tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14634679120987035322024-02-07T03:56:45.529-08:00Victorian Rose DesignsThis is the Design Blog for Victorian Rose Designs by Vicki Pasterik. Check often for product updates, challenges and FREEBIES!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-13210914950946888062012-04-25T07:16:00.001-07:002012-04-25T07:16:16.250-07:00NEW SITE!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have updated our website! Please stop by and browse. Check out the galleries and forums, along with new challenges. We are still adding products to the store, but when they are all on the shelf, we will be having a Grand REOpening Sale. Stay Tuned!!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-36701995023917594062011-10-03T14:28:00.001-07:002011-10-03T14:34:01.389-07:00Life Book Freebies for Tonight (Monday 10/3/11)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0uIEzBYUec5vremXdfF_Ujc0j_Dy81L8gGtRkYmHkFN9Tjg9DfWHcxxWk1FoXWZLgcFuPaT18NUIvdnHFubwShnLq7mLcxpuIQ-tF7nvpXficeQVMPS03mHKWsfo5uN3mfK8UdJQs3eP/s1600/Violet-Family-QP-000-Page-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_0uIEzBYUec5vremXdfF_Ujc0j_Dy81L8gGtRkYmHkFN9Tjg9DfWHcxxWk1FoXWZLgcFuPaT18NUIvdnHFubwShnLq7mLcxpuIQ-tF7nvpXficeQVMPS03mHKWsfo5uN3mfK8UdJQs3eP/s320/Violet-Family-QP-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659381577790466882" border="0" /></a>Everyone who comes to the Life Book Chat tonight at 9 pm ET will get this Quick Page FREE. This week we will be working on our subject's School Days.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxD9-GTRyfmYOuE1-AiF2SsK2gp80o8KjAotUEzPVbmskz091XtNYMCWkvSdkDEV2JMdRfbpRU5mO22z6FSTW-ZQoM6BPI8y-wRlUFsUSqjrFxDdw32ll7i1Q4D2VNkoKbTJtrJ7cRcyD/s1600/Violet-Family-QP-004-Page-4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxD9-GTRyfmYOuE1-AiF2SsK2gp80o8KjAotUEzPVbmskz091XtNYMCWkvSdkDEV2JMdRfbpRU5mO22z6FSTW-ZQoM6BPI8y-wRlUFsUSqjrFxDdw32ll7i1Q4D2VNkoKbTJtrJ7cRcyD/s320/Violet-Family-QP-004-Page-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659381268364395570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjWB1Y6mBM5bOroGkKdwAKU4lc1MD0uEjPAD5AzO5g6HhCaO1xyXeu9K7w7r5Pi89Ynd0Q4D81H-zkpv8fvP5bO_Qd4Kx5LJ-JjbuVBtmjXpePdv_2UIfB5kKCzp7xAEpJj_AVU3yz43N/s1600/Violet-Family-QP-000-Page-1.jpg"><br /></a>Everyone who uploaded a CHILDHOOD layout to the Life Book Users Gallery this week, will get this Hammered Brass Alphabet that coordinates with the Violet Family Quick Page and the Violet Girl Page Kit. :)<br /><br />Hope to see you there!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-85098647205900402252011-09-13T09:20:00.001-07:002011-09-13T09:31:31.870-07:00Chats are each MONDAY . What to do until next week...Blogspot automatically sends out emails to my followers when I post a new entry. I'm not sure how they determine when the email will be sent, but I have been notified that some of you received an email update today (as did I) saying that the Chat is tonight (which I posted yesterday, but didn't come through until today.)<br /><br />So just to clarify, Life Book Chats are every MONDAY at 9 pm ET in the chat room at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.VictorianRoseDesigns.com">www.VictorianRoseDesigns.com</a>.<br /><br />If you did not get to come last night, but wish to join us in this round, I recommend that you go to the Life Book Tab on my website and read all of the getting started articles, beginning with "What is a Life Book?". Then continue reading until you get to the end of the "Cover" article.<br /><br />After you have determined who your subject will be, what size book you will be scrapping, what style you will scrap in, etc. Then I encourage you to make the cover of your Life Book. (You will find some Life Book Cover Quick Pages available for FREE download in the freebie section of the site, should you choose to use them.)<br /><br />You may post your cover on my site and in the Heritage Scrap Life Book Gallery, as well, if you wish. There are no limitations on what kits you may use. The only thing we ask is that you not post links to other stores in your gallery description. Do, however, give the designer credit!<br /><br />If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at Vicki1@victorianrosedesigns.com.<br />Hope to see you next Monday night!!<br /><br />Hugs,<br />VickiVicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-7574480490542021452011-09-12T16:16:00.001-07:002011-09-12T16:20:37.577-07:00Life Book 4 begins tonight!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLGYXO7yyFoB-PmV333OeHJTbLPSYxuk2n_7vVq93yc0TWp-CAMeIlGmgqf4ophA2YV27cq642u_ku4DJ0smzApGag4YDen4riDfqF81S2NV_r-mK3x9w-vzaVnfbbpidqEpaMNPjJ7LDn/s1600/LifeBookWelcomeBackGift-000-Page-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLGYXO7yyFoB-PmV333OeHJTbLPSYxuk2n_7vVq93yc0TWp-CAMeIlGmgqf4ophA2YV27cq642u_ku4DJ0smzApGag4YDen4riDfqF81S2NV_r-mK3x9w-vzaVnfbbpidqEpaMNPjJ7LDn/s320/LifeBookWelcomeBackGift-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651616276131696114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvWOQulAkLJVKq9SCYrM_uMqNaQoL1wD7_cr3pz7rdWyh1tCgjGgKPOJL2FyjonSEQRNNZox0IiV1Ab-qwkBgUk-9wtT4PzNvjhjpQIctzmR2pIr0oi1vNyyGEi6hnRxIAfl5h0t5C3aHX/s1600/LifeBookWelcomeBackGift-001-Page-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvWOQulAkLJVKq9SCYrM_uMqNaQoL1wD7_cr3pz7rdWyh1tCgjGgKPOJL2FyjonSEQRNNZox0IiV1Ab-qwkBgUk-9wtT4PzNvjhjpQIctzmR2pIr0oi1vNyyGEi6hnRxIAfl5h0t5C3aHX/s320/LifeBookWelcomeBackGift-001-Page-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651616210380792946" border="0" /></a>I know it has been awhile since I have posted. I took a leave of absence from designing over the Summer, but TONIGHT, I get back to work...<br /><br />Life Book IV begins tonight at 9 pm ET in the chat room at www.VictorianRoseDesigns.com. Please come and finish up a Life Book you have been working on, or start a new one and work alongside us as we work on them together. Hope to see you there! All in attendance will receive this Heritage Mini Pack, FREE! (Click the image to see it larger.) Please try to come!! :)Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-12556534837112792462010-12-02T07:26:00.001-08:002010-12-02T07:29:45.522-08:00Life Book - Holiday BreakMonday was our last chat for 2010! We have now completed the first 10 weeks of our Life Book at Heritage Scrap and we'll pick up with Week 11 in January. Our topic will be Young Adult, so if you see relatives over the holidays that may have photos of your subject that you don't have, make sure to snag a scan!! :) <br /><br />I would like to take this time to thank you all for your support and for coming to the chats, buying my products and walking with me on this amazing journey in creating heirlooms! I am so blessed!<br /><br />Have a Merry Christmas, make memories with your friends and family and Have Fun! Looking forward to a wonderful New Year in 2011!! God Bless us one and all! :DVicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-88070486268488563872010-12-02T07:19:00.000-08:002010-12-02T07:25:48.636-08:00Life Book Week 10: Friends<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="postbody"> <div class="content"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”</span><br /><br />Welcome to Week 10 of the Life Book Challenge where we will be preserving memories of <span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIENDSHIP.</span><br /><br />This week, your assignment is to scrap about your subject's friend(s). This could be childhood friends, life long friends, sisters/brother/cousins as friends (imaginary friends if you wish <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />) ... A friend is something that everyone has, and hopefully you are fortunate enough to have a picture of your subject with a friend. (It doesn't even have to be a human friend. Sometimes a dog is man's best friend. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />)<br /><br />This is probably a good time to say that you may need to shuffle your pages when you are finished to put them in chronological order. Some of us will be doing childhood friends, while others are doing a layout about a friend later in life. Obviously, you will want to put this page wherever it fits chronologically in your book.<br /><br />Here is a page Helene did about her life long friend, Marilyn. In this layout, she documents their friendship from their school years through the present.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6033" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/660/medium/My-Best-Friend.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />This page I made for Millie's Life Book tells some stories about her two best friends. I didn't have any pictures of them, but I did include a picture of Millie when she was little with her sisters.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7370" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieSisters.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />When your Layouts are done, please post them in the Life Book Gallery for <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=660" class="postlink">Week #10: Friends.</a><br /><br />Please try to come back here and post a link to your layout when it's in the gallery so we don't miss it.<br />If you need directions for posting links, please see my tutorial in the forum.<br /><br />If you have any questions or would like to discuss anything about this Section of your Life Book, please post here in this thread.<br /><br />Thanks! Can't wait to see the gallery this week!<br /><br />Life Book (TM) Content Copyright 2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div> <div id="sig8861" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /></div></div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-59979071302850346002010-12-02T07:12:00.000-08:002010-12-02T07:18:47.397-08:00ANNOUNCING! My New Web Site!!Come visit my NEW Website!! <a href="http://victorianrosedesigns.com">www.VictorianRoseDesigns.com<br /></a><br />What's on the site?<br /><br />LIFE BOOK: Information to help you make your own Life Book<br />GALLERY: Sample Life Books for Inspiration - Upload your own album to win a prize (Coming Soon - Details to be announced.)<br />PRODUCTS: Links to my stores at Heritage Scrap and my new store at Scrapbook Max (coming soon)<br />FREEBIES: I'll be adding more soon!<br /><br />The site is still under construction with LOTS of content still coming, including "how-to" articles on genealogy and scrapbooking, but check it out and see what you think. :) We've only just begun!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-22722712778051853192010-11-16T05:21:00.000-08:002010-11-16T05:23:02.655-08:00Life Book Week 9: Childhood Home<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="postbody"><div class="content">Good Morning, and welcome to Week 9 of our Life Book Challenge!<br /><br />This week, we will be scrapping about our subject's <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOMETOWN</span>, and/or <span style="font-weight: bold;">CHILDHOOD HOME(S)</span>.<br /><br />It's always interesting to talk to people about where their roots are. We are so influenced by the places we've lived and each place adds an extra layer to our life experiences. Growing up in an apartment in a large city may shape us into someone different than if we had grown up on a farm in the country. Our everyday life experiences are what mold us into the people we become.<br /><br />There are two ways to approach this week's topic. You may choose to scrap one or both of these variations on the theme. <br /><br />First, you may choose to scrap about the hometown your subject lived in. This will require some research on your part. What was the geographical location? What part of the state was it in? See what you can find out about the area. What trades were there? Where did people work? What was life like there? What were the hang outs? Try to find details that would apply to your subject. Simply do a search for the name of the town or county. Many historical societies even have old vintage photos of the town from the era your subject may have lived there!<br /><br />This layout from my great, great grandfather's Life Book demonstrates how to use information found on line on a scrapbook page. I combined the facts I learned about the area with the family information I had about the time he lived there.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13088" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/Alfred-Hall-Life-Book-001-Birth.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />If you would rather not include information about your subject's hometown, you might consider doing a layout about their childhood homes, especially if you are fortunate enough to have photos of them. Some of the census records include the street and house number for each family. If you can find that information or if you know the physical address, you could find an aerial photograph of the area from Google Earth or Mapquest. Newer versions of Google Earth even enable you to view old maps and satellite imagery of the area, allowing you to virtually go back in time! You might be surprised at what an internet search will bring up on your subject's childhood home. Give it a try and see.<br /><br />My grandparents were living with my Grandmother's Mom when my Dad was born. She ran a boarding house, and my grandfather moved in when they were married. My Dad and his older brother were both born in that house. Then when my grandmother was expecting their third child, my grandfather built their first “real” home. Those are the two houses my Dad lived in growing up. Even though they moved into their own home, it was near the boarding house, and he spent a lot of time at his Grandma's.<br /><br />This two page spread documents those two homes, as well as the last home my Grandpa built after all their children had moved out...<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8220" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VRD_DaddyHomesWeb1.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8222" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VRD_DaddyHomes_Web2.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br />This page was done as a sample for my Photo Album Quick Page (which you can grab <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=634&zenid=a0932912e5f7f46fd66c3797f92e6664" class="postlink">free in the HS Store!</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8224" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VRD_DaddysHome.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br />Remember, this is your life book, so please do as many pages as you need to do to get your story told. You may be able to make a layout for both the hometown and childhood homes, or you may not know much about one or either. Just try to preserve as much information about this topic as you possibly can. And don't forget that if you don't have many pictures, you may be able to find old photos of the hometown online that you can use. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><br /><br />You can find my Home Sweet Home Word Art Set, also in the store:<br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=724" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/4/42f48c51a7c46abdf45f8939b71fa79d.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Here is a Quick Page that you might find helpful for this theme as well. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1338" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/b/be20f9ed56a298b8ad14f6443b49d25b.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />It is also available in 8"X10".<br /><br />As always, if there is any specific word art you need for your pages, please let me know.<br /><br />When your Layouts are done, please post them in the Life Book Gallery for <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=657" class="postlink">Week #9: Hometown.</a><br /><br />Please try to come back here and post a link to your layout when it's in the gallery so we don't miss it.<br />If you need directions for posting links, please see my tutorial <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/Board/viewtopic.php?t=272" class="postlink">here.</a><br /><br />One winner will be randomly chosen from the gallery next Monday, just before the chat. Please try to have your layouts posted by about 8:45 pm (ET). Layouts using at least 50% Heritage Scrap products will be eligible for the drawing. Layouts using at least 50% of my products will be eligible for a posting bonus.<br /><br />If you have any questions or would like to discuss anything about this Section of your Life Book, please post here in this thread.<br /><br />Thanks! Can't wait to see what you come up with!<br /><br />Life Book (TM) Content Copyright Vicki Pasterik - Victorian Rose Designs 2010</div><br /> <div id="sig8783" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-86229942430284617882010-11-09T07:24:00.000-08:002010-11-09T07:27:59.340-08:00Life Book: Week 8: Family Memories<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><div class="content">Good Morning, and welcome to Week 8 of our Life Book Challenge! By the end of this week, you should have at least 8 pages of your book finished!<img src="http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-036.gif" alt="Image" /><br /><br />This week, we will be preserving <span style="font-weight: bold;">FAMILY MEMORIES</span>.<br /><br />This is a rather broad topic and will be specific to whatever Family Memories you happen to have for your subject. This could include Family Trips, Family Pets, Family Events, Family Holiday, Family Quilts or objects passed down, Celebrations, Birthdays, or Family Cars, just to name a few. (We will be doing our Homes later, and Hometowns next week, so try to find something not related to home for this chapter.)<br /><br />Remember, this is your life book, so please do as many pages as you need to do to get your stories told. You may be able to make a layout for each of these topics and more, or you may be struggling to come up with one. I'm sure you can think of something that your descendants will find interesting. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><br /><br />Some of our Life Book Veterans offered these suggestions: If you don't have a specific memory, why not scrap your memories of your subject? Or do a page about something that happened in history or other traditions that were common during your subject's lifetime.<br /><br />Here is a page I did about a Family Trip my Dad made with his family when he was a boy. He told me about the trip, but his sister (the little one struggling to “hold it” until after the picture was taken <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" />) also told me her memories of their trips to visit their cousins. I included both of their memories in the journaling. (Click image to view larger in the gallery.)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=6054" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/DaddyChilicothe-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />I found a photo of the Model T Ford that was like the one they took on their trip and blended it into the bottom of the page to add a little historical interest. (The Studebaker that his grandfather owned was used in the Word Art at the top. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /> This word art can be found in my <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=178&products_id=919" class="postlink">Antique Car Page Kit</a> which would work well if you are scrapping memories of a family car or trip.)<br /><br />Here is a page Vintage Vicki made highlighting a Family Reunion. Reunions always create family memories! You can see she included a lot of journaling on this page, but the pictures also tell the story.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8291" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/656/medium/1963-GroverReunion-web.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />This is such an interesting topic and I can't wait to see what you all come up with!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THIS WEEK IN THE STORE:</span><br /><br />I've included several kit suggestions throughout this post. You'll find some Family Memories Word Art in my <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=875" class="postlink">Family Word Art Set</a> that would work well for this week. And if you came to the chat this week, you got a nice Family Word Art Set free! <img src="http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-143.gif" alt="Image" /><br /><br />When your Layouts are done, please post them in the Life Book Gallery for <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=656" class="postlink">Week #8: Family Memories.</a><br /><br />(And be thinking about your subject's Hometown for next week – that may take a little advanced planning.)<br /><br />Please try to go to the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1143">Week 8 thread in the forums</a> and post a link to your layout when it's in the gallery so we don't miss it. If you need directions for posting links, please see my tutorial <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/Board/viewtopic.php?t=272" class="postlink">here.</a><br /><br />One winner will be randomly chosen from the gallery next week. Please try to have your layouts posted by about 8:45 pm (ET) or so. Layouts using at least 50% Heritage Scrap products will be eligible for the drawing, and those using 50% or more of my products, get a posting bonus.<br /><br />If you have any questions or would like to discuss anything about this topic of your Life Book, please post here in this thread.<br /><br />Thanks! Can't wait to read your family memories!</div> <img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-13504638333416162732010-11-02T14:28:00.001-07:002010-11-02T14:59:42.568-07:00Hearth and Home FREEBIE - Just for my blog readers!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.4shared.com/file/go-zC3hX/VictorianRose_HearthHome_Clust.html"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz69Uz_rkX9hvSsQ0hvweDhaDkAMM7JVo9I7NypBK1lf6iRRlkJcgTt42kGPh2PqtbPNnSuq43FExgEh5sty_a19O3pTURCIL2DNQvzGJ6thZBRbIeXSH6ivlxkH-A3oyFIXnCJAuyWOlO/s400/HearthHome-007-Page-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535075211823567042" border="0" /></a><br />To celebrate the Hearth and Home Collab, I made this extra Cluster Frame to coordinate with my portion of the Collab. just for my Blog readers. Click on the preview to download. Enjoy!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-45618848822813823002010-11-02T07:09:00.000-07:002010-11-02T07:11:16.289-07:00Gimme my bonus, please<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><div class="content"><img src="http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-028.gif" alt="Image" /><br />NEW in Life Book III. Those who use at least 50% of products by <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=20" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a> on your Life Book layouts will receive a posting bonus. To receive your posting bonus, PLEASE post a link to your layout in the Forum called "<a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1132&start=0">Gimme my bonus, please</a>". Once verified, you will receive a PM with the link to your bonus. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /> (You MUST post a link there to be eligible for the bonus.)<br /><br />THANK YOU!!</div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-56191032838325460392010-11-02T06:39:00.000-07:002010-11-02T06:40:53.888-07:00Life Book Week 7: Siblings<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="postbody"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=8544#p8544"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/styles/eMuza_summer/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" alt="Post" title="Post" height="9" width="11" /></a>by <strong><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a></strong> on 02 Nov 2010 07:45<br /><br /> <div class="content">Good morning, Girls! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to Week 7 of our Life Book Challenge!</span><br /><br />This week we will be focusing on our subjects' <span style="font-weight: bold;">SIBLINGS</span>.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Please note: If your subject does not have siblings, feel free to do another page in your life book for the challenge. Just be sure to post the link here in this thread. You may wish to do cousins, friends or even another page about something we've already covered. It's your book, so it's up to you. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Brothers and Sisters are flowers from the same garden.</span></span><br /><br />Who knows us better than our own flesh and blood? They've been there from the very beginning. They know everything about us, and they usually aren't afraid to tell it – especially the not so nice parts. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><br /><br />This week in our Life Books, we are paying homage to our subject's brothers and sisters. We are going to document for future generations, the details and relationship between our subject and his/her siblings. You may wish to include just the facts; i.e. names, dates, etc. or you may wish to include stories and memories your subject or other family members have told you about their siblings.<br /><br />Depending on how many siblings your subject has, and how much information you have about them, you may wish to do one layout, or a two page spread that includes all of the brothers and sisters, OR you may need to do a separate page for each sibling. It's up to you how much room you'll need to get your stories told.<br /><br />Monday night in the chat, we talked about how to find information about your subject's siblings. Here are a few of the sources that were suggested:<br /><br />Census records: All members of the household are listed as well as their relationship to the head of the house;<br />Will of the parents: Often lists living children and their heirs;<br />Marriage License: Often a brother or sister acts as a witness;<br />Land Records: Especially if the father leaves land to his children;<br />Obituaries: Lists family members, both surviving and deceased.<br />Living Family Members: ask them who the siblings were<br />also check Grave registration of veterans, cemetery records, family bibles, county biographies, and baptismal records<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some samples for inspiration:</span><br /><br />Helene has done a beautiful page that includes all of the siblings on a single layout. She did the journaling on a mat and included the photos in a very creative way. This is a great example of a siblings page.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7915" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/654/medium/Week-7-Siblings_G.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />This two page spread I have done for my Dad's Life Book is a Dragnet Page - (“Just the facts, ma'am”.) <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br />It documents how his family grew from one child to six. (Click on images to see the larger version in the Gallery.)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7923" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VRD_DaddySiblings1.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7922" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VRD_DaddySiblings2.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />You will notice that these pages don't have any journaling, other than the names and dates of the children.<br /><br />However, these pages out of my Dad's cousin, Millie's Life Book have funny stories she told us about her sister and include several photos of her sisters and brothers.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7370&ppuser=1109" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieSisters.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7926" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieSisBros.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Remember, this may be all the information your grandchildren have about your subject, so make sure to include as much information as you can. This may take several pages, so feel free to make as many as you deem necessary to get your stories told!<br /><br />I have a Sisters Word Art Set and a Brothers Word Art Set to help adorn you layouts.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=683" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/9/9e714c2a708a1fdd86237b272d002096.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1160" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/d/dfc5fb3c58d274efdab693e869e1fd77.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />So, the directions are the same as always. Please put your layouts in the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=654" class="postlink">Week #7 Siblings Gallery</a>. To be eligible for the drawing, use at least 50% Heritage Scrap products, and have your layout(s) in the gallery by 9 pm Monday – just before the chat.<br /><br />Can't wait to see this week's gallery!!<br /><br />Life Book (TM) content copyright 2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div> <div id="sig8544" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink"><br /></a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-41696446625147672982010-10-30T06:09:00.001-07:002010-10-30T06:14:16.784-07:00November Collab in store now!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=49_237&products_id=1939"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK89lvcxzkH9Q7iBAnXszapnsobXUNez3QBqIqkyQ_aSmn71zyLgkDioZnV-ACkitgrl_49aYtDqRMJKt_CGch1ZcIuHsqMK0E9I0wupy3QzNY3XCJZB_U-Fa6bu5RkCncA-71THrcv7LA/s320/VictorianRose_HearthHome_Preview.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533825754714799122" border="0" /></a>The November Designer Collab - Hearth and Home - is available now in the Heritage Scrap Store. Filled with Fall colors and the comforts of home, these kits are perfect for scrapping your Fall Family Memories.<br /><br />The Collab kits are all on sale for $2.50 each for the month of November.<br /><br />Click on the preview of my kit to go to the Heritage Scrap Store for more information.Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-43504239239131746162010-10-30T06:06:00.000-07:002010-10-30T06:08:00.562-07:00Life Book Week 6: Grandparents<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><div class="postbody"><p class="author"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=8514#p8514"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/styles/eMuza_summer/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" alt="Post" title="Post" height="9" width="11" /></a>by <strong><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a></strong> on 30 Oct 2010 07:16 </p> <div class="content">Welcome to Week 6 in our Life Book Challenge.<br /><br />This week we are documenting our subject's Grandparents. This is the week we will be working on our parents' parents. Since we are branching out, you should have at least 2 layouts this week – or possibly 4 – depending on whether you choose to do a layout for each grandparent, or each couple.<br /><br />As with parents, you may choose to do basic information, or do a more in depth layout. <br /><br />Do you know who your subject's grandparents were? Or have you hit a brick wall? One thing you may wish to try is going to <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/" class="postlink">http://www.ancestry.com/</a>. You can now type in the information you know and using information entered by other users, you may get a “leaf”. If your ancestors are already in their system, it will present you with a descendants chart that other users have entered, and give you some clues on where next to direct your research (please note: some information they give you is free, other information is only available through subscribing to their service, but it's worth a try to see what you can find!) Of course, you will want to verify any information you may find, and see if they give sources for where they obtained their information.<br /><br />If you have access to your subject's birth certificate or baptism or christening documents, their parents will be listed. If you have their parents information, you can find their parents. Otherwise, you can begin to check census records for the years your subject's parents were living. For instance, if you are making a life book of your father's life, and he was born in 1908, look in the 1910 census for the county and town he lived in. Hopefully, you can find his family. (Your father would be listed as a two year old in the household.) From the census records, you will learn the names and ages of each person in the house at that time. Be sure to look at the other families on either side and down the road as you will often find other family members nearby. You may also learn (depending on what year you are looking at) what the head of the household did for a living, where each person and his parents were born, how old they were and whether they could read and write. Census records are fascinating and should be checked for each decade of your subject's life.<br /><br />There are other sources that may also give information, including tax records, land lists, local newspapers, etc. Please check out the Heritage Hunting information by Vicki or attend one of her chats and share your dilemma. Vicki and the others at her chat will be able to give you some ideas for how best to direct your search.<br /><br />Good luck!<br /><br />Helene has been working on Life Books since the first round and I would encourage you to take a look at her albums. Here are some of her grandparents pages, which are good examples of Life Book layouts.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7834" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/715/medium/Enns-Grandparents.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7837" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/715/medium/Week-6-GP-George_M.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7864" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/739/medium/Week-6-Grandparents-G_Fathe.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7862" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/739/medium/Week-6-Grandparents-E-_fath.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">THIS WEEK IN THE STORE:</span><br /><br />You may choose any kit that you would like that would work for your subject's grandparents. <br /><br />My Grandparents Word Art:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1128" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/5/54b0f08da1e55fff39d4d7fc2cf3d90e.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />My “Loving Couple” Quick Page would also work well for grandparents or parents.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1120" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/5/5a411d300369bd9b3e031a0c324c626b.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Also available in <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1121" class="postlink">8 x 10</a>.<br /><br />Please post your completed layouts in the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=739" class="postlink">Week #6 Grandparents Gallery</a>, and try to come back and post a link here so we can all go and leave you some love.<br /><br />So that's it. Have fun and I'm looking forward to meeting your subject's grandparents!</div> <div id="sig8514" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div> <dl class="postprofile" id="profile8514"><dt> <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/download/file.php?avatar=1109.jpg" alt="User avatar" height="148" width="149" /></a><br /> <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a> </dt><dd>Designer</dd><dd> </dd></dl>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-27389875538324034362010-10-19T07:52:00.000-07:002010-10-19T07:53:25.213-07:00Week 5: Parents<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="postbody"> <h3 class="first"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1111#p8409">Week 5: Parents</a></h3> <p class="author"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=8409#p8409"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/styles/eMuza_summer/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" alt="Post" title="Post" height="9" width="11" /></a>by <strong><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a></strong> on 19 Oct 2010 08:44 </p> <div class="content">Hello, Ladies! <br /><br />How are those Life Books coming? I'm enjoying your layouts and getting to know you (and your subjects). Your journaling is great and you are preserving memories for future generations that will be priceless! Great job!<br /><br />This week we are going to focus on our subject's parents. How could we possibly tell a person's life story without telling where they came from?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">One cannot know his destination if he does not know where he is coming from. Nor can one know who he is without knowing his past. -- unknown</span></span></span><br /><br />If you are doing yourself (or your children) then you will have no trouble coming up with information about your subject's parents. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><br /><br />However, what do you do if your subject is the end line of your chart and you don't know who their parents are? Those end line ancestors are entirely frustrating and I often feel like a dog chasing its tail when researching them! So many documents were lost in courthouse fires or floods and where do you go when your regular methods of discovery don't work? If I were doing a life book of an endline ancestor, I would put all the details I had, along with my theories and maybe at some point, someone else down the line will be lucky and use your information to find the answers.<br /><br />But, let's assume you do have photos of your subject's parents and know the details about them. What will we put on these pages? Remember that this Life Book will contain all the information about your subject that you want future generations to know. Unless you are also making a Life Book for your subject's parents, try to put as much information as you have about them. You may need to do multiple pages for different chapters in your book to get your stories in print.<br /><br />You've already told the details of your subject's birth on your birth pages, and your childhood pages may or may not have contained details about your subject's parents. The parent pages are the places to focus on who the parents were and may include information such as:<br /><br />Their names and dates of birth/death<br />How they met/married<br />Where they grew up<br />Jobs they had<br />Specific memories of them<br />Their later years/death (if they are deceased)<br /><br />We will be doing pages later on “Family Life”, so we will have opportunity to put more details about the subject's family, vacations, pets, etc., so now we will focus primarily on Mom and Dad.<br /><br />There are situations where one of the parents was not part of your subject's life due to Mother dying in childbirth or Father dying young or abandoning the family. While those memories are painful, I feel that it is important to document the facts for posterity. Did Grandma and Grandpa raise your subject? Definitely include those details, but also explain why. I'm sure we all know the frustration of finding information and asking “Why did that happen?” Don't make your descendants have to ask, “Why?” <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><br /><br />Here are the pages Theresa (Forget Me Not) made that includes Pictures and Details of her subjects' Parents. This is an excellent example. She chose to make a separate page for each parent and give details of each...<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7779" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/Father.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7776" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/Mother_copy.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />And here are the pages I made for my Dad's book about his parents. These pages use my Quick Page Deluxe sets, <span style="font-weight: bold;">For the Ladies</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">For the Men</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7644" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/LifeBookQPLadies-002-Grace12x12.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7642" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/LifeBookQPMEN-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Now, as for recommendations for kits in the Heritage Scrap Shoppe, I think these pages that will fill the gallery this week will be as varied as your subject's parents. There is not one specific kit that says “Parents”. <br /><br />You may choose a kit that complements the time frame you remember most, or you may have special memories about a certain flower or hobby – maybe Mom loved Forget Me Nots or Sewing. Maybe Dad worked on the Railroad. I'm sure you'll be able to find just the right kit to scrap your pages. If not, let us know and we'll make one for you! <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />I did a search in the store for Mom and Dad and several options came up, so this week, just have fun and enjoy scrapping your pages. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />I have done a Parents Word Art set as well as a Mother Word Art Set and Father Word Art Set. You can find them in the Heritage Scrap Store.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=666" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/648/medium/VictorianRose_Parents_Preview.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=667" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/d/d9ce01f57e4c92880c661e67578271c0.image.600x600.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Please post your completed layouts in the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=652" class="postlink">Week #5 - Parents Gallery</a>, and try to come back and post a link here so we can all go and leave you some love. <img src="http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Love/bear-176.gif" alt="Image" /><br /><br />So that's it. Have fun and I'm looking forward to meeting Mom and Dad this week!<br /><br />Life Book (TM) Content Copyright 2009-2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div> <div id="sig8409" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-39521204584032923542010-10-19T07:49:00.000-07:002010-10-19T07:52:05.123-07:00Week 4: School Days** I was on vacation last week and didn't get Week 4 posted on my blog, so here it is. **<div class="postbody"><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1107#p8298">Week 4: School Days</a> <p class="author"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=8298#p8298"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/styles/eMuza_summer/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" alt="Post" title="Post" height="9" width="11" /></a>by <strong><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a></strong> on 11 Oct 2010 06:10 </p> <div class="content">Welcome to Week #4 of the Life Book Challenge!<br /><br />If you have just found us, feel free to jump right in and go back as you have time and finish the other pages we have done together.<br /><br />Before we begin with our School Days pages this week, I just wanted to remind you that while we are running this as a challenge, you are making YOUR book, so I want you to put whatever you want in your book. If it takes you 4 pages to tell about a certain part of your subject's life, by all means, get those stories told! We are here to offer suggestions and guidance as we do this together. Please make these pages with a picture in the back of your mind of your grandchildren and great grandchildren reading this book someday in the far off future, and tell the stories and scrap the pages you want them to have. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />Now then, let's talk about School Days! Every time I see the words “School Days”, I can't stop humming, “School Days. School Days. Dear old golden rule days.” That's the feeling of nostalgia I get when I scrap school days memories. You may be feeling nostalgic, too, as you think about one room school houses and McGuffey readers, or “Dick and Jane” or maybe you are scrapping your children's school days that may have very different memories of big 80s hair or neon Crayolas. In any event, many of the memories are the same – new school supplies in the Fall, friends, text books and new shoes. <br /><br />I was VERY fortunate to be able to find a picture online of the school my Dad went to! And thankfully, my grandmother kept everything, so I have in my collection school pictures of my Dad and his brothers and sisters from the 1943-44 school year which made for a really great layout for my Dad's Life Book.<br />(Click on images to see larger versions in the gallery.)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7622" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/DaddyUpperTygart.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />I wanted to include my Dad's school memories, so I did a two page spread and included the journaling from my interview with him on the second page. I added another school photo at the bottom to break up the monotony of all the journaling.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7620" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/DaddySchoolMemories.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />My Dad's cousin, Millie went to the same school, so I did a similar layout for her life book using the same picture.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7618" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieUpperTygart.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br />My favorite school layout, though, is this companion page from Millie's book. My cousin took his mom to a school reunion and someone had a picture of Millie's class when she was a little girl going to a one room school house. He managed to get a copy of the picture and sent it to me to use on this page. Millie was so thrilled to see that picture as she had never seen it before. <br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7616" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieGlobeSchool.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />I was able to find websites about many remaining one room school houses in the U.S. by Googling. If your subject went to a one room school (or even a more modern school) you may just find a photo on line you can use.<br /><br />If you don't have any photos of the school, look for a photo of your subject when they were school aged to include on your pages. If they are alive and you interviewed them (or are interviewing them as you go as I am doing), find out what they remember about their school days. Write those memories down to preserve them. Ask them what classes they remember. Who were their teachers? What did they have for their lunch? How did they get to school (up hill both ways in a snow storm? <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />) Do they have any special memories? Did they win the spelling bee? Did they marry their school days sweetheart? Do any school projects stand out in their mind? Those are the details that make an interesting page.<br /><br />I have run into a brick wall with my Great Great Grandfather. The earliest photo of him is when he was a teenager. I know very little about his childhood except what I have learned from census records, regarding where he lived, etc. Then I had an idea. The census records tell what district he lived in as a child. I went to the website for the county he lived in and asked in the forums on GenWeb if anyone knew anything about the schools in the area around the Civil War, and where he might have gone to school. I'm hoping that someone might have some information for me based on what I know.<br /><br />If your information and photos are limited, do some research on the type of schooling your subject would have had. The internet is full of information that you can use. If you don't have many pictures, I have some school themed sets with ephemera and elements that will make your pages come alive...<br /><br />I have made a jam packed word art set for you which includes a School Days overlay, a page frame, a tag, titles and much more. You can find it in the store here...<br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=78&products_id=658" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/f/fcb75473f8bc3499e3a0844d1f5203f5.image.600x600.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />There there is the School Days Element Set...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1337" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/a/a2b01578109e360ac7a05b916ab779a2.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />And, I also have a School Days Life Book Quick Page that is available in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 10 for your scrapping needs...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1086" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/7/77515d915170c6bb7f9eaccad26abf8e.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1087" class="postlink">School Days Life Book Quick Page in 8 x 10</a><br /><br />There are other School Themed Kits in the store - just type "school" in the search box to see everything Heritage Scrap has to offer.<br /><br />So that's it. If you have any questions, or would like to discuss anything, please feel free to post in this thread.<br /><br />Please post your layouts to the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=649" class="postlink">Life Book – Week #4 School Days Gallery</a> by about 8:45 pm PT (just before the Chat) on Monday night, October 18th. Then we'll see you at the chat at 9 pm PT. Just go to the Heritage Scrap Chat Room - <a class="postlink" href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/Lets_Chat/">http://www.heritagescrap.com/Lets_Chat/</a><br /><br />Have a great week and I can't wait to see that gallery start filling up! <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /></div> <div id="sig8298" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-33471312435084986982010-10-07T05:42:00.000-07:002010-10-07T05:43:30.438-07:00Life Book Week 3: Childhood<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><div class="postbody"><h3 class="first"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1101#p8255">Week 3: Childhood</a></h3> <p class="author"><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=8255#p8255"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/styles/eMuza_summer/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" alt="Post" title="Post" height="9" width="11" /></a>by <strong><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1109">Victorian Rose</a></strong> on 07 Oct 2010 06:37 </p> <div class="content"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Welcome to Week 3 of the Life Book Challenge!</span></span><br /><br />Our babies are growing up now, and we are moving on to the Childhood stage of life. This week should not be about their school days, as we will be doing that chapter next week. This page should demonstrate your subject's early childhood before school, or their life outside of school. It can include siblings, as they were a large part of your subject's childhood.<br /><br />Remember, journaling is the key! If you didn't include information about what was happening in the world on your birth page, here's another chance. What kinds of things did kids do when your subject was a child? How much did they pay to go to the movies? Who starred in them? What songs did they listen to? This is a page everyone should be able to do, even with limited personal information.<br /><br />If you don't know much about your subject's early childhood days, do some research into what was happening in the world during those years. If you have a photo of your subject, that's great. If you don't, concentrate on the journaling. What was life like for a typical child at that point in history? Who was their primary care giver? Did they have brothers and sisters to play with? Think outside the box! <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />When my cousin interviewed my dad's cousin, Millie, most of the stories she told him about her childhood had a lot to do with the things she did with (and to <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" />) her sister growing up, so I did this page about sisters: (click for larger view in the gallery)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7370" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieSisters.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />The other stories she told about her childhood, I just put together on a page I called Cherished Memories. I didn't have any pictures to go with the journaling, so I found some on the internet and asked a cousin who still lives in the area to take another one for me.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7368" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillieMemories.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />If you don't have any information at all about your subject's childhood, you may wish to do something like I've done here, in this layout called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Two Generations as children.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7366" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/614/medium/zMillie2Generations.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Here's a page I made of my Dad and two of his siblings as children. (This uses my Childhood Quick Page.)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7337" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/645/medium/ChildhoodQP-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />And speaking of kits and quick pages...<br /><br />Here are some suggestions for you of <span style="font-weight: bold;">my products </span>that go well with the Childhood theme from the Heritage Scrap Store. There are also many other products by other designers that go well with the Childhood Theme.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">QUICK PAGES</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1074" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/6/69f48be6a18ebd1bd0ff4db34776710e.image.125x125.jpg" alt="Image" /> Life Book QP - Childhood (12x12)</a> by Victorian Rose Designs<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1075" class="postlink">Childhood QP also available in 8 x 10</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WORD ART</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=643" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/f/f86b865589de966815bea689a861205e.image.125x125.jpg" alt="Image" />Chapters of Life: Childhood - Word Art</a> by Victorian Rose Designs<br /><br />This Good Old Days word art set might also work well for this page:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=646" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/e/e631ba48382db5d1ea46c4bc91b3f135.image.125x125.jpg" alt="Image" />Good Old Days - Word Art</a> by Victorian Rose Designs<br /><br />So that's it for this week. Please post your layouts in the Life Book: <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=645" class="postlink">Week #3 - Childhood Gallery</a> and try to post a link back here in this thread. <br /><br />Have fun! I can't wait to see your layouts!<br /><br />©2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div> <div id="sig8255" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-54369179941699968732010-09-29T07:59:00.000-07:002010-09-29T08:00:25.173-07:00Life Book Week 2: Birth<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="postbody"><strong></strong> <div class="content"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to Week 2 of the Life Book Challenge - Birth</span></span><br /><br />It happens to all of us. It is the one thing we all share in common. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">We were born.</span></span><img src="http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Babies/baby-2.gif" alt="Image" /><br /><br />This is a page we should all be able to make for our life books. Whether you have a lot of information about your subject's birth, or a little.<br /><br />If you are fortunate, you will have found a photo of your subject as a baby. If so, you will want to include it on your page. <span style="font-weight: bold;">But what if you don't have a baby picture?</span><br /><br />First, make sure you include all the facts you can find - Who, When, Where - Baby's name, parents' names, who attended the birth (if you know), Date of Birth, Place of Birth.<br /><br />If you only have a little information on your subject's birth, you may want to fill the page with information about what was happening in the world the year they were born. This is a great way to add detail and nostalgia to the page. Your subject and their descendants will enjoy reading about how much a loaf of bread or a gallon of gas cost when they were born, or what the hit song was or what was happening politically or economically. This is a sure fire way to connect HIS story with HISTORY!<br /><br />There are several websites that will give you that information. My favorite is:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/" class="postlink">http://www.thepeoplehistory.com</a><br /><br />There are more at:<br /><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/whathappenedtheyearyouwerebornquiz/" class="postlink">http://www.blogthings.com/whathappenedtheyearyouwerebornquiz/</a><br /><a href="http://dmarie.com/timecap/" class="postlink">http://dmarie.com/timecap/</a><br /><br />You might want to check them all as I found different information on each site. <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><br /><br />Here is a sample page that will show you how to incorporate this information into your page. (Click image to get a larger view in the gallery.)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=13091&cat=all&limit=last7" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/EverettGraceLIFEBook-001-EvBirth.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Another suggestion given by a former LifeBooker was to include the newspaper clipping announcing the birth. (I have done that on this layout...)<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=7246" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/615/medium/VictorianRose_LifeBookQP_TatteredBaby12x12_Sample.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Jan suggested that if you don't have the actual clipping, you can make one using the Newspaper Clipping Generator <a href="http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp" class="postlink">which can be found here.</a><br /><br />Remember that you are writing this story for many generations to come. Include information that you wish you knew about your great grandparents. Someone will appreciate it one day! Add as much information as you can find. Remember that journaling is of utmost importance in a Life Book!<br /><br />Theresa has mentioned that one of her ancestors didn't have a birth certificate, so they had to have an affidavit to prove his birth. That is interesting information that may help future researchers in her family and would be nice to include in the Life Book. And speaking of Birth Certificates, if you happen to have one, what a great idea to scan it in and include it – even if it is tucked behind other items on your page!<br /><br />To help you with your pages, there are several kits in the store that you may wish to use.<br /><br />Theresa has a brand new kit called Vintage Lullaby that would be a perfect choice for this topic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_174&products_id=1872&zenid=4aced66aa21798dbc1136a850bb76f65" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/6/623a1e0214ba6aff5e28c4f366adcf61.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />My <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=623" class="postlink">“Birth” word art set</a> includes much more than word art. In it, you will find a birth announcement stamp, a sweet baby card, It's a girl and It's a boy text circles, and titles in black and metallic finishes.<br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=623" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/9/9a6ba35e0c9784f69b14e8ad077e0a39.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a> <br /><br />My Vintage Baby Elements are nice to include on layouts that have no pictures - but there are frames for those who do have photos.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1063&zenid=4aced66aa21798dbc1136a850bb76f65" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/7/711166856db1c7e58818bceec10e6f70.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />And if you love the idea of making a Life Book, but just don't have the time or need a short cut, check out my Life Book Quick Pages in the Store. All the work is done for you – all you have to do is layer your photos behind the .png page and add your text. They come in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 10. This week, I have two different styles: <br /><br />Victorian Baby for the more elegant Life Book,<br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1061" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/0/06106341da8fa52dc2471c6ba2785349.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1060" class="postlink">Click here for Victorian Baby in 12 x 12</a><br /><br />and Tattered Baby for the more vintage style...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1059" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/bmz_cache/b/bbcc044f85a8412f608d2e9a84d2d95c.image.500x500.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1058" class="postlink">Click here for Tattered Baby in 12 x 12</a><br /><br />You can pick up the Quick Page of your choice for $1.25 each throughout the course of the Life Book Challenge.<br /><br />And if these are not enough for you, just do a <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=baby&inc_subcat=0&sort=20a&page=1" class="postlink">search in the store for “Baby”</a> and you can see several other options!<br /><br />So there you have it! Have fun being detectives and seeing what you can find out to leave clues for future generations. I can't wait to see your pages in the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=617" class="postlink">Life Books: Week 2 – Birth Gallery!</a>. Please try to remember to come back here and post the link to your page, and don't forget - one of you will be randomly chosen from this week's gallery to win a gift.<br /><br />This challenge is open from now until Monday night, September 4th, just before the chat at 9 pm EST. (You can still post layouts after that time, but it will not be eligible for the drawing.) I will announce the winner at the chat, probably somewhere around 9:15 pm. See ya there!!<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div> <div id="sig8114" class="signature"><img src="http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp226/Vickimp/Victorian-Rose-HeritageDesigner.gif" alt="Image" /><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/getflair/browse.php" class="postlink"><img src="http://images.nliven.com/fb/getflair/pf_img/c06876505cacdc66faf07e76001f31e7e75cbe64.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br />Check out my blog:<a href="http://www.victorianrosedesigns.blogspot.com/" class="postlink">Victorian Rose Designs</a></div> </div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-58692266914924683602010-09-20T20:24:00.000-07:002010-09-20T20:26:13.746-07:00Life Book Week 1: Getting Started<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><strong></strong> <div class="content">And now.... the moment we've all been waiting for!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let's get those LIFE BOOKS started!</span> (If you're not sure what a Life Book is, please go back and read the thread, "<a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1048" class="postlink">What is a Life Book</a>".)<br /><br />By now you should have:<br /><br />1.) Chosen your subject (the person whose life you will be chronicling); and<br /><br />2.) Either interviewed them or made arrangements to interview them, if they are living, or started gathering all of your information if they are not.<br /><br />This week we are going to focus on two things: Writing the text of the Life Book and Scrapping the Cover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ABOUT WRITING THE LIFE BOOK:</span></span><br /><br />For me, the easiest thing to do is to type out the text of the Life Book in my word processing program. Of course, I know that some of you just prefer to write it week by week as you go along. Whatever works for you...<br /><br /> You may choose to write it in the first person (i.e. "I was born on April 16, 1932") or the third person (i.e. "Anna was born on April 16, 1832"). Either way will work, just make sure it is consistent throughout the book.<br /><br />Once you have the text written, you can go back to it and copy and paste it as you layout your scrapbook.<br /><br />Once you have it typed up, go back and separate it into sections. You may want to use the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=1049" class="postlink">Life Book Schedule</a> which contains the list of 26 topics we will be scrapping together to help you get your information organized. You will want to start with Birth and continue chronologically through the person's life.<br /><br />Here is a sample of what your text might look like:<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">BIRTH</span> (1st Person)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I was born February 12, 1809, the second child to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky. I was named, simply, Abraham Lincoln, and was not given a middle name. </span> (Information from Wikipedia.)<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CHILDHOOD</span> (3rd Person)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">When he was nine, his 34-year-old mother died of milk sickness. Soon after, his father married Sarah Bush Johnston, with whom he became very close and whom he called "Mother". But he became increasingly distant from his father. Lincoln regretted his father's lack of education, and did not like the hard labor associated with frontier life. Still, he willingly took on all chores expected of him as a male in the household, albeit young, tall and thin. As was the custom, Lincoln also dutifully fulfilled the obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from his work for third parties until age 21. In later years, he would also occasionally lend his father money. In 1830, fearing a milk-sickness outbreak, the family settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois.</span> (Information from Wikipedia.)<br /><br />That should give you some food for thought.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ABOUT SCRAPPING YOUR LIFE BOOK:</span><br /><br />You will want to be thinking about what supplies you will use to make your Life Book. Of course, you are free to use any kits you would like, but it's nice to have some consistency throughout the book. Take a look in the Heritage Scrap Shoppe. We have several kits that would make an awesome Life Book and many of the Designers' Kits coordinate very well together. I also have several Quick Pages which can be used to make Life Book layouts quickly. All you have to do is add your photos and text. The rest is done for you. (Don't forget – if you use 50% or more of my products (Victorian Rose Designs) on your layouts, I'll throw in a posting bonus.) <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />This week, while you are working on writing your book, go ahead and Scrap the Cover. You can see some sample covers in the Life Book Gallery under <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=616" class="postlink">Week 1: Cover</a> that were made by Life Bookers in the last round.<br /><br />And while you are at it, you might want to go ahead and do a dedication page if you will be presenting the Life Book to the subject when you are finished with it. I did a simple one for my Dad's cousin, Millie that looks like this.<br /><br /><a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12986" class="postlink"><img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/data/500/medium/MillieHowellPt2-000-Dedicate.jpg" alt="Image" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Once you have your cover done, please upload it to the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Gallery/showgallery.php?cat=616" class="postlink">Week 1: Cover</a> Gallery, and post a link to it here in this thread. You have until just before the Chat next Monday (9 pm EST) to get them done. At the next chat, we will move on to the first chapter: Birth.<br /><br /><br />So, there you go! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them here in this forum, email me at <a href="mailto:vicki@pasterik.com">vicki@pasterik.com</a>, PM me, or Facebook me. Have fun!!<br /><br />All Life Book Content Copyright 2010 Vicki Pasterik Victorian Rose Designs</div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-58816859458597100662010-09-20T06:35:00.000-07:002010-09-20T06:37:26.942-07:00Tentative Schedule for Life Book III<span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div class="content">Life Book III – Schedule 2010-11<br /><br />Here is the tentative schedule for the next round of Life Book. If you are unable to join us at the beginning, feel free to jump in midstream. You can always go back and get caught up as you go.<br /><br />9/20 Week 1: Cover/Getting started<br />9/27 Week 2: Birth<br /><br />10/4 Week 3: Childhood<br />10/11 Week 4: School Days<br />10/18 Week 5: Parents<br />10/25 Week 6: Grandparents<br /><br />11/1 Week 7: Siblings<br />11/8 Week 8: Family Memories<br />11/15 Week 9: Hometown/Childhood Home<br />11/22 Week 10: Friends<br />11/29 Week 11: Young Adult<br /><br />----------Holiday Break--------------------<br /> Month of December<br /><br />1/3 Week 12: Dating/Courting<br />1/10 Week 13: Marriage<br />1/17 Week 14: Home<br />1/24 Week 15: In Laws/ Extended Family<br />1/31 Week 16: Kids<br /><br />2/7 Week 17: Kids (cont'd or Scrappers Choice)<br />2/14 Week 18: Jobs/Careers<br />2/21 Week 19: Hobbies/Sports<br />2/28 Week 20: Transportation<br /><br />3/7 Week 21: Medical/Health<br />3/14 Week 22: Faith<br />3/21 Week 23: Holiday Memories/Traditions<br />3/28 Week 24: The Golden Years<br /><br />4/4 Week 25: Grandchildren<br />4/11 Week 26: What happened in History during subject's lifetime<br />4/18 Week 27: Pedigree Chart<br /><br />Those of you who have done Life Book before, please help me add to the Scrapper's Choice List by posting types of layouts you have done that weren't on the schedule. :) Thanks!<br /></div>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-71201278497770663712010-09-19T12:42:00.000-07:002010-09-19T13:12:37.018-07:00Life Book III to begin Monday!<span style="font-weight: bold;">Life Book III </span>will begin <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday, Sept. 20th at 9 pm</span> (ET) in the <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/Lets_Chat/">Heritage Scrap Chat Room</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is a Life Book, you ask?</span></span><br /><br /></div><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/tv/RALPH%20EDWARDS%20%27THIS%20IS%20YOUR-thumb-300x426.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 426px;" src="http://blogs.suntimes.com/tv/RALPH%20EDWARDS%20%27THIS%20IS%20YOUR-thumb-300x426.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>"<span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Life</span>" was a TV Series that aired between 1952 and 1961. Ralph Edwards was the host. Each week, an unsuspecting celebrity would be lured by some ruse to a location near the studio. He would then be surprised with the news that he was to be the featured guest. Next he was escorted into the studio, and one by one people significant in the guest's life would be brought out to offer anecdotes. At the end of the show family members and friends would gather about the guest who would then be presented with some gifts. These usually included jewelry, a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">scrapbook of memories</span></span>, and a home 16 mm projector and camera. (Plot summary taken from IMDb.)<br /><br />Doing a "Life Book" is like putting that show onto paper... we're going to be making the Scrapbook of Memories without the big Hollywood production (or budget!) <img src="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><br /><br />Life Book classes at Heritage Scrap will help you to take a person's life story and break it down into bite sized pieces, so to speak. We will scrap one topic each week - things like birth, childhood, school days, etc. We'll help you organize your information so that scrapping a loved one's life story is "do-able". <br /><br /><br />When starting the book, we have to approach it a bit differently than we normally do heritage scrapping. Journaling is usually the last thing I put on the page. With a Life Book, it is important to do all the journaling first.<br /><br />You start by interviewing the subject (if they are still alive) or family members or someone who knows their life story. You can just let them tell you their story, or you can spur them on with questions like "When and where were you born?" "How many brothers and sisters did you have?" "What were your parents' names?" "What was your childhood like?" "What did your Dad do for a living?", etc. (It may be helpful to print out the Life Book III Schedule which includes the list of topics to guide you in asking your questions.)<br /><br />At the Life Book Chats (each Monday at 9 pm ET) we will discuss the topic for the week and our seasoned genealogists will give tips for finding information about the topic and your subject, experienced digi scrappers can help answer questions about scrapping techniques, there will be freebies and challenges, and a lot of fun just chatting about life and stuff.<br /><br />Please come join us Monday night as we embark on another fun and satisfying year of Life Book!<br /><br />I will be posting each week's directions here on my blog and in the forum at Heritage Scrap. Please see the <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=110">Life Book III forum</a> for more information.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/tv/RALPH%20EDWARDS%20%27THIS%20IS%20YOUR-thumb-300x426.jpg"><br /></a>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-87461363252544699142010-09-17T09:00:00.000-07:002010-09-17T09:05:42.487-07:00Birthday Sale and FREEbie!Saturday (September 18th) is my birthday, and YOU're getting the presents!<br /><br />Go to the Heritage Scrap Shop and grab this little beauty... a Birthday element and word art set to help you scrap those Birthdays - Absolutely FREE!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1861"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTPGCuJHbuKztDhUp2hz124yA1A80CmW5OmQO82qMy7viid2mGz1UGedYsfCYUEwcqPdrRJAfVefJQzKSDM_JNWT4qmSQScld9tCklCblLLjmD5IDPB9S94ckCzs-gqpB5WCSl1Ru7iVh/s400/VictorianRose_Birthday_Preview.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517913359236776226" border="0" /></a>PLUS! All Victorian Rose Designs Products are 50% off on Saturday!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=20"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPkXybXf4ORQeUUkNeQ26zSWn_YquUlAMPtecInzeOI_-FH82OeTsafG9NhuSAc1KStWTnpfyuLW0MEq3ReynZE9DLYcMc6iL0zd9CNbJXgR3p5FVucUaFH0x98_aU2lbI7kEHOjOe7iSc/s400/VRDCoupon-001-Birthday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517913994539997186" border="0" /></a>Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-38079203855592474102010-09-17T08:38:00.000-07:002010-09-17T08:59:26.055-07:00Buy 1, Scrap 1, Get 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKwpp-AvBB4UpfEc5Kimzg0w_OdEpciIhkRNLDdlX4Siarw-OvXrr4onOJaD3T-yRC_XmbkxTwXfVR6nHNwSPZ7uuhHvEyS9gW5IouarYDJDXhAGx1XjVL8Tox6BIgKOQDTvs7if6gQog/s1600/B1S1G1-001-Page-2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKwpp-AvBB4UpfEc5Kimzg0w_OdEpciIhkRNLDdlX4Siarw-OvXrr4onOJaD3T-yRC_XmbkxTwXfVR6nHNwSPZ7uuhHvEyS9gW5IouarYDJDXhAGx1XjVL8Tox6BIgKOQDTvs7if6gQog/s400/B1S1G1-001-Page-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517912069243900098" border="0" /></a><br />Come join in my newest challenge...<br /><br />1) BUY the <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1763">Live Laugh Love Page Kit;</a><br />2) SCRAP a layout with it, upload it to Heritage Scrap and post a link <a href="http://heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=1028">in the forum</a>;<br />3) GET the <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1860">Faith Family Friends Kit</a> FREE!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-24157234360864498772010-08-27T20:37:00.000-07:002010-08-27T20:43:00.986-07:00Surprise Sale!!! 50% OFF everything in my store!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=20"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTommJ1-V0hHz9Ua5RCjE8stRrOVt6qokCWzjHuuNPPcoxlE48UpC0788Z4bYihxuf3h5nB3l6-UIZKDuG4CkcxF2-CF61kuaB5sNCzY_w58Xgg8WFndacjFtqBAByb5LEnXtFs-zOLBAH/s400/VRDCoupon-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510300094127005122" border="0" /></a><br />Including my newest kit...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1763"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhspnWZ1zBRVp4SRzDB959tLqjSQh-fcZxY2Y0PvQfjqNnqA_mRQ9ldPIaZZjHzvd9k1ptxfehVsKQGPJwQJy1RJa8DCviUaGPlcJJZ7B8JNNze8J3rxU2fk6mts8iRWqopSlsj4jRfwzSR/s400/VictorianRose_LiveLaughLove_Preview.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510300473624204434" border="0" /></a>Now, just $2.00!! Sale ends Sunday - hurry and grab your products at this crazy low price! Don't forget -- LIFE BOOK III begins September 20th. All Life Book Quick Pages are also HALF PRICE - this weekend only!!!Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463467912098703532.post-51121293530894979542010-08-19T06:03:00.000-07:002010-08-19T06:16:30.807-07:00Buy 1, Scrap 1, Get 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZ6p2In9_2jrIsT36mE9xwYSwIBHK_ft6Li0gP7HR3M4T-D5mQMnrFZNeqSL1h7kAxbuTFPwS92v1aMAoPUJpHkkBob4DEbQJfuICwQUE-NzkOKomW5zg5I_Qw_GB7hcz79TnAKsbFrci/s1600/B1S1G1-000-Page-1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZ6p2In9_2jrIsT36mE9xwYSwIBHK_ft6Li0gP7HR3M4T-D5mQMnrFZNeqSL1h7kAxbuTFPwS92v1aMAoPUJpHkkBob4DEbQJfuICwQUE-NzkOKomW5zg5I_Qw_GB7hcz79TnAKsbFrci/s400/B1S1G1-000-Page-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507107023743729826" border="0" /></a><br />Come join in my new challenge! It's as easy as 1-2-3!<br /><br />1) Buy my <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1606&zenid=8d17371828f14f31aa5d506f29438985">Raspberry Morning Page Kit</a>...<br />2) Scrap a Layout with it... (Please put it in the Victorian Rose Designs Gallery at Heritage Scrap by August 31st and post a link to it in <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=970">the Forum</a>.)<br />3) Get the <a href="http://www.heritagescrap.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=110_133&products_id=1725&zenid=8d17371828f14f31aa5d506f29438985">Raspberry Morning Companion Kit </a>FREE!!<br /><br />And don't forget my Sale!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhcOtfxgkmBEVXr1WrLmN-pkCKCj6DOuxV8QHVv3POay4C1jPBDLg-BTzUTBzRcCmt0zVQU5ApDwJZkuYvpV8nKX4B3mMsEGUIzBwDHuGO2xuF9XvC3RGlpAkKH4HjyUL5iHwK90aLuWm/s1600/VRDCoupon_Aug2010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhcOtfxgkmBEVXr1WrLmN-pkCKCj6DOuxV8QHVv3POay4C1jPBDLg-BTzUTBzRcCmt0zVQU5ApDwJZkuYvpV8nKX4B3mMsEGUIzBwDHuGO2xuF9XvC3RGlpAkKH4HjyUL5iHwK90aLuWm/s400/VRDCoupon_Aug2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507108746189624466" border="0" /></a>..Vicki Pasterikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202895647624835492noreply@blogger.com0