Hello,
I'm Anne Jo Lexander, also known as Ania to my friends and on the web. I'm currently a 28 29 30 y.o. dazed&confused scrapbooker living at the westcoast of Norway in Bergen with my two kids and husband. I currently work at the local newspaper as a photographer. I have been scrapbooking ever since I decided I wanted to do something special with the photos from my youngest childs christening, which was in fall 2005. The minute I found scrapbooking I was hooked and have never looked back since.
My scrapbooking style varies dependant upon my mood - personally I am fond of calling myself jack of all trades - master of noone. I try to go with the flow and am inspired by my photographs and the stories they have to tell. I also love how the products I use often speak to me and inspire my creativity - using a wide variety of product means that my style is often defined by the direction the product takes me.
To me scrapbooking is just not one thing - I scrap due to a multitude of reasons as to why even take up the photos and papers. One day it's because I want to preserve a funny story about my kids, the next day it might be because a special photo speaks to me and I just want to make a pretty page around it. Sometimes I just feel the urge to create whatever - as long as I am creating. Sometimes things on my mind just needs to be put on paper. And let's admit it - sometimes gorgeous papers and sassy embellishments just scream "use me!" to you. To me all of the different reasons and combinations of those are why I scrapbook and what keeps the hobby so interesting to me over time.
I have experience in teaching scrapbooking classes, both independently and having been a Prima Marketing and Tattered Angels endorsed educator in the past. For more information on teaching-experiences and classes, please see this post.
I also wrote for "Vi Scrapper", a Norwegian Scrapbook-magazine for about a year until they closed down feb 09.
To have a look at samples of my actual Design Team work, just scroll down this blog or click on the links below to get to a specific Design Team.
Past Design Teams:
You can find a box with links to my previous guest-design-gigs in the column to the right.
Additionally you can just look at the slider to the right, or click on any of the links to my external Online and/or Design Team Galleries (also found in the sidebar to your right).
Thank you for dropping by :)
