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Archive for July, 2005Wouldn’t it be cool to put a recording in your scrapbook? I thought so too. And there is a way to do it. It is called Scrapbook Alive. You can record up to 10 seconds on a small (2 3/8″ long x 1.5″ width, 3/16″ thick) and include it in your album. These look so cool. I am going to get one when they hit the shelves in August. Their website says the supplies will be limited. What would I record? My daughter’s thoughts on the first day of school That’s a lot to cram into 10 seconds, but how cool to put the voices of your loved ones into your scrapbook. One of my summer project goals for this summer is to get my daughter’s school album caught up. She’s starting third grade this year and I want to get her preschool through second grade years done before the first day of school. Still have a little time to squeeze this project in. Since I am going back in time I made myself a checklist of the items I want to have for each year. At first I thought it would just be so I could gather up what I need for previous years. Now I see it is also a checklist for this year so I get the right shots and save the right stuff. Here is my list: First Day of School Photo Anybody have any other suggestions or ideas? Oh, I just found the cutest site for getting ribbon. The Ribbon Jar was created by Amber Lee after searching for ribbon she saw in magazines and not being able to find it anywhere by the yard. Frustrated she decided to take matters into her own hands, and began The Ribbon Jar. What I love about this site is the page where you can Shop by Color. Not so much THAT you can shop by color, but by HOW she has it set up. You should take a peek at it, it is just so cute. Do you use a lot of ribbon in your layouts? An article in the August 2005 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine by Faye Morrow Bell about using 15 minute blocks of time to organize your scrapbooking got me thinking about how being organized would really help me to get more scrapbooking done (and have more fun doing it). One of the reasons I don’t scrapbook more often is that I don’t have something ready to go. I think about running into my scrapbook room to work on a page or a layout and I realize that it will take the entire time I have available just to get ready to scrapbook. So, I’m going to follow Faye’s advice and spend 15 minute blocks of time in my scrapbooking room - just getting organized. When I have a few minutes instead of plopping down on the couch to watch another TV show I will head into my room. Here are a couple of the dozens of ideas she shares in the article. Journal a memory. Shop. Here are a few more places to get organizing ideas: Get Organized Today My friend Carolyn over at CropChic has jumped onto the paper bag album bandwagon. Having done an investigative report on the selling of these bags for up to $45 at eBay, she comments that “Scrapbooking has truly gone overboard when simple paper bags drive women into spending frenzies.” You can read her whole article on paper bag albums here. Also check out her layout of a paper bag album she created. (It is very cute and makes me want to go to a BBQ.) Maybe I need to actually see one of these to get the impact, but I just don’t get it at all. Don’t get me wrong, the paper bag albums I’ve seen are wonderful, yet I just cant’ get over what they are created on. On the other hand though, there are people out there who don’t “get” scrapbooking at all either. And, it doesn’t take much to whip a bunch of scrapbooking women into a buying frenzy either =:) Sometimes my scrapbooking seems to be all about holidays, family events or special occasions. As if our life is only comprised of these special events. But in reality, we spend more time just living our normal life. Shouldn’t the regular days of our life be included in our scrapbooks? I think so. Rebecca Sower, one of my favorite scrapbooking authors, wrote a book called Scrapbooking Life’s Little Moments and it is all about that. What a great book. By the time I read the first few tips I felt inspired to journal more, to capture more of the details that make up my life and flat out wanted to cry just thinking about some of the emotions I could capture. For the record, I do not easily cry. Nor am I an overly emotional person. Frankly, I am working on feeling more emotions and connecting my head and my heart. So Rebecca’s book is perfect for me right now.  Creating Keepsakes - Scrapbooking Life’s Little Moments by Rebecca Sower Here are a couple of the What does it mean to you to curl up with your little one each evening to read a bedtime story? What does it mean to you to be driving with your husband and and hear the song you feel in love to on the radio? What does it meant o you when you hear your national anthem and see your nation’s flag wave? I highly recommend this book! Are you a Rebecca Sower fan too? Today my daughter and I went to a wedding for a friend of mine. I had decided I wanted to do a small gift album for them and went with my camera loaded with film and the idea that I was going to take photos of each guest and have them write a little note on a journal box. However when I got there I saw that one of the other guests was doing a memory quilt and already had a table set up to have people write on the pre-made quilt squares. I figured people would be overloaded by all the memory creating - so I went with plan B. I took all the pictures I didn’t see the wedding photographer taking. When the family was lining up to get the official family shot, I took the family photo from behind. I grabbed a shot of the bride’s dad taking a picture. I took photos of the centerpieces. I even took some of the food. A solid roll of film of the unusual details of the wedding. So I really hope that all these turn out and that the album is a good one. I’ll let you know when I get it done (hopefully next weekend). Have you ever done a small gift album for anyone? This is my first for a non-family member. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I have officially discovered blinkies. When I started hanging out at the message board at Two Peas in a Bucket I noticed that some “peas” (what they call people who post messages there) had these really cute blinking buttons at the bottom of their messages. So I emailed a fellow pea and asked what they are. Blinkies. She said to just Google them and I would find millions. No kidding. I did. Anyway, here are a few I collected this morning and some places to get them. Be careful - they are like potato chips, you can’t get just one.
Some places to get blinkies: Is it just me or do you sometimes think some of us go a little crazy with our scrapbook art? Especially at the risk of our photos. I just received an e-zine that featured an article about making your own embellishments. OK, if someone wants to take the time to do that, great. Personally, I’d rather get another page done with that same time. But I digress… This article was talking about finding materials around the house. Even suggesting that the back piece of cardboard from any pad of paper could be used. Now I may be being anal-retentive (yes, there IS a hyphen in that =:) but it seems to me that with an almost 100% certainty that that piece of cardboard is not photo-safe. No matter how much paint or chalk or other stuff is coated onto it, it would still ruin your photos over time. Right? Of course I haven’t yet taken the art of scrapbooking out of my photo pages. (Frames, purses, wallets, paper bags, etc.) So maybe I am just too focused on photos and preserving them for the future. Maybe the article was a little less about photo scrapbooking and more about the arts and crafts… Anybody else think about this stuff or is it just me? |
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