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      On October 1st, 2008 with the help of LOTS of fellow bloggers, I issued a challenge to put ten to twelve photos of your "present" life together in a small, portable album. The intent is to keep this album with or near you for one whole year, looking through it frequently. On October 1st, 2009, we will dedicate a scrapbook layout to our experience. Give Yourself a Present!

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      Your "presence" in this challenge has been so gratifying. Thank YOU for appreciating your life and for sharing it with me and others!

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    Day 10 ...

    This one is for you, because I think I've found the perfect and portable (and quite affordable) piece of scrapbooking furniture!
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    From Ballard Designs, it's called the Billpayer cabinet and I think it would make a great little workstation. For a long time, I was a "closet" scrapbooker -- meaning simply I had NO room for my hobby and had to operate out of a closet (or corner of the laundry room, etc) and I would have LOVED to have something like this. Now, I have a wonderful studio in my basement, but with a new baby and kids/family in general, I'm forever bringing projects upstairs to work on or finish and then trying to find a place to temporarily store/stack my stuff. I'm thinking about getting this as my "remote/upstairs" scrapbook room. The top caddy lifts out -- could hold an extra set of basic tools, the drawers could hold other specific things (materials files for your current project) and the file drawer below, could hold a full set of color folders for scraps of cardstock and pattern paper (or stickers, rub-ons) -- whatever filed by color. Just think how easy it would be to sit down and whip up a few cards?!

    It's priced at $199 -- but it looks like a nice piece of furniture and it's got hidden casters so you can roll it around, and it comes in black or white. Not a bad price really.

    So, what do you think? Should I get it?
    I can't really buy myself a present, but I can wait and get it after Christmas -- don't you think?

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    • "The future is not someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made." [John Schaar]
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      In 2009 I'll be documenting daily life through daily photos. This project is an additional opportunity to celebrate our fast-paced, full-of-kids life that is unfolding every minute. Beyond this, I'll be focusing on creating pages for our family's "Library of Memories." With my daily photos filling up their own album, I'll have total freedom to find and tell the less immediate stories. I want to refine processes involving my category drawers, so that I can draw the deeper connections that bring me so much satisfaction.

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