-Sisters by chance, brides by choice. These one aren't specifically sister and bride ones, but maybe you could use them: - Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. (maybe you could change the last one- or use it for a shot of uncomfortable wedding shoes.) - More than a sister, more than a friend, Our love has no limit, our friendship no end. - Sometimes a library of words can't say what a hug from a sister can. This one might be cute if you have pictures of your mom helping you guys get ready: - Mom I'll always love you, but I'll never forgive you for cleaning my face with spit! Hope you can find something you can use. Here's a site with tons of sayings, too. I got these from there a long time ago and saved them. I haven't been there in a very long time so there may be some new ones. Happy scrappin'! -Sarah Here is a link that might be useful: Sawyer's sayings

I have to admit that I sometimes "cheat" with the handwriting! For the ABC Album, I found a script font I liked and printed out the titles for each of the pages. I used my lightbox to trace the lettering onto my pages with my Calli pens. This kept the lettering consistant from page to page and lessened my fear of making too many mistakes.

Don't laminate newspaper clippings. There is a lot of lignin and acid in newspaper and laminating traps the chemicals, causing them to deteriorate faster. If you want the look of an original you have a few options: you can spray it with Archival Mist but that's $40 a bottle!- the 40% Michaels coupon might help there, have a color copy made onto acid free paper (printers and copiers have acid-free ink) or you can use a special memoribilia pocket made for scrapbooks. If you still are dead set on using the original clipping and don't want to spend the $ on the Archival Mist spray or memoribilia pocket, I'd suggest using buffered paper for a mat (even double or triple mat it if you can) and not having photos on that page. Buffered paper is supposed to absorb acids and keep them from migrating to the other things on your page, but there's a lot in newspaper. You also want to be sure when you close the book that that page is protected (like in its own page protector) and doesn't touch the facing page. HTH! -Sarah

Dear Hilary, Yep, got your envelope and LOVED IT! I posted on here that I had gotten it because I keep sending my mail to the wrong Hilary at the wrong time. LOL You must have missed it, I think it was under a different post heading. I hope you are not going to be mad at me but I sent them to Megan, inside a small box of goodies. While I loved them and would have loved to use them myself, I just figured they were just the right size for a child to play with in a hospital bed. So I sent her a pack of markers, crayons, coloring book, the paper dolls you sent me, a glue stick, some stickers, some finger nail tattoos, some drawing paper that I thought was acid free but wasn't, some glitter glue pens, a couple of pair so fancy edge scissors, and a couple of other small things I can't remember right now. All of the items except your paperdolls I got at the dollar tree so I was not out that much money, and I thought it might keep her busy while she was bed bound. Thank you again, Penny