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April 10th, 2020

Hey! Hope y'all are safe, healthy and not going completely stir crazy at home on this beautiful day! The sun is shining outside of our place in Ames and the kids are surprisingly quiet and doing well....they're probably up to something.....On a positive note, yesterday we finally got my husband's COVID-19 test results after 11 days of agonizingly waiting. I'm so incredibly happy and grateful to report it came back negative!! So he can go back to work and our lives can go back to a "bit of normal"! I talk to my parents on an almost daily basis and Ryan talks to his mom regularly. I'm incredibly grateful everyone who is still working - not just the hospital workers, but the grocery store employees, our truck drivers, garbage collectors, the local banks, utility employees and security technicians that are trying to keep the normal every day running as smoothly as possible.  I'm grateful for the phone and internet companies that are keeping us connected...
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Scrapbook in Your Planner?!

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One thing I love to do is scrapbook. I love making all different styles of pages - 12x12, 8.5x11, Traveler's notebooks, 8x8 and I'm working on a junk journal.  At the end of 2017, I bought a gorgeous Recollections Planner that had roses on the cover. I use that for my every day - appts, hubby's work schedule, meal planning, etc. And I thought, "okay, this is good, I'm writing down what happens during our day." but I've been falling behind on my scrapbooking. Then I joined some of the planner groups on Facebook and I bought a Happy Planner......and my obsession began!! I've shared some of my ideas in the group and have gotten tons of ideas from the ladies there.  I've had so much fun memory planning. I've been working on my 2017 and 2018 books & I'm loving the new format. The MAMBI sticker books are bright and fun, I love the size of the pictures and I'm getting to document our normal lives and use pictures I love that I might no...
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Hi and Welcome to The Crazy Scrapper's Blog! I'm glad you're here! On my blog, I'm going to be sharing regular scrapbook layouts, planner spreads, a mini haul or 2, techniques I'm learning and the crazy moments in our lives. I hope you'll join me on my chaotic journey and maybe find inspiration of your own while you're here!  Welcome to my madness! Monique a.k.a The Crazy Scrapper!
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