November in person and online classes

Learn Digital Scrapbooking and Storybooking the fast and easy way with Heritage Makers in Person and online classes.

November Saint Augustine/Jacksonville Digi-Crop

Come & work on your projects & get a tour of the new Free Basic Art, even create your own free greeting card. Thursday November 5th from 8:30pm - 11:30pm at my house in Saint Augustine, FL. Bring your own laptop or sign up for one of mine. I hope to see you here! Call me at (904) 287-7543 or e-mail me at info@preservemyheritage.com to reserve your spot.

If you would like to have a digicrop at your house, we can set up a date, as long as you have at least 5-6 friends coming. Contact me to reserve a spot on my calendar.

Online Classes Direct from Heritage Makers

Live Online Classes - Take a class without leaving your house - you just need your computer and an internet connection. Here's the schedule and registration links for the next Online Classes from Heritage Makers Home Office:

Intro to Studio

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Thu, Nov 5, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Tue, Nov 10, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Thu, Nov 12, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Tue, Nov 17, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Thu, Nov 19, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Tue, Nov 24, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Thu, Nov 26, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
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Intermediate Studio Class
Mon, Nov 2, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Wed, Nov 4, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Mon, Nov 9, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Wed, Nov 11, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Mon, Nov 16, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Wed, Nov 18, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Mon, Nov 23, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Wed, Nov 25, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Mon, Nov 30, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
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Studio Master Class
Thu, Nov 5, 2009 7:00 PM MST
Topic: Holiday Card & Gift Ideas
IInstructor: Lynda Angelastro
Studio Product Manager Lynda Angelastro and guest presenters show off the latest in holiday card & gift ideas
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Tue, Nov 17, 2009 7:00 PM MST
Topic: Beginning to Look a Lot Like …
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
What’s Studio Product Manager Lynda Angelastro giving to family and friends this holiday season? Find out in time to create your own easy-to-make gifts.
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No class on Thanksgiving

WATCH A RECORDED WEBINAR:

At any time you can watch a recorded webinar, just click on any of the links that interest you:

Intro to Studio
October 6, 2009
Intermediate Studio Class
September 30, 2009
October 7, 2009
Studio Master Class
October 22, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Fun Foldables”
September 24, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Reunion Roundup”
September 10, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Best of Tiny and Totable”
August 27, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “From Page to Project”
August 13, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Basically Speaking”
July 23, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Easy Page Design Using Grids”
July 9, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Your Best of Studio 3.0”
June 25, 2009 Instructor Lynda Angelastro - “Studio 3.0”
February 19, 2009 Instructor Kelly Wolfer - “Family Games”
January 22, 2009 Instructor Bevin Dunn - “Understanding Resolution, Pixels, etc.”
January 8, 2009 Instructor Michelle Wolfley - “Special Effects”
December 11, 2008 Instructor Channon Zabel - “Creative Cropping”
December 4, 2008 Instructor Catherine Schulthies - “Using Templates and Scraplifting”
November 13, 2008 Instructor Colleen Baskin - “Holiday Gift Ideas” (some audio problems in first 5 minutes)
November 6, 2008 Instructor Lori Mar - “Winter Holiday Cards”
October 30, 2008 Instructor Heidi Arave - “Creating Layouts Using Basic Art”

Please feel free to contact me with any question before and/or after any class.
 

7 years ago...

I saved each and every chat, each and every email, each and every message, photo, everything.

I knew our story was just so special it deserved to be written!

But life happens, so I never got around to write that book, until I discovered Heritage Makers, and I was given the chance to finally write our Love Story.

That was my very first book, and I created it when the Studio software was ages behind what it is now, so please forgive the design! Here it is:

One last thing:

I love you Chris!!!!

Happy Halloween...genealogy style^_^

Well, I thought I would stop by to wish everybody a happy Halloween, and I couldn't help but create a ghost family tree:

By the way, did you know that Halloween means Hallows Eve (the eve before the Day of the Dead, on the 1st of November), and its origins are Celtic?
2,500 years ago the Celtic people from what is now the UK celebrated New Years Eve at the end of the summer, not in December, and for them this day was the 31st of October. For some reason, the Celts thought that on this day the spirits would come out of their tombs and walk the earth. To scare off the spirits, people decorated their houses with bones and other scary objects that would ward off the spirits. 
Nowadays, Halloween is most celebrated in Anglo-saxon cultures where people dress up like monsters and fantasy creatures and do Trick-or-Treating.  Most homes, as you may have noticed, put a Jack-o-lantern outside on the doorstep.
I must say that while I knew about Halloween when I was in Italy, unless you knew some Americans or English people, nobody would celebrate it. The day to put your mask on is  "Carnevale", instead, which comes 40 days before Easter, but I will talk about this when time comes.
It is indeed  incredible how things might change in just a few years though...
From what I have noticed, many people in Italy now celebrate Halloween too.
So, wherever you are, whether you celebrate it or not,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Treasure Chest Thursday: 10/29/09 : Creating my family jewels

Ever since I heard of Treasure Chest Thursday I have been  thinking about my family treasures:" Should I post about my mother's necklace ,my grandma's earrings or my childhood jewelery first?",  but then I just felt that my first Treasure chest Thursday, should be about my most valuable and precious treasures: my children.

They are all to me and nothing is nearly as important as them. For them I would give up all my other family treasures, if I needed to.
Well, since they are my jewels, I have decided to wear them!
It surely helps that one of the new Heritage Makers Product is a photo bracelet, so I created mine:

Isn't it cute? I like that I can add any embellishment I want, so as you can see, I put the letters to form the word mom in between the pictures of my kids.

They ship with the pictures already inserted, so I won't have to go crazy messing up the picture until it works!

You need to know that since I got children I have lost most of my interest in wearing jewelery, especially since my sweet babies have been pulling each and every necklace and earrings I was stubborn enough to wear, so I have just given up, but this bracelet looks sturdy enough to withstand my "hurricane" boys! Because it is backed up by the heirloom warranty, I know that should something happen(should my baby happen!) I can order a new one for half the price!

I am going to order this bracelet this week, with all the other projects I have been working on!

I can't wait to wear it!

Stay tuned as I will report to let you know if it survived my baby!;)

Treasure Chest Thursday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

My child is a VIP!

Since board books have come to be, I have been wanting to create one for my child, and the "I am a VIP" template was just perfect for my Jacob.
He is my middle child, he is 3 years old and sometimes I see that he feels like he is not as important as his big brother who goes to school or his little brother, whom I am still nursing and consequently gets lots more mommy and me time than Jacob does.

So, I started creating this board book starting from the template, and made the appropriate changes to fit it to our family.
This morning Jacob saw what I was working on, and he was so excited because there was a  book that was all about him.
He asked me to see it over and over, and I couldn't say no, seeing his smile and joy when turning every page through the project viewer. He kept saying" It's all about me, it's all about me!!!".
We went through each page, he told me who everybody was, and I helped him remember the cousins who live in England. I hope this will help him think about them more often, maybe even getting closer to them.

I told him he would then be able to really read it all by himself soon, and he asked if the book was in the garage. He just wanted to have it at once!
I had to explain him that mommy needed to add a few more things and then she would publish it and we would have had the book here in just 2 weeks.
I am so happy I decided to create this board book, if Jacob is so excited by just seeing it on the computer, can you imagine how happy he will be when he will have the book in his hands and will be able to bring it with him everywhere and show it off with his friends? I can see him going to his Nana and saying:"Look Nana, it's all about me!"

He will also be able to remember about his nonno Oreste, my dad, whom he never saw in this life, but we firmly believe he was with him before he was born and inspired us to "do what we had to do" to have Jacob come into our family. That's why Jacob's middle name is Oreste.

I don't know who is more excited about this book, if it is me or Jacob!;)

6 days storybook gift sale!

You have been looking at them, you have been thinking of them...
Finally you can get all your story booking credits at the best price of the season!

Begin your holiday fun with a celebration. Celebrate the year, celebrate life, celebrate getting your holiday shopping done early this year!

For 6 days only (Oct 24-29) you can save big with the lowest prices on our three packs of Storybooks.
Storybooks make the best gift to celebrate the loved ones in our life.
With a huge selection of beautifully designed templates, they are also easy and fast to create.
Celebrate with:

• a family yearbook
• a vacation storybook
• a baby book
• a family cookbook
• a life story
• an "how we celebrate" storybook

Find a complete list of  perfect story booking gifts by searching CELEBRATION in our online Template Gallery.
This is really the best time to get your Storybooking done, but hurry, you have time until October 29th at 8 p.m. EST to contact me so that I can put your order in for your favorite storybook offers!

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Holiday shipping dates

A lot of you have been asking about when is the last date to complete and publish a project in order to be guaranteed to receive on time for  Christmas, so here you go!

Order your Heritage Makers gifts by the date below in order to receive items by December 24, 2009.

Canada

Storybooks:

November 30 (First Class)

December 3 (Standard)

December 7 (Express)

Other products:           

November 30 (First Class/Direct Ship Cards)

December 3 (Standard)

December 7 (Express)      

United States

Storybooks:                

December 2 (Ground and Priority)

December 7 (Two-day)

December 10 (Next day)

Other products:           

December 11 (Ground and Priority)

December 14 (Direct Ship Cards/Two-day)

December 16 (Next day)

Get your projects going!;)

It's never too early ...

...or too late to help your children remember each of their family members and how much they mean to them!
I have been pretty sick this week, I still am, but I just couldn't stand not being able to work at any project, so I decided to go for something simple.
I looked in the template gallery, and I found the perfect template for a swatch book for my sweet Luca.
He is 14 months old, and I think he is ready to start learning about his closest family members, both the ones who live here in America and the Italian ones who are living in England.
The template I found  was so perfect I didn't have to change much: it took more time to decide which pictures I wanted to use than to actually create the swatch book!

There are pictures of when he was born, pictures of his mamma and daddy, his brothers, his nana and granddaddy, his great grandparents, his nonna Rita, and also his nonno Oreste, (he will never meet him in this life, but I know he met him before coming here on earth, and he will meet him after this life), and then there are pictures of cousins and aunts.

I am really proud of the final result, and I know I will enjoy countless moments going through this swatch book with my boy, and also having to ask his brothers to bring it back;)
Not to count the fact that I have been able to produce something even if I was so sick I couldn't think!

Thank goodness for templates that help me feel accomplished no matter what!

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You can get a free Publishing account by signing up at http://www.preservemyheritage.com and start creating unlimited projects at once!

Want more? Check out our incredible host rewards and fantastic package deals!!

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