Origin Stories: A Blog Link Up

I'm trying something a little new today. I was feeling a little uninspired in my blog writing, but luckily for me I don't write here in a vacuum and I thought it would be more fun to invite some of you to play along! And I know I'm not the only one looking for blogging inspiration, so I figured we could all help each other out.

Plus everyone likes a good origin story.

I'm going to tell a little story about how I got started scrapbooking, and then I'd love for you to do the same on your blogs and link them up below in the special widget. If everyone has a fun time, maybe we'll do this again. If you don't, well, we'll do something else ;)

Origin Stories: How We Got Our Start Scrapbooking

I've shared a lot of this story before I think, but I don't think I've shared it all at once, and certainly not in it's own dedicated blog post.

In the early days of scrapbooking, my parents had some friends who opened a scrapbooking store. My parents knew I had a crafty side, lots of photos and lots of spare time, so they took me over to the store to get an introduction and basically that's my story. Since that moment, I never really stopped scrapping.

Of course, even before the store, my mother had my sister and I making trip journal/scrapbooks for different trips we took, so even when I walked into that store for the first time it was not all the surprising.

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Fast forward ten years or so and you'll find me in Korea. Scrapbooking was certainly something I loved, but it most definitely did not fit my lifestyle. I had only been able to practice it in the summers when my family was in the States, and then I became an adult and continued to live places without scrapbook stores. Actually, Korea had a pretty good stationery store situation, but I had a lot of free time at my teaching job and found myself wishing I could be scrapbooking. In the back of my mind the term "digital scrapbooking" was floating around and during one long afternoon I finally gave it a Google. The rest, as they say, is history.

My story, is of course old news to me, so I'm really looking forward to hearing your own origin story, your reasons for getting started, who showed you the ropes, etc.

Recent Comments

Kerry Jordan
Kerry Jordan Sat, 02/21/2015 - 03:02

I love link ups, it gives me a reason to blog. So, nice to read the stories and get to know you all :)

Kathie Gray
Kathie Gray Fri, 02/20/2015 - 05:55

I hope some more people add their stories to the link, it is great to find out where we all came from!

Marcy Coate
Marcy Coate Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:54

I added mine. Thanks for the invitation!

Marisa Lerin
Marisa Lerin Thu, 02/19/2015 - 07:55

@Robyn: You can see that two people have added their links now, the little thumbnail images. You can click on them to read the stories.

Robyn Denton
Robyn Denton Thu, 02/19/2015 - 00:09

Are these links going to show up somewhere, or do you have to have a blog to see them? (Just curious!)

tammy herzog
tammy herzog Wed, 02/18/2015 - 16:26

When my daughter was going through a difficult time, the her counselor was a scrapbooker and used it as a tool. So I got interested in it. She's not into it so much but I continued. I moved to digital about 4 months ago or so. Looking at old memorabelia, i realized my mom did too. Although hers consisted of pasting stuff and writing in a plain paper notebook, a very simple scrapbook.

Kathie Gray
Kathie Gray Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:51

OK, it took me a while but I have written the post and added the link!

Jess Kensinger
Jess Kensinger Wed, 02/18/2015 - 10:00

I don't have a blog, but I'll give you a short version of my story here in the comments! I started scrapping back in 6th grade. My Mom, sister & I would set up a table in the basement every winter and we'd scrapbook on those long winter evenings. When I got married I scrapped my wedding & honeymoon pics. After we had our first child I tried to keep up a book with pics for him. It worked until our second child came along. That is when I basically dropped scrapping. It was a big mess trying to do it with the children around. Last year my friend got me started with digital scrapbooking. I love it. My friends and I will get together to scrap and the only thing we have is our laptops. Not the big mess of papers and ect. I love it that I can keep our families memories alive thru scrapbooking.

Sharon Adkisson
Sharon Adkisson Wed, 02/18/2015 - 08:05

I started putting together photo albums for my family while I was in grade school. I took the piles of family photos, put them in scrapbooks, and wrote down who, where, and when. I continued the practice with my own husband and kids. In 1995, I was introduced to Creative Memories scrapbooking and was captivated with the creative and journaling aspects of making albums. Then in 2008, I retired and my daughter introduced me to digital scrapbooking. Wow, so many ways to be creative and no need for piles of crafting materials! I was hooked and have continued to make many digital photo books, both of daily life and of special trips and occasions, as well as a couple family history books.
Sharon

Patricia Hardin
Patricia Hardin Wed, 02/18/2015 - 04:38

Love this idea Marisa! I will get mine done soon.

Kathie Gray
Kathie Gray Wed, 02/18/2015 - 01:57

Great Idea Marisa! I'm off to write mine now.