Photo & Story Treasures: December 2014

Friday, December 12, 2014

Crafts with Heritage Makers home decor & gift ideas

If you're looking for a great gift or home decor, you can make any number of things using your own Heritage Makers account!

Or you can just let me make them for you!

I have been selling Heritage-Makers-crafted decor (holiday, home decor, gifts) for a few years now at local craft fairs. I design my own papers using Heritage Makers scrap pages, then I cut them and use them for various craft items.

I recently created a Facebook Page so anyone can "shop" my creations online. (You'll have to e-mail me with your order, but you can see all the pictures and product information, including number of items currently in stock, right there on the Facebook page.) Ordering information is there in the first (pinned) post. https://www.facebook.com/MyHeritageMakersShop

If you "like" the Facebook Page on Facebook, you'll get updates when new items are added, too!

Here are a few of the things you'll see:

(These are mini blocks! Stacked like this, they are 3" tall and 3" wide. Change the numbers as you countdown to Christmas.)

(7"x7" square board with 3x3" month cards that have a UV coating so you can write on them with a dry erase marker. Hang months on the black knob and never miss another birthday! Check the link to the shop to see the other style of this calendar.)

("Chunky Kids Nativity" is coated with Mod Podge to make it kid-friendly. Mounted on pieces of 2x4. Largest piece is 5.5" wide.)

(Perpetual Calendar on 2" blocks, perfect for a desktop. Check the link to the shop to see the classic style of this calendar.)

(Silhouette Nativity. Mounted on 1x4 pine. Wood is painted black. 7 pieces.)

(12x12" special occasions print, framed so you can write birthdays and anniversaries on the glass with a dry-erase marker.)

I also have several styles of framed prints for the home. I offer them in 8x8 but you can order them in 12x12 if you like. More shown at the link above, but here are a few examples:

Like the Facebook page, and invite someone you know who would love it to "like" it, too!

Everyone has a story. What's yours?

"Every photo tells a story, but always remember this: there was a story teller behind the lens." -Belinda Taylor

"Bridges built between generations are not built by accident. If I want my children and grandchildren to know those who still live in my memory, then I must build the bridge between them. I alone am the link to the generations that stand on either side of me." -Dennis Neuenschwander

"The sheer volume and lack of organization of digital photos for personal memories discourages many people from accessing and reminiscing about them. In order to remember, we have to access and interact with the photos, rather than just amass them." -Linda Henkel, psychological scientist

"Every life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers." -Hans Christian Andersen (inspiration behind LifeTales Books)

"You can make yourself live forever through writing. Do not pass through life without leaving something behind for others to learn from your experience--even if no one but your children read it. You may discover a you you've never known." ~Antwone Fisher

"A birth certificate shows that we were born. A death certificate shows that we died. Pictures show that we lived! Storybooks tell the stories behind the pictures!"

"A book is a gift that can be opened again and again." -Garrison Keillor

"History will be kind to me because I intend to write it." -Winston Churchill

“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” -Walt Disney

"The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it... We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates." -Robert Coover

"If history were told in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."-Rudyard Kipling

"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by." -Harvey Cox

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once to young to remember. Now I make scrapbooks because one day I may be too old to remember." ~unknown

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this." ~Dave Eggars

"People say that a time machine can't be invented, but they've already invented a device that can stop time. Cameras are the world's first time machines." ~Rebecca McNutt

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~unknown

"If remembering a few miraculous moments strengthens you a little bit, then remembering a lot of miraculous moments will strengthen you a lot." ~Alan Wright

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Friday, December 12, 2014

Crafts with Heritage Makers home decor & gift ideas