Wedding guest sign-in book you can create yourself - too easy

Here is a wonderful wedding sign-in book Karen has created for one of her children. I have known her for over 20 years now. She has been my "upline" for that many years. This is why we love being in this business! Enjoy!

#wedding #album #memorykeeping #scrappingbeectmh

Artbooking Made Easy: Togetherness

Whether you’re celebrating romance, family, or friends in your papercrafting project, you’ll be head over heels for the together-themed cutouts on the Artbooking cartridge! With fancy frames, ornate edges, and faux flowers, you and your customers will be smitten with your finished products! 

 

This month you can get a cartridge free of your choice when you join my growing team - there is still time!

A few Studio J layouts to share

Over the last few weeks I have been busy making a few layouts of my family. My sister from German sent me this treasure trove of old pictures after my mother passed away. Many of the pictures cannot go into a regular scrapbook, first of all she want the pictures back, second they are damaged (due to a fire that destroyed our home many years ago). The best thing I could do was to scan them. Studio J is a great forum for me to put my history together at least in a little way. Share a little bit of where I come from. My mother was a very strong woman. She was born into a farmer's family with 7 other siblings. Her mom died when she was only a young girl of cancer. She never really knew her mom. As was custom, her father remarried shortly thereafter to help take care of the family. But tragedy struck again and her father passed away as well. The stepmother did not want to keep all the kids - so the children were spread all over to relatives. My mother ended up with a great aunt. She loved her to her dying days, I loved hearing stories from her. She also was the one who told my mother that one day she would find the right church. In 1957 the missionaries from the LDS taught my mother and she knew that is what my mother was waiting for. Yes, my mother was a strong woman of faith and passed it on to me. I just always hope I will be able to pass that faith and strength on to my children.  Thank you mother.

Soon I will be able to work on more layouts of the rest of my family - I have lots of pictures of my father and my siblings. My father has his own set of history! You can see his grandfather up above in his "Kaiser uniform". We still had the spiked helmet when I was young. Unfortunately, we lost many of those memorabilia in our house fire.

Well, be watching for my next sharing of my pictures ... :)

Wedding pictures, yeah!

 Here are some pictures from my son's, wedding. Patrick could not be happier. They went to Disney World for their honey moon and they even found an apartment already. All they need now is earn a bit more money and they will be moving down there in a couple more months.

As you can see, their wedding was Halloween based - they both love the movies, so Jack and Sally attended the wedding on top of their wedding cake :).

They both did a wonderful job with their vows. Christen cried when Patrick said his - I cried a well ... just a mother is supposed to ... ha. Now I have a daughter. Many people think of a wedding as loosing their child, I saw it as gaining another one - not in a bad way. I love family. When I think back of all the great times I have had with both of my boys ... all I can say is that I am so grateful that I was able to spend the time with them. Thank you for teaching me how to play Pokemon - and yes, I even beat them at it. There are so many other things they tried to teach me, but most of all they taught me how to love, there is nothing more precious.

So, Patrick - I wish you and your bride all the best in your life. May the Lord always bless you. Love always, Mom.