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Zylie the Bear Sends the Right Message

She is 12 years old, adventurous, curious, stylish, brave, and she’s a bear! Zylie the Bear is like the American Girl of bears. Mary Beth Minton and her son, Matt, created Zylie to give children a play experience that is not only fantastic but educational. In a world where toys are plastic and steal the imaginations of children with fixed ideas, Zylie and her friend Shen the Panda are a breath of fresh air. Quality toys that inspire imagination, spark curiosity about the world around the child, and will forever live in a child’s mind and heart is rare thing. … Continue reading →

Planning School Layouts in Advance

If you are like the majority of us, school is either already in session in your neck of the woods, or it is just about to start. In any case, you might find yourself with more time to scrapbook, and if this is the case, school layouts might be a top priority. School memories are important to capture each year as your child grows. I still enjoy looking back at the photo albums my mother put together reflecting my grade school and middle school years. I did my own high school album, and it is still one of my favorites … Continue reading →

Back to School Poems for Your Scrapbook Layouts

Back to school brings loads of layouts, and dozens of opportunities to capture those memories. Need some fun poems that are perfect for back to school pages? Look no further. Often I write my own poems for school pages. Sometimes they rhyme and sometimes they don’t. Here is a collection of poems I have in my back to school file collected from various sources. The First Day by Nicole Humphrey Climbing up the steps so huge, she holds onto the rail, I send her out in the great big world and pray she doesn’t fail. Down the street, the big … Continue reading →

School Layouts – Lunch and Recess

Most of the time, when children are asked about their favorite subject at school, lunch and recess are often included. No matter what classes your child is involved in, or what topics they learn about in school, there is one constant throughout elementary school. Lunch and recess. In an earlier article, Scrapbooking School Layouts, I shared with you a layout I did, when I just happened to be at my daughter’s school one day, that they had indoor recess. I was extremely happy I had my camera with me, and was able to capture the fun and games the kids … Continue reading →

Completing School Layouts

Commemorating your child’s school years, is almost as important as completing a baby book for each child. In fact, from personal experience, most children are much more likely to enjoy looking at recent photographs of themselves, than looking at photographs that don’t really resemble them at all. Children absolutely love looking at scrapbooks, especially at pictures of them doing things they enjoy. The joy of scrapbooking school memories, is that your child can be involved in each process. There are several different ways that scrapbookers choose to display school layouts. Some enjoy creating a yearly school album. Some continue to … Continue reading →

Surf Memories To Last A Lifetime

When I was in college word got around fast that I was from Hawaii. (Probably because I was attending school in Wisconsin.) Looking back it made total sense. After all: Michele + Winter Break = Free Place To Stay In Hawaii. Yes, I did have many friends spend their winter breaks with me in Hawaii, and not one left without pictures of themselves attempting to surf. My college pals weren’t the only ones trying to document their attempts at riding Hawaii’s waves. In most cases I was the designated photographer and often bumped into other friends and family members trying … Continue reading →

Preserving School Memories

Today I went to my daughter’s school to eat lunch with her because she was student of the week for her class. All of the other children who were student of the week in the class, their parents and the principal eat lunch up on the stage in the cafeteria. It was really fun and nice time for my daughter to feel special. But, guess what? I forgot to take my camera! I’m not too worried since we will have other great school experiences to capture in the future, but it got me thinking about all of the things I … Continue reading →

Family Project: Your Child’s Year In the Life

This year I’m diving into a new project at my daughter’s behest because it’s her first year in school as a kindergartener. The project requires the help of everyone in the family from both her grandmothers to her cousin to us as her parents. So what does this project entail? Let me give you a small description – for the scrapbookers out there, you’ll definitely understand what I’m talking about – but the idea is not to build a scrapbook so much as to let our daughter do it with the input and help of those around her. As a … Continue reading →

Mother’s Day Scrapbook

You might not be thinking about Mother’s Day yet but it’s a good time to start coming up with some creative gift ideas. A wonderful gift to present your mother with would be a scrapbook. A scrapbook that you create not only preserves special memories for her but gives that personal touch. There are so many different types of scrapbooks that you could create. If you can get your hands on some of her childhood pictures or memorabilia you could put together something very special. This treasured scrapbook could then be passed on down through the family. Another idea is … Continue reading →

Birthparents from the show 16 and Pregnant Have Bittersweet Moments But No Regrets

The same People magazine issue (October 5, 2009) that told Katherine Heigl’s joyous adoption story also featured an update on the adoption featured on MTV’s reality show, 16 and Pregnant. Four months after Catelynn Lowell and her boyfriend Tyler Baltierra placed their daughter with adoptive parents in North Carolina, they are starting their senior year of high school in Michigan–and coping with bittersweet moments haunted by memories of the baby who Catelynn says looks like both of them. The couple are at peace with their decision, however. They decided to make an adoption plan for their baby soon after they … Continue reading →