It's Christmas in JULY

For Christmas last year, I gave to my family the gift of heritage.  For my parents and grandparents, I gave an 8x8 book about our family.  For the grandkids on my husband's side, I put together a book of a story that my father in law would tell his boys before they went to sleep at night.  It was a story that he made up, and with this gift his stories are being passed on to another generation. 

This year I am working on book about my 3rd great grandparents to give to my grandparents.  They don't even know what the internet is, so I'm not worried about them finding out. ;)  As for the other gifts...you can find out after Christmas.  If you need any ideas, let me know!  The most cherished gifts are the ones from the heart.  www.YourUniqueStory.com

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July 10, 2008

My Supporters

Can I share how awesome my kids are?  Tonight I was on a Heritage Makers call, so I made sure dinner was done before it started, so that I could concentrate on the call.   

In the background, they finished their dinner then I noticed something...they were all working!   They had cleared their dinner dishes, my little 7 year old was sweeping the kitchen floor, my 5 year old was picking up all around the house, and my 3 year old was putting away books into the bookshelves, "Because she was doing something very important." 

It is great to be able to work together and help each other.   I just had to share how wonderful my kids are.'

Julie


Remember these?

I posted a few weeks ago about a set of wedding playing cards that I made.  Well, I got them back and am so pleased.  They are much better than they looked in the preview.   

I am giving the template away to any of my clients and consultants.  Just email me at Julie@YourUniqueStory.com and I'll send the template to you.  Remember you can custom design your own playing cards for only 19.95.  WOW!

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June 30, 2008

Last Day for GREAT Specials

               
                        
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Storybook Starter Package (click for details)

This package is great if you are starting out and want to try different kinds of projects.  You save about 30% on your publishing with this package and get 1-2 months of free premier!  If this is your first order, I will add an additional month of premier, too!


Buy More and Save Package (click for details)

Do you need more credits?  This package is great if you know which size you like to work in, or if you need lots of copies of a book.  Credits are purchased five at a time and can be used for five copies of the same book, or five completely different books.  You save about 30% on your publishing with these packages and they all come with a free month of premier! Again, if it is your first order, I will add an additional month of premier!

Also a June only special, including templates:  Voyages to the Interior

 

                        

How to order:
I will be entering the last orders for the month TONIGHT.  Click on the links for the packages above and decide on a package that suits your needs. 
Send me an e-mail (Julie@YourUniqueStory.com) and tell me which package you would like, and the best number to reach you at today. Then, I will call you for payment information and your credits and premier will appear in your account tonight!

And just to make it fun, I am going to enter these orders as a virtual party with a mystery hostess, and that hostess could be you!  Do you want to be the hostess for my party?

BE THE FIRST ONE TO RESPOND AND TELL ME WHICH PACKAGE YOU ARE READY TO ORDER AND YOU CAN BE THE HOSTESS!
What do hostesses get?  At least $50 in free publishing credits, and a free 5x5 storybook!

Don't miss out on these great deals today!  If you need credits or premier, now is the time to do it!  We may never see prices this low again.

June 18, 2008

Wedding Playing cards

I made this set of playing cards with a wedding theme.   I thought they turned out really nice.  I have had an idea of making playing cards for guests at a wedding.  You know how during a reception there is often a little down time for guests?  What if there were a set of playing cards at each table designed with pictures from birth through engagement, and some facts, of the bride and groom so that the guests are learning about the couple and enjoying themselves at the same time.   If I weren't already married, I would.  ;)

Click on full screen below to see larger images of the cards.

 


Julie
www.YourUniqueStory.com


June 09, 2008

Connections

This weekend I worked a booth one day for the Bridal Expo.  What a great show it was.  I love my job.  I just love talking to people and having a product that helps and inspires them.  And I love the stories that I hear...

Anyway, there I was at the booth, when a bride to be came up to me and we start talking about Heritage Makers.  I noticed that her necklace was leather with a small wood carving of an eagle on the bottom.  It reminded me of a necklace that my husband gave me soon after we were engaged, only mine had a ancient, native-american bead that was a little bird.   

I opened up my first book that I made, that was our love story and flipped to the page where it shows the moccasins that my husband made for me to wear on our wedding day.  This bride went away ready to make her wedding books with Heritage Makers, and also to ask her husband-to-be for a pair of moccasins...

I love the connections that come with this business, and the power of story. 

What is one of your engagement stories?



June 04, 2008

A Voyage to the Interior

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“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”
—Christina Baldwin

I have been thinking quite a bit lately about a book that this lady, quoted above, wrote.  It made quite an impact on me, and I have meant to post about it.  I will make sure to do that within the next few weeks. 

I wanted to share a new template collection that Heritage Makers has created.  These by far are my favorite of yet because of one reason.  The focus is on not just pictures and little bits of text along with it.  It is about the STORY!  It goes right along with our mission of storybooking and preserving our stories and pictures for a lifetime.      

I am very excited to share with you the Voyages to the Interior package and templates.  Please look at these.  Not for me, but for your stories, and for your family. 

Julie
www.YourUniqueStory.com

Preserving Lives, Strengthening the Future, One Storybook at a Time.






May 27, 2008

A Memorial

A few weeks ago a good friend of mine came over with a binder full of pictures to have scanned.  Neither of us realized the treasure box that we were scanning.  It was full of original pictures, documents, and newspaper articles from the life of her husbands great uncle.  He was a fighter pilot in World War II, and was shot down on I think it was his 91st mission.  It was such an amazing experience to be part of memorializing his life.  My friend will be turning these pictures and words into a book for the entire family with Heritage Makers.


 

Here is a poem found among those pictures:

Bright Is The Faith

Blow gently winds, in that far off land,
Hallow that grave in alien sand
for there an American flier sleeps.
His was the courage to fly and fight;
His was the honor to die for right.
O, bright is the faith that a flier keeps.

Perhaps it is that in the sky.
The trivial things can pass them by,
And they can see into the years
Which things are worthy of their tears;
Which things are false, and which are just,
In which ideals to put their trust.

How else could fliers blithely go
Into the fire of that foe...
Knowing each flight might be farewell.
Blow gently winds in that far off land
His parents grieve, and that lonely sand
Holds part of their hearts as well.

And though at times we cannot see 
Why hate and war and death should be; 
Why flame and blood should smitch the sky, 
Why first the finest and best should die; 
Yet each of us answers one by one 
When our little span of work is done.   

Blow gently winds in that far off land. 
Hallow that plot of alien sand 
For there an American flier sleeps, 
His was the bitter and difficult road,   
yet his was the measure that overflowed. 
O, bright is the faith that a flier keeps. 

By Edith Haroldson Lovell

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May 16, 2008

Beautiful Wedding

I am so excited because Heritage Makers has given us a preview system that we can share with others.  This book is a beautiful 12x12 storybook.  To view it click on the full screen button at the top right of the viewer.  Enjoy! 

Julie

Preserving lives, Strengthening the Future, One Storybook at a Time.

May 06, 2008

Featured consultant: Christy!

I would like to start featuring some of the awesome consultants on my team.  So here goes...

I'd like to start with my dear friend Christy.  We met in Georgia about 8 years ago, and although we were both in the army, we met at church.  We have been fast friends from the start, and although we haven't lived near each other for 6 years, we have stayed close. 

A while before I found Heritage Makers, Christy had a baby born prematurely that only lived 12 hours.   I really wanted her to write down her experiences and preserve the life of her sweet baby boy.  You can see I was a HM consultant before I even knew about the company, so you can believe that when I did find Heritage Makers; she was one of the first people that I told.  I gave her the gift of a book credit to help her tell her story.

After a few months she joined the company as a consultant, and she has since written a story about her little boy, along with several other awesome storybooks.  She also has a blog that she recently started, beastoryteller.blogspot.com  Christy is an incredible person and I am glad to call her my friend. 

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May 05, 2008

Gratitude

As many of you know, my husband has become a frequent traveler to Iraq and Afghanistan.  A while back he posted a series of pictures on his blog titled Gratitude.  When I saw them I knew I wanted to turn them into a little 5x5 book....so here it is.  I worked on it instead of going to church yesterday, because my car keys disappeared.  I did find them last night, they had obviously been hidden...in the laundry room of all places, but I was able to make this book during that time! ;)

I really didn't want something scrappy looking, which is why it is very basic.  I wanted to focus to be on the pictures and words.  Here's most of it, and now that I look it over I need to do a few things, but you get the idea...a reminder the red areas are either the binding or where the page will be cut off.

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  • I am Julie, a Heritage Makers consultant, storybooking expert and I am here to help you save the stories in your life, quickly and easily into an archived storybook. If you don't tell your story, then who will?

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