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Decorating With Gratitude

It’s Thanksgiving. This means that around the country, people are sitting with family and friends, sharing food and family time. Perhaps that family is a family of two, or it might be a family of twenty and counting. Perhaps that family is a family of friends and neighbors, of people who are dear to you. It may be that you are alone today, sharing this time with your own thoughts. Sometimes it can be hard to feel thankful. We live in a time of great change, when families are challenged to live within their own means and the means of … Continue reading →

15 Writing Prompts for Thanksgiving

This week we are exploring ways that we can blend Thanksgiving and homeschooling. We’ve already talked about 25 Books about Thanksgiving and today we are going to focus on writing. Just in case you don’t know what a writing prompt is. . .use any one of these questions or lines as an idea starter for your child’s journal. 1. Make a list of 25 things you are Thankful for. 2. Create a collection of family recipes for Thanksgiving. 3. Write a letter to another country where there is no Thanksgiving. Try to convince them that they should institute the holiday. … Continue reading →

A Journal Making Party (2)

Hopefully you got a chance to read the first article in this series: A Journal Making Party (1). Here are a few ways to help make your Journal Making Party more fun! First, be sure to read the three articles I wrote mentioned in the previous blog, so that you are aware of how to create and design them. A couple of cute food ideas for the Journal Making Party: Alphabet soup Punch or Juice (called Journaling Juice) Cookies (be sure and cut them with alphabet cookie cutters) flexible licorice (to form letters with) A couple of fun games you … Continue reading →

A Journal Making Party (1)

Journal making is a fun and frugal way to spend time with friends and enjoy the art of scrapbooking without actually scrapbooking. As most of you know, I am the queen of journaling (and frugality really) and so of course I have to have journals scattered throughout my home. A couple of weekends ago, our entire family, including myself (and I’ve already made several) created journals for fun. I have taken great pleasure in watching the kids use them. One of our girls loves to draw Manga (Japanese animation) so she has chosen to use her journal for that. Another … Continue reading →

A Scrapbook Journal Making Party – a Personal Experience

Over the weekend, our entire family, that’s seven of us, sat down for a journal making session. Our four girls are extremely creative, as is our boy and mom and dad too. After I made my previous journals, and wrote three articles titled: Designing a Journal (1) , Designing a Journal (2) and Designing a Journal (3), everyone in our family got excited and wanted to make them too. I purchased tons of composition books, I think our count was at twenty last time I checked, but at our journal making session we made six. There are sales everywhere on … Continue reading →

Decorating a Journal (3)

It’s not time to actually begin your journal. If you a true scrapbooker, you want this to be a true reflection of yourself and show off your personality a bit. Of course we can record the everyday mundane things, but try to spice it up a little. Here are a few examples on how: Include Pictures Yep, just adhere them right to your page and journal around them. Either use up duplicates, or take a few new ones. Cut out of magazines, photos that interest you or set a mood for how you feel that day. If you have a … Continue reading →

Decorating a Journal (2)

Yesterday, I explained the basic instructions for decorating your journal. In this article, I’d like to focus on the extra touches you can do to make the album a personal reflection of you, and just to make it stand out. I created two recently. The first, shown at left, was a composition notebook that I covered with two different sheets of patterned paper. I chose a dark green patterned paper, to accompany the aged tan paper with the leaves all over it. I immediately loved the look, but then I am very drawn to autumn and fall colors. I decided … Continue reading →

Decorating a Journal (1)

Obviously, my addiction with journaling on my layouts, rolls over to my everyday life. It can’t be helped. I love writing and I love preserving my memories. I believe most scrapbookers do. I recently went out to purchase a couple of composition notebooks so I could journal a couple of new topics. Composition notebooks seem to be my favorite journals of choice. I like that I can decorate them, there’s plenty of room and they are the perfect size. Decorating the journal is probably the most fun part. I started mine last night, and just love how they are turning … Continue reading →

An Abbreviated History of Santa Claus

It is that time of year when all things holiday take center stage. For families with children, Santa Claus may be a topic of daily or almost daily discussion. Leave it to the youngsters to come up with endless questions about the mysterious jolly old man in the red suit. What is his favorite food? How does he fit down the chimney? What does he do at houses where there is no chimney? Don’t the reindeer get tired flying all that way? All these questions and more are probably familiar to parents, and they may even remember asking those questions … Continue reading →

Frugal Scrapbook Fun

My 7-year-old has been on summer vacation for nearly two weeks and I only got around to sorting through her bulging backpack yesterday. She brought the bag home on the last day of school crammed with the contents of her desk and nine month’s worth of junk. Given my frugal nature, I refused to dump all of her school supplies in the trash. Rather, I painstakingly sorted through the pile of used items to see which ones I could salvage for the upcoming school year. Obviously, I couldn’t save it all, but there were many materials that could either be … Continue reading →