posted under Everyday Life

Homemade Costume Ideas

Tracy gives us some super fun ideas for homemade Halloween costumes. Tracy here with some of the cutest costumes I’ve seen while searching for do-it-yourself ideas.  Babies are the ones I think are really fun because they have no say in it, and you can make them whatever you want (insert menacing “I’m gonna blackmail […]

Photo List for October, November, and December

Rebecca gives us some great ideas for must-have photos to take you through the end of the year.   Hello, my sweet friends!  Can you believe we are in the last quarter of the year? For me, the these last three months of the year will just fly by . . . first Halloween, and […]

School Year Photo Checklist

Meg shares a checklist of must get photos during the school year It’s that time again–every parent’s favorite time of the year. Back To School!! As scrapbookers we know that means a full nine months of photo opportunities. Here’s a handy checklist to get you started on the moments you make sure and capture this […]

Getting There Is Half The Fun – Entertaining Kids While Road Tripping

Julie shows some ways to entertain the kids while on the road! Is this you? You’ve spent weeks researching the perfect place to take your family on vacation.  You found a place to stay and entertainment that fits in your budget.  You get it all booked and then you realize that the worse part about […]

TRAVEL-August intro and Bonus Challenge

Meg introduces August’s blog theme and bonus portfolio challenge   Hey readers!! Welcome to August’s blog theme of TRAVEL. Just a note that like July, this month the blog is going to be a watered down version since so many of us are vacationing and just busy winding down summer. With summer vacations wrapping up […]

Be Free to Explore Your Dreams

Darla encourages us to follow our dreams. “I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It’s because of them that I did it myself.” —Albert Einstein In celebration of Amelia Earhart day, today’s post is about letting yourself be free to explore your dreams. Earhart was the first woman to fly across […]

Encouraging the Men in Your Life to Help Scrapbook

Natalie shows us the different ways that the man in her life helps with her memory keeping and scrapping. I spend a lot of time scrapbooking. It would be very easy for my husband, Curt, to start blaming our messy house on my time spent scrapbooking instead of cleaning. However, he likes that I’m so […]

About the Boys

Lydia introduces our blog theme for June . . . including a bonus challenge! Since Father’s Day falls in June, we thought this would be a great month to focus on the men and boys in our lives. Whether we’re talking about our fathers, grandfathers, husbands, or sons, we all have men in our lives. […]

Are You Ready to Spring Clean?

Darla gives us ideas of things to think about BEFORE you tackle an organization project Ok the thought of spring cleaning or organizing things can be very overwhelming to me. I find myself breaking out into sweat, and panic just seems to surround me. Like the picture, I just want to crawl into bed and […]

Get Connected: Ways to Keep in Touch

Darla shares some of her favorite way to keep in touch with loved ones My life is very hectic, and with the pace I keep, I often wonder how do I do it all. Staying connected with friends and family is extremely important to me, but I often find that with the limited time that […]

Get Connected: Apps for Memory Keeping

Meg brings you some awesome apps that are great for memory keeping on the go! Hey Sweeties!! Meg here today bringing you some of the apps I use most to record my memories on my phone. I believe most of these are available for iPhone and Android so hopefully they are useful to the majority […]

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