paper: On Sharing Passions | pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Today brings a little something different to share with you. Stay with me a moment, as the dots may need connecting. Occasionally someone gets in touch and invites me to some sort of blogger event, but they don’t tend to be scrapbooking related so I don’t attend, because I want to keep things relevant here. But a recent invitation struck me as a different opportunity: a chance to share passions. I had an invitation to a cooking evening with Lisa Faulkner, who has a cookbook and won Celebrity Masterchef a few years ago. I love a good baking project, but I knew someone who would enjoy the full evening far more! Some of you have talked to Nikki over the last couple years, as she helps out with things behind the scenes, like if you have trouble with the password on your account or need some technical help. That’s a terrible description of Nikki though – she is a lovely person, a fabulous friend, and although she isn’t a scrapbooker, she is very creative! She is a whiz in the kitchen and every recipe she has sent me has been fabulous. So we made a deal to share passions: she would take up the invitation for the cooking evening and then we’d have an afternoon to scrapbook about it!

Handy for scrapbooking, the tables were beautiful and someone was on hand to take photos! Nikki chose two photos for her page, one with the table settings and another that included her (she’s on the right!) as part of the evening. You can see more about the event on the Curry’s blog.

It’s been a long time since I helped someone with their very first scrapbook page! It’s easy to forget that things that seem so second nature are totally foreign when you first start scrapping – things like tape runners and paper trimmers are probably at the top of the list! The good bit is they are super simple in a matter of seconds, of course.

Apparently it’s excellent to take crafting advice from anyone around to give it! He normally points out where I should put my stickers, for the record.

And this makes me happy: a very first scrapbook page that includes not just a photo of the scrapper herself but also her journaling in her own words and her own handwriting. Complete with hilarious pun in letter stickers, which I do believe is a rite of passage when it comes to making pages.

Here we have Nikki’s very first scrapbook page! (I wish my first page was nice and clean like that. It involved a lot of cut out photographs and multiple pairs of decorative edge scissors, but we all have to start somewhere.) While we were working on her page, Nikki told me all about the evening and what they were cooking and the different people she met, and all other sorts of lovely things. I don’t want to overstretch here, but we know our craft is getting smaller. Companies close; crafters change hobbies. These things happen. But sharing a passion with someone else can also happen. If there is someone you feel would enjoy making a page or a mini book or whatever it might be, please don’t be shy. Share some paper and get them to share their passion with you too. It’s okay if they don’t become a full-time scrapper (and I don’t think Nikki will), but we all start somewhere. We all need an introduction.

❤

Disclosure: The evening of cooking was provided by Curry’s and Hotpoint. They provided a copy of Lisa Faulkner’s cookbook and an apron, and Nikki and I decided we’d give that away to a reader, via Instagram. You can find that giveaway here. We were not compensated further for this post or the giveaway, but Nikki did get to eat the dinner she cooked. Including pineapple upside down cake. In case you want to put a dollar amount on things like eating cake and calling it work.

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05 April 2016

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