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I have
been scrapbooking for about three years but collecting and cataloging recipes
since 1972. I have also collected
cookbooks for that long but have most recently been collecting vintage
cookbooks. I am
truly addicted to scrapbooking. My
youngest son Kelly has been in the Marines for a little over two years.
He has three scrapbooks! I
think scrapbooking is the most fun and relaxing hobby known to woman!
Everything about scrapbooking is just fun. I love all paper products, embellishments give me goosebumps,
and colored staples are to die for. And as my stepson, Allan tells everyone,
“I am all about cute.” This
mini-cookbook scrapbook evolved when I purchased my first 6x6” scrapbook to
make into a quote book for a friend. A
week later we were invited to a friend’s house and decided to make a hostess
gift recipe book. People loved it.
I really went crazy and started churning them out.
I could not wait to not clean the house or to not cook
dinner so I could start another one. I
started developing shortcuts (that is what crazed people do) to make the whole
process easier. I learned that recipe size is significant.
I have tons of recipes on my computer but many were too long.
They simply would not fit on a page unless I skipped the directions.
(Actually, if you look at very early recipes, they didn’t contain directions.
Women were just expected to know how to cook.
It wasn’t until around the 1880’s that instructions started appearing
on recipes). So I went through and made a file of fun recipes that were short. To me, short also means … quick!
That’s a good thing. In
addition, I have been collecting food history and trivia for years.
I simply have to know how things began – especially food-related
things. I started typing those on
my computer too. Quotes are also “my thing.”
I use quotes all of the time. Those
are also catalogued by subject on my computer.
By now you are all probably thinking – this woman is anal retentive.
Actually, I am lazy and always looking for shortcuts! Ok, so
now we have all of these little components and I think – this has all of the
appearances of a “kit.” As fate
would have it, during Christmas I am out shopping with my best friend Lynn
Kelly. I see a quote on a calendar (see paragraph above). It reads: “Life
is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself!” That really
struck a chord with me. I had
sent a copy of my mini-cookbook scrapbook to Taste of Home months ago for inclusion in one of their issues, but I
had not gotten back to them because I did not have a completed kit.
Ironically, a few days after I saw the quote, Barbara Shuetz at Taste
of Home contacted me again and said, “We would like to run the article in
the next issue.” Lynn and I
finished the kit. That
brings me to this website. This is
not “my” website – this is “our” website.
I want to hear from all of you Cropping
Cooks about your favorite recipes, your scrapbooking shortcuts and ideas,
your favorite scrapbooking tips, and I want to learn about the mini-cookbook
scrapbooks you have made.
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Send mail to
cheryl@croppingcooks.com with any
questions or comments about this web site.
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