March is National Crochet Month

March is one of my favorite months. I’ve had a lot of great things happen in this month so I always feel very positive about it.

Tags as Scrapbook Enhancements

Sometimes scrapbooking cheaply is merely looking at all the other items you see in a different way. For example, I recently bought some candles, and they had a tag with the price on one side and this:

on the other side. Of course, I knew it was too cute not to use! I cut it up [...]

Use Christmas Cards for Your Scrapbook Pages

I hate throwing away all the beautiful cards people give me, so I can and incorporate them into scrapbook pages. Using them not only provides free scrapbook material, but also helps recreate the memory of the day, holiday, or event. Whatever I happen to be scrapbooking about.
In this example, my friend had sent us a [...]

Scrapbook with Homemade Cards

I don’t know about you, but every once in a while I get really cool homemade cards from people. My aunt makes gorgeous cards, but I even get them once in a while from people I barely know.
And I hate to throw them out.
That was the case a while back on 4th of July. I [...]

King Lear Scrapbook Page

I see a lot of scrapbook pages using pictures (usually with kids) and that’s great, but remember that sometimes a program or other momento from your event can be just as effective in creating a scrapbook page.
To that end, my hubby and I went to see a local theater company’s production of King Lear not [...]

$5 Scrapbooks

Good deal at Big Lots:
I found this scrapbook at Big Lots recently for only $5. As you know, this in and of itself is a deal, but this scrapbook was extra cool with its funky latch and dual page opening system.

Leaves in Your Scrapbook

Here’s a great idea for preserving leaves and for making a scrapbook page out of them. (And yes, that’s me holding up the leaf AND taking the picture at the same time. A photographer I most definitely am not!)

I always like to include one page every year that has a few leaves from our yard. [...]