new hobby coming up

Word for the day: Acid-free! hah!
I went to the Scrapbooking lessons for w@wies last Saturday, April 2, and had sooo much fun! Nice to meet w@wies, had a lot of fun with seatmates peachy and tetchie. also met Tina, Ayen, Wella, Layah (a KEMer, college org, same as mine) and so many others. We only had the time to do 3 projects, all of which I enjoyed. There were 2 cards we made (1 was a folded card, really cool and easy to learn, while the other was just a simple card where we used acrylic paint and a flower and a "brad" -- another new word). We did a layout for a 12 x 12 album with a pic of ours, of course, i just had to show off my very dramatic black and white pic again! hehehehe.... of course everyone says it was so beautiful.
I won a prize!!!! Woohoohoo!!! Sahrie, the w@wie/n@wie who owns the internet site for scrapbooking stuff gave me and another a prize. Mine was for the longest engagement (almost 9 years!!!) and the other was for a birthday coming up the soonest. And the prize was: A chatterbox scrapbook set! Yipee!!!! (costs $12.00)
A lot of items were on sale too! yehey!! i was able to buy 2 sets of cardstock (12 x 12), in my wedding motif of course, some stickers, border punch strips, a 12" x 12" album, some paper stock and 2 colors of brads. All these items are ACID- and LIGNIN-free! overall i spent around Php 1,500. Not bad really, I'll just order some from the net at sahrie's site if i have the budget.
My background on scrapbooking was when i made my birthday gift for tabs that one year when i was out of work! hahaha.... i decided to make it a more meaningful birthday so i scrapbooked our pics and memorabia over our 6 1/2 (at that time, i think) years together.
When i went to tabs' place after the lessons, i had the chance to borrow tabs' childhood pics and was so proud to see that he was such a handsome boy! not cute ha! handsome, the one that they would call "Crush ng bayan"! hehehe... makes me feel proud! Anyhoo, was surprised that they bought some lechon kawali and chicken for lunch because i was coming over. That's aside from the macaroni soup his mom cooked. And tabs' was like "Oh, nagmano ka ba?!" hahahaha.... course i did! so funny, my honey wants equal treatment (because he makes "mano" whenever he comes over to our place, funny thing though, he doesn't "mano" to his own mom. duhhh!
long post ever! anyhow, to go back to scrapbooking, I'm planning to make 2 scrapbooks till december. One would be for our wedding preps, well documented! and the other for our love story. I can't bring myself to tear apart the scrapbook gift, it pains my heart, so i'll make another one instead. besides, can't use the stuff from the first scrapbook because they are not acid-free. bwahahaha. i'll make another one instead. have lots of time. also will do the thank you cards for the entourage DIY, i've yet to try to do anything else but DIY invites are more and more inviting.