bombalurina59
Member
Like Maja before me I've been "lurking" in the forum for quite a while and like Maja, I'm originally from Germany. But let's start at the beginning: My name is Andrea, I'm 54 years old, married (but separated from my husband) and mother of a 21-year old son. In March 2013 I've moved here to gorgeous South-West Wales in the UK to live and work with my "childhood sweetheart" - we got back together again after not having had any contact for 36 years...but that's another story...maybe one day I'll tell it... 
I started digiscrapping in 2009 when a severe illness resulted in the loss of my left arm and I was desperately looking for something that could replace my love for all things crafty. My best friend sent me some links to some digiscrapping sites and well, what can I tell you, I was hooked! I have tried my hand at various styles of scrapping and find myself drawn more and more towards the more arty kind of layout. I find there is just so much still to learn and I want to move on now. This is in fact how I "stumbled" across the "O". I was fascinated by all the fantastic arty pages in your gallery and I just wanted to learn how "to do something like this". So I might bug you ladies with loads and loads of questions in the future and I hope you're not going to get fed up with me!
My other passions in life are nature (I sure am in the right place for that here), books (crime novels and historical novels mostly), cooking and baking (something I share with the love of my life), antiques and collectables (which we sell through various channels) and of course the love of my life.
Well, another thing I seem to have in common with Maja is that I chat a lot (or is that perhaps a German thing???) and again I hope you're not going to get fed up with me.
I've found everybody here very friendly and helpful and so very generous with their praise. So, if you'll have me I'd like to stick around for a while...
I started digiscrapping in 2009 when a severe illness resulted in the loss of my left arm and I was desperately looking for something that could replace my love for all things crafty. My best friend sent me some links to some digiscrapping sites and well, what can I tell you, I was hooked! I have tried my hand at various styles of scrapping and find myself drawn more and more towards the more arty kind of layout. I find there is just so much still to learn and I want to move on now. This is in fact how I "stumbled" across the "O". I was fascinated by all the fantastic arty pages in your gallery and I just wanted to learn how "to do something like this". So I might bug you ladies with loads and loads of questions in the future and I hope you're not going to get fed up with me!
My other passions in life are nature (I sure am in the right place for that here), books (crime novels and historical novels mostly), cooking and baking (something I share with the love of my life), antiques and collectables (which we sell through various channels) and of course the love of my life.
Well, another thing I seem to have in common with Maja is that I chat a lot (or is that perhaps a German thing???) and again I hope you're not going to get fed up with me.
I've found everybody here very friendly and helpful and so very generous with their praise. So, if you'll have me I'd like to stick around for a while...
