Hi, my name is Katrina Criglington.
I am a stay at home mother to two quickly growing boys. Until I got pregnant with my first child I was quite happy with my routine of going to the gym & then going to work & then after work going to the gym before heading home to have a quick slap dash dinner. Once I was pregnant the gym membership stopped & instead I found that I had a lot of spare time & not much to do in it. I took up some needlework but soon the cat decided it preferred to sit on my lap so needlework got too complicated.
I stopped working in my second trimester & stayed at home and then the boredom hit. The internet was coming more & more available in New Zealand so I decided to jump on & that's when I first found out about scrapbooking. I was on some American forums that talked about scrapbooking, so of course I did a search on it & realised that in a very basic fashion I had been scrapbooking for years. Then I found out that the wonderful magnetic photo albums that I had stored my photos in was actually doing damage to my photos.
That's when my scrapbooking started & I have continued to do it. The next revelation was meeting up with my friend, who's now my upline, & she showed me her Stampin' Up! product. Wow that was an incredible day because all the product she showed me actually co-ordinated. It was incredible how easy it was to do scrapbooking when I knew that the ink, paper, cardstock, ribbon all co-ordinated perfectly.
A year later I joined Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator & still enjoy using product that co-ordinates, now for card making more than scrapbooking. I teach cardmaking, scrapbooking & hold workshops so that I can share what I love with everyone.
