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Today I'm participating in Big Picture Classes National Scrapbook Day 10k . They've got a goal to have 10,000 scrapbook layouts posted on Instagram...

Welcome to Project Life® 2014 | Week Six (February 3rd through February 9th). This was quite a week. Looking back at the photos today while I was f...

Ah, the office. Some of you have been wondering silently and some have been asking in the comments here or on Facebook "what about the office updat...

A storytelling theme I used to employ regularly for layouts was "today you" - here's one of Anna from back in 2011. I thought about that theme a we...

NOTE BEFORE READING | This post includes holiday spoilers for kids. A couple weeks ago (before Easter) Chris had "the talk" with Simon about some o...

Say hello to Project Life® 2014 | Week Twelve (March 17th through March 16th ). You can check out all the new kits for May (called Camelot) over at...

One of the big things people requested in the recent AE Blog Reader Survey was more printables. In many of the products I create for Designer Digit...

We had a quiet little Easter around here. My parents showed up on Saturday afternoon - a pit stop for them on their way back down to the beach from...

Every once in awhile I come across a product that makes me go, "ah, yeah." Today I want to introduce you to Photo Flips from Simple Stories and if ...

Every now and then I'll receive an email or a question about how to begin scrapbooking. I first started scrapbooking in 2002 when Simon was 11 mont...

ANNA Started soccer. Her team's name is Soccer Chocolate Kittens. Their first game was last Saturday (3 on 3 for 5 minutes or so at a time) and it ...

Written at 8:48am on a Saturday morning (3/22/14) on the island of Kauai: We arrived on Friday afternoon and were greeted by my Aunt Gaye and my Un...

Are you guys one-book-at-a-time readers? Right now I've got multiple books going and sometimes I think that's a good thing (nice to have choices ba...

Welcome to the April Studio AE Blog Hop From Technique Tuesday. Technique Tuesday offers a monthly stamp club that features a limited edition stamp...

In our family... We do magic. Moments of surprise. The ones that take your breath away. We create opportunities to experience magic both big and sm...

I've been blogging since 2004. In internet years that's a pretty darn long time. I've written over 3000 posts that include some of the simplest and...

Welcome to Project Life® 2014 | Week Five (January 27th through February 2nd). As I was working on this week I said to Katie, "I want to get these ...

It's that time of year. Things are starting to bloom around here and I'm starting to think about Easter baskets and Easter meals and getting out in...