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Scrap In Style TV is the result of a dream…a really big dream, like a "I'm gonna run for senator someday" kind of dream. It was something I really never thought would actually happen. Developing and hosting a TV show that combines my passion for scrapbooking, with (ok, confession time) my love of performing and being in front of the camera? Impossible! I mean I'm 36 years old, I have five children, I thought my life was pretty well set out before me. But here we are, almost three years after the idea was first offered up by my husband, Bob. Yep, here we are and it is real, and it has turned out exactly how I envisioned it would be. I mean it's taken some turns and evolved a lot from its original conception, but now it's become exactly what I would personally want from a show like this. Yeah, it's crafty and everything, but it's also part reality show and part talk show. You got your education, your information AND (hopefully) your entertainment. I promise that you're not just going to sit there and watch me make stuff all the time. I mean, you can watch yourself make stuff, right? You don't need to watch me do it! Well, not all the time, anyway. You're going to see things that are centered around the scrapbooking lifestyle…like interviews with popular designers, fun challenges that you can take with your friends, and even watching a piece of paper go from an idea to the foundation of a memory evoking piece of art.

When it came time to start pitching the show to networks, I just kept having this nagging feeling that as soon as a network picked up the show, it would change. Like I would lose creative control and end up having to produce something that I wasn't completely proud of. I just knew that I had a strong vision for it, and I would be devastated if I had to sway too far from it. I needed to do something to ensure that didn't happen.

With the popularity of YouTube.com and OnDemand television programming, it seemed obvious that Web based TV was the wave of the future. People can watch whenever they want, commercial free and as often as they like. And a niche show like this seemed a perfect candidate for this new kind of programming. Offering what we are calling the "Lo Fi" version of the show on the web, we hope to create awareness and popularity of it to the public in it's pure format. That way if a cable network were to come along with interest, they can see that our format has already been proven to some extent via the Internet and they would allow us to retain creative control.