Fabulous School Products for Scrapbooking

It is back to school time, and with that comes the planning of school photographs, school albums and school layouts. Are you ready? You can be ready by taking a look at these fantastic products that will help you create gorgeous layouts. KI Memories always has some of the cutest products for back to school time. Their coordinated lines make creating layouts faster and easier which lends for more pages and completed albums! From rub-ons and stickers, to clear rubber stamps and some of the most luscious patterned papers, your layouts will truly shine with these KI Memories products. Cosmo … Continue reading

Stock Your Scrapbook Room For Less Now

There is nothing better than getting inspired by stuff you find around your scrapbook room. And now is a great time to stock up on some great supplies to fill your scrapbook room. Why? It’s back to school time of course. Back to school sales are a great time to get some cool products and embellishments for your scrapbook layouts. So what kind of things work in that back to school aisle? Let me tell you. Papers/Stationary – A quick walk through of not only our local office supply store, but also a local discount chain proved to be quite … 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

Taking the First Day of School Picture

It is a yearly tradition at our home, and has been since my children were starting Kindergarten. I’m referring to the first day of school picture. Many families plan this photo opportunity every single year on the first day of school. Does your family do this? If you don’t, or you forgot and even if your children are already back to school – it isn’t too late. There’s nothing wrong with staging a photograph, the point is to capture them at their current age. There are several ways you can go about the first day of school picture. We try … Continue reading

School Scrapbooking – Meet the Teacher Ideas

Last night was ‘Meet the Teacher’ night at our elementary school. It seems early doesn’t it? But in reality, we are in a year-round school system and we start our new school year tomorrow. Oddly, on a Thursday. There are pro’s and con’s to being in school ‘year-round’ as they call it. Plenty of longer breaks, half days and other luxuries that more traditional schools don’t enjoy. My children have been in both traditional and year-round, and I have never even thought of creating a scrapbook layout depicting the difference and how I feel about each one. That is certainly … Continue reading

Scrapbooking Week in Review For April 14-20, 2008

With the sunshine replacing many of the rainy days we have been having, I have been trying to enjoy the weather whenever I can. This means I don’t have as much time to scrapbook, but it does mean I have a bit more time to write as I bring my laptop to the park or wherever I am planning on going. This is what I wrote while I was out and about this week. Adding a Bit of Flair on Layouts With Chalk Chalks, also known as pastels are so much fun to use on your scrapbook layouts. The vast … Continue reading

Creating a School Year Scrapbook

Education is our future. Our children are in school an enormous part of their young lives. Learning and growing right before our eyes, and if we blink, we will miss it. So how do you go about scrapbooking those important years? Create a school year scrapbook and add it to it each year. With five children, creating a school year scrapbook was an easy and necessary decision. We take so many photographs and attend so many events during the school year, there was just no possible way to include it all in our regular albums. At least not on individual … Continue reading

Scrapbooking Week in Review for March 3-9, 2008

Did you remember to turn your clocks forward an hour this weekend? I love having the extra hour of daylight in the daytime, as it tends to make me feel more productive and I get a lot more accomplished. Take this time to get caught up on all your scrapbooking projects from winter, so you can move into the beauty of Spring with a clean, fresh slate. Here’s what’s been happening in the scrapbooking blog this week. How To Get More Scrapbooking Done This Week Do you feel as if you have absolutely no time to sit down and create … Continue reading

Organizing a School Years Scrapbook (2)

School year scrapbooking can be difficult for parents, because sometimes we are unsure of what our children might wish to retain in the future, and what might be best that we just toss now. Here are a few tips I use to sort through my children’s school work and decide what to keep for now. First, if the item is three dimensional, in other words, it won’t fit into the scrapbook, either I take a photograph of it (usually art projects, science fair projects, etc.) and then I throw it away. The photograph serves as a good enough memory, and … Continue reading

Frugal Living Week in Review for September 3-9, 2007

It was a short week with the Monday holiday, and getting back into the swing of things again on Tuesday threw me off the rest of the week, and I was always a day behind. However, the blogs here at families.com were still filling up with excellent articles on every topic you could want. Let’s see what happened in the frugal living blog this week. More Frugal Decorating With Flea Market Finds Lately I have been obsessed with decorating my home. Partly because we are putting it on the market, and partly because I know we will be getting a … Continue reading