Hanukkah Mini Scrapbooking for Rainy Days

This morning I woke up to find my hubby left me a note:

Look up the skylight it's raining so hard
There's ice, it snowed, the roads so wet outside
Don't go out if you don't have to
Whatever it is, maybe it's not worth the ride.

I took the kids to school, let the dog out, wiped him off and I'm scrapping my way to a lovely Chanukah 6" mini album with my cheerful Playlist in the background - what fun!

Stay tuned for the photo filled album...
Happy Holidays,
Sarit.

Cute site I found

I found this blog and had so much fun visiting I thought I'll share it with you:

Cara's Scrap 'N Stamp Art: Cyber Monday!!

Happy Thursday,

Hanukkah Nights Scrapbooking

Potato latkes, jelly doughnuts, dreidle games, candles, eight nights of celebrating with great food and good friends - just my thing!

For the well prepared scrapbookers, and the ones who'd like to buy a premade Hanukkah scrapbook album, here are some ideas to pre-prepare for the holiday. I'll have some after-Hanukkah scrapbook layouts for you too, with new, fresh photos from Hanukkah 2009!

Visit my blog again next week for some 6x6" premade Hanukkah scrapbook album pages and layouts. In the meantime, happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Family Premade Scrapbooks

It's been roughly 4 months since we moved from sunny California to north New Jersey. We made lots of friends and adopted some family members over in California, some Ron members for life, I know I will forever stay in touch with them. And while I'm honing on the fact that the world globalized a lot since I came into it, I'm sad we're not at that stage where you can just yearn for someone and he or she will show up, like a living hologram. Instead we have a leaving scrapbook album, lots of photos, emails, phone calls and visitors. They pass across the love, but it's not the same as sharing dinner or experiencing them in person.
I'm currently working on this expended family scrapbook album and hope to put in it memories from the past as well as future visits:)

Hug someone you love today,

Sarit.

Prepare your Thanksgiving Scrapbook

I love Thanksgiving. It's a great holiday with a great name, carrying the promise of a family gathering, warmth, fireplace, good food, sharing laughs and love. It's the only American holiday everyone can celebrate, regardless of religious denomination and other differences. The only holiday everyone can add their own thanks to, their own flavours, scents and traditions, without changing it completely.
Here are two ideas from my premade scrapbook albums selection, hope to add more....

Stay warm,

Sarit.

Your Halloween Mini Scrapbook Photo Album in 2hrs!

Halloween is coming and with it tons of photos. The problem is, once you ate the candy and took the photos, no one feels like putting them in a decent album, and so you miss on a lot of memories as they stay locked in one of your computer files, never to be seen.

So here are some solutions for you:

1. Choose your photos carefully. Try to choose ones that are telling the story of this Halloween for your family or, if you're a brave scrapbooker who designs a mini album for each one of your kids, choose the photos that tell the story of each kid.
2. Go through your scrapbook supplies and get all the purple, orange and black papers out. Get all Halloween embellishments on the work table as well.
3. Save some candy rappers (not the sticky ones), napkins, pieces of decoration to enhance your mini scrapbook album.
4. Pick a 6" album (I find them to work well for both wallet AND standard size photos) and decide on a one, common, uniting layout to use through your scrapbook mini album.
5. Glue glue glue.
6. Embellish, journal and enjoy!
   

Below are some ideas for Halloween layouts:

Have a spooky-sweet one...

The Smart Way to Shop for Supplies

Are you a scrapper? Do you like colors, patterns and have lots of ideas? Can you get lost for 2 hours or more at the craft store? I do too.
Whether it's scrapbooking, knitting, paper, fabric, yarn, stamps or any craft, I get lost in it. A good kind of lost, the kind that makes you happy, full of ideas and wanting to get the whole store 'cause you just have a use for everything and anything in it.
I admit right here right now - I over shop, over stock and than am upset I didn't buy more of that...(fill in the blank) when I could.
Having said that, my 5 golden rules for you are:

1. Go in with a plan.
2. If you have supplies that you'd like to use and need just this little tiny thing to complete it, BRING THE SUPPLIES YOU ALREADY HAVE WITH YOU.
3. Need something to start you off (or: went in without a plan?) - buy only for that one project you want to do. DO NOT buy extra stuff for that paper you may (or may not) have in your scrap bin.
4. It's called scrapbook because we are dealing with SCRAPS. Don't throw them, don't keep them, USE THEM.
5. One project at a time. Yo can always come back to shop (they'd love to have you any time) and get re-energized for a new project with new colors, patterns and shapes. Your creative juices are there, they WILL flow next time too.

Stay healthy and happy, be creative and seize the day:)

Sarit.