Back in the day

[when we had our on-line kit company] 

I started a Yahoo Group - 

and we had a core group that was pretty active -

We shared together, not only our scrapbook pages, 

but bits and pieces of our lives as well...

and then, as groups do - 

people began to move on - 

[the average life a group, therapeutic, or otherwise is about five years --]

putting their time and talents into other pursuits 

So we moved the group to Facebook 

as many of us were migrating our social activities that direction -- 

But maybe FB has more distractions - or it was the time / group growth facter, we've just had the same closeness as we had before...

All that to say - I miss the interaction of that group - 

I miss hearing how my friends far and wide are doing ---

and I miss the scrapbook challenges we used to have - 

Old-School Challenges that start out like this:

with a list of [random] things to be included on each layout -- 

 and morph into our own sketches and then into layouts --

[well, it's possible that not everyone does a sketch - ha 

-- and my disclainer -- my layouts don't always end up like my sketch, 

look around this post and you can see what I'm talking about -  ]

So a few months back I dug deep into my psyche [ha] and put together a crop for us --

And when, I'm saying 'old-school' 

I mean being challenged to use EYELETS and staples [oh my!] 

and other scrapbook embellishments on our pages.

 

We only had a couple participate in the challenge -

 but I sure enjoyed it - 

and completed TEN layouts last week - FUN.

 

- These are some of the ones I did -

And yes...

I ***may*** be getting on the

 project life / pocket page 

scrapbook band-wagon.

Time will tell --

It's really not so different from the two-up albums 

I've created through the yeas for vacation albums...