While Ayden, Owen and Emery were playing in the playroom at Heather’s house…
Ayden: “I HATE being the boy fairy!”
While Ayden, Owen and Emery were playing in the playroom at Heather’s house…
Ayden: “I HATE being the boy fairy!”
Join Club HM and Get FREE Premier!
Have you heard about Club HM? It’s a great new option for people who love to publish because it offers fantastic savings on all your Heritage Makers projects plus it gives you free access the amazing Premier collection of digital art and templates! Watch this short video to see the benefits of Club HM. You can see the full Club HM details and sign-up options HERE.
This is a publishing club that allows you to save each month as you make projects!
• get points monthly at wholesale (25–34% off )
• FREE Premier account ($20 monthly value)
• 4000+ pre-designed templates
• 50,000+ pieces of digital art
• unlimited photo storage space
• FREE project upgrades
• signup special of 100 additional points for only $50
• monthly additional publishing discounts
• online idea classes and club community
• fun contests, great prizes, and more!
A couple of quick, great announcements
Cool “Push to Facebook” Feature
Now you can share a preview of any Heritage Makers project directly to Facebook. What a great way to keep friends and family members in the loop about your latest photos and Heritage Makers projects! Just click the “share†button in the project view of your completed project.
4×6 Cards
For those of you who have been with Heritage Makers nearly as long as I have (into my fourth year now!), you’ll remember that we used to offer greeting cards and double-sided invitations in both 5×7 AND 4×6 sizes. HM discontinued the 4×6 size a couple years ago since they were bringing everything in-house and they were able to do so with the 4×6 size. GREAT NEWS! HM is now manufacturing the 4×6 greeting cards and invite in-house and they are available NOW. There are already a number of templates in the gallery, like this one. Pricing is excellent, especially if you are a Club HM member!
Canvas Frames
Now you can give your custom canvas a great finishing touch by adding a beautiful frame. The new frames are available for most canvas sizes and provide a flush, contemporary accent to deep canvases, and a unique shadowbox look for regular canvases. Crafted from natural wood with a black satin finish, the frames are available as an upgrade option at check out when you purchase a new canvas.Go here for more information.
Updated Pricelist & Club HM Info
Inspirations Online Class (Free!) – Formerly known as “Master Classes”
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 7:00 PM MDT
Topic: School, Teacher Gift and Graduation Projects
Instructor: Lynda Angelastro
Teacher gifts, graduations or school remembrance books on your mind this year? Join Lynda Angelastro as she presents favorite and brand new templates for these important occasions.
Click here to register
Club Premier Special flyer – click HERE.
What is Premier? You may be wondering… We have a brand new YouTube video that you DEFINITELY want to check out! or CLICK HERE to learn all about Premier!
Remember, a Premier membership gives:
-unlimited photo storage
-unlimited project creation and storage
-new art monthly
-free online master classes
-and much more
And this month, you can get all of this for less than $9.00 per month!
This is the greatest deal of the year! Take advantage of this opportunity while it lasts! Offer ends January 31st!
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Contact me to place your order:
Chloe E Whisler
cewhisler@gmail.com
Heritage Makers Independent Personal Publishing Consultant
Web: www.HeritagePreserved.com
Heritage Makers 8×8″ Storybook featuring all of the photos taken by our dear and talented photographer (and fellow MOMS Clubber) friend Christy Andrea back in September.
I just finished creating the pieces to “Mod Podge” to a paper craft box (square box with a lid) for three keepsake boxes for Owen. I’ll be able to put all his little baby treasures in them (those that won’t scan into a storybook!) like his first outfit from the hospital, his hospital bracelets, umbilical cord clip, footprint, hospital receiving blanket, favorite infant outfit, favorite baby toy, etc, etc, etc. Plus, the design of the boxes is made to match the look and colors of his “Owen’s First Year” storybook. The pieces for this box project are printed on two 12×12″ Heritage Makers scrap pages. A very inexpensive and yet totally personalized, custom project. So fun!
Made using a template from the Heritage Makers gallery for an 8.5×11″ scrap page.

On our way to drop Ayden off at school late last week, Owen and I were discussing how many of his pants and pajamas no longer fit since he’s been eating and sleeping so much lately.
Mama: You’re getting SO big Owen! You keep eating and sleeping SO much and you just grow into a bigger and bigger boy each day!
Owen: Yeah! I’m getting SOOOOOO big!
Mama: You’re growing like a WEED!
Owen: No Mama! I’m NOT growing like a weed….. I’m growing like a PLANT!!!
I stand corrected!
This kid just cracks me up!
Another bouncing good time at a Pump It Up birthday party – this time to celebrate Uncle Stuart turning 27! Happy birthday little brother! Niece, nephews, sisters, mother, brothers-in-law, girlfriend and several friends all helped Stuart celebrate his birthday by jumping and bouncing for an hour straight, followed by well-deserved indulgence in some yummy ice cream cake!
We all had a blast and we have MANY pictures to prove it. At one point we even managed to talk Grandma Gail into scaling the largest of the inflatable slides (aided in large part by the couple glass of wine she had at dinner earlier!) and taking the plunge, screaming like a school girl all the way down – it was hysterical! Great fun, great memories, great party! Happy birthday to you Uncle Stuart!

Whoa! Neither Patrick nor I were prepared for the shock of the first day of school – and the shock was our own, NOT Ayden’s! As we prepared Ayden’s outfit the night before the first day of school and tried to mentally prepare him by talking about what the coming day would bring, we found ourselves in utter disbelief that our BABY is old enough to be going to school?!?! At one point in the evening Patrick mimed to me a rocking little baby in his arms and made an exaggerated sad face – no, we were NOT ready for this. However, Ayden certainly was! It’s a good thing the kid doesn’t know what Disneyland really is, because for the time being he thinks his new school is the best Disneyland in the world! I had been to the school for various informational and parent-orientation type events, but Ayden had never stepped foot in the building. We did have several play-dates over the summer with the kids who were lined up to be in his class this year (a GREAT idea!) so that at least most of the faces were familiar, if not the surroundings. In addition, Teacher Linda made home visits to each of the students in her classes to get to know them in their home environments, so that the kids would already know HER upon their arrival at school, and so that we could give her the 1-yard of cotton fabric that Ayden chose for his school bag. Yes, Teacher Linda requested that each student provide her with 1-yard of fabric of their choosing that she would sew into a school bag with each child on the first day of school. How awesome is THAT?!?! Choosing the fabric was an event in itself – you’d have thought I’d taken the boys to a candy store – they were both SO excited to search through the
neatly stacked bolts of fabric! It was like a treasure hunt for them – Ooh, stars! Look, Santa! Mama, pumpkins and ghosts! Whoa, robots! Pretty, flowers! Scary, spiders! Cool, tractors! Mommy! DINOSAURS!!!!! And so it was that the Dinosaur fabric has become Ayden’s school bag for the year. Oh, and naturally, since his favorite color IS blue (and against my apparently not-so-important observation that the blue ribbon did NOT match the dinosaur fabric and that perhaps the brown ribbon would be more pleasing to the eye) he chose the bright blue ribbon to be the handles.
Suffice it to say that Ayden had a VERY good first experience at school yesterday. He cannot wait until tomorrow when he gets to go again
His eyes were twinkling and he was positively alight as he moved from one part of the classroom to the next, discovering each new activity and treasure trove of possibilities. I could not be more pleased with his reaction to the school and it definitely makes the parental shock and associated and necessary adjustment to having a school-aged child a bit easier to swallow. My baby is in school! When did THIS happen?
Enjoy all the pictures from Ayden’s first day in the new gallery!