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 December 9, 2005

 

Happy Holidays!  The next few weeks bring us Christmas as well as the beginning of Kwanzaa and Hanukkah!  You know what that means - a lot of photos are going to be taken over the next several weeks.  In our house, we'll be welcoming a new family member on December 23, so we'll be taking even more photos than usual (I can't wait to introduce Anne Lancaster to all of you!). 

 

When it comes to your photos, don't just get the film developed and then throw those photos in a box; or take the photos, upload them to the computer and then leave them there (or even worse...just leave them in the camera -- we've all seen those commercials, I'm sure).  Share them!!  There are so many wonderful ways to preserve your memories! Whether you use film or digital, you can have photos printed and then put them in an archival album. 

 

Scrapbooking is a hobby that has really exploded in the past decade.  I freely admit to being woefully behind on all the scrapbooks in my house (up to three-and-a-half years on one of them!!!), but I know the ladies on the Scrapbook Central and the Scrapbooking and More boards will be happy to cheer me along and give ideas when I run into a creativity road block. Perhaps I'll see pages that will inspire me to "scraplift" and use the layout ideas in my own albums.  A relatively new area of scrapbooking that is really gaining in popularity is Digital Scrapbooking and we have a message board for that too!  With "DigiScrapping", everything is done on the computer. Your photos are uploaded either from a CD or your camera, imported into photo editing software and then all kinds of embellishments can be added.  A lot of digital pages, once printed, almost look as if they were paper scrapped! It's amazing the depth and dimension one can achieve.  If you're new, there are a lot of tutorials on the Digital Scrapbooking board to help you get started.  Plus, the members on the board love to "RAK" newbies (commit a "random act of kindness").   I bet you could even find someone to do a page for you.  I think I'll head over that way now - I have three-and-a-half year’s worth of pictures for someone to play with!


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