Todays lecture topic will be, Scrapbooking, Option or obsession?

When I lived in Utah I scrapbooked a lot. I had a lot of fun supplies because let’s face it, Utah is the scrapbook capital of the world. I was spoiled for the past four years in scrapbook heaven. There wasn’t a shade of cardstock I couldn’t find. I had two sets of those plastic drawers (you know the ones with three drawers, where they are just under three feet wide…I think). Yeah, two of them full of scrapbooking stuff. Now I’m out here in New York, and all my scrapbooking treasures are slimed down to ONE of those DRAWERS…not six. Tear!...tough times in the city for me.

I remember when Melissa and I went on a self-guided-scrapbook-store tour in Utah. Melissa printed off a list of stores in our area, and we went to visit them. We only went to about five, but it was truly an adventure. While we were on our little excursion we realized that we were seeing the same people at all of these different stores. Was it pure coincidence that these ladies were touring the stores too? Well, yes! We soon found out that it was some national scrapbooking convention thing and women from all over the United States come to Utah and spend the week touring all the stores. What! It turns out, that most of them were from the East cost.

I thought it funny. Why would these women travel to the middle of nowhere for scrapbook stores. Don’t they have any on the East cost? Now, I know...THAT'S A NEGATIVE! It took me one sad day to find that there are no scrapbooking stores in NYC. What is wrong with this town? It has everything but a decent scrapbook store. Yes, there are the random little shops that have a tiny section of stickers and missed matched papers, but nothing a seasoned scrapbooker like me could deal with. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?! I am now turning to the web for needed supplies. Sigh…if anyone knows of a good store in the city or within a reasonable distance (airplane not necessary reasonable distance) please let me know.