is it my passion?

Currently, for the past two weeks (or it might have been three weeks) I have made two scrapbook pages displaying two of my closest friends. Although my work isn’t nearly as good as a ‘professional’s’ artwork, I am very proud of what I had created because 1) the ideas came from my head and 2) it was my own two hands that had created them. For me, it takes at least one to two weeks to finish a page because I only work on them during Saturdays and Sundays or just not at all. I do not have time during the weekdays to make them because either I am studying for a test or doing homework or I am just too plain lazy. I need to learn how not to be lazy and get things done if I want to improve and learn how to make scrapbooks. Sometimes even when I have enough time, I do not bother to bring out the materials and make a scrapbook page. So, I wonder, if I am too lazy to make scrapbooks, does that consider as my ‘passion’? I like to make scrapbook pages; cut paper, paste pictures, and decorate with all such items. In www.dictionary.referenece.com, passion means the desire to do something. Often with scrapbooks, I have the ‘desire’ to make them, but there are more times when I am too neglectful to do it. I want to keep on making scrapbooks because it is something I like to do, but I am not sure that it is part of my passion. To be truthful, I spend more time drawing then I spend making scrapbooks, so is drawing my passion or scrapbooking my passion?  

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For some people, scrapbooking may be hard and complicated. What happened to the “you only need your creativeness and effort in order to make a scrapbook”? At first, when I decided to start on a new hobby as scrapbooking, I thought it’d be easy. Now I am not so sure. Scrapbooking requires organization, which is not my strongest skill. First of all, I am required to buy some necessary items for the scrapbook. Here is a list of materials I need:

1. an album or an artbook

2. a double-sided tape. A doubler-sided tape-pen is more efficent and clean to use. 

3. photos.

4. and anything that you could use to decorate.

All these materials are available from Multiplaza, Office Depot, and at your house. You can buy an album or an artbook and some papers and fabrics from Multiplaza. A double-sided tape is located in Office Depot along with other tapes. But most things can be found at your house. Last week, while cleaning my room, I found things that could be useful for scrapbooking. Now that my hobby is scrapbooking, whenever someone is about to throw something, I yell, “No, wait, don’t throw that away! I need it for my scrapbooking!” Although my mom finds this very annoying, I still tell her to check with me everytime she intends to throw something away. Other than going through trash, there are ways to find materials at your house. If you are a girl, you might have had bags from childhood. You can use those bags by cutting the fabric off and using them for your advantage. However, if you don’t have anything at all in your house because you throw everything away, I recommend you to go shopping in LibroMax. There are papers and fabrics that you can buy from LibroMax. From LibroMax I’ve also brought banana paper and coffee paper, which have become very useful to my scrapbook. You can also buy things from art stores and thrift stores.