Dec 2008 a scrapbook distribution warehouse had a huge inventory sale for their excess 2008 inventory. I went. A lot of the product was K&Company which I love. When I finished picking out the things I'd like to buy and went up to the till, the lady asked me if I seen some of the albums they had for sale. I said no. So she showed me.
They had some 12x12 post-bound albums with paper mache like covers. So, so beautiful. I bought 3 because we have 3 kids. :D Each album has the 10 page protectors that are standard in albums that you buy.
They also had 12x12 3-ring albums. I picked out 3, green, blue & red, thinking that we have 3 kids. One of the reasons I bought the albums was each album has between 30 - 40 page protectors in them, K&Company brand. One of the albums was 1/2 full of pattern paper. Another of the albums is completely full of pattern paper.
I came home from the sale, showed my honey what I got, and then I've gotten busy with life. Now I'm scrapbooking again. Last Saturday, I went to a crop (so much fun), and I completed up to when our youngest was born. I had it in my mind that when I scrapbooked up to when the youngest was born, I would complete the scrapbooks I had going for the oldest 2 and start new ones for all of them. Hooray! I'm there.
Yesterday I put all the pages in, put the pictures on the front of the albums, and now I've been thinking of what I have to do to get ready to start the 3 new scrapbooks. I knew I had albums in my craft area, and I thought I'd better go look at them.
I have 10 albums total. Crazy, I know. 1 is a baby girl one that I bought specifically for when our youngest was born. Taking that one out, I have 9 left. Yes, you can guess. I bought them in sets of 3, 3 silk ones, 3 paper mache ones, and the 3 3-ring ones.
I thought I'd better take the pattern paper out, and this is where my mini-Christmas started. Wow. There is some seriously great paper in there. I bought each ring album for $10, just the page protectors are over $25 in each album. There is some vellum in there, some velvet paper, a lot of embossed papers with matching pattern paper. Seriously gorgeous, and I would've never spent money on this paper by itself. It would've been too pricey. Honestly when I bought the albums, I knew there was paper in there, I just didn't know the treasure trove it would be. I was just trying to be thrifty.
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