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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
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I tell and tell myself YOU DON'T NEED ANYMORE PAPER!!!
But I buying it. Now that I'm scraping way more often, I see that I have similar paper...the vintage looking kind which i love...but now am needing more bright fun papers!
I tell myself I have plenty of supplies...but love getting more!
I'm an addict! I always say at least I have something to show for my hobby!
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scrapinyuma
PeaAddict
PeaNut 215455 - 7/20/2005
Posts: 1383 Layouts: 22
Loc: Arizona
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Yep, it is a disease! I have so much paper I am embarassed! |
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MikkelPaige
BucketHead
PeaNut 325867 - 7/5/2007
Posts: 629 Layouts: 21
Loc: Orlando
Count: 4 | Posted: 3/9/2009 10:30:35 AM
Total sickness! I think many of us have it though. No known cure either...  |
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scrappycass
PeaNut
PeaNut 413587 - 2/27/2009
Posts: 68 Layouts: 0 | Posted: 3/9/2009 11:28:14 AM
Yeah...it's an illness...maybe we need a 12 step program! lol. |
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Scrapper007
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 14293 - 4/18/2001
Posts: 6877 Layouts: 872
Loc: northern Nevada | Posted: 3/9/2009 12:04:36 PM
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SAHM to three girls (15,10,7) and two very spoiled mutts!
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Lexica
AncestralPea
PeaNut 77792 - 3/25/2003
Posts: 4848 Layouts: 0
Loc: Orange County, California | Posted: 3/9/2009 12:16:55 PM
I didn't feel guilty when I was buying all my paper. I told myself I needed it. It's considered supplies. Expendable supplies. Consumables.
I realized I had crossed over into the addiction realm when I couldn't USE a certain particularly beautiful piece of paper because then I wouldn't have it any longer. I tried to tell myself I would still have it, it would just be cut up and put to the use it was intended. I wasn't listening.
I can use plain colored cardstock with wild abandon. But when it comes to my pretty patterns and specialty lines, I really struggle. And when I finally do cut into my pretty pieces, I save every scrap and cut the tiniest pieces into flowers for another project. I just can't throw them away!
Yes, I'm well rooted into the addiction. And I don't really want help getting out. I love my hobby! | |
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youmyheart
PeaAddict
PeaNut 263696 - 6/2/2006
Posts: 1657 Layouts: 0
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Girl you are PREACHING to the choir. I have told myself many, many, many times, NO MORE PAPER. Yet I find myself at a LSS and what am I buying... PAPER. It is so addicting. I too love the vintage papers. |
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PeaNut
PeaNut 360608 - 2/3/2008
Posts: 86 Layouts: 54
Loc: Macon, GA | Posted: 3/9/2009 1:04:24 PM
Scrappycass, don't you mean a 12 X 12 step program?
Sorry, couldn't resist. |
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verybusymomof2
BucketHead
PeaNut 43804 - 7/29/2002
Posts: 722 Layouts: 38
Loc: DFW
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Yep...I knew I was hooked when my kids started telling me "MOM you don't NEED any more paper!" really loud in the middle of the store as I was fingering some new papers
Also, you know it is addiction when your favorite smell is new paper!
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StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 26480 - 1/2/2002
Posts: 2459 Layouts: 115
Loc: Fresno, CA | Posted: 3/9/2009 1:52:48 PM
I'm glad I'm not alone! My paper addiction has caused me so many arguments with my dh, who doesn't understand. |
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StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 26480 - 1/2/2002
Posts: 2459 Layouts: 115
Loc: Fresno, CA | Posted: 3/9/2009 1:53:05 PM
I'm glad I'm not alone! My paper addiction has caused me so many arguments with my dh, who doesn't understand. |
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TheGiggler
PeaNut
PeaNut 272106 - 8/9/2006
Posts: 235 Layouts: 15
Loc: somewhere in Texas!
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I knew I was a paper addict when I realized that at my current rate of scrapbooking, I have more paper than I can use in my lifetime. |
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AncestralPea
PeaNut 16715 - 6/11/2001
Posts: 4942 Layouts: 56
Loc: WNY
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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
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I knew I was a paper addict when I realized that at my current rate of scrapbooking, I have more paper than I can use in my lifetime.
i know right! i'm in search of new bright colors now! |
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scrappyalaska
BucketHead
PeaNut 356810 - 1/15/2008
Posts: 778 Layouts: 27
Loc: cali | Posted: 3/9/2009 2:49:36 PM
I love paper too
I have the same problem as some of you--when I get a sheet I really love I have the hardest time cutting into it!! |
formally scrappyalaska-but I moved =/
createdmemories.etsy.com
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PeaAddict
PeaNut 49578 - 9/19/2002
Posts: 1354 Layouts: 107
Loc: Oregon
| Posted: 3/9/2009 2:57:39 PM
There are at least two things I love about scrapbooking.....working with photos of people I love and all the pretty paper. My reasonable stash is becoming more and more unreasonable every week! My hubby recently suggested that since my paper drawer has gotten WAY too full, maybe I should start using it! He's a smarty-pants. | |
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EllenPea
Pea with a Pen
PeaNut 70644 - 2/19/2003
Posts: 14304 Layouts: 564
Loc: Southern California
Count: 34 | Posted: 3/10/2009 12:41:51 AM
LOL. I am not addicted, well maybe a little bit but I know I'm going to use it all someday.
I have a friend who is addicted. Sometime after J's started selling multiple stacks, she'd bought every single stack they ever sold and they were collecting dust in the craft room closet. She shares her home with another, older woman and both of them are serious stampers.
Well, her roomie/landlord found all the stacks and told her it was time for an "intervention." I believe what happened then is the older woman put most of the stacks in her car, then asked the younger woman to come with her. She drove to a church and donated all those stacks to the youth programs.
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imaskrapper
PeaNut
PeaNut 305186 - 3/19/2007
Posts: 276 Layouts: 1
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another paper addict here!!
Lexica....I'm totally with you! Sometimes I buy an extra sheet of particularly gorgeous paper...not necessarily to use, but to have just because it is soooo pretty! | |
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BucketHead
PeaNut 138348 - 3/24/2004
Posts: 991 Layouts: 0
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I love the papers and I make no bones about it.
If I never use it, I'm not going to feel guilty any more.
I have enjoyed looking at it. Touching it. Dreaming about what to do with it. I might not use it. I might give it away someday. But I will no longer feel guilty for it.
I just need not to buy more!
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AncestralPea
PeaNut 230268 - 11/5/2005
Posts: 4526 Layouts: 214
Loc: NW Penna
Count: 60 | Posted: 3/10/2009 7:39:56 AM
I am a bonafied patterned paper addict, in the worse sense, and I don't care. I used to 'save' paper, but not anymore. I use it, if it fits the photos I am working on.
If I live long enough, I might use it all. Sometimes when new releases come out and i don't like them, I am grateful for the stash of beautiful paper that I have.
No regrets here, at least where paper is concerned.
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PeaNut
PeaNut 142370 - 4/17/2004
Posts: 68 Layouts: 0
Loc: Southern Ohio
| Posted: 3/10/2009 12:56:24 PM
I am Amy and I am a paper addict. I knew I had a problem when I started getting a kick out of organizing my paper by color, then by pattern, then by company.
I just left Hobby Lobby and resisted buying all paper! I am sooo proud of myself. (Had to call my sister for her to tell me NOOOO!) | |
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scrapnmom4
PeaNut
PeaNut 153973 - 6/24/2004
Posts: 292 Layouts: 6
Loc: Illinois
| Posted: 3/10/2009 1:32:17 PM
I'm a member of the paper addicts club! LOL! LOOOOVVVEEEE PAPER!!! |
Shannon 
Proud mommy to Carter, Regan, Grant, and Jackson
In my bag: Canon Rebel XSi, Canon 50mm 1.4, Canon 15-85mm, 70-300mm, CS4 and LR2
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dolansd&s
Dreaming of a distant island
PeaNut 137961 - 3/22/2004
Posts: 7712 Layouts: 0
| Posted: 3/10/2009 1:41:48 PM
have enough paper to open 5 lss -- and yet I continue to buy more and use very little of it...but always willing to buy more! |
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HDrider
BucketHead
PeaNut 202617 - 4/27/2005
Posts: 636 Layouts: 8
Loc: Columbus, Georgia
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Lexica, I totally relate to you! |
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dalayney
Shut the PEA UP! Yer gettin me all twitterpaited!
PeaNut 123471 - 1/9/2004
Posts: 13478 Layouts: 118
Loc: Bristol, Wisconsin | Posted: 3/10/2009 1:55:25 PM
Oh, me too. I'm almost HAPPY when all the new lines come out and I DON'T LIKE THEM. It's easier on my wallet!
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StreetScrapper
PeaAddict
PeaNut 251919 - 3/6/2006
Posts: 1774 Layouts: 11
Loc: Canada
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Whew! Glad to hear I'm not the only one!!! I can't leave my LSS without 5-10 sheets of paper! A few weeks ago I realized that my obsession was a little out of control when I looked through my paper stash and came to the conclusion that I don't even like half of it. I hope that I once did but I found myself wondering how on earth I ever thought I would use a lot of it! So, I did a good thing and spent a day going through all of it! YIKES! Once I was done, I took it all to the local school and donated it! I'm not sure who was more thrilled - me (for having the space to buy/store more) or the school! |
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18-55mm 3.5-5.6 (kit lens)
Canon 50mm f/1.8
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Photoshop Elements 7
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Spongemom Scrappants
PeaFixture
PeaNut 297141 - 2/14/2007
Posts: 3526 Layouts: 30
Loc: South Carolina
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Paper?
I love it.
I use it.
It makes me happy.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. |
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Outnumbered by four sons, a male dog, and a male cat. | |
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queen_bee
PeaAddict
PeaNut 50742 - 10/1/2002
Posts: 1252 Layouts: 304
| Posted: 3/10/2009 2:37:58 PM
Hello, my name is Connie and I am a paper addict! |
~~Connie~~
~Princess Sleeping Butterfly~
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
| Posted: 3/10/2009 2:45:19 PM
I got a wire paper divider a few months ago off craigs list! best thing i ever bought...but now I need another one!!! |
~"What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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renee_elp
PeaNut
PeaNut 310935 - 4/18/2007
Posts: 479 Layouts: 0
Loc: houston texas
| Posted: 3/10/2009 3:11:55 PM
My friend who exposed me to this addiction was so funny ... she'd be driving us back to work,and looking at her paper at the stop lights. I knew I was in trouble when I scored a beautiful paper one day and fondled it on the way home! It was official, I had crossed over into addiction.
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dalayney
Shut the PEA UP! Yer gettin me all twitterpaited!
PeaNut 123471 - 1/9/2004
Posts: 13478 Layouts: 118
Loc: Bristol, Wisconsin | Posted: 3/10/2009 3:28:03 PM
I knew I was in trouble when I scored a beautiful paper one day and fondled it on the way home! It was official, I had crossed over into addiction.
 And I thought I was the only one that did this. |
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Spongemom Scrappants
PeaFixture
PeaNut 297141 - 2/14/2007
Posts: 3526 Layouts: 30
Loc: South Carolina
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I knew I was in trouble when I scored a beautiful paper one day and fondled it on the way home! It was official, I had crossed over into addiction.
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And I thought I was the only one that did this.
And that's why shopping on-line will NEVER replace the experience of an LSS for me (sorry, 2Peas - as much as I love ya, I need to FEEL and SMELL my paper). |
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Outnumbered by four sons, a male dog, and a male cat. | |
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wendy6
A not so *FLY* Pea
PeaNut 153634 - 6/22/2004
Posts: 6551 Layouts: 0
Loc: right here.... right now!
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kcornel2
PeaNut
PeaNut 118313 - 12/2/2003
Posts: 155 Layouts: 0
Loc: Michigan
Count: 4 | Posted: 3/10/2009 6:12:01 PM
I finally had to admit I had a problem when I filled up my rolling paper cart. I took my Bazzil out and put it in another 12x12 storage case so I had more room. Well I filled it up again and now I carry a milk crate filled with my 'new' PP so it will be easy to find....
I sort through every once in a while and give the paper I dont like any more to the kiddies for their scrapbooks. then I have room for more!!
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StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 395153 - 10/12/2008
Posts: 2321 Layouts: 50
Loc: Washington, D.C.
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I'm not sure if I fall into the addict category- my estimation is that I currently have a little less than 1000 sheets including cardstock-but I am trying REALLY hard not to fall into that territory. Wait, maybe its higher, I forgot about the bulk pack of AC Cardstock I bought a few weeks ago.
The reason I can estimate my paper easily is that I only ever buy stacks, because they are less expensive per sheet and already coordinate. TeachNPea I think you may have said you do that as well. My goal is (once I use up a signficant portion of my current stash in, oh, 4-5 years)to start taking the approach of bringing my photos to a store, buying, like, 2 sheets of pp for each photo to use in an LO, and calling it a day. I think I may just be a hoarder though, so maybe once I accomplish that I will start collecting the mountain of embellishments everyone seems to have! | |
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PeaNut
PeaNut 333597 - 8/21/2007
Posts: 150 Layouts: 72
Loc: Minnesota
| Posted: 3/10/2009 7:13:49 PM
I definitely am an addict--but it costs less than embellishments, so I tell myself it's a bargain. Right.
Still, I do use it. I just also stockpile it. But I'm OK with that.
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trishastamps
PeaNut
PeaNut 290501 - 1/7/2007
Posts: 87 Layouts: 97
Loc: LA, CA | Posted: 3/10/2009 8:09:47 PM
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one! |
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RnKMom
Prima 'n' Stickles Pea
PeaNut 80424 - 4/8/2003
Posts: 6514 Layouts: 6
Loc: Southern California | Posted: 3/10/2009 8:59:30 PM
Scrappycass, don't you mean a 12 X 12 step program?
ROFL, ain't that the truth!
I knew I was a paper addict when I realized that at my current rate of scrapbooking, I have more paper than I can use in my lifetime.
My signature... scary when I realized that too!
Also, you know it is addiction when your favorite smell is new paper!
Surely not more than the smell of chocolate??? But it's up there!
But this post pretty much sums me up (with the exception of using up cardstock, which I'm equally hesitant to "cut up/destroy" ).  It's a sickness... which I thoroughly delight in!
I realized I had crossed over into the addiction realm when I couldn't USE a certain particularly beautiful piece of paper because then I wouldn't have it any longer. I tried to tell myself I would still have it, it would just be cut up and put to the use it was intended. I wasn't listening.
I can use plain colored cardstock with wild abandon. But when it comes to my pretty patterns and specialty lines, I really struggle. And when I finally do cut into my pretty pieces, I save every scrap and cut the tiniest pieces into flowers for another project. I just can't throw them away!
Yes, I'm well rooted into the addiction. And I don't really want help getting out. I love my hobby!
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If I have to use all this paper before I die, I'll live forever!
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Jynx
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 45977 - 8/18/2002
Posts: 2898 Layouts: 4
Loc: down on the farm
Count: 2 | Posted: 3/10/2009 9:03:18 PM
All you paper addicts---when you were a kid, do you hang out in the toy aisle OR the paper/stationery aisle? I can remember going into a store and checking out all the paper, pens, markers, and stuff.
Admit it---where did YOU hang out?
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stumples
PeaNut
PeaNut 363077 - 2/18/2008
Posts: 33 Layouts: 0
Loc: Great Faces Great Places! or something like that
| Posted: 3/10/2009 9:22:47 PM
Hi everyone, my name is Jeana and I too am a paper addict. (also a NEW pea and quickly becoming a pea addict!)
I have a huge hesitation to using my favorite paper, I will look at it and think about it. Then I put it away because the picture was just not quite special enough to justify using that paper because is sooo beautiful. I wanna learn to change boo hooo hooo.
I also dont like ordering paper via internet but will do it! it is a 2 hr drive to the large LSS so I try to stock up when I am there (can u say justification?)
My husband is an enabler telling me to go ahead and go to the store "I will sit in the car". Good thing he loves me!
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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
| Posted: 3/10/2009 9:37:42 PM
All you paper addicts---when you were a kid, do you hang out in the toy aisle OR the paper/stationery aisle? I can remember going into a store and checking out all the paper, pens, markers, and stuff.
Admit it---where did YOU hang out?
oh my gosh...my favorite aisle is the paper, card, pencils, markers, etc. anything school supply or office supply. I always said that's why I wanted to become a teacher...so I could buy school supplies every year!!!
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Jynx
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 45977 - 8/18/2002
Posts: 2898 Layouts: 4
Loc: down on the farm
Count: 2 | Posted: 3/10/2009 9:54:28 PM
See---this addiction started way before we could have ever imagined. We had no control over it---it probably started in utero.
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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
| Posted: 3/10/2009 9:57:03 PM
See---this addiction started way before we could have ever imagined. We had no control over it---it probably started in utero.
and isn't the first step acknowledging your problem? but i really have no desire to change!
i will embrace it again in july when school supplies come out!!! |
~"What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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teachNpea
He calls me his future wifPEA
PeaNut 260956 - 5/9/2006
Posts: 7038 Layouts: 413
Loc: Heart of America
| Posted: 3/10/2009 10:04:02 PM
oh who am i kidding...i will embrace it again probably this weekend when i buy more paper! LOL |
~"What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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texgirl842
PeaNut
PeaNut 386153 - 8/4/2008
Posts: 194 Layouts: 0
Loc: The Great Republic of Texas
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I have thought about framing some of my pattern paper (without adding photos) and hanging them in my house!!
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catscrapfeverish
PeaNut
PeaNut 413568 - 2/27/2009
Posts: 334 Layouts: 21
Loc: Tennessee | Posted: 3/10/2009 10:44:57 PM
you all are sooo funnyand I'm right here w you! Yes I too loved paper even when I was younger. And I do have patterned paper framed lol! I will have to take a pic ha ha! |
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Children are 1/3 of our population...all of our future | |
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PeaNut
PeaNut 386342 - 8/5/2008
Posts: 421 Layouts: 4
Loc: midwest
Count: 1 | Posted: 3/10/2009 11:05:37 PM
Oh my gosh! I too hung out in the paper & art supplies isle!!I was always the one saying to my kids don't you want the bigger box of crayons with the sharpener on the back? Look at these new markers!! I was worse than the kids when it came to their school suppies!----I to am so addicted to 12x12 paper!! I have sooooooooo much! I am so in love with some of the new lines!I have been buying and buying!But I always say it could be worse! I could be addicted to margaritas instead |
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Irish eyes
Lurker with a lot of posts
PeaNut 116332 - 11/17/2003
Posts: 10160 Layouts: 464
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I am a paper whore. I've never met a paper I wouldn't do. I have way too much paper, yet I still buy more every time I go to the LSS. | |
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PookieIsTheBest
PeaNut
PeaNut 167067 - 9/9/2004
Posts: 330 Layouts: 3
Loc: Arlington, Texas
| Posted: 3/11/2009 12:41:32 AM
I truly relate...
I don't even think I have enough free time to use all the various papers I have...
I guess I'll have to start thinking of ideas while I'm at work...
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monica_blain
soon-to-be college grad!
PeaNut 202492 - 4/26/2005
Posts: 11375 Layouts: 320
Loc: Kansas City
Count: 4 | Posted: 3/11/2009 12:50:14 AM
You all are cracking me up
Yep, there's no doubt about it that I am addicted. Patterned paper is the one thing I could NOT live without in scrapping!
I love the papers and I make no bones about it.
If I never use it, I'm not going to feel guilty any more.
I have enjoyed looking at it. Touching it. Dreaming about what to do with it. I might not use it. I might give it away someday. But I will no longer feel guilty for it.
I like your point of view!
All you paper addicts---when you were a kid, do you hang out in the toy aisle OR the paper/stationery aisle?
YES! Now it all makes sense I have always been addicted. Since I could first write, I've always been addicted to pens, paper, stationary, etc. I still am! I agree - this addiction started in utero, so we really can't help ourselves! |
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