I have made up a couple of sets of pre-printed acid free paper packs, that contain 50 sheets, 1 each of a different design, of 8 1/2 x 11 size, with no duplicate patterns. I would like to trade preferable paper for paper, but I would consider other offers. Please be advised that these paper packs DO NOT include any CM paper. ( There is not a CM consultant in our area, and I find it is too expensive for my budget.) Mostly these are sheets that came in packs for printer use, but have lovely patterns. They include names such as Hallmark, etc.. I bought packs of them in hopes of trading locally, but the art of scrapbook making has yet to catch on here in my TINY town, and I do not need as many as I have of the same design. If anyone is interested please let me know. I also have some approx 3" x 5" iron on's that make great titles and accents for pages. You just iron it on a piece of acid free paper and then attatch them to your page. I have no idea as to the acid content of these iron on's but since you would not be ironing them on to your picture it's self, then they should be safe to use. I know they are really cute. There is approx. 15-20 different designs. For example: A pair of muscled up arms, and underneath the drawn arms are the words JOCK, then there are things that say: Fisherman are happy hookers, and it shows a guy in a boat. If anyone has something they would like to trade for a set of these let me know also. I have more items including stickers with names on them. Sample : Josh, Suzanne, etc. Most of the more common names however are already gone. Penny

Good Luck with your project. I am working on them for my high school kids and I have done a separate album for the sports seasons(have combined all the sports into one album) and the other book is their social events, family gatherings, etc. If you have enough pictures that you could do a separate album for your special events(trips to Europe) but also do a two page spread to put into your bigger album so you have your life in chronological order. Does this make sense-for instance if you went to Europe during the summer of 99-include that in the order of your bigger book? Send a response if that doesn't make sense. I always try to do a two page spread if possible so that the pages look nice together so if you have homecoming pictures and then nothing until Christmas you don't have a fall scene next to a winter scene. Just respond if this doesn't make sense. I also do some cheating with my books. Because I do pages for my daughters that I want in my book-I take my pages into Staples(office supply) and get a color copy made for $1.58 to put in my book. I use the 81/2 by 11 inch pages. Good Luck.

Hi Angela ! I too am addicted to scrapbooking !! If you do a search under Yahoo, Excite, or any other search engine, you should find several listings for scrapbook conventions. I received a beautiful Christmas card last year from a relative that had vellum paper on it. I will do my best to describe it. It had a decorative cardstock sheet (6 x 8 1/2) as the background(it was white with large red polka dots all over it). In the center of that paper was a lime green sheet of cardstock cut to the size of 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 that had been pasted down. On top of that she had cut the same size from a sheet of ivory vellum paper. This vellum paper was not pasted down to the lime green.. instead, it was attached by a ribbon. To do this, you simpy lay the vellum paper down ontop of the lime green card, lining it up, and punch two holes (about 1" apart) at the top of the entire stack. She then threaded sheer red ribbon through it and that is how the vellum was attached. She had printed her Christmas greeting on the vellum paper prior to attaching it to the card and when you lift the vellum paper, you will find the photo of her children. Very beautiful and creative. Needless to say, I kept the card as a "template" for invitations, birthday cards or any other reason I can think of to make this card. Just an idea! Tracye Here is a link that might be useful: Tracye's Treasures

I remember my grandmother doing her laundry on "wash day".She would build a fire under the huge iron pot in the back yard and haul the water (I don't remember where she hauled it from.LOL) to fill up the huge pot.She had a big wash tub for the wash water and one for the rinse water and a wash board.LOL I can see her now bent over that tub scrubbing away on the wash board.Clothes were hung over a line from a couple of big trees or on the barbed wire fence behind the house.It was an all day long ordeal but it was kind of fun.For the kids at least.We got to stay outside all day while she did the wash.As she brought the clothes in off the line she would "sprinkle" the ones to be ironed,roll them up neatly and put them inside a pillowcase to be ironed the next morning.Also an all day ordeal.I remember sometimes she would put the pillowcase full of ironing in the refrigerator.She would let me and my cousin iron handkerchiefs,pillow cases and underwear.We were like 8-10 years old.I usually ended up doing it all because my cousin was a tom boy and would rather be outside climbing trees.I was the domestic one.LOL I could never figure out,even then,why you ironed underwear.LOL I loved doing the hankies and pillowcases!LOL I also remember her making lye soap in that same big pot over the fire! It was a happy day when one of the wealthier families in town that my DGF had done carpentry work for gave her their old wringer washer.They had just bought one of the new fangled automatic ones.She still did the laundry in the back yard though!LOL