Organizing...

Hello everyone! It has been an interesting past few months! There have been changes in my job, school started for our kiddos,(my baby started kindergarden) and my scrap booking room is under construction! I am hip wader deep with organization 101!!! My scrap room looked like a tornado went through it! Organizing can be like driving through a bad construction zone! But the end result is ooh so worth it!!!

For the rest of the school year, the first Friday of the month is going to be crop-till-ya-drop nights. These will be held at the Federated Church in Mound City, KS unless other wise told different. The evening will start at 6:30 pm and go until the last owl leaves! The cost is $10, this is for the use of my supplies, pizza, & drinks. The third Saturday of the month will be at my house. I am so excited to show you new ideas from Close to My Heart!

Thank you everyone for being patient the past couple of months! I appreciate every one's support in my scrap booking business!

Advisory panel

The advisory panel was very informational! We met with HP advertising & Walgreen's managers and learned how they are partnering together. The advisory panel was a group of wonderful women from the Kansas City area.. They were all business owners and successful women! See them on my link friends! Check them out! Amy and I even won in drawings! I got a HP photo smart digital camera and Amy won the HP photo printer! There was definitely lots of information to be learned there... Ladies if you want something go for it! Don't let the dream squashers take your dreams from you... Make a plan and follow it! I started with a blog and then got business cards. After that started making contacts through Amy Biggerstaff Photography. Amy has allowed me to place business cards in her office and we have done projects together... Sometimes you won't make money at what you try but it gets your name out there.. Statistics show that you have to be shown to someone 8-10 times before they will remember your business.

Mompreneur!

Hey everyone! I have told you that I am getting together information on starting your own business.. I have been invited by BSM Media who is working with Hewlett Packard to reach out to mom entrepreneurs in the Kansas City area. HP is hosting a Mompreneur advisory panel in order to learn about the creative and personal needs of Moms so that they can develop tools and solutions that fit the dynamic lifestyles of today's mompreneurs. After attending this, there will be even more information!!! All those talented women coming together for one common purpose! How awesome!

Ladies, what I can tell you is don't ever let anyone swash your dreams, no matter how big or small.. Start your business with a few family members, friends, and co-workers.. network out from there... ask for referrals with incentive so much percent off for each referral that purchases from you...

Here is my special for the month of June:

Order a scrapbook, give me a referral that orders a scrapbook and

receive $$$ off your next one!!!

Example: You order a 12x12 scrapbook, you refer a friend

who orders a scrapbook and you will receive $100 off your next book!!!

Here is the breakdown:

12x12= $100 off next book

8x10= $85 off next book

8x8= $75 off next book

6x6= $70 off next book

5x7= $65 off next book

That is incentive to get those photos out of the old shoebox!!!!

Questions

I am getting several emails on an almost daily basis about the article that was in Modern Mom. They all are from women with many questions... All of which are about the same... So be looking in the next few weeks for a way that I can answer your questions. Now, please know that I can't give all my secrets away:), but I will be providing a way for you to get your questions answered! None of the women have been geographically close to me, there have been women from Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado to name a few. My business doesn't have boundaries, I have clients from Connecticut to Ohio and on west. That is an awesome feeling!!!!

Graduation!!!

Graduation is right around the corner! Whether your college, high school, junior high, or as in our case pre-school student graduating...... it will be so awesome to see their scrapbook at the party. I am ready to take anyone who needs their grad's scrapbook updated or made right from the start. As long as it is in 2weeks before their graduation date. A present like this is something they will treasure for years to come.

Crop til' ya drop!!!

Mark your calendars!!!! I am having a "crop til ya drop" on Saturday, April 5th at the Federated Church in Mound City. They have several tables to spread out and have your own space! I am charging a $10 fee. That will cover the use of all my supplies, lunch, drinks, and snacks. We are starting at 8:30am!!! So, start finding telling the hunny now that the day is marked and they have the kids! I just became a consultant for an awesome company called Close to My Heart. I absolutely LOVE their stuff! I will try to have some of their products for purchase on that Saturday. There will be drawings for fun items, bring a friend and enter twice!!! Please RSVP by April 3rd so I can reserve a space and have head count for snacks and goodies!!! Thanks!

Little book

I just love this little book. The accordion style lets you scrap on both sides. The book is from Seven Gypsies and comes with a card stock purse you decorate yourself. You can add acrylic pain to the edges for a fun look. They make a great gift for any family member. The added bonus is they are not very big so you can just take them in your purse to show all your friends! Even on your desk! I put a razor phone by it so you can see about how big they are. Enjoy!

Modern Mom

I AM SO EXCITED!!! We have hit the magazines! Sophfronia Scott (The Book Sista), a client of mine, is an author, writer, and public speaker. She also writes for the magazine Modern Mom. The web site is awesome! Lots of interesting articles for stay at home moms and the working mom. If you go to the web site http://www.modernmom.com/ and click on working mom, there we are! Scrapbooking is a passion of mine and I love to share it with people. I hope you enjoy the article and please call me with any questions or concerns. I can't wait to scrapbook your memories.

Sweethearts

The month of LOVE! How much fun, flowers and chocolates! They are a girls best friends! (mostly the chocolate!) The kids are having so much fun making Valentine's for their classmates. Finishing up boxes for their classes. Gabbie in the 3rd grade and Garrett in preschool, they keep us busy! Here's some pics of them and their jazz! More pages to come in the next week. I am making Gabbie a pink 5x7 album. Just for her, of us. She is so funny, when I am scrapbooking, she comes in, sits on the floor, and does her own scrapbooking. She is growing up way to fast! This almost tweeny thing is, oh my goodness, scarry! Jeff took a pic of us the other day. We were taking a photo for something that may be in the works, and I must say I am very excited if it all falls into place!

Tain

It is always so neat to see a little one grow. As you flip through the pages of your life you remember the "good stuff." That's the cool thing about scrapbooking you get to flip through your story. Tain's book has been so fun to do! Because of that reason. Here's a few more before Tain's book goes on it's way home for him to enjoy!

Gregory's

Few more on little man Tain!

More of Tain

I have been not on the ball lately and I apologize. There is much to be said about technology, it can make you or break you at times. I hope that my new digital Samsung will help me out in this area, and forgive me I am still learning the digital camera world. I am still a 35mm film girl though! hehe! Sophronia has been so patient with me in getting pages on the blog. I have several more pages done but wanted to get a few up now before I finish Tain's first album tonight. I will be posting through out the night. Sophronia is a wonderful client! And Tain is a complete cutie! hope you enjoy!

Halloween/Snow Photos

Oh just wanted everyone to know, because I forgot to put it in yesterday. The Halloween and little girl in the snow page, those portraits were shot by Amy Biggerstaff. Check out her awesome work by clicking on my friend link! Have a great day!

Tain and a few other pages

This is a creative twist on what you can do with sonogram pictures that you really want to keep but don't quite know what to do with. And I love the "bun in the oven"! I will put 5-7 more pages on line before I'm done with in the next week. Tain, you sweet sounding boy, you have a beautiful red scrapbook! I so hope that you enjoy it! I had a chance to hear Tain in the background tell his mom that he wanted a "red" book. Also, there are some of my own pages for viewing. My silly kids on Halloween, Gabbie wanted to be scary, which a complete change from the fairy theme for the past several years. Garrett, what can I say Spidey is everywhere in our house! Enjoy!

It is a New Year!!!

I have a new client from Connecticut. She has a beautiful family and I have the privilege of scrapbooking her son's baby album. Monday afternoon there will be new pages of her album up on the blog. I am so excited! There is a lot to come in the next few weeks. Every month this year is going to have a theme. Just to give you a glimpse, January is relationship month. Call today to have your special photos of your loved ones in a custom scrapbook album, for example: five generations, siblings, or grandparents. I hope everyone will check out my link to Amy Biggerstaff, we are running various specials together this year. She is an talented photographer and a very awesome and successful business woman. It is so much fun to work for Amy two days a week. Much is to be learned when I am around her.