Generally I feel as if I am 27 years old.
My favorite movie is the five-hour BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
During my life, I have lived in New York, Idaho, and Washington, all smallish towns until I moved to the big city of Spokane. For weeks, I was terrified to walk the few yards from my apartment to my car at night.
One of the most defining moments of my life was when I felt the first flutter of my first baby.
My camera is a Sony Alpha 100, and my favorite lens is a 50mm. (But I actually miss my Panasonic Lumix that hubs accidentally dipped in the Pacific Ocean.)
When I scrapbook, I must have my T-square, a journaling pen, and a place to stand.
Though I began scrapbooking in 1997, I don't think I found my groove until 10 years later. That's when I finally stopped trying to do what I thought everyone else would do on a page.
My favorite scrapbooking colors are white, brown, orange, blue and green.
You might notice that many of my pages include handwritten journaling.
Melissa has always been driven to create, whether it's a new cookie recipe, making valances from a tablecloth, or a piece of home decor from patterned paper and an old window. Along with having work published in several scrapbooking and papercrafting magazines, she has taught scrapbooking classes, participated on design teams, and was selected as a 2009 Simple Gal by Simple Scrapbooks magazine. Melissa has been married to Dave for 14 years and loves being home with their daughter and three sons in eastern Washington.
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