Your Unique Story

11x14 prints -- more new product!

Easy to frame, 11x14 prints are my next big announcement.  Won't it be easy now to switch out art throughout our homes at ONLY $4.39 a piece!  

My friend's daughter graces the front of this new product flyer.  I sure do love being in a business where I know so many other consultants, and have seen it grow from nearly the beginning.  We have a business to be proud of that is beginning to take the US and Canada by storm.  Would you like to join me as I help people creatively preserve their memories?  Our business kits are on sale until the end of the month.  Email me (julie @ youruniquestory.com) and we can set up a time to see if you are a great fit for our company. 

Julie

www.YourUniqueStory.com

Family Tree

I started with this brand new collection (that I love by the way)

Did you know that the premier art membership is $30 for 3 months for the fall?  What an amazing price for over 40,000 pieces of art.  YEAH for Heritage Makers!!!

Here's the poster I just made.  It is a 12x18 poster and took about 15 minutes...

Of course I just did the easy part, I need to make sure I have all the picture.  I am pretty sure I do they are all in different places though, so I need to do a little searching.  This family tree takes us back to my kids great-great grandparents.  What I'll do is insert names and faces for each place holder, then I'll make 12x12 page of just faces and decoupage those to tile.  I will put a magnet on the back of each 1x1 tile.  Also, this poster I just made I'll put in a frame with sheet metal, so that everything will stick together.  It will look something like this:

Then my kids can move the magnetized tiles around and learn about their heritage.  I may just use these for Christmas gifts as well...shhhh

Tape and Pictures...just don't do it!

If you ever get the inkling to put tape onto the back of your pictures to stick down to a piece of paper or anything else, just don't do it.  Every once in a while with this business of scanning and photo preservation I get someone's pictures that has had tape on the back.  It is the biggest pain to remove and usually sticks so well that the backs of the photos are often damaged during this process.  ESPECIALLY on older photos.  Also I find that the tape after even a few years starts to yellow and causes a reaction with the photo which in turn damages it in other ways.  SO...if you ever have a temptation to put tape any where near your photos, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, resist that urge! 

Of course if it does happened, or already has happened some of the best tools for removal are metal putty knives, or metal spatulas, or in my case a little tiny pair of scissors for today's work.  NONE of these tools should ever need to be near your precious photos! 

Ok I have to get back to my photo/tape removal job....

Similarities

I am working on a little project, and found a similarity that I hadn't ever noticed before.  Look at these two faces.  One is my little boy the other is his Great-Great Grandfather by the same name. 

I remember now my father in law saying when my little boy was a baby how he reminded him so much of his grandpa, and there was something about his eyes that was the same.  I think there is more alike than just the eyes...what do you think?