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Crafts With Andrea: Lets Paint!

Hi ladies!  I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.  This week flew by for us and I was busy as usual.  We rounded off our week with hosting snack day at preschool and having some neighbors over for pizza and play time yesterday evening.  So, I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend.
First of all, [...]

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Inkubook Review by Andrea
Did you know Americans take more than 30 billions photos per year?  That’s a lot of cheesing it up for the camera.  However, once you take and download your digital photos onto your computer, what do you do with them?  Sure, you can email them to family and friends or share them [...]

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Crafts With Andrea: Thanksgiving Inspiration

Hey there MomDotters! Thanksgiving is fast approaching. My husband and I host dinner for our families on turkey day, it’s about 20 of us plus a couple more at dessert time. As you can imagine, I am really starting to get into the thankful spirit, as well as being surrounded by grocery, to do and [...]

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Serif Digital Scrapbook Artist Review

When MomDot was contacted and asked to review the Digital Scrapbook Artist program recently released by Serif, I jumped at the opportunity to be the lucky momma to check it out.
According to their website, Serif’s Digital Scrapbook Artist offers a unique combination of ease-of-use, traditional scrapbooking techniques, and truly realistic-looking results. Now you can quickly and [...]

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Crafts With Andrea: National Board Game Week

Today is the beginning of National Board Game Week.  Another odd national “holiday”, right?  However, I really think this one has an important meaning behind it.  There is a lot of family fun to be had without spending big bucks if you get your family into playing games together.
My son is only 4 and loves [...]

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Written by Mommy Blogger, Andrea: Digital Scrapbooking, Part 4
Other Parts:
Digital Scrapbooking Part 1
Digital Scrapbooking Part 2
Digital Scrapbooking Part 3

Hey MomDotters!  Sorry for my delay in bringing you this crafty post, but it was my master’s, I mean my son’s, fourth birthday today and the festivities kept me busy.
I now have a ton of birthday [...]

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Hi MomDot ladies!  Welcome to the third weekend post about digital scrapbooking.  In case you cannot tell, this is one of my favorite hobbies.  I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share all of this information with you.

Last weekend we talked about sites you could visit to download digital freebies.  However, there are also many [...]

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Hey MomDotters!  I am back this weekend with the second installment of information on digital scrapbooking. 
Last week we talked about choosing software to create your pages in.  I started using Scrapbook Max when I first went digital.  I was not happy with the elements Scrapbook Max came with, the papers and embellishments just weren’t my style, but [...]

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What is Digital Scrapbooking?  How can I get started?  What program should I use?  Where do I get all the cool graphics to use on my pages?

These questions are all too familiar to me.  I was asking myself (and others) these exact questions a couple years ago when I started going digital.
I love my traditional [...]

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Sunday Family Time: Crafts With Andrea!

Shiver me timbers!  It’s a pirate pumpkin!

Yes, I have a child obsessed with pirates and all things pirate!  When I saw this little foam kit to make a pirate pumpkin at Michaels I knew it would be a big hit.  He really enjoyed this craft and is so proud of his pirate pumpkin.  This one is [...]

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Sunday Family Time: Crafts With Andrea!

This weekend is all about apples!  I live in Michigan and apples are abundant this time of year.  Fall is not complete until we make a couple trips to the Cider Mill for fresh apples, apple cider, hot cinnamon and sugar donuts and pumpkins.
Last week my son and I made an apple stamp craft.  I [...]

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Saturday Family time, Crafts with Andrea!

If you are anything like Trisha’s neighbor, you cannot wait to plan out your Jack-O-Lantern face or pattern.  I am pretty sure we will all be carving pumpkins this year with our kids, whether we are crafty or not.  So, here’s some spooky ideas I have rounded up to get you inspired.
This owl pumpkin is [...]

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