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    printing those digital scrapbooks

    8×11 Personalized Cover Book (20 pages only) for $15 INCLUDING shipping CODE:2011BOOK 8/18-8/25

    My favorite place to print my photos and memory books is through Snapfish. I have been using them for almost 10 years now. They have always been reliable for me and has wonderful photos. I wanted to share this August special, it is a great time to print those lovely summer memories. Get them ready for the upcoming holidays.

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    How to use My Memories

    Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

    I have been creating many different layouts and digital scrapbook pages to preserve my families memories. My Memories sent me this video this morning to share with my followers on how to use the software and the digital kits. Many of the digital kits are free designs. And they are still offering the $10.00 off the software code STMMMS36408, which comes with another $10.00 worth of digital kits. Total of $20.00 with those two alone. And now that My Memories has created a new Facebook page you can get another $5.00 worth of digital kits.

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    My Memories pages

    I couldn’t wait to share this with everyone. My Memories is offering a $5.00 promo code to to those who like their new facebook page. Many of their kits are free and average is between $3.00 to $5.00 with zero shipping. If you haven’t gotten their latest software this code will give you $10.00 off their newest software STMMMS36408. The software comes with an additional $10.00 worth of credit towards software. It is simple to use, and kits are interchangeable with other programs. I can mix digital embellishments from Daisy trail and My Memories to create truly unique layouts.

    memories quick page, my Grandma and her mom when she was young.

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    More digital scrapbooking pages

    I was really excited yesterday when my new Craft Artist Professional Digital Software came in. I have waited a couple weeks for this upgrade. I had played with the free version for the past year. I enjoy interchanging fonts, layouts, embellishments from each program to come up with unique layouts.

    I installed the program late last night so that I could work with it today. Well little did I know that my WONDERFUL laptop would crash today. I must have overworked something on it because it wont start up. My hard drive is fine but something else is in need of repair.

    But I was able to back up all my photos and software on an external hard drive. I am now using my husbands old laptop with my hard drive.

    When working with photographs and technology it is very important not to have everything in one area. Back up sources are really important, rather it be on an external hard drive, thumb drives, CD Rom disks, backing up is important. I prefer the archival cd rom disks that can be bought at any office supply store. I am not always great about backing up my data and was really worried that the few photos that I was able to scan while visiting my Aunt last week would have been lost.. Thankfully this data wasn’t and I am able to get it all backed up now.

    While the computer is backing up my wonderful photos, I brought up the Craft Artist Professional Software and made this page is less than 10 minutes. It was really simple to add these photos and embellishments together. The first one is of my Great Grandparents Raymond F. Durbin and Ula Mae(AKIN) Durbin. I hadn’t seen many photos of them together before this last trip. The layouts are from Daisy trail, it is part of the Craft Artist and Serif software company.

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    My Memories Digital Scrapbook Software Giveaway winner .

    Thank you all for joining me in my first giveaway for My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software. Even though only one of you will win the software for free, all of my other wonderful readers will get a $10 Discount on the software using our promo code STMMMS36408. That is a fantastic deal for the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Suite! Using Random.org number 3 was drawn- Rebekah is the winner!!! Congrats Rebekah, please email me.

    Blogger Rebekah said…

    I follow on GFC and would like to use this software to make a wedding album; we have a collection of about 100 photos.

    miryfaye at yahoo.com

    August 13, 2011 4:02 PM
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    More My Memories Digital scrapbook pages

    Being a mom of 4, it gets a little interesting and busy around here. That is why I am loving the My Memories Digital Software. I really enjoy scrapbooking and don’t always have the time or space to bring out all the cute scrapbooking tools. This morning I had a few moments to play with the software. Here are a few pages that I put together this morning.I still need to add Journals on them but that won’t take all that long to add.

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    Sharing Memories, Solving Mysteries

    It’s been a few days since I had the chance to post more on Genealogy.  I had the chance to visit my Aunt and Cousins that live in another State. My Aunt has all the photographs, letters, post cards, and documents that Grandma had saved through the years. My Aunt had found report cards from grade school that were Grandma’s. They were in wonderful condition, and Great Grandma Ula’s signature was still on the back. These were report cards from Grade 3rd to Grade 6th, at St. Mary’s School.

    There didn’t seem to be enough time to go through all the wonderful photographs, read all the letters, and post cards that had been collected through the years. We had found letter from Nancy Ola Akin that she had wrote to my Grandma when she was just starting out as a young mom. I can hardly wait until the scanner is working and we can scan more than I was able to during my visit. They live 10 hours away, so getting there is a challenge at times. Here are a few boxes that we were going through.

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    At 1 AM as we were putting everything away I noticed an envelope from Bubbles- Edna. She has worked very hard on the family tree from the Durbin side and has shared with everyone the same information. Or we thought. We opened it and right away there was the Obituary and copies of old photographs of Fredrick Augustus Durbin. My Grandma’s Grandfather who passed away when she was a couple months old. I had never seen nor was able to find much about Fredrick Augustus Durbin other than he was a Wire Carrier during the turn of the Century. And here was his obituary, photographs, more than I could have hoped to find. 
     
    Fredrick A. Durbin Obituary. I will transcribed and add this later so that everyone can see his story. 

    Photo of Fredrick A. Durbin, with Wife  Mae Augustas Williams Durbin, and son Fredrick R. Durbin. Scrapping these are going to be a lot of fun. Don’t forget My Memory Digital Scrapbooking Giveaway ends on Saturday. I have been using My Memories this week for quick pages.