If you’re interested and want to participate or just offer encouragement to those of us taking the challenge:Click Here To Be Taken To The Challenge Site!You can also find more information under the tab at the top of the page. I’m going to try my best not to spam you guys too much over here because I know some of you don’t scrapbook and I want this blog to remain as it is for y’all. I will add highlights from the Challenge here and there and feature some of the participants here too though. Keep an eye out!Also, coming up this week here at The Scrappy Housewife:Our First Giveaway!!! (I’m so excited about this!)A New Weekly Feature!Stay Tuned. 🙂

May 1st begins National Scrapbooking Month and also the beginning of our challenge.100 Scraps in 100 Days – Here are the rules:1. Friend this blog…yes, even if you are a follower of my other blog, “The Scrappy Housewife”. I want you to do this so A) I can tell who is following in case there are prizes or giveaways along the way (yes, really!) and B) because I’m not going to be cross-posting often and you’ll miss something. I know that everyone who reads The Scrappy Housewife isn’t a scrapbooking enthusiast and I don’t want to spam their blog rolls.2. You must complete 1 scrapbook page per day for 100 days. However, I am not naive enough to believe that for 100 days the following will happen: Everyone will be 100% healthy, nothing will go wrong and we will all have spare time in the day. SO – if you can’t do…

I have a confession to make. My name is Christina aka The Scrappy Housewife and I am a Scrapbook Supplies Hoarder. If you’ve been here since January, you probably remember my Office Decrapification. During that clean up I showed you this little area here:All of what you see there is scrapbook supplies. See the smaller white containers on the bottom left and mid-right? That’s paper. Scrapbook paper. There’s more on top of the mid-right bin and middle set of drawers. And I just bought two new stacks two days ago. Yes, really. Wanna know the sad part of all this? I don’t scrapbook. Well, that’s not entirely true. I do scrapbook. I have lots of pictures organized and ready to go in archival bins, labeled, cataloged, scanned, etc, etc. Heck I even have scrapbooks started. You can kinda see my scrapbook shelf on the bookcase in the top right. I do…

Could *you* complete 100 scrapbook pages in 100 days? Check back on May 1st to join the challenge!

Edited: In case it isn’t clear: Google Reader is Google Friend Connect. So if you read via Google Reader, please choose Google Friend Connect. Using another reader? Choose RSS feed. Thanks! New to this survey thing, sorry!I’m trying to plan my first giveaway and was going to wait until I hit 50 followers, but then realized that I only see Google Friends and not those of you who subscribe in other ways. If you would, please take two seconds and reply to my survey below. I would really appreciate it! (Prizes depend on your response! Don’t let them down! 🙂 )Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

Hey guys!The Borrowed Abode and I got featured over at Hyphen Interiors for our reality link up parties! Kristy said, “What unique link parties! Here’s to keeping it real! Good work ladies! You put a smile on my face.”That’s just what I was going for. Thanks Kristy!Let’s return some blog love and run over to her place and check it out, OK?And you can still enter the Reality Check link up. Don’t forget. 🙂

4/27/2011 Hello! If you’ve found your way over from Hyphen Interiors thanks to Kristy, I really hope you like what you read and will consider following me via Google Friend Connect, RSS Feed, Email, Feedburner etc. You can find the links on the right side bar. Welcome! 🙂 And yep, you can still enter your reality.Edited: Anne @ Confessions and Scrap is so awesome! She created a button for me! You can snag one on the left sidebar! Please visit her blog. You will die of envy when you see her rubber stamp collection!Got a Redneck Yard? Pop over to The Borrowed Abode and link up your post about your Redneck Yard and you could win a $25 Home Depot Gift Card! I’m posting my balcony!Hey girls!I’m sorry I’ve been MIA for a few days. After being on vaca with The Hubs a couple of weeks ago I got off of…

I’m working on the blog layout and design. If it looks wonky that’s why. Bear with me! :)Christina

Hi all!I swear I haven’t forgotten about you or stopped blogging. Life has intervened and things around the Scrappy house need to get done. I was going to show you a picture of my To Do list, but felt a little self-conscious about how long it is…Anyway, I will be back this week with more things (the blog is one of the things on the list!). I’m working hard, but not making much headway at the moment.Christina aka The Scrappy Housewife