My daughter’s last day of kindergarten was this week. As the end came near I kept trying to think of ways to remember this moment – this time when Kara was finishing up her first year of “real school.” I remembered an idea I had seen to have teachers sign the Oh The Places You’ll Go book by Dr. Seuss during a child’s education and give it to the child for a graduation gift. I ordered the hard copy version [more]
I’ve seen this balloon avalanche on Pinterest pinned several times. There was no link to the source so I can’t give credit to the originator. I finally repinned it and decided to try it out myself. As a former engineer I tend to overthink things. As I was blowing up the balloons I thought about how the balloons should start up higher so that it would really be an avalanche from above instead of just a balloon drop. That led [more]
It’s birthday season at my house. My kids have their birthdays less than 2 weeks apart. This year I decided to make their thank you cards easy. I took a picture of Kara with each friend at her birthday party. Then I used a 4×6 thank you overlay to turn each photo into an instant thank you card. The photo serves as both a thank you and memento of the occasion. Once I got the photos printed, my daughter and [more]
I started scrapbooking in 2003. My scrapbooking process is described in this post. In the last 9 years, I have created hundreds, maybe thousands of scrapbook layouts. How do I keep track of it all? I will go through the evolution of my tracking system. How It Began I started with a draft e-mail that I kept in my personal e-mail account. The list included the date and the subject/event of my layout. After a while I started listing all [more]
Kara has finished her preschool career and I wanted to finish her preschool scrapbook before her first day of kindergarten! I am happy to say that I achieved my goal. There are 55 scrapbook pages in Kara’s book! I used the We R Memory Keepers Faux Leather 12×12 3-Ring Binder Album (buttercup color) because it gives me a lot of flexibility in what I can include in the scrapbook. The layouts are in We R Memory Keepers 12×12 3-Ring Page Protectors [more]
I read about a wonderful idea to create a leap year time capsule from Ella Publishing yesterday. The idea is to create a snapshot of today and open it 4 years later. After I initially read the article I decided to go look for a container to put my time capsule items in but then a thought occurred to me. My scrapbooks are chronological and would be the ideal place to keep my time capsule. Then I knew that I [more]
I am a digital scrapbooker but I love to have my layouts printed and put them into scrapbook albums. I am currently preparing my Project 365 layouts from this year and 6 months of layouts to be printed. Here is the list of things I check for each layout: 1. Spelling – This is an easy check for me because I use Photoshop CS5 and there is a Check Spelling feature in the Edit menu. Remember also to check the [more]
