Family Craft Boutique

When it comes to family memories, there’s no better place to showcase your pictures, special letters and heirlooms, than in a family scrapbook. While it may seem a challenging task to organize all these items, it’s well worth the while. Imagine how fun it will be years from now, when you and your family members can discuss old times while perusing through the scrapbook. Before you get started on your project, however, you will need some basic scrapbook supplies. These basic scrapbooking supplies will be a necessity when starting on your new scrapbook:

~ Scrapbook album: Choose one that contains acid free pages, or buy acid-free, PVC-free sheet protectors and slide them into a three-ring binder. The size of your scrapbook will depend on your personal preference.
~ Adhesives: These will be used to secure everything to the album pages. Photo corners, photo tape, double-side adhesive strips, and glue sticks are a few options.
~ Scissors: Pick from the straight edge or decorative edge variety. Scissors can be used to cut your photos into decorative shapes, and to crop out any unwanted areas.
~ Journaling pens: Use acid-free permanent markers and pens for writing down important names, dates, and family memories, and for adding designs and pictures to your scrapbooks edges.

It was a big throw-down for the kids. Our organization finally had enough resources to build playgrounds for three public schools, and within two weeks we will be inaugurating all of them. We planned to have sports-themed parties for the opening, which we all agreed was the right one. I could hardly contain my own excitement when we were picking up the sports party supplies from the store downtown.  As if God was showing us again His blessing, we had the luck of good weather on the days of the inauguration. The sound of the kids’ squeal as they ran to their new playground was just the sweetest music for us. Some of the kids have never been to a playground, and what we gave them was ‘heaven sent,’ says one teacher. It had been a heavenly experience for us as well, because we made these children so happy.

Well, I was all excited this week, as it is spring break from school and I had taken over 100 pictures of scrapbook paper to upload to the website. Then, Thursday and Friday of last week the wind blew like crazy at our house.

So, today I called the internet people and they said my satellite was not showing up. So, my loving husband climbed on the roof in the 26 degree weather and heavy wind and found that my internet hookup had blown over, ripping out part of the roof with it!

Luckily for me, although he wasn’t happy about it, he fixed it for me and I have been able to start uploading a very small taste of our scrapbook paper selection. I should have about 130 uploaded by late this evening and I plan on adding at least 100 more each day this week. Yeah!

So be sure to check out our new section to see what new papers we have uploaded!

http://www.afamilyaffaircraftboutique.com/store/WsDefault.asp?iNew=New

I will keep working hard to get all of our scrapbook supplies uploaded before the baby comes- the due date is June 7th.

Melissa

People turn to a lot of things to relax. I do cross-stitching and embroidery in order to unwind. I find it therapeutic to concentrate on my punch needle embroidery pattern and then feel ecstatic when I finish it. It’s a different feeling to finish a big design all on your own.

Sometimes, though, my needlework projects get sidetracked. Work would pile up, or there would be household emergencies, and the needlework would have to stay in the drawer while life gets to me. But when I have those quiet Sunday afternoons alone I take it out and work on it. That way Sunday afternoons could not be anymore relaxing.