Printing Your Digital Scrapbook Layouts - Make Them Real

Aug 3rd, 2008 by Addy | 0

I don’t know about you but I’m an old fashioned girl. I like to be able to touch my scrapbook pages in printed form. Looking at them on the PC screen just doesn’t do it for me. I’m sorry, until they’re printed out they’re just not real.

But I don’t want to go to the trouble and expense of taking my 12

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Scraplift To Get Those Creative Juices Flowing

Aug 3rd, 2008 by Addy | 0

Do you sometimes struggle to find inspiration for your scrapbook layout designse

I find it helps heaps when looking for inspiration for creating a new scrapbook layout to browse through some layouts that others have created and see what grabs my attention.

Sometimes it can be a color scheme, or maybe the arrangement of the photos, or maybe the way the title has been set out. That can often be just what I need to inspire how I want to create my own layout. Then once the inspiration strikes, away I go and the new layouts usually comes together easily. Looking at other scrapbook layouts can just give me the ‘kick-start’ I need.


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Seven Spring Cleaning Tips

Jul 28th, 2008 by Addy | 0

As the springtime sunshine finally pours through your windows, you can’t help cringing as you notice the streaks and grime on the glass that weren’t visible before. And as you take a closer look around, you see that the rest of your home is living proof that your family has been trapped inside during the cold winter months. The prolonged furnace blasting has caused the dust to settle - on the furniture, along the edges of the carpeting, and on the blinds. Clutter is at an all-time high. Even the dog seems to be in desperate need of a bath.


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7 Ways to Raise a Musical Baby

Jul 28th, 2008 by Addy | 0

One of the most wonderful forms of self-expression parents can foster within their children is the ability to play music. Happily, it is possible to get started doing so while baby is still in the womb. Raising a musical child has many advantages — more so than can be accurately calculated. But just for starters, children who retain music into adulthood say it helps them to be happier, more thoughtful and compassionate individuals, and the world certainly needs more of those, I’m sure you will agree.

You can start your baby off right by doing four simple things before birth.


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When Grandma is Going to Die: What to Tell the Children

Jul 25th, 2008 by Addy | 0

In recent weeks two mothers asked for advice on assisting their children through the impending deaths of a grandparent. The children ranged in age from 3 to 9. This is one of the most difficult issues for parents to deal with because of the combination of our culture’s discomfort with death, the fact that the parent is simultaneously dealing with their own grief process, and parental instincts usually lead us to try to protect our children from anything painful.


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When Grandma Dies

Jul 25th, 2008 by Addy | 0

Explaining death involves two issues. What is it, literally, and what happens to the person when she dies. The former question is best answered in a simple and honest manner - grandma’s heart had grown too weak to enable her to breathe, to see, think, or walk. With young children (below 7 or 8), no answer is going to feel very complete but understand that young children don’t need or want much information. Just a simple sentence to explain what happened. Avoid euphemistic explanations equating death with sleep (not only incorrect but likely to increase the child’s fear of sleep or darkness, which is a common, brief reaction to death anyway) or saying that God decided it was time for her to go to heaven. The latter makes God sound mean and capricious and increases the child’s sense of vulnerability.


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What is the Youngest Age to Father a Childe

Jul 24th, 2008 by Addy | 0

The youngest father on record, was Sean Steward, who lived in England. He was 12 years old. The question though, is not how old can one father a child, but what is the youngest age one should father a child.

Being a father is more than getting a women pregnant and then having her give birth. A father is more than a title. It is a position of responsibility. A father is a mentor, a teacher, a role model, and a provider. A father is so many things. The value of a father cannot be taken lightly. But I am sorry to say, some do not own up to their obligations. It concerns me that for some, the role of fatherhood is changing.


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Father Punches Doctor and Then I Wake Up

Jul 24th, 2008 by Addy | 0

About five years ago, my father was ill with a terminal lung disease. The doctors had told him, if he quit smoking, he might live another 5 years, but if he did not, he might last only 5 months. My father, had been smoking for 60 years. My father, either could not or would not, stop smoking.

My father began to lose weight, It was not long until he was only a shell of the man he used to be. My dad had always been a mans man. He did not take anything from anybody. He was tough. He was strong. He was one of the last of his generation. He never liked hospitals. But one day in November he ask us to take him there. He was placed in the Intensive Care Unit. His breathing had become very irregular.


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Who is Mario Lopez’s Fathere

Jul 24th, 2008 by Addy | 0

Mario Lopez Sr., Mario’s father, was born in Sinaloa , Mexico. Mario Sr., and his wife Elvia brought Mario Lopez Jr. into the world on October 10, 1973, in San Diego, California.

Mario Sr., worked very hard to provide a comfortable home and a healthy family environment for Mario Jr., his brother Emilio, born in 1975 and his sister Marissa born in 1976. Both of his parents were very supportive in anything the children chose to do. Mario’s dream, since being a young child, was to dance. Mario Sr., instilled into his children the value of hard work, and that with dedication, anything was possible.


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The Various Forms of Spring Fever

Jul 16th, 2008 by Addy | 0

If you’re like me, you probably just smile when someone says they have Spring Fever, which is known mostly as a severe yearning for warmer weather and sunshine. It hits extra hard after an especially long, cold and dreary winter. At the first hint of higher temperatures, you’re out the door for some fresh air, much needed exercise and to allow your kids to release all of that energy they’ve been storing up which has been driving you crazy!

But the truth is spring isn’t all chirping birds and roses. And some kids have a tougher time than we think adjusting to the changes. Here are just a few things you may notice your child experiencing once spring has sprung.


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