Announcing Featured Designer: Paula Yagisawa
- At February 3, 2012
- By Stacey
- In Featured Designers, News
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1. Do you keep a wishlist? If so, what is your MOST WANTED item at the moment?
No, I don’t keep a wishlist – but I’m always wanting natural looking elements.
2. What is your designing routine, i.e. do you get a snack, put on music, get organized and then work on a kit until its finished or do you pop in and out as time allows?
I’m a busy, busy mom and I never know what my schedule will be. Most of the time, my best scrapping/designing time is during the day when my kids are all at school. I usually work with the TV on (it keeps me company). I usually take about 2-3 days per kit – a full week if it’s a coordinated set of products.
3. When you scrap, do you use your own products?
I’d say that at least 95% of the pages I scrap are made with my own kits. Once in a while, I just love something from another designer or I work something up for a challenge.
4. What is your all-time favorite product OR what is your best selling product(s)?
My favorite kits (and they also tend to be good selling) are the ones that are really specialized. These were usually created for a special need of my own or for a friend; these would include kits about… soccer, ballet, hula, gymnastics, Japan, etc.
5. What are your reasons or motivations for digital scrapbooking?
Because of having family all over the world, I use scrapbooks as a way of keeping the grandparents up to day with the kids. Digital scrapbooking makes it easy to create albums that can be printed multiple times and shared as many times as I like.
6. What is the best food you ever ate? Describe.
LOL – this is a really hard question! I love food and have been to many unique places (and had many great meals in the process.) I’d have to say that the sushi we had in Japan at Omihotaru (a man-made island in the middle of Tokyo Bay) was about as good as it gets! The sushi was placed on a long conveyer belt and customers took the pieces they wanted. The bill was calculated according to the plates (each color/pattern of plate was a different price). I think we averaged over $75 per person in the group!
7. Where is your “happy place?”
At different times in my life, I’d give you different answers. But, right now, I’d have to say that the Mama-Rikyu Gardens in Tokyo, Japan are the place I visit in spirit to relax and find my focus.
You can see a LO about it here: http://digitalscrapbookpages.com/galleria/showphoto.php/photo/104515/title/hama28beach-29-rikyu28se/cat/all
8. If you won the lottery, how would you spend the winnings?
Repairing and fixing up our home first – visits to Japan would also be high on the list.
9. If you could meet anyone, dead or alive, who would you chose and what would you want to talk about?
I could be all deep and answer Christ, or someone else important in Christianity, but they all left behind the information that they wanted most for me to know. So, I have to say my mother’s father. He died when she was only 12, so I never got the chance to meet him and he never met me. I’d just want to know about his life and hear the stories that I’m sure he could share with me.
10. What else should we know about you?
I grew up as a “Military Brat” – that allowed me to see much of America and even Europe as a child/teen. My husband is Japanese – that’s why I’m so attached to Japan now! I have four children and one grandchild. I’m always busy, but I wouldn’t have a clue what to do with myself if I wasn’t busy!
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