I can honestly say I have never said the following phrase before, but I kinda wish I lived in Indiana. No, not for the people - although I’m sure they’re really nice. I have no idea what the weather is like. And I would miss my Colorado mountains like crazy. But I’m pretty certain if I lived in Indiana, especially near South Bend, that I would be a regular at Theresa Casad’s modern farmhouse scrapbooking store, called Studio C.

Here’s how Heidi Prescott, a columnist at the South Bend Tribune described it in her article Historic farmhouse unique setting for scrapbooking:

“I’m a conservative person, not a real big risk taker,” says Casad, who until recently was business manager at the provost’s office at Notre Dame. “But I don’t scrapbook much at stores, because the main thing I’m missing is my computer. This is what I felt I was missing when scrapbooking.”

So her shop is different. She has created a place for scrappers to buy supplies and crop, as well as print, crop and enlarge photographs on computers with the necessary software.

After the new year, Casad plans to unveil a do-it-yourself studio — where scrappers can take their own photos of their kids using store equipment and have them printed.

“We’re trying to be a place that you can start and finish a project completely,” she says. “You don’t have to run out to make any adjustments if photos are the wrong size.”

The farmhouse Studio C lives in was built around 1866. Just think, preserving family history in a building built around the time of the Civil War. And, you have access to a computer at the same time. Just sounds so danged fun.

Good luck, Theresa with your new store. Thanks, Heidi for writing about it.

Anybody up for a road trip to Indiana?

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