They are clear envelope type items. If I were not trying so hard I could tell you the name of them, but I think they are made my several companies, including 3M products, so you should be able to do a search on them that way. They are called memorbilla (sp) pockets, I think, Penny

Here are some ideas. Some are mine, some are from magazines. 1. Photograph you and your family, facing backward. Use the title "looking back". Add journaling to highlight some special events 2. create a page that looks like a theater stage with curtains. " "Not" The End...just the start of a beautiful beginning" 3. Have photos of your friends and family enjoying the scrapbook you just finished. "Looking back" works here too. 4. Have photos of people sleeping as if they are exhausted by the events that you have just captured in your book. Use dream bubble/balloons above their heads to add journaling about the events that are special for them 5. Find a nice poem about family...Dmarie has poems for just about everything 6. Create fireworks and use the title "The Grand Finale" 7. Create a film strip/ movie reel and "roll" your credits. Ex...The wonderful husband...played by John Doe or The Best Friend...played by Sally Smith. 8. Make calender pages with some for the months that have special memories for you. Accent them with stickers on the special days or with extra photos of the special events. You can call it "Highlights of 2000" Hope these help you! Happy Scrapping!

Mar: You funny thing, you! You don't need tactics with lil' ol' me. :o) To download fonts, this is what I do (BTW, I kind of fumbled through it myself so I hope this makes sense). First of all, I went to the winzip homepage and downloaded the free trial version of winzip. Then I visited some font sites. Here are some I recommend: Font Freak and Font Face. But check out ScrapLink because there are more listed there. Anyhoo, you just click on the fonts you like and the downloading part kicks in (which you seem to have the hang of already!). Once that's done, click on your winzip program and it will prompt you through all the steps of "unzipping" the font. Then, it's a matter of "cut and paste". You want to paste it into your font folder (you can find that by going to "start", then "control panel", and "fonts" should be in there). Once I did this, I just went into Word and the font was there, ready to use! I hope that helps a little. Tammy: What a compliment that I remind you of your daughter in some way! Thank you! *warm fuzzies* I'm still trying to "convert" my mom into a scrappin' freak -- maybe you could talk to her and give her a little push, eh? ;o) Lore: Actually...*hee hee*...I've had to improvise a lot when it comes to my SB hobby. I'm limited to Michael's as my main SB supplier and although they have some neat stuff, in my opinion their 8.5 x 11 album selection isn't great (they had ONE in different colours and it was too expensive). So, I visited numerous photography/camera places and found an "almost no name" (because I don't even remember the brand) 3-ring photo album to use. It was something like 7 bucks. I just made sure it was archival quality. Reading Week (Canadian version of Spring Break) is coming up soon so I'm actually planning a road trip with the specific mission of crossing the border in search of SB stores! LOL! If you know of any in the Michigan/NY area, let me know! ;o) Thanks for letting me share with you everyone!

Okay so I cheat! I use a three ring binder and then after I have all the pages together in order (or at least I think they are in order till I find another box or tin of photos stashed away in the closet, or find pictures behind other pictures in picture frames. Hate that! LOL) then I put them in post bound albums. My other complaint about post bound albums is the pages don't always lay flat, I guess due to the many varing sizes of paper, that is supposedly the same size. Any clues on how to stop this, short of measuring each page? Most of the post bound albums though usually have much prettier covers, than the 3 ring binders, which is why I change into a post album when I am finished. I don't like the strap albums at all mostly due to the fact that I am brain dead when trying to figure out how to insert the pages. Penny