a LO and well, a bit of a funny story really....

I did this LO in the shop yesterday. These are my 'bookends' as I call them. My elest and my youngest. There is almost 11 years bettween the two of them and I know that sometimes I rely on Krissy to help me alot with Ronin, who BTW is and incedible handful!!! Funny how they are both so blonde.

Anyhoo heres my funny story...and you gotta promise to not think badly of me, afterall i was really only defending myself!!!!!LOL

Last night I had to take Kris to footy training. On the weekend one of the mothers in our team asked if I could bring and album along for her to have a look at. Not a problem, like most of us I love showing off my work. Anyway she was looking through it ans I was standing about 3m away talking to one of the other mums when I couldn't help but over hear the following conversation....
A lady (one of the mums from another team) leaned over to the lady that was looking through my book and asked if that was hers. Ofcourse she said no, she was just admiring it. The other mum, then promptly turned to her and said...and I quote 'I hate that stuff, it's not scrapbooking'
My ears pricked up...as you can imagine and I wandered over. I asked the lady who was looking at my book intially if she liked and she gushed over how clever it was. The other nosey woman than asked me if it was my book. 'yes' I said. 'Oh I really don't like that style, as far as I am concerned, it's not scrapbooking' she replyed
A liitle trown by this I had to ask 'Do you do creative memories?'. 'Yes' she said to me 'I scrapbook' in an incredibly superior voice.
Now I am not one to back down from an arguement and to be honest with you i was more than a bit offended. I would never go so far as to presume that just because a person does another style of scrapping, that they couldn't be considered a scrapbooker. And that is pretty much what I told her.
'But, you just make pretty pictures' she said 'you don't preserve memories, there 's not one single page on a birthday or an event in that whole album'
'No' I said 'But there are plenty of pages that let my children know exactly how much I love them, how proud I am of thier achievements, and what's going on right now!!'
'Well, it is still not scrapbooking...it's more like paper collage...artwork' she continued
At which point I was getting angry, I was being so poilet and this woman had her head so far up her bum that I am sure she couldn't tell the difference bettween a fart and a burp!!!
'Well, how many magazines are there out there on 'creative memories' LO's???' I said
At this point the lady who asked to see the album originally, piped in (I think she was feel a bit of mixture bettween amused and uncomfortable)
'Cassandra is actually quite well published in scrapbooking magazines' she said
(God bless her...I am not that well published, but it was so nice of her to say so..and to defend me)
I really don't think the snotty lady had much to say at this point because her closing argument was 'well in my opinion it's not scrapbooking'
I told her that she was intitled to her opinion and left it at that

I can honestly say that I was more than a bit shocked by all this, and she actually made me really angry (to be honest with you I really wanted to give her an event that she could scrap...you know, like a black eye!!!!LOL)
I would NEVER say that what someone does is not scrapbooking...just because it is different to what I do.

Anyway, in hindsight, i guess it must have looked pretty funny. These two women having a nasty argument over the defination of an art form.
But I defended us girls!!! What I do IS scrapping and to be honest with you, I assume it takes a lot more time and imagination than following a formula and cutting photos into funny shapes (I wouldn't know for sure, because I have never done it)

So there you have it...Don't tell me I don't scrapbook!!!!!!!!

Hugs and kisses
Cass xxxxx

(Oh yeah I have been tagged to...twice, so I will be on to that this afternoon)