SANS - Married/Single no children

SANS meaning sans kids lol I am a 28yo wife, married 10 years no kids. I find myself scrapbooking mostly my pets and my extended family. I enjoy this but find that I dont have much in common with other scrappers who are mostly scrapping cute kids pictures and chatting bout diaper rashes and first steps and all the fun things that I havent gotten to experience yet.

So I thought I would start a thread for those of us who dont have any children this includes all you single people out there!

I would love to see some of your work and trade ideas! Lets make a close little community for ourselves!

Also I am trying to start a circle journal group if anyone is interested the description is below...

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Circle journaling - each member chooses a theme for their own journal and creates an album with enough blank space for each scrapper to craft a one - or two- page layout. The album's owner embelishes the cover according to their theme and creates an introduction page that explains her topic and what she hopes each member will communicate in the album. There's usually a sign-in page for each member to include their names, dates, locations and often a photograph of themselves.

Once the albums are ready to go, each member passes her journal to the next person in the circle. Upon reciept, a member completes a layout based on the theme of that book and then passes it on to the next scrapbooker at a predetermined date, usually about a month later. After the last layout is completed, the book is given back to its owner, and everyone will have done a layout in each other's circle journals. The result is an album filled with variations on each theme and an array of scrapping styles and ideas.

I don't have children of my own but I love scrapping the kiddies in my family! Kids are just the cutest and easiest to scrap, hehe. So do I still count?

Most definately!! Woot woot im not alone!

I have been married for 3 yrs now and i do not have any kids... i dont think ill be having them for a while.... right now im working on my graduation album nothing fancy just getting the hang of it.......

Awesome welcome to the group lol I am working on a basic over all album of the years me and my hubby have been together. Its probly going to be a big albumn lol Then I plan to do some mini albumns of all the christmases. His family are some picture taking folks so I have tons of those kinds of pics hehe

I'm also childless. Not by choice though. I fell into a rut for a while, because I wanted children so badly, it hurt to scrapbook other people's kids, or to say layouts of other people's kids...but I've come a long way since then and have learnt to appreciate what I do have (my husband, dog and family).

I think there are quite a few child free ladies on here!

Hiya Kim I know exactly what you mean! I want to do those kinds of pages so badly that I do them of my friends kids and nieces and things like that. Now days im doing things of me and hubby to remind me to do exactly as you said "be thankful for what I have"

My most recent project is a 2 or 4 page layout of hubbys trip he just took with his brother to the Gold Strike Casino in Mississippi. They both were so excited I was going to do a few scrapbook pages that they went all around the casino collecting little things to go on there pages LOL It was so cute when they got back and was so excited about the little treasures they had brought me

Im going to enjoy this one but im already spinning my wheels and coming up empty on ideas for the paper. I have bought some great stickers though and I have a couple ides about some 3d embellies. Just dont know what paper im going to use or what colors uhgggg

I have married for 9 years tomorrow as i celebrate my anni. but no kids as i cannot have any. I use to scrap my cat until he died. I scrap my hubby and me. I scrap my nieces and nephews. I scrap my family on both sides. I take pics of my hubby in shots that seems of interest, like one of them was in the bathtub. lol. I cannot wait to do the layout for that one.

LOL Dont you just love those pics tho! They are fun pics that only you and he will share and laugh at :-)

yeah, he even sneaks in a couple of me also when i am not looking also. lol

I'm 33, in a long-term relationship and no children, by choice. I scrapbook a lot of things like vacations, my cats, my boyfriend and I, friends, etc.

Nice to meet you all

Welcome Tanya! Thanx for popping in! Its awesome to know there are so many like me! Love your avatar by the way LOL

There are many of us childless scrappers around here.

I've been married for 6 1/2 years and we have been unsuccessful (so far) in conceiving a child of our own.

However, I have plenty to scrap. That's what I love about this site, I don't need to have anything in common with all of you regarding what I scrap..............just that we all love to scrap.

I scrap my nephews, DH and I, friends children, trips we go on.............anything and everything!

So welcome.....you are definately not alone girl!

I'm new here, but I've been scrapbooking since '99 (well since 82 but the good way since '99 ).

Anyway, from then until now I have never done a single scrapbook page about a child, unless it was me or DH as children. We've been married 11 years now, and I have completed dozens of albums. We have 4 cats. We travel a lot. I did scrapbooks about daily life. All kinds of things. When I started in '99 NO ONE was scrapbooking about themselves or life outside of kids. It was so lonely! Nowadays the "All About Me" stuff is so popular that I think there is really a lot more people doing non child layouts.

It's ironic because I am now the mother of a 17-month old daughter, and I have not started her scrapbooks yet!

We actually adopted her and she came home when she was 7 months old. I have tons of photos from her life with her foster family too that I need to scrapbook. It's just overwhelming!

My thoughts with those of you who wish you were scrapbooking your children. I never thought I'd ever get to, but here I am!

Holli

Aww thanx Holli that was sweet of you to share! My husband and I are in the middle of taking our classes to become foster parents with the hopes that we will get to adopt one day :-) Thanx again for sharing your story and congrats on your new addition!

Hey, I was so glad to read these posts! I was thinking I must be about the only scrapper in the world SANS kids! (not by choice, though)
I'm new to this board, just joined. I am 45, married almost 2 yrs, and only have time for hobbies because of a long term illness that has kept me from working for the last 3 yrs. I haven't been well enough to do much in the way of crafts until recently; however, I do have my crafts room about 98% organized, and I just finished a card for my dear friend who lost her S.O. a month ago (he just fell over of a heart atack while walking on the beach, so sad). I'm gonna scan the card in, and maybe post it? I've organized 95% of all my photos by date. And Feb 10, dh and I are headed to a couples scrapbooking weekend. (They have guy stuff for the men! Cool, huh?)
So, I'm starting on some pages to work on while there - this will be my first crop ever! Sorry for writing a book, just so glad to see you girls' posts!
Thanks for reading!
Amy in VA

LOL Amy I wish there was something like that down here! My hubby went with me to my first ever crop which was sooo sweet but his friends called on the phone while he was there and figured out where he was. Next thing I know they are there in the scrapbook store running off with my husband LOL They have given him a hard time about it every since lol

I PM'd you...

I, too, am SANS kids. Not by choice, but nevertheless here I am. I've been married about 2 1/2 years now and most of my scrapping focuses on day to day life, vacations with dh, our cats, the dog, family (I've inherited all of my mother's 70 years of pics that I'm now organizing).

I'm glad someone is starting a thread for us SANS kids out here! It gets really hard reading posts, etc. about people's kids when you want one so very much of your own! KWIM?

That sounds like exactly the same thing that would happen if it was local! lol
Are u kidding me, he would not darken the door of a local crop, unless it was because American Express called him to inquire about large purchases from a scrapbk store on the card!! And he would come to repossess the card!
However, we live in the Wash, DC suburbs, and this retreat is in Myrtle Beach, SC! So, it would be a hike! They are having Bass Pro Shops host the guys, and also arranging golf outings. Since my hubby got his first boat last summer, he's looking forward to browsing the Bass Pro Shop offerings, I think. See, it's sort of a win/win, and it's the weekend before Valentine's Day, so we might go and/or stay a day or 2 early. Gotta luv them off season beach rates!

Well I'll introduce myself...

I'm 20 years old and just got married last month. I'm really new to scrapping, I've just done one page and a half, hehe. My first album is an 8x8 for a little girl who walked my wedding, I'm making her a princess album of that day. I have a bunny and no kids, but the cutest little cousins that I'd love to scrap. I love children and hopefully I'll have some of my own in the future.

I wish I had known about that one! We are only 2 ours from Myrtle Beach, and dh actually has that day weekend off! My dh is great about scrapping, but I'm not sure how his friends would feel about it! He actually goes to the LSS with me and picks his own paper, embellies, etc. He's wonderful!

Woot Woot that sounds like tonsss of fun!

Hiya JoynScrappin!!! I know exactly what you mean! And I have a neat idea, I cant take credit for it though others are already doing it. I just found a thread this morning about a traveling journal scrapbook and it sounds like so much fun! Maybe once we all greet and meet and get settled we might want to do one! I can post the details of it. It would give us something new and fun to scrapbook!

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Hey thanks, but I have to tell you all, it's not my cat! Just an old pic that's floated around the internet!

Welcome all

FYI, I am not affiliated with them in any way, but the retreat is being hosted by a LSS - scrapbooksbythesea.com if you want to learn more. It's held at a hotel. It's not real expensive, and the price includes the hotel room and your food and the crop. (My thrifty dh even thought it was a good deal!) lol They had one in Jan, and the one in Feb, and they have another planned in the spring. I think their events sell out fairly fast, so you might want to check it out. Click the button for "Retreats" I haven't been before, but someone who has been to several highly recommended them.

Thanks! I'll have to check them out and see!

Married last October, and don't plan to have kids for a long while. I just borrow kids to scrap. It seems that I am always behind on my scrapping that adding a kid would just make it impossible anyway.

OH yea me too! I would love a good little mini vacation in the spring. Wooot! Hubby and I are going up to Miss in April to the casino woohooo But nothing else planned for the year lol

LOL Jill!

Add me to the club! I'm 26 and have been married for 3 1/2 years. I scrap everything from our pets (dog and cat) to my family to my students, and of course, my DH and I!

I'm glad there are others out there like me!

Hi, I'm 28, married three years, no kids, one dog. I scrap the things that DH and I do. I used to scrap my cat, too, but she died. The dog is DH's, so I guess I'm not inspired to scrap her, lol! I've done a few kids pages, like meeting my nephew right after he was born, taking my other neice & nephew to Easter Egg hunts, etc. But no pages just about them. I'll save that for someday when I have my own....

Also childless not by choice. I scrap my gardens, holidays, vacations (which I take 3 or 4 times a year) so lots of opportunity, and my nieces.

I spend lots of time on the swap board making things for that.

Its so nice to meet you ladies!! Hop on in there! I would love to see some of everyones work so maybe if everyone is interested we can do set up a challenge LO :-)

I've been married 8 years, no kids, though for us we chose not to have any. I have scrapped my growing up years, vacations, our wedding story, every-day life, my niece, family get-togethers and our 2 cats. I've also scrapped my friends' kids and baby showers. I have my ABC pet album layouts uploaded at my gallery.

Debi M.

Welcome to the group Debi!

that is so cool. hope you post some of your hubbys work if he does pages also. would like to those also.

my hubby will me choose colors and other things if i get stuck while making a page or a card. I will show him what i am making and give him a couple of choices and see what he thinks. he might have other ideas for it also which might work for it. he doesn't like to go into the store with me until i am almost done and then he will come find me. he always knows when i am almost done.

LOL that sounds just like my hubby :-)

Chiming in! 29, married 6 1/2 years, no kids yet...we're waiting for DH to finish law school. I scrap everything and anything - I confess I do kids pages of my nephews though. I have had people ask me "What do you scrap if you don't have kids?" which is just the craziest question to me! I'm about 2 years behind in my life-as-it-happens albums as I call them, plus I need to go back and finish childhood stuff - so my hope is to be current by the time we do finally start having kids, because I think catching up after that will be about hopeless!
Thanks for starting this thread!

Hi and welcome Michele!!

Good Morning Sans!!

I've been trying to get through everyone's galleries....it's fun to think that we're all in a 'similar' boat when it comes to scrapping... It's letting me realize how much I do have to scrap!

My dh is really good with those colors, too. I guess I'm pretty blessed about the shopping part. He always goes and never complains. I love when he walks through the store with me and picks out stuff and says "hey won't that look good with..." I'm glad he's not the only dh like that though - I"ll have to let him know!

Hey ladies! I say we do a challenge are you all up to it?

SO how many of you remember as a kid sitting and listening to your mom or dad or grandparents tell funny stories about when they were younger?

My papa used tell some of the funniest stories and I loved to hear about my moms childhood! I thought even for those of us who dont have any kids someday we might but if we dont we still need to tell our stories right? :-)

So my challenge to everyone is to do a LO as simple or ornate as you want, about a great childhood memory! The only condition is that you must have some journaling on your LO.

Keep in mind you dont have to use pictures of yourself, you can use items(brads, stamps, etc..) or pictures of things that remind you of that memory.

Like: One of my memories was the time I found out one of my great grandparents was full blooded indian. I was so facinated with it that I tried to act like an idian for a week after that I kept running around talking jibberish pretending that it was the cherrokee language lol I might use a patterned paper and embellies that are Native American on my LO and journal the story of how I found out and what I did. Thats just to give you an idea. Im not sure what im going to do with my LO

I will create a new thread just for the challenge so we can post our links to the LOs in our gallery. Upload the pics to your own gallery and post the link to the new thread :-)

I cant wait to see what you guys come up with!

I"m in on this one! My bf grew up next door to me - we've been friends now for 25 years - and her mom took some amazing photos of us when we were younger (well amazing by 80s standards). I've been wanting to do one of us for a while now... yippeee!!!!

Awesome I cant wait to see!!

HI gang! Sorry I been MIA today. Hubby and I got our taxes back and I spent the whole day shopping with my cousin! I got such an awesome deal!!! I bought a new cropping bag. Its is huge, on wheels, holds everything I need, and I only $38 woooooot! I had a 40% off coupon for Joanns so I went to Micheals since they accept Joann coupons. I found this awesome 89.99 bag on clearance for 60 and once I used my 40% off coupon I got it for 38 weeeeeee My cousin was ready to kill me cause they only had one and I seen it first LOLOLOL

We had loads of fun and now im all tuckered out. I literaly shopped till I dropped and all on 100 lol I went to 5 diff stores till i found the perfect bag. Picked up a few things along the way that I cant wait to use, so im ready to get to work!

Happy Hump Day everyone!!
I hope yours was as good as mine!

I didn't awhole lot of LOs like that for an album for my mom and gave to her for christmas. besides even if i did another one i could not post a picture anyways. i am not able to scan.

I raise my hand on this one. I have been married for 4 years now with no kids by choice, except one very very spoiled little dog! Between him, dh and I, scrapbooking is never on pause for me!! However, I do enjoy scrapbooking my two nieces and younger siblings as they grow up. I am definitely the family photographer, but I wouldn't have it any other way! Glad to join all of you!

Just found this thread... thanks for starting this one! So many SB things are so kid oriented that I feel out of the loop.
BTW- I'm 25, no kids, engaged to a sailor, and have a Rottweiler, Tank.
Is there a deadline on the challenge???