Archive for September, 2006
“Imperfect” Idea Book Resurrects Reality Scrapbooking
Via the recent Memory Makers newsletter…
It looks like the “project formerly known as RealityScrapbooking.” has received a bit of a makeover, and is now the latest idea book from Memory Makers books:
Memory Makers latest book, Imperfect Lives: Scrapbooking the Reality of Your Everyday, celebrates scrapbookers who have the courage to tackle honest, raw and realistic subjects. For these scrapbookers, the motto is the art of keepin it real, and their goal is to inspire other artists to add authenticity and truth to their projects by revealing real-life moments. Inside, you’ll find fresh and funky layouts that exemplify the entire range of life and reader vignettes sharing the story that compelled each artist to create the layout, step-by-step instructions to create key elements on the page. Also included are easy-to-follow techniques and supply lists. Pick up your copy for inspiration and encouragement to capture the “imperfect” slices of your life. These scrapbook memories are built upon less-than-flattering pictures. They’re full of little, everyday things (zits, dog hair, to-do lists) and big battles like loneliness, cancer and losing a loved one. The book is authored by Laura Solomon and Tara Governo, the original co-authors of the Reality Scrapbooking project. The Memory Makers book is 128 pages, and retails for $22.99.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: How To Make A Profit From SCRAPBOOKING
Up until now, I never actually knew that you can make a profit from scrapbooking. However, after having a look through the information that was provided on this site, I realised that many people already are making a nice living, doing something that they love to do.
Did you know that you can make up to $100 per HOUR, scrapbooking for others? Or that you could get paid up to $3000, just for scrapbooking someone else’s wedding photos?
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Scrapbook those memories
The memories of your life are filled with beautiful and creative images, so make them into a keepsake scrapbook.
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Vivendi buys US mobile video game editor Centerscore; terms undisclosed
PARIS (AFX) - Vivendi said its Games division has bought the US mobile video game developer Centerscore, whose titles include Amy’s Jigsaw Scrapbook, Amy’s Hangman and Alone: The Horror Begins.
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6 New Paisley Scrapbook Page Challenge Layouts
The creativity of About Scrapbooking readers continues to amaze me. This week, I have added 6 more layouts from readers to the Paisley Challenge gallery. One of my favorite techniques used by a reader - Monica used scanned photos of the decorative ceiling of a theatre from her trip to Spain to create her paisleys. Don’t miss these layouts!
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Teacher’s scrapbook captures 9-11 in bits, pieces
By IDANIA HERRARA
Special to The Sun
An inch-thick book filled with pieced-together e-mails, poems, magazine clippings and conversations he recalled is meant as a reminder to John Stobbie of that harrowing day five years ago.
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Scrapbooker transforms family’s everyday life into art NEIGHBORS NICOLE ‘NIKKI’ MERSON
Nicole “Nikki” Merson is a law school graduate, a onetime diving competitor and a former rock band vocalist.
These days, however, Merson, 34, spends her time parenting and home-schooling a 16-year-old stepdaughter and four children ages 5 and under.
Merson says tackling laundry piled as high as the dryer, peeling Play-Doh off the floor and changing diapers can be perceived as either mind-numbing chaos or artistic fodder.
And she has decided to turn that labor over to the muse.
At night, once her kids are in bed, Merson documents her family’s daily life in scrapbooks.
Her work has appeared in as many as 15 scrapbook periodicals. Her story titled “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff - Scrap It!” was accepted for an anthology titled “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul - Stories to Remember.”
Merson doesn’t bother shooting pictures of milestones such as birthdays and holidays.
“Anyone who reads these scrapbooks in 50 years will know exactly what we did on ordinary days,” she said. “And I allow the kids to mess around with this stuff as much as they want. I’ve always felt that school is pure fun, and I want them to feel that way.”
Merson grew up near Baltimore. Throughout her childhood and teen years, she traveled around the country for springboard diving competitions.
She received a degree in education from the University of Maryland and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. She met her husband, Jeff Merson, while working as a cocktail waitress. Jeff Merson, who works for General Motors in Wentzville, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.
The couple were married for six years before they had children. In that time they formed a cover band. “We performed for over five years. I sang in front of a rock band when I was 9 months pregnant,” she said.
The couple moved to Troy three years ago. Merson recalled that initially, the move to Missouri caused culture shock. She ended up feeling as though she “won the lottery.” She says she has fallen in love with the Midwest, Troy, her neighbors and fellow members of Calvary Church in St. Peters.
She is gratified to be far from the hustle and bustle of Washington, long commutes and a neighborhood where she was the only stay-at-home mom and the only one not driving an upscale foreign car.
“We moved here and I said, “Man, people actually drive American-made pickup trucks.” She said she and her husband drove a beat-up car and “live like normal people.”
Merson’s energy and scrapbooking inspiration are generated by her children, she said.
“When our teenage daughter asked us why we wanted so many kids, my husband told her sometimes it isn’t so much getting what you want as wanting what you get - and that’s called a rich life,” she said.
Author’s scrapbook of musings is more scraps than book
By BRYAN WOOLLEY THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
“Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life” by Michael Dirda; Henry Holt ($17) A hundred and more years ago, a lady or gentleman with leisure time might keep a “commonplace book.” It was a combination journal and scrapbook. In it, its keeper would jot down memorable poems, quotations from books and wise sayings, paste in clippings from newspapers, write down some of his own feelings and ideas and maybe press a flower or two. From time to time, the keeper of a commonplace book would browse it, remembering the inspiring and instructive moments that his reading and observing had provided over the years. Upon the death of its keeper, the commonplace book would be placed in a trunk or box in an attic. Years later, an heir would sell it in a garage sale. In “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life,” Michael Dirda, Pulitzer-winning books columnist of The Washington Post, offers his commonplace book. Naturally, Dirda being who he is, it’s mostly about stuff he has read. But he has some thoughts and ideas of his own, too, and some practical advice. Dirda has read everybody a self-regarding intellectual would consider worth reading. He has dug out many wholesome morsels about life, love, education and personal fulfillment from such diverse writers as Simone Weil, P.G. Wodehouse, Proust, Goethe, Cicero, Nietzsche, Foucault and the like (Dirda favors European authors) and serves them up in the easy-to-swallow bite-size wisdom bits that commonplace bookkeepers always have favored. Similar conclusions We find that a lot of writers have come to similar conclusions about many things. For instance, Auden, Colette and Waugh all agree: “Find the right work, the work you should be doing, and you will have largely solved the key question of how to spend your life.” None, however, offers any help in dealing with corporate layoffs and loss of medical insurance. But let’s skip the warmed-over stuff and dive right into Dirda’s own deep thoughts. Here’s one: “It is impossible to read serious novels, poetry, essays and biographies without also growing convinced that they gradually enlarge our minds, refine our spirits, make us more sensitive and understanding.” Here’s another: “Every child should be taught what used to be called the social graces: good manners, clear speech, the art of dinner-table conversation, sketching, singing, competence in playing a musical instrument, and even ballroom dancing. Upon such simple foundations as these, true civilizations are built.” No help, however, on getting the brat away from the Xbox and the iPod for his civilization lessons. From time to time, Dirda offers a syllabus for those wishing to concoct their own reading courses about love or whatever. One is a reading list for the Christmas season. Along with “A Christmas Carol” and “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” the family gathered round the blazing yule log should read the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth, he says. “Try reading Mark or Luke’s narrative at home, preferably in an English version with some grandeur to it: the King James, the Revised Standard …” The Gospel of Mark, however, contains nary a word about the birth of Jesus. The nativity stories are in Luke and Matthew. Dirda is better on hygiene matters. He recommends brushing and flossing. “Book by Book” is a priggish, didactic, silly book. Polonius would have loved it.
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Golf outings, Cancer Society gala, scrapbooking, Memory Walk on Valley calendar
Kaukauna Community Health Associates will sponsor its 35th annual Tour of Homes, “Decade of Dreams,” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Three homes in the Kaukauna-Combined Locks area will be featured as well as Bridal Elegance in Kaukauna. Proceeds are used to fund college scholarships for students in health-related fields and for a variety of community health needs. Tickets are $8. For tickets or additional information on the homes, call 920-766-5132.
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Scrapbook Attic marks 4th year
Downtown Fremont store is expanding
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How many times have you shared a memory or a story with someone?
Have you looked at photographs and wondered about the names of the faces staring back at you?
Perhaps this is the time to create your own scrapbook to preserve the names and faces so they will not be forgotten through the generations.
Scrapbook Attic is expanding in its fourth year of business. The expansion, formerly Sugarless, retains the same antique charm while displaying the continuous shipment of new products.
Among the new space is an expanded die cut center and work space.
The crop work space has tripled in size, with spacious seating to accommodate 24 people, as well as crops every Friday.
The store hours also have expanded to 7 p.m. Fridays.
Next Saturday, Scrapbook Attic will celebrate four years of business in downtown Fremont.
Festivities include a crop evening from 5 to 11 Friday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
Cost is $35 for both days.
Debbie Haas, author of “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul,” will be signing and selling her book from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Scrapbook Attic owners Lynn Monday and Tracy Harvey also are making changes to celebrate the four years. They have traded in their bandage scissors as nurses to attend to the store full time.