With my wedding quickly approaching, I am working on wrapping up the final details and making the final payments. It has been such a huge relief to write those checks or punch in that credit card number this week and cross things off my to-do list. Looking back, I have to say I think I was most excited about the wedding in the inital stages of planning and I was much more creative with my wedding ideas. I wish I would have kept that spirit up a little more towards the end. There was one id

Have you ever had one of those pictures that you are DYING to scrapbook, but you just can't decide how? Well, I have had SEVERAL pictures like that, but none so haunting as a picture I took a couple of years ago. I was teaching art in Bryan, Texas. Every week I had a group of twenty 5th grade girls that met with me for "Scrapbook Club". It was loads of fun, and I got lots of great pictures. There is one picture that sits on my table and "looks" at me LOL. It's destined to be the first p

I became a Yankees fan in 1973 . And, my first favorite Yankees player was Thurman Munson. In the summer of 1975, I came down with a bad case of mononucleosis. Basically, I was housebound for eight weeks at the end of the summer with a fever. That’s a tough break for a 12-year old (as I was at that time). I caught it, of all places, in Little League. Back in that day, during games, we all shared the same water jug. Basically, it was a big empty plastic one-gallon milk jug that the co

With today’s announcement of TV kickoffs (UNI and Arizona), we now know seven kickoffs for the Hawkeyes in 2009. Here’s the list: Sept. 5 — Northern Iowa (11 a.m., Big Ten Network) Sept. 12 — @Iowa State (11 a.m., Fox Sports Net) Sept. 19 — Arizona (2:30 p.m., ABC) Sept. 26 — @Penn State (7 p.m. ABC or ESPN) Oct. 3 — Arkansas State (TBA) Oct. 10 — Michigan (7 p.m. ABC or ESPN) Oct. 17 — @Wisconsin (11 a.m. ESPN, ESPN2 or Big Ten Network) Oct. 24 — @Michigan Stat

The past several design cycles in the scrapbook-industry have been heavily 1970’s-inspired at a lot of companies. In case you are annoyingly young enough to not remember the 1970’s first-hand, I’ll elaborate: rainbow colors, woodland animal icons, and disco-inspired prints. The natural progression of the design cycle should have been to move into the 1980’s next. That had already happened in fashion (legwarmers at Target? shudder!) and the next stop should have been for it to filter into scrap