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The Greatest Scrapbooking Challenges

Scrapbooking is a fun and creative hobby, which helps to create a lasting legacy for our future generations. For some it is nothing more than a creative outlet, but for many of us, it is truly a hobby in which we enjoy getting our photographs scrapped and into our albums and showing them off to our family and friends. Yet still, no matter how much we love our hobby, there are challenges that many of us face. Here are the three greatest scrapbooking challenges. Time It has been said before, time management has become such a problem for many that … Continue reading →

How Do I Find Time To Scrapbook?

School’s officially out for the summer, the children are home full-time, and unless they are in a rigorous camp program, you are bound to be entertaining at some point. Most people assume that when summer approaches, they will have more time to relax, more time to do the things they want to do, this isn’t always true. Summertime brings people outside, through camping trips and swimming, camp programs and fairs and carnivals, and the list goes on and on. Summertime is statistically the time when the most people enjoy being outdoors. As we all know, scrapbooking is not really an … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for January 1-6, 2008

The New Year is upon us and with that comes new goals, new tips and new articles here on families.com. The scrapbooking blog is once again buzzing with activity and will continue to grow and broaden during the year. We will be taking a look at a few forgotten categories and helping those flourish. Here’s what has been up in the scrapbooking blog this past week. Is Scrapbooking Dying Out? When you’re in the industry as long as I have been, you tend to see different trends come and go, different products reach their height and then die out, and … Continue reading →

Top 10 Scrapbooking Organizational Articles

Organization is key to a productive scrapbooking hobby. Knowing where your things are, and being able to access them easily is key to time management and giving yourself a bit more time to scrapbook. These are the top 10 articles on scrapbooking organization. I hope they help you as much as getting organized has helped me with my scrapbooking. It’s a whole lot easier to get some pages complete when I know what I have and where it is. 1. Color Sorting For Organization Color sorting has become a favorite, easy to use way, for scrapbookers to organize their dozens … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Week in Review for July 9th to July 15th, 2007

It’s hot, sticky, wet and just generally, almost border line miserable around here. In fact, if I’m not in the pool, I’m seeking out the air-conditioned basement, where I can sit in my scrap room and create for hours. I also try to catch up on my scrapbooking mags and idea books during this time of year too. Anything to keep busy in the air conditioning. So what can you catch up on this week in the Scrapbooking Blog? Monday July 9th Life is full of annoying things. And no matter how blessed we are, or feel, they can sometimes … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking Time Management Tips

One of the largest complaints I hear from scrapbook supply collectors, aka scrapbookers, is that they have a difficult time finding time, or making time to scrapbook. This can be a real problem when you have loads of photographs to scrapbook and you keep taking more. But there are a few ways you can combat this issue. Organization – The first step to good time management is simply to get organized. Give all of your scrapbooking supplies and tools a home. Everything should have a place. And in addition to that, organizing your photographs should be a priority too. Lists … Continue reading →

More Tips to Organizing Your Scrapbooking

Here are a few more tips for organizing your scrapbooking and time. These methods should help you with time management as well as keeping your creativity flowing. Store small items with care – Lisa Andrews recently wrote the article Scrapbook Organization: Small Embellishments. She offered some great advice on storing smaller embellishments. It’s important to take great care when organizing these smaller items and storing them. If they accidentally get dropped or knocked it can be quite the mess to clean up. Practicing good storage on these items, can ensure that never happens. Keep your mementos together – If you … Continue reading →

Frugal Living for Large Families – A Whole Different Story

Large families are becoming increasingly more and more common. Mostly because of the step family or blended family generation, however some families are still choosing to expand the traditional way too. With the increase of larger families, it is an important area to consider in the topic of frugal living. Not only is parenting a larger family a challenge, but so are many other aspects of the large family dynamics. It seems difficult to save money when you have a large family. With an increase in monthly bills, groceries, gifts, clothes and other items, it doesn’t seem possible. However, it … Continue reading →