New Products!

Christmas is just around the corner, and fabulous new Heritage Makers projects have just been unveiled! Take those family portraits or favorite photos and decorate your walls with the fabulous Heritage Makers canvasses. New sizes just came out - including the deep setting for the gallery wrap.
Are you traditional scrapbooker that hasn't made the full switch over to the digital realm? Heritage Makers now has a 12x12 post-bound album available! Set your album apart with the fabulous personalized album cover!

Want to earn them for free? Host a Heritage Makers workshop. Contact me today to reserve your date.

Making a new family tradition!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! Our family has a bit of Irish in us, but we've never been really big on the typical corned beef and cabbage for a meal. I've decided that it's time to start a new tradition for our family. Maybe it'll be one of our quirks, but hey, it's a family tradition! So, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, we're going with the green and having chicken enchiladas with GREEN sauce. It'll work for us as it's one of our family's favorite meals & a tradition is all about spending time with family, right?

I love my job!!

I love the flexibility of working from home. The ability to do something I LOVE! The opportunity to help other families, and the success to help support my own! Join me on this amazing adventure at www.story2remember.com

Take the Challenge

It's a new year & don't let the little things be forgotten in 2010! Take the 365 photo challenge! Take a photo every day for all of 2010. You might be surprised of what you capture throughout the year!

Need a place to put them at the end of the year? Check out the template at www.story2remember.com http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserStandAlone.cfm?projectID=1050389&productId=11 where you can make your own 12x12 storybook of the year!!

The story behind the story...

So just the other day, our son Josiah and I went to the local craft store to take advantage of a frame sale they were having. I made a poster of Josiah and my husband in their Navy uniforms to be hung in his room. We had the poster in hand so he could help me pick out the frame he wanted. We ended up needing to get a total of 3 poster sized frames for various projects we have. We checked out the items, and Josiah was being a big helper by carrying 1 frame to the car while I got the other 2. We arrived at the car, and I was trying to get the back hatch of the car open. One of the frames slipped, and landed on my 2nd toe - of course on the first day of the year that I pull out the open shoes! It cut my toe and hurt really bad, but I thought I'd be OK. However, in the time that I was reacting to the frame hitting my foot, the 2nd frame I had slipped and fell on the side of my foot. I was trying so hard to just get the frames in the back of the car and Josiah in the car as well - I was thankful I only had Josiah with me so that I didn't have to deal with a 2 year old! I managed to limp my way into the car and after giving in to the idea of not driving myself home, I called my husband. He returned to where we were at, and we ventured to the ER for the afternoon. Yes indeed, I broke my toe with a poster frame! Oh what luck! It's a bit of a hassle not being able to walk every where I want and it takes a lot longer right now, but the posters that will be hung in Josiah's room (once I'm brave enough to carry the frames again), will have even more meaning and even more of a story behind them than they already do. Despite the pain, we can look back and laugh at the experience. Besides, since I'm in pain, the kids have been SUPER helpful & I'm loving it!

My boy understands the importance of Heritage!!

I am amazed at the insight a 6 year old can have! Just the other day, Josiah and I were talking about the items he has hanging on his wall. He has several posters from his favorite movies, an 11x8 1/2 page of him I made for Christmas this year, and his dad's bootcamp graduation picture (that has become a staple on the wall since we lived in San Diego and Derek was gone a lot - Josiah would blow his papa kisses every time before he went to bed).

We were talking about the fun we had in Atlanta, and Josiah said "Momma, I want posters of our trip and other fun things we do as a family on our wall instead". He was done with the movie posters!! Yes, he enjoyed watching the movies & we've watched them as a family. However, that doesn't help identify him! I'm so proud of him! I recently made him a poster of him and Derek in their Navy uniforms, and just finished one of our Atlanta trip to be hung on the wall. I'm excited to see the transformation of his room as we change out these posters!

Oprah's ALL-TIME favorite items!!

What an amazing time it is for Heritage Makers!! The December issue of the O Magazine made it to subscribers on Monday, and check out page 93! Heritage Makers is listed as one of Oprah's all time favorite items!

So, is a Heritage Makers book one of your favorite items as it is for Oprah?

Are you going to make Heritage Makers a favorite item for your loved ones this holiday season? Get started today at www.story2remember.com! What better gift is there than one from the heart? Why not write a book to your spouse about why you love him/her? Or write a book telling your child why they mean the world to you! It's a gift that can be read, loved, and cherished over and over again! It's a book that won't just sit on the book shelf waiting to go to the next garage sale! It will be held near and dear to your loved ones, read over and over again, and a true gift from the heart!

This year it has gotten easier to create those personalized storybooks! The template gallery (filled with over 550 FREE templates) continues to grow each day! You can select the template you want to use, drag your pictures into it, write your text, and have a beautiful storybook in less time than you'd spend waiting in long check-out lines in the stores! So, not only will you be giving a gift from the heart, but you'll be able to enjoy more of the holiday season at home with your loved ones!

Strengthen your family one stroy at a time!