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Were you there?  Did you miss it?

Taylor Swift wowed everyone on the red carpet last night.

My dear friend Kari was at the lake with us this past weekend and took a picture of me...a very unflattering picture.  Let's just say, I had been drinking beer, it was a bad angle, I had on a bikini, and I was slumped over.  Not a good shot of the gut...

One? Twelve? Twenty?  How many pictures should you use on your layout?  The rule is: there are no rules!  Really!  You just need to decide what is right for the story you want to tell. In this age of digital cameras, we are no longer limited to the amount of photos that we can take, save, and print...

I have actually found a buck or two sometimes just walking in a parking lot.  I pick it up of course.  Even though it's only a buck, I look around quickly to see if anyone is nearby that might have dropped it.  Walking through parks I've found everything from backpacks to ballcaps, to pens.  But what this person found is a true treasure!

Do you feel as if you don’t have time to scrapbook?  All of that gathering of tools and supplies, cutting and cropping, assembling and gluing, and writing?  Well, just do little bits at a time.  Almost anyone can find just 15 minutes in a day...

When I was growing up, my mom took a lot of pictures.  Rolls and rolls of film.  The first thing she would do when she got them home from being developed was to write on the back of them.  Who was in the picture, where it was taken, and the date...