July Heritage Makers Newsletter

Posted on July 17, 2011 by chloe

Over the hump for 2011 already and on the downhill slide to the holiday season! Holy cow! It will be here before you know it, and it’s never too soon to start thinking about all the meaningful Heritage Makers projects that you can create for your gift-giving this year!

Now that I’ve given you heart failure with that, let’s talk about the news for July – NOW!

New Studio Art:

Newly released July art collections!

Newly released July art collections!

Click the art photo to see our full art collection.

Bonus Savings:
Publish any 20×20 canvas or 8×8 storybooks this month and receive an additional 10% off at checkout!

Facebook Friends:
“Like” Club HM on Facebook to join the non-stop Digicrop! Joining this very active page will grant you access to a growing, enthusiastic community of like-minded Heritage Makers like yourself – complete with live chat opportunities, Studio tips and tricks, exclusive previews of member projects and craft ideas, plus the chance to participate in weekly (sometimes daily!) challenges to win FREE publishing points! Just log into your Facebook page and search for the “Club HM” page – click “Like”!

Digicrops!

Thursday 7/21, 7pm @ Carrie’s House (near Aloha High School) – RSVP for complete details!

Tuesday 7/26, 3pm @ Playdate PDX (downtown PDX) – bring your kids and let them play in the giant play structure. OK to come if you don’t have kids too! Coffee and cafe are great!

Sunday 7/31, 7pm @ Chloe’s House (South Beaverton) – RSVP for complete details!

Personal Project Features:

The project above was a tri-fold card we made for Ayden as his birthday card. The card featured a picture from each of the past 12 months. He loved it!

This was a fun, patriotic project I did for the boys to be able to pass out to their friends and family for the Independence Day holiday. This project used a 5×7 invitation (prints on both sides). Once I received the cards in the mail, I used a punch to cut a circular hole above and below their clasped hands and then laced a “real” American flag through the card. See the finished product below!

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As always, I am here to answer your questions and offer you assistance with all of your heritage making needs! Please contact me if I can help you in any way. Just a quick heads up – I will be out of town visiting family during the first two weeks of August, though I will be available by phone and email should you need anything! Happy heritage making!!! :)

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Camp Tilikum

Posted on June 22, 2011 by chloe

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The celebratory end-of-year field trip for Ayden’s kindergarten class was a trip out to Camp Tilikum in Newberg, OR on June 2nd. To add to Ayden’s excitement about this trip, Patrick was able to take the day off from the shop to be one of the parent helpers for the first time this year! Ayden was VERY excited to have his Daddy come to a school event (and I think Patrick was pretty excited too!). The morning started out with a bus ride from the school, complete with some Bus Bingo to keep everyone entertained for the 45 minute drive. The weather wasn’t ideal – a little drizzly and gray, which it had been for months – so much mud and muck was in store. Once the buses arrived at the Camp, the teachers had planned out a full agenda (having done this trip for many years in a row now) to keep everyone busy and engaged. From a rope bridge challenge to a rock wall, then a forest hike with a nature “Hike and Hunt” scavenger activity, the kids were busy from start to finish. There was an old schoolhouse building in which they were able to hide from the rain, then on to fishing for trout and salamanders. Ayden’s favorite part of the trip was catching and holding the salamanders (especially since the girls thought they were gross and slimy!). While the group waited for the buses to take them back to school, the group squeezed in a couple games of Tug-of-War. All in all it was a fun, eventful and memorable trip – and a great way to end a fantastic Kindergarten year! Thank you Mrs. Kohl!!! :)

View the photo gallery here!

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Memorial Weekend Adventures

Posted on June 20, 2011 by chloe

After suffering hard drive failure on our main home computer, our photo uploading (and therefore blogging) has come to a recent standstill. I realize that this post about our Memorial Day weekend adventures is more than a little tardy… but as they say, better late than never!

The boys technically had a FOUR day weekend, since Ayden didn’t have school on Friday. This worked out beautifully, as Friday also happened to be opening member-preview day for the latest Dinosaur exhibit at our local zoo. Since we have what you’d call a “dino fan” in the family, we were at the zoo the moment the exhibit opened and were among the first to experience the latest batch of prehistoric monsters lurking in the forest. View Full Photo Gallery HERE!

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Saturday the 29th found us taking a little “day-cation” to the coast to visit the Oregon Coast Aquarium – a place I hadn’t been too since Keiko the killer whale (from the movie, “Free Willy”) was there. Suffice it to say, it’s been a long time! The place has changed significantly (for the better) and the boys are the perfect age to visit for the first time.

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The drive out to Newport was a good couple of hours, but really beautiful and scenic – first through wine country and then south on Hwy 101 along the coast. For having lived on the Oregon coast for as much of my life as I have, I have definitely under-appreciated the rugged beauty of our coast (especially on a gorgeous sunny day!). We spent a couple of hours at the Aquarium itself, visiting every nook and cranny (some twice!). The family favorite was the “Passages of the Deep” exhibit which has a series of walk-through glass tubes that puts you in the middle of the ocean. Very cool!

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After the Aquarium, we headed to a nearby restaurant for a waterfront lunch, followed by some frolicking on the beach. The weather really could not have been more perfect. These are the days you live for here in Oregon. They make the other 360 days of rain worthwhile ;) Windblown and weary, we finally made it back to the car and leisurely made our way back up the coast, stopping whenever the mood struck us at various viewpoints, state parks and scenic spots along the way. All in all it was a positively glorious family outing – and a much needed one too. Really recharged our spirits! View Full Photo Gallery HERE!

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And as if we hadn’t crammed enough into an already eventful weekend, Patrick took the boys out “wheelin” the next day. They went out in the Land Cruiser to Brown’s Camp and met up with the two guys from our shop, plus a couple more interested parties. View Full Photo Gallery HERE!

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We polished off the weekend with the customary Memorial Day BBQ and called it good! I hope you all had a weekend to remember as well!

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**Digicrop Date Change**

Posted on June 10, 2011 by chloe

Please note that the last Digicrop of the month, scheduled for Thursday, June 23rd has been MOVED TO:

TUESDAY, JUNE 21st @ 7pm – Carrie’s House, Beaverton

Please RSVP for address/directions.

Hope to see you there!!! :)

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Heritage Makers Online Inspirations Classes

Posted on June 9, 2011 by chloe

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Beginning TONIGHT, the first in a series of summer online Inspirations classes begin – and they’re all FREE! You do not have to be a current Heritage Makers client or have a Heritage Makers account to attend these great classes. Please note that the times listed are MOUNTAIN time – so these classes run live at 6pm Pacific. Just click on the class-specific link to register and receive your invite to join the class by email. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Happy memory making! :)

Thu, Jun 9, 2011 7:00 PM MDT
Topic: At the Family Reunion
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
Show off your heritage and family pride at this summer’s reunion with a host of meaningful and fun family projects from Heritage Makers.
Click here to register

Thu, Jun 23, 2011 7:00 PM MDT
Topic: Baby, Baby
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
Whether you’re welcoming someone new to the world or catching up on past projects, join us for a wealth of ideas for baby gifts, greetings and memory keeping.
Click here to register

Thu, Jul 14, 2011 7:00 PM MDT
Topic: Christmas in July
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
Get a jumpstart on winter holiday gifts, greetings and decor with new art, new templates and new ideas.
Click here to register

Thu, Jul 28, 2011 7:00 PM MDT
Topic: Sports Spectacular
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
Join us for a host of ideas for commemorating your child’s sports participation, including template tricks to personalize projects for your team.
Click here to register

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Teacher Gift in Under 5 Minutes!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by chloe

So this was just too quick and easy NOT to share with you all! I found this template in the gallery which uses one of the newly released 8.5×11 spiral bound booklets. Actually, the product is so new that I have never even published one, so I’m excited to receive this one next week. It’s a year-long teacher planner, using all of the fun school and teacher art from the art collection. So cute! The template is very nicely built and I was able to simply edit three text boxes and pop in Ayden’s school picture – DONE! It literally took me less than 5 minutes to edit, publish and order this custom, personalized gift for Ayden’s amazing teacher! I think she’s going to love it! Take a look – what do you think

If you’d like me to transfer the template to you, just email/message me and consider it done :)

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Chloe’s June Heritage Makers Newsletter

Posted on May 30, 2011 by chloe

Announcements:

- The cost to add extra pages to hardbound storybooks has been reduced from .99 to .49 per page on the 11 x 8.5 size storybooks and smaller, and from 1.99 to .99 per page on the 12 x 12 and 11 x 13 storybooks.

- NEW PRODUCTS! Heritage Makers just debuted a new line of business products, including business cards, flyers, booklets, and wire-bound books. But don’t be fooled, these ‘business’ products are available to everyone – business or no business!
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There are lots of great project templates already in the Template Gallery for all of these new products, but here’s an amazing magazine/booklet template that fellow HM consultant Cassie Balser created. Click the image below for the project preview:
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Upcoming Events to Remember:

- Father’s Day June 19th (still plenty of time to make a meaningful, priceless gift for Dad!)
- Graduations (from pre-school to college!)
- Independence Day July 4th (BBQ invitations, party and home decor items, decks of playing cards, and more! Search “patriotic” in the Template Gallery)
- Birthdays, anniversaries, thank-you, get well, thinking of you…

I’m currently booking Workshops and Studio Demos for June and July, so please contact me today to reserve your date! In the meantime, please plan to join me at one of my FREE June Digicrops! All you need to bring is YOU and your LAPTOP :) If you don’t have a laptop, please let me know and I can reserve one for you.

DIGICROPS:
- Saturday, June 4th @ 7pm – Chloe’s House (South Beaverton; please RSVP for address/directions)
- Wednesday, June 8th @ 3pm – Playdate PDX
- Wednesday, June 15th @ 2pm-5pm – Playdate DIGICROP at Chloe’s House (Bring the kids over to play while we work on our HM projects! Please RSVP!)
- Thursday, June 23rd @ 7pm – Carrie’s House (near Aloha High School; please RSVP for address/directions)

Still haven’t joined the Club? Get all the Club HM details below!

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On Peeing…

Posted on May 25, 2011 by chloe

As a household raising two boys (and I a mother who still insists that her boys sit to pee), this hits particularly close to home – and totally cracks me up!

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Inspirations Class – Get Patriotic!

Posted on May 25, 2011 by chloe

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Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:00 PM PACIFIC
Theme: My Country Tis of Thee
To register, CLICK HERE

Whether you hail from the USA, from Canada or from lands far, far away, this class will show you how to tell the story of your pride and patriotism.

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The Civil Wars

Posted on May 24, 2011 by chloe

I’m in love! You know how you hear a song or a voice or a tune and you’re just instantly hooked? That’s what’s happened to me with this amazing folk-country-Americana duet, The Civil Wars. I’m completely addicted to them and EVERY song is incredible. Her (Joy’s) voice is haunting and beautiful, and their voices together (John looks like Johnny Depp by the way and THAT can’t be bad, right?) create the most perfect, melodious harmonies I’ve ever heard. Apparently their first big break came when their song “Poison and Wine” was heard, in its entirety, in the foreground of an episode of Gray’s Anatomy (which I don’t watch, so I didn’t find out about them there). Patrick and I “discovered” them on the Letterman Show about a month ago as the musical guests. I have since downloaded every song they offer and I have it on repeat on my iPod all the time! Here are a few of my faves:

So… what do YOU think? ;)

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