacy), where to find tools and those things associated with scrapbooking, the best products for the job (that I have discovered through trial and error), where to get them; ideas for the frugal crafter and other sources of ideas.

I think it impossible for any of us in New Zealand to start anything relating to scrapbooking without mentioning our wonderfully creative and helpful comrades in the United States of America (US), Canada and England. I have found their You Tube channels an invaluable source of help and am sure you will too so I will also tell you who my favorite ones are including competitions!

Enough for now- so happy scrapping everyone!