Ever the contrarian.

How's that for a declaration from someone who, in her previous blog post, revealed her new role as a design team member for a scrapbooking magazine?

Yet, fear ye not, I have not been brainwashed into joining some manic layout-burning, 12x12 denying cult. No, 'Anti-scrapbook' is actually the online class I'm currently taking, which is delivered by Alisa Burke, a class she defines as being: "for anyone out there that is ready to do something outside the box with their photos and memories". As someone who spends a large proportion of my life working with photos and memories, I felt I ought to try something new, add to my skills / styles, be open to new methods and [most importantly] start experimenting with some of my latest purchases:

Somewhat subconsciously I've been collecting a little haul of painting supplies recently. I didn't really have this class in mind when I decided to invest in a few basics, but now I have them, this class seems like a perfect opportunity for me to get to play with them.

Week 1 of the class has been geared around drawing togther the photos and memorabilia I want to scrap [or I guess that should be 'anti-scrap'] over the following weeks. While doing this I've been trying to think of an over-all theme to focus on and the best I can come up with is 'things I've never scrapped before' ... and even that's going to be tricky.

Over the last few years I've scrapped steadily [and sometimes manically] and I always like to think of new topics to cover so, really, there's very few areas of my life I haven't touched upon at some point in my scrapbooking. Equally, some of the events, photos, memories that remain un-scrapped, remain un-scrapped for good reasons. I know I share a lot .... but there's still a few things I keep to myself.

So, I've been thinking that maybe that could be my theme 'Some of the Things People Might Not Know About Me'. Notice how that's subtley different from: 'All of the Things People Might Not Know About Me'!

Then again, I may not stick to any theme at all. I might approach the whole thing with a random, willy nilly, gung-ho approach.... does that sound like a suitably 'Anti-scrapbook' attitude to have?

Whatever happens I can assure you of one thing - I will, without a shadow of a doubt, at some point over the next four weeks manage to get paint on at least one inappropriate, unintended surface / item of clothing.

But then, you knew that about me already, didn't you?