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Visit Your Home Storage Center

If you live near a church home storage center (also commonly referred to as a cannery), you should take advantage of this when planning and purchasing your food storage. Your ward may plan a trip or two every year, or you may be asked to volunteer your time at the cannery. Another option is to use the dry pack canner that your stake has and prepare your food that way. You may find that it is cheaper to purchase the food on your own, and then can it. You can order just the cans, lids and oxygen absorbers from the … Continue reading →

Photo Negative Safety Tips

Keeping negatives safe for centuries to come is important. There is nothing worse than having a photograph get damaged, only to find out that the negative is also damaged and more than likely the photo is not replaceable. That can easily lead to broken hearts as well as no memory connection for future generations. Do Not Let Them Touch Store negatives in sleeves or in some other system where multiple negatives cannot touch each other. This is important to avoid scratches, or if by some horror the negatives became moist, they won’t stick together if they aren’t touching each other. … Continue reading →

How to Best Organize Your Negatives

Negatives are a pretty important part of photography. If you took picture prior to your digital, you have negatives. There is not much of a way around it. However, knowing how to properly organize and store negatives is something you might be doing for a long time to come. Without negatives you cannot reprint photographs, or even print any at all. I have hundreds upon hundreds of those tiny little strips in my possession – not only mine, but some of my extended families too. Figuring out how to organize them and store them was simply a nightmare at first. … Continue reading →

Completed Layout Storage Ideas From a Stacker (2)

Yesterday I asked if you were a stacker. So are you? In other words, do you let your layouts pile up before you get them into your albums? Many scrapbookers do this because they want to keep their layouts in order, without having to disassemble a scrapbook album each time they complete a layout. I am offering up some great storage ideas from other scrapbookers to help you out with your stacking problem. Although I still encourage you to get them into albums as soon as possible, in the meantime here are a few more storage ideas: Plastic Drawers/Containers Other … Continue reading →

Album Storage Tips

After you have invested time and energy, as well as your whole heart into the beautiful layouts that fill your scrapbook album, what do you do with it? I would hope that you would place the albums somewhere handy and accessible so that others might enjoy your work as often as they like. A bookshelf in the living room, or on the coffee table. Perhaps you could purchase a special basket to put under the coffee table with your albums in it. Regardless of where you decide to keep them, there are a few things you need to remember. Keep … Continue reading →

Simplify Your Kitchen and Get the Room You Always Wanted

Creating a simple, organized and calm kitchen may be easier than you think. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and having a place of peace where you can gather with your friends and family to create warm filling meals can change the whole atmosphere of your home. If dread walking into your kitchen now because of the pile of dishes, the stack of mail, the sticky countertops, then know that it doesn’t need to be this way. It all starts with simplifying your kitchen in a number of ways that turns it from just a utility room into … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Scrapbook

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to scrapbook. The colors of the changing leaves, the smell of fall in the air and all the family gathered together over a feast all make for great photos and memories. You will want to remember these memories for a lifetime so scrapbook about it while the time is still fresh. To help you with your scrapbooking here are some great quotes and sayings to add to your pages. Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings for Your Scrapbook: Judy Hand (author): An open home, an open heart, here grows a bountiful harvest. French Proverb: Gratitude is the … Continue reading →

When Stockpiling Doesn’t Make Sense

Stockpiling is a good way to save money. Having things on hand that you bought on sale gives you the insurance that you won’t have to buy something at full price out of obligation because you’ve run out of the item. Stockpiling food in a pantry can also ensure that there is always something that you can cook at home, eliminating the need to run out and buy and expensive restaurant or take out meal. But, there are some times when stockpiling just doesn’t make sense. Here is a guide that you can compare against your own stockpiling habits to … Continue reading →

Iron Deficiency

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According to the World Health Organization, iron deficiency is the number one nutritional disorder in the world — as much as eighty percent of the world population may be iron deficient. As much as thirty percent of the world population may have anemia resulting from iron deficiency. Iron deficiency usually develops gradually. It starts in the body with a negative iron balance — when your iron intake doesn’t meet the body’s daily need for iron. At first, your body’s stores of iron are depleted but the hemoglobin level in your blood stays the same. Anemia develops when the body’s iron … Continue reading →

How to Get Great Pictures

The question is often asked, “How do I get great pictures?”. There is no need to be an expert photographer to get good pictures nearly every time. In fact, you don’t need to take a class to be an expert photographer, but you do need to be aware of a few things to ensure that you have a greater chance at getting those perfect scrapbook worthy shots more often. 1. Don’t think you know everything there is. Often, an overly confident amateur photographer thinks that there is nothing left to learn. This is not true at all. There is always … Continue reading →