Scrapbooking Notes

TV Guide - Online or Paper Copy?

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:49:58 -0500

Once upon a time you had to rely on the page or two that was included in your daily newspaper for the TV guide. Then it became more important and was a magazine that everyone bought to find out not only what was on and when, but additional gossip about the favourite TV stars and shows. You could get a hint of what was going to happen next and then phone your friends to discuss it. Nowadays, you simply go online for the best TV guide. Of course, traditionalists still like their paper copy; at least they can read it at the table while sipping their coffee. But the online TV guide has everything that the paper one has and is more up-to-date, too. And better still, you don't have to go and buy it from the newsagents or supermarket. So if you were in a hurry to get home from work, or if it was raining too heavily to bother stopping at the store, you can still access your precious TV guide by going online. But did you ever think that the online TV guide is not quite as convenient to access ...

Handmade Paper – Another Green Product to Save the Earth

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:39:13 -0500

With the aim to minimize the amount of paper waste produce by office, Eco India had created the Handmade Paper. With this project , offices particularly in India will now be able to minimize the need of paper, the possibility of cutting more trees and help save the forest. With the fact that making a single tone of paper from virgin pulp does require large trees, that large number simply means that deforestation is not impossible that will eventually destroy natural habitats. With the presence of the Handmade Paper, these unwanted acts towards our forests will be minimized dramatically. Other global benefits that the handmade paper provides include the reduced use of energy by at least fifty percent, up to ninety percent of wastewater, and air pollution reduction by seventy percent. These benefits may not be noticed immediately but in the end people will know how these green deed affect the environment and the world. You might wonder why this handmade paper is eco-friendly. Firstly,...

Rubber Stamping

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:37:30 -0500

Who would have thought that your scrapbooking and card makinghad a connection to the Maya Indians? Rubber Stamping iscertainly one of the fastest growing hobbies today, and for goodreason. With its inexpensive materials and creative versatility,rubber stamping provides millions with hours of fun andcreativity. How did it all start? 'Spanish explorers were the first to talk about a "stickysubstance" that bounced, used by South America Indians. Thoughit didn't revolutionalize the world at that time, these sameIndians were using a primitive form of rubber stamping to "markand tattoo" images on men and women.'In , Charles Marie de la Condamine, a French scientiststudying the Amazon, sent a piece of "India Rubber" back toFrance.'Rubber got its name in , when the scientist Sir JosephPriestly made a comment about a substance "excellently adaptedto the purpose of wiping from paper the mark of black leadpencil." Hence the "rubbing out" of pencil marks gave it theterm "...

A Modern Hope Chest

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:40:19 -0500

When our neighbors moved away, they left behind an old cedarchest and wanted to know if our family would like to have it. Iwas sure I could find some use for it. They're not that easy tocome by, and it was still in pretty good shape. I already had an older cedar chest, handed down to me from myfather's mother. It had some old keepsakes in it--a framedpressed flower, a Dutch Bible, a household expense record mygrandpa had kept long before I was born. To these treasures Iadded my mother's wedding dress, my high school year books, andmy daughter's handmade baby dresses and blankets. The new cedar chest ended up in the living room as storage forextra blankets. Every once in awhile I glance at it and think Ishould use it as a hope chest for my daughter. My daughter is now, and she's going to be grown up and movedout before I know it. I've always toyed with the idea of givingher a hope chest, but it seems so old-fashioned. My daughter is a normal Christian teenage girl, tr...