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Get Set for Holiday Scrapbooking

Have you been to Michaels lately? Step inside and you may wonder what month it is. My local Michaels has two medium-sized displays of Halloween items and right behind them are 10 aisles filled with Christmas merchandise. Nothing like getting a jump start on your holiday scrapbooking. I didn’t have it in me to browse through all of the Christmas-themed supplies; however I did notice that Michaels is having a sale on cardstock. If you are planning to do a lot of scrapping during the holidays, now is the time to stock up on cardstock. Generally, you can purchase cardstock … Continue reading →

Money Saving Ways to Prepare for Christmas Now!

Yes, the summer is still here, and temperatures may still be in the 90s or higher, but it is a perfect time to start making some preparations for Christmas right now. From gifts and decorations to food and entertainment, making the right moves now will be big savings during one of the toughest seasons for the budget. Stock up on the following items during the summer and fall, while you still can. Fresh Produce You’ll get the best prices on fresh produce right now, thanks to the bounty of late summer. Blueberries, strawberries, cherries, corn and other fruit and vegetables … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Tools Doing Double Duty

Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day quite like a Cricut machine. Hint. Hint. My neighbor’s living room windows are freshly decorated with large hearts made from exquisite patterned scrapbook paper. Eye candy indeed. When my 7-year-old queried her on where we could buy “some of those pretty hearts” to embellish our windows, my neighbor sweetly replied: “Honey, I used my Cricut to make them.” She then promptly invited my kid over to craft some for her bedroom window. “Rub it in, why don’t you?” I’m pretty sure that was my exact retort. So, yes, a Cricut is truly an investment that … Continue reading →

Winter Scrapbooking Sub-Themes

After I put the finishing touches on my holiday-themed memory books, I usually take a break from scrapbooking for a few weeks. January is typically a quiet month in our family. We celebrate very few birthdays and even fewer anniversaries during the first month of the year. However, since I am obligated to create a monthly layout for my Year in Review scrapbook, I still have to come up with at least one event to scrap. In years past I have crafted pages with photos of my daughter’s outdoor winter adventures, including skiing, sledding, ice skating, and snowman-building. So far … Continue reading →

Seasonal Scrapbook Checklist

T-minus five days until Santa sets out on his annual gift-giving all-nighter. By now your halls should be decked and ready for loved ones to share in the holiday merriment. If you are planning to document the upcoming seasonal celebrations in a scrapbook, now is the time to make your list and check it twice. Make sure your camera has extra batteries and an empty memory card, so you don’t have to worry about missing any of the magical moments. Also, have a pen and pad ready to document funny anecdotes that abound when you have multiple generations of family … 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 →

Collecting For Christmas Layouts

Tomorrow is the first day of December, and we all know how fast that month flies by. The countdown to Christmas is officially underway and the chaos will likely continue into the New Year. Consequently, now is the time to start stocking up on items you plan to incorporate into your holiday-themed scrapbooks. I’m not suggesting you leave home right now to purchase Christmas-themed stickers, die cuts and stamps. In fact, you might want to hold off on buying bulk purchases of seasonal items if you know your local scrapbook supply shop will put them on clearance in early January. … Continue reading →

Incorporating Other People’s Words Into Your Layouts

In a previous blog I shared some of the poems I plan to use in my Thanksgiving layouts. If you are like me, and struggle to express your innermost thoughts in a journaling block, then it helps to know that there are places you can visit for inspiration. Fortunately, the Internet is teeming with easy to navigate sites, which feature poems that are appropriate for scrapbooking. One of my favorites is PoemSource.com. It is loaded with warm words that are a welcome addition to any Thanksgiving-themed page design. Another site worth visiting if you have writer’s block is AbundantFun.com. The … Continue reading →

Own Your Layout

My family and I spent the past month in Hawaii visiting my parents, brothers, cousins and friends. It was a joyous time filled with love and laughter… and a few tiffs. We didn’t fight, but we did engage in some heated debates, but they weren’t about politics or religion; rather, they had to do with scrapbooking. More specifically, they were about the use of quotes in a scrapbook layout. Strange, right? I know, but here’s the background. While we were home for the holidays, my aunt and cousin decided to put together a Christmas-themed memory book using all of the … Continue reading →

Christmas Cookie Scrapbook

Now I’ve seen everything. Yesterday I popped into my local scrapbook supply store to pick up an extra pack of holiday-themed stickers for a layout I am creating to display my daughter’s school Christmas concert photos, but what to my wondering eyes should appear: a Christmas cookie scrapbook. I’m not sure I would have believed it unless I saw it with my own two eyes. Sitting in the middle of the display table was a pimped out Christmas recipe scrapbook filled exclusively with amazing photos of the most divine cookies known to man and directions on how to make them … Continue reading →