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“There’s Been Talk!”
“There’s Been Talk!” – If you have ever seen the John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara classic movie, The Quiet Man, you will smile at recalling
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If it’s not in the scrapbook…
“If it’s not in the scrapbook, it didn’t happen.” – Anonymous The photo on the right is of my magnet I’ve had for over ten
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Live Long and Prosper
This last week for the month of February began with Julie Andrews making a surprise appearance at the Oscars following Lady Gaga’s performance singing a
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March right up!
Welcome to the month of March 2015! We have the opportunity right now that you and I can do a little planning for the
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Sew Much to Know
What’s in a card? I’m in the process of investigating merging the use of an embroidery sewing machine with my scrapbooking card stock to make
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Timing Is Everything
In six months’ time the calendar will be approaching the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Between now and then the following are in the queue: Daylight Savings, St. Patrick’s Day,
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Enjoying Whimsy
This morning I was struck by how windy it is – and paused, of course! It’s the month of March and time for Kite Flying!
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Cherished Letters
The hat is long gone but the box that came with it I cherish! It is full of old letters, some tied with grosgrain ribbons
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Balancing Act
Just as we strive for balance in our professional/personal lives, I find the tagline for this blog also has its own built in balance-o-meter! The
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Spring Ahead
When you read today’s title did you think Daylight Savings Time or did you think spring is around the corner? You would have been right
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“life in lower case letters”
When my Dad passed away unexpectedly in January from a very brief illness that evening I stayed up very late and wrote down memories about him.
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Behind the AnchoredScraps.com Banner
Have you been curious about what’s on the banner on the home page of AnchoredScraps.com? When looking at the home page the blog entries cover up a lot
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Scrapbooking resources: Panstoria & pixels2Pages
In the Scrapbooking Section on my Notes page it includes Panstoria and pixels2Pages, resources I have found helpful. Today I wanted to provide a brief overview on both. Panstoria is
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Crate Solutions
If you dream of having all of your personal papers neatly organized or at least nicely tossed into different containers then today’s blog post should
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Dappled Morning Sun
Sometimes when we are walking by a room all of a sudden we see something that if we will just stop and pause we can
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Potpourri Update
Today I am using the word potpourri as in ‘a mixture of things’, and the photo is of the mixture of dried petals evoking potpourri. There are several items
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You are here
Today’s blog we are going over a few items on navigating around AnchoredScraps.com. These navigation tips are based on insights gained from talking with several family
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March Madness Milestones
This week for my blog I’m using the theme of March Madness Milestones. The brackets were announced on the Ides of March yesterday with 68 teams
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Paws-ing for St. Patrick’s
Today on AnchoredScraps.com March Madness Milestones continues with us paws-ing to introduce Cuddy, our family dog! When we last left off there was talk of
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Making It a Habit
Today on AnchoredScraps.com March Madness Milestones continues with recognizing today, March 18, making 21 days in a row of blogging daily since launching on February 26, 2015!
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What’s Your Type?
We continue March Madness Milestones at AnchoredScraps.com today with … What’s Your Type? Type as in referring to “True Type Fonts” which you would
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Spring Into Action!
We continue March Madness Milestones at AnchoredScraps.com today with … Spring Into Action! Today is Friday, March 20, 2015 and it is the First Day of
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Spring Cleaning
We continue March Madness Milestones at AnchoredScraps.com today with … Spring Cleaning! Today’s blogpost is brief and to the point. Whether you are enjoying nice weather
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Spring Break
We wrap up March Madness Milestones at AnchoredScraps.com today with … Spring Break! When met with the term “Spring Break” does it make you smile and
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Return to Sender
We all know the words that come to mind from the Elvis Presley song including: “Return to sender, address unknown. No such number, no such
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Please Mr. Postman
Today on AnchoredScraps.com we continue with our theme for this week – it is all about getting ourselves organized with our personal correspondence. It’s true –
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“The Wells Fargo Wagon is … “
Today on AnchoredScraps.com we continue with our theme for this week – it is all about getting ourselves organized with our personal correspondence. When you heard the
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Milestone: Celebrating Month One!
Today on AnchoredScraps.com we are pausing from our theme this week of getting ourselves organized with our personal correspondence. We celebrate today being one month since launching
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Making the time to write
When you read yesterday that today we would be including an old Jimmy Stewart movie, did you correctly guess “The Shop Around the Corner”? The
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.csv is 4me
Today on AnchoredScraps.com in continuing the theme of getting ourselves organized with our personal correspondence we are looking at .csv files and how to use them as
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Linking it Together
Today we are wrapping up the week as we conclude the import/export steps of our .csv file to help with our address book. This week on AnchoredScraps.com we have been getting ourselves