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Selling Your Work at Art Fairs and Craft Shows

If you are an artist or a crafter, you just might have the main ingredient for a successful home-based business. The things that you create are unique and beautiful, and there are many people out there that would love to purchase them so that they can enjoy them. Art and craft fairs and shows are a great way for home-based artists and crafters to show their works to a large audience, an audience that comes to the fairs and shows in search of that something special. One great thing about being an artist of crafter and selling your work at … Continue reading →

Catching Up Your Scrapbooking

If you feel like you are so far behind on scrapbooking that there is no sense even trying to catch up, hopefully this will blog will inspire you. There are some people that never move forward when they feel they are facing an impossible task. That’s because we tend to look at the big picture instead of the smaller pieces. If you were to put together a 1,000 piece puzzle you might feel overwhelmed when you consider the puzzle in its entirety. However, if you put the focus on doing just one piece of the puzzle at a time you … Continue reading →

Scrapping Your Child’s Favorite Sport

Are you ready for some football… scrapbooks? High school football is huge around these parts. We live in a rural area, so there isn’t much to do on a Friday night other than cheer on local high schools as they battle it out on the gridiron week after crisp fall week. Given my child’s age and gender, my family doesn’t frequent the games too often, but when we do, I am always shocked by the number of parents jockeying for space on the sidelines in order to snap keepers of their kids. Our neighbor’s son plays for one of the … Continue reading →

Digital Scrapbooking

In addition to the traditional art of scrapbooking, we now have another option to create beautiful layouts and preserve memories. With the added options of sound and moving images, digital scrapbooking is becoming very popular. A scrapbook, created on the computer using digital images, can be saved, printed, shared on blogs and email, and burned to a DVD. Here is an overview of some websites that allow free digital scrapbooking: Smilebox.com Users can create and personalize scrapbooks for free using Smilebox. Sharing your scrapbook is free as well. In order to print, burn to a DVD or eliminate advertisements, a … Continue reading →

How To Get More Scrapbooking Done This Week

Do you feel as if you have absolutely no time to sit down and create the beautiful layouts your mind and fingers desire to create? What if I told you I could help by offering a few tips to get you started? If you can adapt these into your everyday routine, you won’t just get more scrapbooking done this week, you’ll find the time to be creative much more frequently. Here are a few suggestions: Plan Your Meals: Yes. I know it has absolutely nothing to do with scrapbooking, but if you plan the meals you want to prepare in … Continue reading →

Your Book Club Meeting

Yesterday, we talked a little bit about book clubs – why you may want to belong to one, how to start one if there isn’t one in your area. Today I’d like to talk about the actual book club meeting and what it ideally entails. You’ve chosen your date, time and place, hopefully ones that coincide with the schedules of the majority of the members of the club. Now what happens? It all depends on the type of club you’ve established. The first is the more traditional – the members have each read the book and come prepared to discuss … Continue reading →

Pleasure Your Mate Month: Come to Your Senses

The month of September marks a lot of strange holidays and events, among them Pleasure Your Mate Month. Have you stopped to think about pleasuring your mate recently? What about the level of intimacy in your marriage or how to make your marriage sexier? Sex and marriage is a tricky –sometimes touchy (no pun intended)—- topic, but it’s important to keep a marriage sensual. But it’s also hard. Kids, work, schedules, deadlines, chores…they all conspire to suck the sexy out of marriage. There isn’t always enough time in the day, or energy at the end of one, to tend to … Continue reading →

The Best Articles for Journaling on Your Layouts

Journaling has got to probably be one of my favorite parts of scrapbooking. I love being able to write words that express how I felt about an event, or how I am feeling about that person. My children love to read what I have written, and all in all journaling is inspirational and feels good. The scrapbooking blog has dozens of great articles dealing with journaling. I thought I’d round-up the best of the best and put them all in once place. The Scrapbook Journaling Process: Why It’s Important Can you remember your child’s first word or perhaps the emotions … 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 Your Schedule

Schedules are important. For some people, they are the only way they know how to survive day to day. Everyone has one, even when they do not think they do. Waking up in the morning is even part of a schedule, even if it does occur at different times everyday. Scrapbooking your schedule might seem silly to you. But you would be surprised at how quickly our schedules change, even when they don’t feel like they do. And each member of your household usually has a different schedule, giving you multiple opportunities at different layouts. The best part is, they … Continue reading →