From the category archives:

Genie’s Gems

Scrapbook Gifts: Card Organizer and Address Book

June 7, 2010

I like to make ‘scrapbook gifts’ for family and friends with my scrapbook supplies. The most recent is this card organizer and address book. Here’s how I did it.

Spring Cleaning our Website

March 2, 2010

Spring is officially here now, although you wouldn’t know it yet! We’re updating and spring cleaning our website and as you may have noticed it’s taking longer than we said. It always seems to be the same. I set out to do something that should only take a couple of minutes and two hours later [...]

New Look at Scrapbooking Gems

November 13, 2008

Bear with us please while we’re hard at work updating the site. Why are we doing this? So you can find things faster, quickly see a wider range of what’s here, and generally improve the site. Hope you like it. If you want to comment or you find a problem and have time to drop us [...]

Spanish Golf Apartment to Rent

September 4, 2008

Why are we talking about scrapbooking a Spanish golf resort on a scrapbooking website? As scrapbooking enthusiasts we scrap everything, right? Including golf resorts? Well … ye-es, but …?

Scrapbook Topics: Faith

May 19, 2008

Are scrapbooking and religion linked? Do you have to scrapbook if you’re of a particular faith? Or are they not related at all?

This Moment

May 12, 2008

Make the most of this moment. Then preserve the memories. (Have you scrapped yourself scrapping?) We ran a series a while back about our reasons for scrapbooking. We polled you and discovered that one of the main reasons most of us scrapbook is to preserve the memories; we want to hold on to them for [...]

Joy to the World

December 24, 2007

“I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.

Love in a Box – The Power of a Simple Gift

October 25, 2007

“Today I was sitting with my mother, I saw the sadness in her face, she was listening to the cries of my brother; there’s so much hunger in this place.”

Delivering love in a box “so that the whole world can see that someone cares about us, someone cares about me.”

Seasons & Questions of Life

September 3, 2007

Is there more to life than meets the eye? One of life’s big questions. What are the big questions life is presenting you with at the moment? …

Father's Day – In Honor of my Adoptive Father

June 13, 2007

With Father’s Day approaching, this is to honor my adoptive Father who loves me more than I could imagine was possible.

My biological father walked out on my mother, brother and me. My mother was only 24 years old. My brother was one year old. I was four and a half. The breakup took its toll on my mother’s health, but she tried to love us enough to make up for it, and worked as hard as her poor health would allow to provide for us …

Of Genie's Gems and Gleanings …

February 25, 2007

I said I’d come back to it, so here we go …

I wanted to call this department Genie’s Gems & Gleanings for I wanted space to write about interesting things I’d learned that might not be related to scrapbooking yet might interest you. (Perhaps I flatter myself!)

It proved to be too much of a mouthful so it was left as Genie’s Gems.

Anyway, the idea …

Of Genie's Gems & Gleanings and of Proverbs …

February 20, 2007

“… so we’ll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it’s going … for learning what’s right and just and fair … to teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality … there’s something … for seasoned men and women, still a thing or two for the experienced to learn?Fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate, the rhymes and reasons of wise men and women.” (The Message: Proverbs)

The pace of life is not …