Scrapbooking about Hard Stuff

This is a guest post from team member Ronnie Crowley. November 11th marks the 8th anniversary of the sudden death of my mother of a complication of her cancer treatment. I still can't believe that its been 8 years since she died and all those things she missed out on in the life of her...

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The Power of Storytelling

To conclude the Week of Story, you're totally going to want a hanky. (Sorry!) I came across an article via Twitter that shared a few essential elements of compelling stories and this powerful advertisement. I really liked the last point on completing a story arc, even in small spaces. As memory...

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New Book: Story-First Scrapbooking

I spent the entire month of March writing. As I wrote and wrote about my core knowledge and essential beliefs about scrapbooking, I realized I was creating a roadmap for a journey. Now this isn't a roadmap for any scrapbooker's journey, but for the scrapbooker who seeks simple, meaningful memory...

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Celebrating the Story with Scrapbooking

As part of the Week of Story, I'm sharing three essential values I hold for storytelling through photos, words, and art. Scrapbooking is the marriage of words and photos with art. The art provides a wrapper, a context, a home for the story you want to tell. While the most simple albums with words...

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Telling the Story with Words

As part of the Week of Story, I'm sharing three essential values I hold for storytelling through photos, words, and art. Photos can tell so much story on their own, but so much meaning can be lost without words to preserve that story. Telling and sharing your stories in journals, hand-written...

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