My daughter got married 3 yrs ago. She had the Wedding Binder. Had notes, receipts, plans, fabric samples, pictures of anything to do with wedding. We shopped in 7 different cities looking for the perfect shade of blue with the look/feel/drape of what she wanted. We finally found it... She was so organized she laid out everything she had purchased, sorted it out, took a digital photos, numbered the tote box, wrote where in the maze of totes it was located, (color coordinated, of course ;) and had those picture pages in her binder. There was every phone number, name of sales clerk,subject, etc. that she had conversations with along the way... Of course the wedding and reception was perfect, and the worst that happened, was my umbrella getting sent home with her MIL. I should only wish that the genes would reverse to me!!! Now that she has her first child, (Audry Olivia- 8 wks old) she has the Building the House Binder. She spent a year designing it, and now has nearly all of the things ready to go into it as soon as the Men People get it ready! Of course when I ran into her in the store a couple weeks ago, the House Binder was right beside her diaper bag. I have a feeling that when she returns to work this week, the Binder will come along also. I hope that Baby is so blessed with the organization that her Mommy has!

I have been putting all of my recipes on cards and laminating them. I bought the laminator and film on ebay. It was an investment, but I have used it for other things, including things for my husband's work and our church. I have seen laminating film that does not require a laminator, but I think you get less neat looking results with it -more bubbles and wrinkles and such. The press pushes all of the bubbles out and heats the adhesive. As a less expensive alternative, I would recommend getting heavy-duty sheet protectors at your local office supply store and keeping your recipes organized in a three-ring binder. :)

You can make your own stickers...find some sites on the computer and copy and paste any picture that you want...I do this all the time. Office Max has whole-sheet sticker paper with a transparent background...this works well on your white or light colored album pages. Wal-Mart has whole-sheet white sticker paper that you could use on colored pages...you just have to be a little neater when cutting them out. I did some pages this way featuring Veggie Tales and Hello Kitty...any picture you find (almost) can be copied and pasted. I either put them on a floppy disk or into My Documents and then use them from there....

Hi Penny, I really like the Me and My Big Ideas stickers and yes they are more for childrens layouts. Although, the chistmas ones are nice with the reindeer, sleigh & holly and also the outdoor camping or just the border ones. I definately wouldn't use them for Heritage pages. I don't know which ones you have but there are some I don't care for too. One of our scrapbook stores has several layouts on the walls using these stickers and they are done very well, guess it's a matter of how you are going to use them. I really like the Debbie Mumm stickers because of the muted colors, and of course Francis Meyer.