{"id":161,"date":"2011-04-26T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-04-26T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T22:08:00","slug":"scrapbooking-basics-make-a-brag-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/scrapbooking-basics-make-a-brag-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrapbooking Basics- Make a Brag Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband makes homemade gnocchi. I would never even consider making gnocchi by hand. So I asked him one time why he would bother going through all that trouble when he could simply buy the packaged kind. He looked at me and said &#8220;I am willing to make the effort for homemade gnocchi for the same reason you make cards and scrapbook pages by hand.&#8221; Touche!<\/p>\n<p>I must say I do enjoy the whole process of creating scrapbook pages, but one of the biggest reasons why I scrap,&#160; is to brag. I love my kids, and think they are amazing, funny, beautiful, smart, athletic etc. But people who go around saying things like that to others are a tad annoying, don&#8217;t you think <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/blog\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" title=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" alt=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" class=\"middle\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>? So to avoid having my friends run the other way when they see me coming, I scrap and brag to myself, and to my kids. I let them know how fabulous I think they are. They love to read about themeselves and I am happy to oblige. Sometimes the pages satisfy my need to create, but often they satisfy my motherly instinct that just wants to shout- I LOVE MY KIDS!! What better way then, to put it on paper and let them know?<\/p>\n<p>These layouts don&#8217;t need to be fancy or uber-creative or have the latest whiz-bang products. They just need to be heartfelt. So go ahead and try it. Grab a couple of pictures of your child. Adhere them to a background page. Write a note to them telling them how FABULOUS you think they are, and put that on the page too. Make a few pages that outline their accomplishments. How about a page showing how cute they were as babies, or how grown up they were as toddlers, or how athletic\/musical\/gifted etc they are now? Then put those pages in a book, and leave the book on a coffee table. I bet your kids will love reading it! You can brag all you want and still keep your friends <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/blog\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" title=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" alt=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" class=\"middle\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>. And as an added bonus, scrapbook pages have a lot fewer calories than Gnocchi!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/HisForHunter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/HisForHunter.jpg\" width=\"756\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"item_footer\">\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/blog\/blogu.php\/scrapbooking-basics-make-a-brag-book\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband makes homemade gnocchi. I would never even consider making gnocchi by hand. 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