This Memory Keeper's Life

Sue Althouse talks about setting up a new scrapbooking workspace, shopping for paper scrapbooking supplies and empty-nest scrapooking.

Lynn Grieveson talks about integrating political writing, digital product designing, and being a commited family historian.

Maker and scrapbooker Leah Farquharson talks about her craft business and how scrapbooking fits in professionally and personally.

Kim Watson talks to us about her work designing in the scrapbooking industry after being a Creating Keepsakes dream-teamer, using the Silhouette Cameo for design, making 2-pagers, finding meaning and more.

Anna Aspnes shares how a busy life and unexpected challenges benefit from loosened expectations AND the steady incorporation of creativity.

Christy Strickler talks about "her scrapbook evolution," how her scrapbooking and video game play are companion obsessions, her approach to learning with online craft classes, and her movement onto design teams and teaching her own classes.

Talking to Emily Pitts, Tami Taylor, Sue Althouse and other Get It Scrapped members about scrapbooking including current kits, motivation, assignments, and fitting creativity into daily life.

Hybrid Scrapbooker and "off the page" memorykeeper Betsy Sammarco talks about her inspirations, her technique, and how memory keeping fits into her life.

Jana Morton talks about how she uses Photoshop and digital techniques for stunning Photo effects and scrapbook pages.

In this episode of This Memory Keeper's Life, Tiffany Tillman, digital scrapbooker and owner of Scapaneers a site for digital scrapbooking education, talks to us about her business and scrapbooking in her life.

In this episode of This Memory Keeper's Life, Doris Sander, teacher, mom, scrapbooker, marketing director of Jenni Bowlin Studios, talks about the organized challenge approaches that have her crafting, telling stories and scrapbooking up a storm in 2014.

Scrapbooker, lawyer, constant learner Katie Scott talks about memorykeeping in her life today including the ways she keeps it evolving and interesting by seeking out new challenges and influences

In a a conversation with scrapbooker Emily Pitts we talk about how the act of memory keeping is changing for her as her family grows up and her work in the scrapbooking industry evolves.

Michelle Houghton is art teacher turned stay-at-home mom turned aerobics, copic marker and scrapbooking teacher. We talk about copic and alcohol markers, crafting, designing and teaching, loud crops and more and she shares her Memory Keeping Life with us.

Melissa Shanhun is a wife, mum of two, artist and digital scrapbooking educator at the website DigitalScrapbookingHQ.com. She's a certified archivist and librarian. She learned and used the earliest digital scrapbooking software and now scrapbooks with Photoshop Elements. That's part of her story. Now let's find out more.

Diane Curry describes herself as a lunatic scrapper, high school English teacher, bookworm, and coffee addict. She lives in Baltimore with her two dogs and a cat, where she grades papers, looks after her mother and plans her next travel adventure. That’s part of her story. Now let’s find out more.

Meghann Andrew is a 28 year-old girl originally from the great state of Kentucky. She holds a B.A. in Interior Design, and is an NCIDQ certified interior designer, which has shaped her scrapbooking style. Meghann lives in Houston, Texas with  husband, Simon, a Brit she fell in love with while working for a D.C. firm. Aside from scrapbooking, she enjoys reading, cooking and baking. Meghann shares her life and projects at Meghann's Little Corner. That part of her story. Listen in for more of it.

Scrapbooking Podcast. Christy Strickler, also know as EmeraldValkyrie in online communities is today’s guest. Here’s a bit of Christy’s story. She’s a homeschooling mom and wife with a background in environmental science and biology living in the Bahamas. She absolutely loves video games and is obsessed with scrapbooking. Listen in for more of her story.

Scrapbooking Podcast. Monica Bradford is a former 1st grade teacher turned stay-at-home mom whose goal is to “Live, Document, and Craft an inspired life–And hopefully inspire others to do the same.” Monica tells us about the role scrapbooking plays in her life. We talk about her style, how she came to teach online scrapbooking classes, and her twice-yearly retreats with friends.

Tami Morrison is a mom of 4 with a messy house and neat ideas. In this episode, we talk about i-phone-ography, recording family stories with humor and how Tami keeps her scrapbooking easy.

Today's guest today is Jana Oliveira, a Brazillian accountant and mom now living in New Jersey.  Jana says, "There’s nothing better than pictures and a story." She's an avid crafter and technique video blogger who shares with us her shift in memory-keeping practices toward more story and less product. Jana blogs, makes craft technique videos, produces a podcast for moms of autistic children, develops ipad and iphone apps, and pursues her interests passionately--with research and action.

Today’s guest is Tambur MacDonald, a mom of 4 living in Cyprus.  Tambur calls herself “slightly obsessed with scrapbooking – just slightly.” We talk about how her approach to scrapbooking travel varies from that of scrapbooking everyday life, as well as kit clubs, putting notes into photo metadata, and online scrapbooking communities.

Amanda Jones lives in Devon UK with her husband and son, and she tells us about how she creates scrapbook pages full of technique is a small space. We also talk about her latest addiction - the Silhouette Cameo - and her work for scrapbook product manufacturers and her participation with a new UK magazine: Scrap 365.

Everybody has a story. Today we talk to retired physician Karen Poirier-Brode about her stories and how she records them, through genealogy, paper and digital scrapbooking, and blogging. We also talk about her online and real-life memory-keeping communities.

Everybody has a story. Listen to that of Ami Pilon. She’s a retired activist, community organizer, artist, long-haul truck driver, lover of life and so much more. Ami lives in the Pacific Northwest, added digital scrapbooking to her creative pursuits as a result of illness, and keeps memories for herself, her friends, and her community. Settle in to hear how memory keeping happens in this memory keeper’s life.