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Seasonal Scrapbook Savers

Unless you are purchasing a gift for a fellow crafter or you absolutely have to have a holiday-themed memory album complete by Sunday, I would avoid purchasing Christmas-themed scrapbooking embellishments in the next 48 hours. Rather, if you wait until next week, you will be able to score great deals at post-holiday sales. There is no shortage of holiday-themed scrapbooking supplies on the market right now. However, these products can often be very expensive. If you’re a frugal scrapbooked, you’ll wait to stock up on seasonal goods when they go on sale. You can stretch your scrapbooking dollar even further … Continue reading →

Great Gifts for the Genealogists in Your Family

There will always be some people in your family that are difficult to buy gifts for. If you are a genealogist, then you will intrinsically know what the other genealogists in the family would want for Christmas. Those of you who are not at all interested in genealogy may want to select a gift from this handy list. If the family genealogist is somehow not already using Ancestry.com, then it would be a great idea to get that person a Gift Membership to the website. Ancestry.com is probably the most popular genealogy website of them all, so, you may want … Continue reading →

Great Genealogy Gifts to Give and Get

The other day, I received an email that made me laugh. The email was from Ancestry.com, and the title of the email was “Ancestors Make the Perfect Stocking Stuffers”. Obviously it was an email designed to advertise gift memberships to Ancestry.com, but it still made me giggle as I pictured adults walking into their living rooms and seeing the ghosts of long-deceased relatives sitting in Christmas stockings hung from the mantel. Okay, so I have a very active imagination, but there really is truth in the notion that beginning and expert genealogists alike might appreciate a gift membership to Ancestry.com … Continue reading →

Genealogy Project Idea – Halloween Scrapbook

Since it is September, Halloween candy and merchandise have been creeping onto the shelves for weeks now. This time of year is a lot of fun, and it brings back a lot of great memories from my childhood. While I remember quite a bit about the fun things that I did on Halloween when I was small I can’t help but wonder about what my parents and my in-laws and other relatives did when they were younger. One of the great things about genealogy is that when you do genealogy as a hobby, you constantly get all of these fun … Continue reading →

Teacher Thank You Scrapbook

I am a Recess Mom, not Room Mom at my daughter’s school, yet somehow I got suckered into helping put together an end-of-the-year thank you scrapbook for a couple of educators. Granted, one of the teachers is my daughter’s homeroom teacher and the other is the music teacher, but I’m not an expert scrapper, so I refused to take on the entire job. Fortunately, the mom in charge delegated the work so that none of the moms who volunteered to help would be stuck making pages and pages of layouts solo. My task was to find a list of appropriate … Continue reading →

Do Dads Scrapbook?

I recently posted a blog about the excitement surrounding national scrapbook conventions. The hugely popular events attract scrappers from around the world, including men. Yes, real men scrap. At least that’s the word from an artist friend of mine who happens to be a guy… and who actually has designed some amazingly detailed scrapbook layouts. I should clarify that he doesn’t scrap in the traditional sense. Rather than attend crops or meet up with fellow scrappers at the local craft store on weekends, my very masculine friend designs scrapbook pages that are used as store samples. He’s paid by companies … Continue reading →

Speedy Scrapbooking

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Sometimes I want to just sit an enjoy my art. I want to take it slow, and really make the perfect layout that I can cherish forever. Then, there are other days where I just want to get it done. I wish I could whip out 5 layouts, and move onto the pictures that I really feel passionate about making a great layout to honor those photos. So, sometimes, I wish I could scrapbook a little bit faster! One idea for helping you scrapbook a little faster could be to go through your supplies once a month and make yourself … Continue reading →

Creating a New Year’s Eve Scrapbook

New Year’s Eve is right around the corner. Have you been thinking about capturing memories of your New Year’s Eve celebrations? In our family we have the same tradition year after year. My husband splurges on a delicious home-cooked meal of lobster, steak and shrimp. We drink glass after glass of Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice and play games together as a family. We typically end the evening watching several episodes of “The Three Stooges.” While I always take pictures during Christmas celebrations, I hadn’t really considered doing that for New Year’s Eve. So this year I am going to start … Continue reading →

Ideas for a Winter Scrapbook

Living in Wisconsin we are always wondering when that first snow will come. This past weekend it happened and it was beautiful. Now I am actually not a fan of the cold nor am I really a fan of snow…I only enjoy it when it first falls. But alas, I am a Wisconsite. Snow is going to be part of my life whether I like it or not. So I have no choice but every winter to just suck it up and get out the shovel. If you live in a state where winter truly feels like winter you have … Continue reading →

Project Life- A Different Way to Scrapbook

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I ran across a different concept in scrapbooking that might be a great way for a person thinking about scrapbooking to try their hand at it. Although, this product is not specific to beginning scrappers, it can be used by anyone. I liked the idea of this as an avid scrapper myself, and thought I’d share. The product is called Project Life. Started by a Mom passionate about scrapbooking, this is a cool way to get started on your scrapbooking for the upcoming year, or start it right now! Basically, it is a kit that can be either digital or … Continue reading →