I have pre-op pages, in hospital pages (including family in holding area, roommate, nurses, pic with surgeon,etc), pages on my two angels, monthly update pages and WOW pages. I saved everything I could think of while in the hospital. I have my IV tube (looks cute snaking around pics), heparin bottle, bandages, lemon swab packages, etc. I have taken pics of my protein shake while it is still in my Magic Bullet. I saved my "statements" from Pacific Bariatric and Scripp's Hospital that were paid by Kaiser, my insurance co. My "bills" would have been over $40,000!!! Thank goodness I have great insurance. I paid nothing! (except for prescriptions which are $10.00.) This month I am putting a pair of my new size 8 jeans on top of my size 20 jeans from 5 1/2 months ago and taking a pic. Another page will have the tags from the new jeans and a pic of me in them."Single digit sizes" I definitely will have a "CENTURY CLUB" page, hopefully by next week. Hmmmmm . . . is this enough to get you started? Just so you know, I thought I would start on the WLS scrapbook while I was recovering. However, I just started it in August. But, I had all the pics and embellishments saved in a box. I even saved my steri-strips as they fell off!! I had open RNY with no staples or drain, or I would have saved them, too!!! Judy Oh, yeah, on the first day of school, I had my picture taken with one of my 7th grade girls who weighed 85 pounds. This was the amount I had lost at that time. Cool picture and hard for me to believe that I was carrying "Maria" around with me before WLS

Let's get this going! Let's set up some guidelines: How about 12 X 12 pages. Please do 2 layers and an embellishment. If we can get 9 other people to sign up, we can all do 10 pages and I'll swap them so that we all have one of each. I'll need you to send postage for returning your samples. We can do Priority. Hope we can fit a 12X12 in an envie. Anyone ever done this size before? Okay, who's interested? Nancy H Approved, no date yet.

Hey Paula, I'm not in your area but if you are interested in getting together with other scrappers you can look at creativememories.com and you can look for a consultant in your area that can hook you up with a crop club. I am a Creative Memories Consultant on the Outer Banks. If you are ever in this area you can come to my crops. we have a blast. Sandy Tosh Jarvisburg North Carolina

Does anyone care to ever get together and scrapbook, meet, talk and make new friends? Let me know! [email protected] Holly

Leslie Love that name-it is my sisters name. Welcome to the board. Luci