Missed Opportunity

I am NOTORIOUS for forgetting the camera... It's always the last thing on my mind (not that there is EVER to much going on in there according to some of my loved ones). But it never stops me from scrapping. Sometimes I use paper dolls, sometimes memoriablia from the event, ect.
I also had a lot of pictures of my childhood that were damaged in a flood, Soooooooo I have a ton of no picture pages. Being a slighlty talkative person (as if you couldn't tell from my rambling nature), I also find it hard to do just a LITTLE bit of journalling about certain events, so I often do whole pages of just story telling type journaling (those are some of my favorite).

this past January, we forgot the camera for my husband's birthday!! I invented his page and mounted a couple birthday cards and listed the special things for his day. It was all I had and it turned out great!

There was a great article in either CK or in MM about scrapping with no pictures. It was just recently I think!

Here's a poll for you...Have you ever missed a really important photo opportunity that you could kick yourself for? Did you still scrap this event without pictures?

I missed (or actually my husband missed) photographing the birth of our second son. We arrived at the hospital about 10 minutes before he was actually born - no time to get the camera or anything else for that matter - including a birthing room! My husband almost missed it - he was parking the car. I did scrapbook this event by creating a pocket page with the story of his birth and the funny details of our very scary trip to the hospital.

Last year my husband took me to my first Phillies game. I wanted to take my camera to get a picture of the field, but forgot it. It seems pretty silly compared to, like, the birth of your child, but I always think about the cute page I could have done of it and am looking forward to going to another game this summer so I can get that picture I've been waiting for.

I keep my camera, a battery and extra roll of film in my purse all the time!! And I don't carry a big purse. But I missed a couple of surprise photo ops and decided I wasn't going to again! lol Now, it is always in my purse.

GBS

oh my, certainly continue to scrap the page with or without photos... scrapbooking isn't only pictures... it's memories.

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DeAnn

...Being a Grandparent is like a having a second chance at life.