Tweens & Scrapping

So earlier this week the neighborlady and I were doing our laundry. She mentions that maybe one day I can talk to her daughter Audrey about scrapbooking and show her how to do some things. I told her I'd go thru my stuff and get her started.

Well, I went thru my stuff this afternoon. It was a LOT of stuff. A 12x8x24 box full, plus 3 bags full of crap. A shit-ton of Jolee's, stickers, tags, patterned paper - just a ton of stuff. A bought a package of 12x12 cardstock at Target plus some deco scissors (she's only 11 - doesn't know the difference between bazzill & generic, nor does she know about the standard deco-scissor fauxpas ;) ).

So I take all this stuff over there, am showing her what everything is, trying to teach her on how to get started - showing her one of my albums, etc. Anyway, her mom kept yapping and yapping and yapping and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. I would be trying to tell her what something is for, like "You can use patterned paper as a background or as an accent on your pages", and her mom whips out a pack of SEI that I have and goes "You can use this as borders! See these lines? You cut them out and they are the borders!" - well, I suppose technically you could do that - but NO! I told her "Christine, those are actually patterned background papers. Those lines are STRIPES. It's STRIPED patterned paper!"...and then she was looking thru the stack of PP and came across some solid colored stuff...that can't POSSIBLY be patterned paper because it's solid *rolleyes*. Maybe I'm just being too technical or something because they know nothing about scrapping, but I get very easily irritated, lol. But, they gotta start somewhere, right?

I even gave her a small paper trimmer that I never use. 15 minutes after I get home, Audrey comes by and asks if they can use it to trim the pictures. Well, if her mom would have shut up for one minute she would have heard me say "You use this for trimming your pictures and your paper..blah, blah, blah". Also that I inserted into that "This is one of your most important tools in scrapbooking - take very good care of it"...

I hate teaching people things because I get frustrated so easily. I'm one of those people, that if I have to tell you more than once, just get out of my way and let me do it myself, lol. Always have been that way and it dumbfounds me that I'm the designated trainer at every job I've ever been at! UGH.

Anyway, maybe the several hundred dollars worth of crap I just took over there will keep her quiet for a while. I did mention that she is to NEVER EVER use the deco scissors directly on the pictures though, for penalty of death :)