Dear Jane, I think the border idea is great and could also be used for those cute little girl shots where little girls are play dressing in mom's clothes. Penny

I started back in 97 when my dd was born- today she turns 9! I did her baby book and it was ok. Then I discovered Creative Memories and all the stuff out there. I redid her pages- thanks to double prints- and it is much nicer. I used to use a 3-ring binder and page protectors from office supply store. I used solid paper as my page. I used some stickers and a little journalling. I have since taken all those pages and put them into CM albums. Now I use the regular white pages and use the colored paper for frames or accent strips. To organize and make things go faster I use an easy method. I have a binder with sleeves in it. When I develop film I separate in dated or event order. Then I divide by what pics would fit on a page. I drop those pics into sleeves. Then I take paper that matches the pics and drop it in the sleeve. I may put some stickers in there too. Then when I go to scrap, I just grab a sleeve and work that page. I have already picked out the stuff for the page, just need to assemble. Unfortunatly, I have a digital camera now. It was so easy to develop film and then sort out the pics. Now I have to download onto a CD, take to a place or use an online service. I have not done this yet, which explains why I have over 600 pics to print, and at least half I need doubles of- one for my dd and one for my ds albums. One nice thing about digital is that I can print only what I need, so I may print all my dd birthday pics for her album, but only print a few for my son to have in his. Hey soggy6- aren't you the one with the pool that had plaster then switched to ptec after a crack or something? Are you going to, or do you know about, the event at Newburg Hall down by Sac State on 4/29? My CM gal and her friends are having an all-day event. After spending last year doing the build, it will be nice to spend a day scrapping. I am taking all our vacation pics- the ones before we had kids- and getting them all into albums. Won't be super fancy like my kids books. The goal is to have them in an album instead of not.

Janie, The mulberry paper is lovely, but I too would probably use it for tearing and matting. I have seen some pictures using it to make a christmas tree by tearing it, but guaranteed mine would not look like a tree.LOL I do know you have to wet it where you want to tear it before you tear it, theres a web site out there that has the instructions a maybe some ideas. If I find it again I will send it to you. Pam

Hmmm, new stuff . . . it seems like paper dolls are really popular right now. I saw a lot of the Paperkins and Jill's paper doll templates. I also saw a lot of Journaling Genies and Overalls (page toppers by EK Success). There was one HUGE die cut display, but I didn't see a lot of die cuts at the individual stores. The Coluzzle booth was getting a lot of attention. I tried the EK Success Circle Scissor. I liked it, but am still contemplating the CM circle cutter. The circle scissor is cheaper, but I'm not sure about the durability. Flowers seem to be big right now in papers and die cuts, but that may be the season, also. Suzy's Zoo stickers are very popular. Oh, here's one local company that has patented really cute stick people that you can buy in rubber stamp form, or in a small book that you can trace or copy for personal use. The people that own the store are very nice and they let us stamp-and-take as many samples as we wanted. Unfortunately, their web site doesn't really show off their stuff. I think you can request a catalogue, though. They are at www.scrappinpeeps.com. Their booth was one of the most popular at the show. I bought a couple of books because they were half price. If I thnk of anything else I'll let you know.