What is Scrapbooking?

Written by Edward Santosh


What is Scrapbooking?

Do you remember those days as a kid pasting newspaper clippings onto paper and bundling dozens of papers together with some fancy ribbon or a string? Do you also remember all of your hard work falling apart two months later?

Now there's a grown up way to save and preserve your treasures: Scrapbooking.

The concept behind scrapbooking hasn't changed since grade school. You can still place photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and tickets into your scrapbook to display and preserve your memories.

However, scrapbooking techniques and tools have matured substantially since you were a kid. Scrapbooking albums have replacedrepparttar messy bundles of paper. These albums are generally bound or placed in a three-ring binder. In this way, your hard work won't fall apart. Furthermore, new specialized covers allow protection fromrepparttar 146132 outside elements.

A Birth Announcement That Is Both Practical and Sentimental

Written by Randy Wilson


The best birth announcement is both practical and sentimental. Welcome your new baby intorepparttar world in a very special way. Tell everybody your good news with a photo or a more traditional announcement. Sending out baby announcements has become a common tradition in our culture today.

You can choose any wording you like and may include any information that you want to share with family and friends. Some people choose to includerepparttar 146057 height and weight ofrepparttar 146058 baby, or have a photo ofrepparttar 146059 baby for a photo announcement, but you certainly do not have to do this. Some people also includerepparttar 146060 time ofrepparttar 146061 birth, but this is optional as well. It is enough simply to listrepparttar 146062 baby’s name, birth date and any sentimental saying you feel is appropriate andrepparttar 146063 birth parents’ names inrepparttar 146064 birth announcement.

The Internet is full of great ideas for wording a boy announcement as well as a girl announcement. Also, there are lots of tips for how to handlerepparttar 146065 wording for different family situations, such as twins, triplets, adoption, divorce and single mothers.

The following are some samples of wording for birth announcements:

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