Tag: early years
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Digital Scrapbooking for Beginners: Where to Start and What You Need
Curious about digital scrapbooking but not sure where to start? Here’s what it is, what you need, and how to turn your pages into something you can hold.
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How to Digitize Old Scrapbook Pages (and Why It’s Worth It)
Scanning scrapbook pages at home is frustrating. Here’s why I digitize my scrapbooks, what to do with old albums, and how to share the stories with everyone.
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Meaningful Photo Gifts That Aren’t Just More Stuff
Gifts that hold their memories, not just more stuff. Meaningful photo gift ideas for grandparents, parents, and the people who have everything.
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What to Do With Old Slides: The Gift That Made Mom Laugh
Mom almost threw out her old slides. Here’s what came back when we digitized them, and why it was the best gift for a parent who has everything.
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FOREVER Storage Review: My Honest Take After a PC Crash
Why I moved my photos to FOREVER permanent storage after a PC crash, who it’s for, and how to get more out of it.
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My Honest Take on FOREVER Digitization: Our Wedding Video’s Fourth (and Final) Home
Why I’m digitizing our wedding video with FOREVER, who it’s for, and how to prep VHS tapes, film, slides, and photos before you send them in.
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About The Early Years
As I’m writing this, my youngest son is entering his sophomore of university, studying engineering. He hadn’t turned one when I started blogging, and the youngest of the children was yet to be born. My oldest two are now married and we’re still homeschooling. It’s been 19 years since the first 2007 blog post in…
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Vertig-oh-no!
It was the last week of June. My son stood up from the sofa and got wobbly, saying “I stood up too fast!” Not 5 minutes later, same thing happened to me. Then, on my way up the stairs, I lost my balance and fell into the wall. I knew my ear was not draining…
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The Aforementioned Pivot (5-22-26 Update)
Remember the blog Pivoting in Place? I told you something was coming and you’d learn more over the next days, weeks, months? …that there were workshops and services I was cultivating and couldn’t wait to share? Well, This is the pivot I was talking about. If you don’t want the life updates, jump skip to…
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Tapestry of Trees
A tapestry usually functions as a wall-hanging, and traditionally is handwoven. Since 2022, I’ve done a lot of driving hither and yon. To be fair, with children in traveling basketball for over 15 years, I’ve done a lot of driving since 2009. But my daddy relocated to heaven in 2022 and it’s only since then…
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Hallelujah! My Flight’s Delayed
The flight is booked. Round trip. With return flight to get you home in enough time to get the rest you need to the next leg of your life. The next leg of my life included very important tasks: taking a child somewhere and connecting with somebody about something and… Honestly, now, I don’t remember.…
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I’m a Scrapbooker?
At some point along the way, someone invited me to a scrapbooking party. This was back when Creative Memories was becoming a thing. My oldest was maybe 18 months old, and I thought: “This is great. I can preserve our memories. I can do something meaningful with all these pictures.” So I went to the…