Archive for September, 2006
Creative Crafts and Stickers to Host it’s First Annual Charity Cyber Scrapbooking Crop
Creative Crafts and Stickers
From September 27 to October 3, 2006, Jen Walker, owner of Creative Crafts and Stickers.com, will be hosting her first Annual Charity Cyber Scrapbooking Crop. This event will benefit the Rich Little Special Care Nursery (SCN) (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - NICU) at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital (located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
In the past two years, Jen’s sister has had two premature babies, with the second one born this past May. She is so very impressed with the care and dedication that the Neonatal staff showed her sister, brother in law and her premature babies. Jen believes that children are our future and getting a supportive and loving start is very important to premature babies. The intent of this crop is to give back to the Special Care Nursery and allow them to better support other families who need their services.
This Special Care Nursery Charity Cyber Crop will include scrapbooking challenges, online classes, games, prizes, and more. Thanks to the truly amazing support and contributions from manufacturers in the scrapbooking and stamping industry, there will also be a raffle and silent auctions. Jen will also be personally donating a minimum of 10% of all sales made during the event to this Special Care Nursery. The first 50 orders will also receive a goodie bag filled with items from the crops sponsors. We are also asking that all participants create Congratulations cards for the nurses to give to the families with babies in the SCN.
The Cyber Crop will take place online at Creative Crafts and Stickers.com and will be held in the message board, chat room and gallery. We hope you will join us for this fantastic event, or consider making an online donation for the Special Care Nursery.
No-frills scrapbooking focuses on the photo
Debbie Preece knows that preserving memories is just as important as experiencing those past events. As a consultant for Creative Memories, Preece is teaching others how to make those photos and the past they depict last for generations. “Scrapbooking in general doesn’t quite cut what we do,” says Preece, who will soon teach several classes on the topic. “The photo is what is important,” Preece adds. “Our idea is simple and fast. We don’t promote all the grommets or lace. [And] just because your kids played in the snow once, doesn’t mean it warrants three pages.” Preece, who has been a consultant for nearly four years, conducts workshops on how to use power layouts, photo layouts, journals and enhancements to preserve the past. Her home office is filled with mementos, journals and scrapbooks that she has arranged for members of her family. Where once she had her film developed in triplicate to ensure that she had plenty of photos to work with, she now has now gone digital which, she admits, has proved to be both a blessing and a curse. On the plus side, she says, “with digital photos, we’re taking more [shots] because we don’t have to print them all, and you can select the ones you really want to print.” The downside, Preece adds, is that preservation of those computerized images becomes an issue when a computer crashes or reformats and accessibility to those photos changes. In Preece’s workshops, students are asked to find or print out photos of a specific event, vacation or person that they would like to place in an album. She then helps them to design scrapbooking pages, along with journal information to tell the story behind the photos. But whatever format or scrapbooking products people may use, Preece emphasizes the importance of using archival-safe materials to preserve them. She has seen many older photos lose their color and fade because of the acid used in some materials. “The creativity is incredible” with some scrapbooking ideas, she says. “But make sure that you find quality, because if you’re going to go to all that work, you don’t want it to fail.” Preece also urges people to record information about photos as soon as possible after the event. When left too long, she explains, memories of who was in the photo can fade right along with the image. She recalls a visit she had with her mother before her passing 18 months ago. As they looked through family photos together, Preece learned that her mother could not remember who was in many of the shots. That fact, combined with Preece’s own personal philosophy, serves as motivation to help others preserve their heritage. “It’s history and people want to look at [their photos] and to tell their stories,” she says. “Everything that happens to us tells people that we lived and what we did with our lives. The story behind the photo [is what really matters]. We need to explain what happened . . . Photos should help you recall those memories.” http://www.sltrib.com/davis/ci_4300954
Scrapbook helps put poppy princess at top
By Rod Stetzer
Associated Press
Published September 6, 2006
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Jenessa Miland likes poppies.
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Frances Meyer Launches Scrapbook Travelers Club Class Program
Chartpak Inc. announces the launch of the Frances Meyer Scrapbook Traveler’s Club Educational Program.
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HOW MEMORIES ARE MADE *Scrapbook maker writes ‘Chicken Soup’ essay on hobby
By Katy Ciamaricone kciamaricone@cecilwhig.com
Melissa Tharp holds a copy of “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul,” in which her essay appears. One of her scrapbooks is on the table. CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY ADELMA GREGORY-BUNNELL
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City scrapbooking expo gets stamp of approval
By CAITLIN MCKAY
The New Zealand Stamping, Scrapbooking and Craft Expo (SENZ) at the Palmerston North Convention Centre attracted more than 2000 visitors at the weekend.
Cushla O’Connell of Montarga Rubber Stamps from Christchurch won the best display.
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For the worker, a Labor Day scrapbook
THE HERALD NEWS EDITORIAL STAFF
In tribute and honor of this Labor Day, editors of the Herald News offer the following amalgam of verse, quotation, prose and history in recognition of work and the worker.
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Alaska scrapbook
On Sept. 2, 1935, F.A.J. Galwas and Al Goetz drove the first automobile across the newly completed half-mile Douglas Bridge from Douglas to Juneau, a classic steel-truss bridge.
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A 9/11 scrapbook
Timeline
2001
Sept. 11: Terrorists hijack four jetliners and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The twin towers and Seven World Trade Center collapse.
Sept. 13: Osama bin Laden identified as prime suspect.
Sept. 14: Nineteen hijackers identified and linked to bin Laden.
Sept. 17: Wall Street trading resumes, ending stock market’s longest shutdown since the Great Depression. Dow loses 684.81 points, its worst-ever one-day point drop.
Oct. 7: First airstrikes launched in Afghanistan. Bin Laden, in videotaped message, praises God for Sept. 11 attacks.
Oct. 26: President Bush signs anti-terrorism bill giving police unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain and eavesdrop in pursuit of terrorism.
Nov. 25: First wave of Marines lands near Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
Dec. 22: Hamid Karzai and his transitional government sworn in to lead Afghanistan.
2002
Feb. 14: Leaders of House and Senate intelligence committees announce joint inquiry of intelligence community’s failure to prevent the attacks.
Sept. 18: Investigator for joint inquiry testifies that intelligence agencies disregarded many warnings that terrorists might use planes as bombs.
Nov. 25: Bush signs legislation creating Department of Homeland Security.
Nov. 27: Bush signs bill establishing independent commission to investigate the attacks.
Dec. 11: Congressional inquiry issues final report on intelligence failures leading up to terrorist attacks. Key recommendations include creating Cabinet-level director of national intelligence.
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