Holiday hits, week 3: Gallery wrapped Canvases

When this evening I found out about this week's offer, I almost couldn't believe it!

I had been thinking about creating a genealogy tree suitable for a canvas format, and here comes the offer on canvas... Is somebody trying to tell me something?

Ok, I will try to cut some time in my super busy schedule and create a family tree template for canvas ASAP!

These canvases are such high quality that you can use them to proudly display any image on your walls!

You will feel like a million dollars when you sit on your couch and look at them!

Here is the flier:

That's right!

16x20 canvas: 2 for $134.95 so less than $68 each

20x20 canvas: 2 for $ 149.95, so less than $75 each

20x24 canvas: 2 for $164.95, so less than $83 each

You can find many canvas templates in the template gallery and just drag and drop your favorite pictures, click publish and have it shipped just on time for a perfect Christmas gift for your mom, your grandma, and why not, for yourself!
I create an album with as many samples of canvases as I could on the CavaGenealogy facebook page, to give you a vision of the many possibilities at a glance.
You can see it here.
Choose between 16x20, 20x20 or 20x24(inches): these canvases are gallery wrapped, which means you can hang them on the wall as they are, or frame them according to your taste.
Don't wait!
This offer ends at noon MST December 7th!
Contact me today!

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Early bird madness!

Ok, so my kids woke me up EARLY, very EARLY this morning, and I decided that since I am up, I would do something crazy!
I have available some swatch book credit coupons to be used by the end of this year, so I decided to give them away!
The first 5 people to make an order by today at 2 p.m. EST, will receive a free swatch book credit coupon!!!
I will also trow a family fold credit coupon in for anybody that has never received something free from me!
And if I get enough orders in, there might be even more surprises!
How about that!
You may want to hurry, it doesn't happen every day that I am this crazy!!^_^*
Remember, today is the last day to take advantage of the calendar sale, the cookbook/planner sale and/or the swatch book sale, but you can also decide to take advantage of the ongoing package deals, or get just about anything you like!
Remember, when you make an order you are purchasing credits, which are like gift cards, and are valid for a whole year, up to 2 years from the date of purchase, so you take advantage of the sale now and take all the time you need to create your projects!
You can use these credits as gifts for the person in your family that takes tons of pictures and hasn't done anything with them yet, or that likes scrapbooking and could use a less messy, less expensive, faster and easier alternative. You can create the projects for them or just give them to credits and let them do what they want with them!
You can't beat that!
What are you waiting? Contact me right now!

* offer valid for USA, APO and CANADA addresses only.
* credit coupons must be used within 30 days. shipping not included

Kreativ blogger award? Who, me?

I got a really nice surprise on Thanksgiving Day!

Miriam at Ancestories wrote me to tell me she awarded me the Kreativ blogger award. Wow! That was unexpected!
As part of this award, I'm supposed to tell seven as-yet-unrevealed things about myself and then pass it on to seven other bloggers.

What to say about myself that my blogger friends don't know yet... Let's see..

1) I was born with an innate love for animals. Even since elementary school they used to call me the mother of the dogs since I would give up my snack to feed the stray dogs that wandered around the plaza where my school was located. This love kept growing to the point that I was the one collecting money to vaccinate the stray dogs around the University. I also learned how to dispense the vaccine myself. I took care of hundreds of cats and dogs all over my 30 years of life in Italy, and had up to 6 dogs and 20 cats at a given time  living around house and my property.

2)While I loved dressing nice, I was a tomboy. You could find me climbing a tree or running after any child that was trying to torture a lizard or even a bug. I was fearless, or at least this is what I portrayed myself to be, even when I was scared about something.

3) I love to draw, in fact I used to design my own comics ever since elementary school, with manga style cartoons. Didn't love so much to color, so it wasn't until I was in medium school that those comics started to look a little more professional... (I will make a post about this sooner or later!). Not much time to do that nowadays with three kids, but I do use my business as an excuse to be creative with digital scrapbooking;)

4) I dream of being back in Italy  and being able to look for my mom's relatives to find the ones that have family pictures of my great grandparents and their parents. Knowing their names and data is just not enough for me.

5) I wanted to have 8 kids when I was a child. I had the names of the first 4 picked out. 2 boys and 2 girls. Got married a little late, lost my first baby which I believe was a girl, had 3 boys after that... Don't think I will be able to bear  a total of 5 more kids, but  I am still waiting for the missing girl...

6) I do NOT like nicknames. I get a knot in my stomach when people try to be cool and decide to call me Micky or Miki just because I now live in America. Even when I was in Italy and somebody would call me Michela, I would totally go ballistic! My name is Michelina, I love it, I am proud of it, and I appreciate all the people that use it to refer to me! Same goes for my children's names, I gave them those names because I love them, and there is a meaning behind each of them, any change even if minimal, would defeat the purpose of that name.

7) I wish I could dream about one of my ancestors each night, and that each of them could give me one bit of information that would lead me to discover a never before found fact about my family, and to connect me with more long lost cousins than I have already found. My expertise and my guts have proven to be valid at all times, but comes the time in which I need just plain revelation to get over that one "dead end".

Well, my favorite number is 8, so I have to add another one:

8) I wish I could homeschool my children. I think I was born with this desire as you could find me in the attic most of the afternoons of my childhood having old dolls around a table helping them with various grade levels of homework. Sadly, due to my husband's current unemployment situation, this must stay just a dream of mine.

Now, to nominate 7 blogs...
It is pretty difficult for me, as I am relatively new to the blogger world, having started in April,  but I will give it a try:

My ancestors and me
Amore e Sapore di famiglia
Tangled trees
Ancestors within
Kinfolk news
Little bites of life
Destination: Austin family

Wow, I did it!!!
It sure it is hard to earn an award nowdays!^_^

You better "swatch" out!

It's BLACK FRIDAY!!!

This year I am not going crazy looking for Black Friday deals. I am staying home, enjoying my pumpkin cheesecake for breakfast, and relaxing with my family.
If you are reading this blog post the same day I am writing it, you might be just like me, and avoid this year's craziness.
But just in case you feel like you have to get at least one GREAT deal, I have one for you, and you don't even need to get in line, or risk your life because some crazy person has to have that deal no matter what.
I have showed you the swatch book in a couple previous posts, and if you liked the idea, you might like this cyber weekend deal:

You can get 5 swatch book at less than $10 each!

Need ideas on what to do with a swatch book? Easy!
You will find a great selection of swatch book templates in the template gallery.
I chose just a few that I think  you might like(click on the one that catches your attention to see a preview):
A cute phone book.
I love it that...
Busy moms purse calendar
Show off your family!
Sweet Safari girl swatch book
Dogs are special
Football Memories
Holiday Recipes
Counting My blessings
Vintage Family
You can also create your own, maybe an ABC swatch book, or a colors and numbers swatch book, or a genealogy tree swatch book...
I think I might end up creating these very same projects soon^_^
Here is the flier:

You have until November 30th to contact me and get this great deal or even the calendar deal.

You will be amazed at the reaction your loved ones will have when they receive a HM gift!

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Thankful

This is the Season of thanksgiving...
Being Italian, I have never celebrated thanksgiving until I moved to the USA, but I was pretty happy to have one more reason to ponder why I should be thankful, and remember all that I AM thankful for.
Life is pretty difficult right now for so many of us, so many loosing their jobs, so many going through health problems, so many fighting emotional battles...
Still, we all have something we can be thankful for.
Every day is a new gift to us, and a new opportunity to make things better, and to be thankful for our blessings, no matter how big or small.
Being thankful really changes the way our day goes, and the way we treat others.
If we are thankful for what we have, we won't waste our time letting envy possess us for what others seem to have that we don't...
If we are thankful, we are more willing to help others that have a little less to be thankful for..
If we are thankful, we say thank you more often, and we make more people happy.
There are days, I know, in which  being thankful is the last thing that crosses your mind, maybe your child just dropped your favorite vase and there is no way to fix it, maybe your friend just said something that hurt your feelings, maybe you just lost your job, or you didn't get the one you were hoping for, maybe something even worst happened...

For days like this, I have a list to which I periodically try to add something more , to help me remember that there are still things and people I am thankful for.
You can start one for yourself too, if you haven't yet, and see if that works for you.
You can start it this thanksgiving, and add to it any time your realize how thankful you are for something.
I am pretty sure that by next Thanksgiving you are going to have a huge list that you might also desire to share with your family, or you can make it a whole family project, whichever sounds right to you!
So, let's all strive to be thankful, not only during this thanksgiving season, but all year long, and in so doing spread a feeling of thankfulness all around!

Interview a loved one this thanksgiving weekend.

I don't know how many of you will be reading my blog today, as you will be probably running around for the last thanksgiving dinner shopping or will be stuck in the kitchen cooking everything...
Just in case you should find the time to sit for a moment, and stumble upon this post, I want to challenge you with something you might have not thought about.
Most of us are going to be in contact with at least a family member, either in person or even on the phone.
We have a nice long holiday weekend ahead, why don't we use a fraction of it to interview a loved one?
Choose whoever you feel like: grandma, dad, your child,your sibling, even a dear friend or neighbor.
Just choose to take the time, and let the person you want to interview know that it is very important to you, and you would really appreciate if he/she would sit with you for a little bit to answer the question in your interview.
You can use a tape recorder, a laptop, even just paper and a pen, to record everything, it doesn't matter, as long as it is recorded. You might also want to take some pictures.
You can do it on thanksgiving, or also on Black Friday, instead of using most of your time after those special deals for those things that right night you feel like you MUST have, but that will not last forever.
Getting to know that special person a little more, getting to write his/her story is a treasure that will last forever, something both you and the person interviewed will be thankful for.
Life doesn't always go the way we plan, and  sometimes we loose someone all of a sudden and we realize that we could have spent more time with them, getting to know them better, told them I love you more often...
Take the time now, let them know that they are so important you want to know more about them, and you want to preserve their memory.
Any minute spent interviewing a special person in your life is a minute well spent, one you will never be sorry for.
In case you don't know where to start from with the interview, there are many online tool that have questions you can ask, here is some you might find useful:
Storymaps
How to interview a relative
Fifty questions for Family history interview
Hope this helps!

Creating home decor

I must say, I am really starting enjoying creating my own home decor!
Using a template for a 12x12 page, I had my quotes printed and shipped to my house.
When my husband bought the 2x4 used to create the Heritage blocks, it was enough to create 2 sets of those and at least two sets of these FAMILY~FRIENDS~FAITH value ones and something else!
Once he had sanded the blocks, I started painting them

While the paint was drying, I cut the various quotes:

The simplify and amore one are for a later project.

 

Finally I used modge podge to stick  a quote on each block, let it dry and then applied a layer of modge podge over the whole block.

Pretty cool, eh? And so inexpensive!!!

This can be another great Christmas gift, or house warming gift, or just because gift, to have ready and prepared so that you know, should you forget a special occasion....;)

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Holiday hits- week 2: Wire bound books

 

This week there is another incredible sale:Wire bound books for less than $15 each when bought in package of 5!

Think grandma cookbook, think special journal, new year notebook, planner...

Here is the flier:

This is just a wonderful offer! You can create one for each one on your list, and be done much before the last minute Christmas stress pops up!

You could also make a handy genealogy journal or fast facts about your family.

At this price you can really create as many projects as you like with a wire bound book!

Contact me before November 30th at noon to take advantage of this great deal and learn how to get started on your projects.

And remember, you can take advantage of this deal this week, and then create your projects at your own pace, as credit are valid for a full year.

You can also just give these credits as gifts and let your dear ones create at their heart content!

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