There are countless reasons that I love scrapbooking.
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I can drop what I’m doing, take a photo and capture a thrilling emotion.
Can you ever have enough American Crafts Thickers and Flair buttons? What about Coredinations cardstock? I think not.
Last Friday, while busy at work, my phone rang. I looked down at the caller ID to see “Miss Riddle.” Miss Riddle is Chase’s language arts teacher. My heart sank a little assuming she needed to talk to me about a late assignment or some other concern. I said “Hello, this is Stacy” and she said, “This is Miss Riddle, I’m calling just to say what a great kid Chase is. I really enjoy having him in class and he is doing so well!”
“Thanks” I said. I hung up and started bawling as the most amazing emotion swelled inside of me. I cannot even say what it meant to hear from a teacher in this way — wow!
When Chase got home, I ran upstairs with my camera and snapped this photo while he was playing the piano.
Earlier that day I discovered that Sarah Milne (creative genius behind Scenic Route Paper Co.) has a blog. I took her post titled WORDS to heart and found inspiration for my page.
I absolutely love that as a scrapbooker I can freeze moments of time and add to them important sentiments that cannot be expressed often enough!
For years the most popular column in Creating Keepsakes magazine has been Tips & Tricks. The concept of bringing readers snippets of helpful ideas and solutions is NOW a special issue.
Jennafer Martin and I collaborated on a short article about non-chronological scrapbooking — if you’ve taken Library of Memories or read Photo Freedom. It will be very familiar.
Learn more about Tips & Tricks.
This is a great page! I love how you did the words! sooo playful!
i love the page and the subject matter
wonderful to have a kid like this AND what a lucky kid to have a teacher who stopped and took a moment to let his mom know he’s a great kid. pages like this is why i love scrapbooking too
I always did positive parent phone calls when I was teacher. It was SO great to make a call for a good reason – many parents were surprised just as you. I love that you captured this effort from the teacher for your son and you!
I love that his teacher took the time to call. Positive phone calls work so well – especially on us emotional Mums!
I got a very similar phone call from the principal just the other week – & my first instinct was exactly the same as yours…”oh no, what can have happened”.
I managed to blog it – but not yet scrap it. One out of 2 isn’t bad !
Congratulations on having such a great kid!
How great to have the teacher call. Really like the way you did the letters.
great layout! I just picked up this magazine today.
Love this! ♥
This makes me get teary eyed! Thanks for sharing!
miss ya!
xoxo
MR
p.s. I CANNOT believe how grown up Chase is!!!!!!
What a wonderful page. I had a teacher tell me something wonderful on the spur of the moment at a day long retreat, about my daughter. I still remember his words and the feeling of pride and happiness. I will never forget it and I should take a bit of time to do a page about that. Thanks for sharing with us!
That’s fantastic! So nice to get a compliment instead of a complaint.
That’s lovely!
When one of my twins high school teachers complimented my girls and told me they were gorgeous girls I said “yes I was very lucky” and he replied “No it’s not luck it’s good parenting” I thought that was such a lovely compliment.
I LOVE this layout, Stacy! Well done!