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  • Online Event in Two Weeks

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Are you interested in creating a pocket-page scrapbook? Like the one I designed for Project Life? 

    There is an online, full-day event coming up on January 25th that you might be interested in. It's called "True Scrap Pocket Pages" and the classes will be live and interactive, discussing the basics of pocket scrapbooking and beyond. All of the live classes will be recorded as well, so you can re-watch them as needed. 

    TrueScraps_250Project Life is one of the sponsors for this event. They asked if you guys might be interested in hearing about it and I said, "Of course. Why not." I'm not affiliated with True Scraps, but I do love the simplicity of pocket-page scrapbooking. I already organize many of my creative projects on index cards for easy filing. It wasn't hard to convince me to keep family stories, kid quotes, and doodles on pretty little cards—such a fun and easy way to keep a family record!

     

    Here's the list of classes —each one is an hour long:

    • Hybrid Hints for Paper People (Traci Reed)

    • Pocket Scrapping 101: Back to Basics (Layle Koncar)

    • Do You Hear What I Hear? Including Your Family’s Perspectives in Your
    Pocket Spreads (Marcy Penner)

    • KISS: Keep It Simple, Scrappy! Simplifying the Pocket Page Process
    from Monica McNeil

    • Playing Big: Adding 12×12 photos and layouts to your Pocket Pages
    Albums (Lilith Eeckels)

    • Outside the Lines: Creative Approaches to Adding Journaling to Your
    Pocket Pages (Stephanie Bryan)

     

    Anyhow. If you are interested, visit truescrap.com/pocket for more info. (Lain Ehmann even posted a welcome video.) There is a ridiculous discount if you book the class today (January 10th)—hence my hurry to get this information posted! The code is "99OFF". You save a wild 66% or something, making the total cost only $50.

    What is pocket-page scrapbooking? Here are my thoughts.

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    Giveaway Day 12 — A Day for Cake

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Today is my birthday. I don't know if there will be any celebrating just
    yet. My kids are sick and at least one of them is staying home from
    school. We're waiting to see how the others are faring. Thankfully, with
    my campaign for Birthday Month, who really cares. There are 31 days in
    August. We should be able to find a day for cake somewhere in there. It's Birthday Month!

    Remember when birthdays were an achievement? In the middle here,
    birthdays are just novelties, an asterisk on the calendar. If I'm
    fortunate enough to reach old age, birthdays might become
    accomplishments again. In fact, there should be necklaces to celebrate
    your age like an award ribbon. When I'm 86, I'll gladly wear my age on a
    gold necklace and swap it for an 87 with a smile.

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    This year's birthday doesn't just have a small asterisk next to it
    though—because I'm giving away big presents every day this month. And
    I've planned a big ol' glorious prize for today. Becky Higgins and Project Life are generously donating a complete kit of the Olive Edition I designed for them: a Core Kit of cards, an Album and a Big Pack of Photo Pocket Pages. Everything you need to complete an album. A $75 value.

    Day12_BeckyHiggins-ProjectLife2Project Life is taking the scrapbooking and journaling world by
    storm. In summary, it's a simple, efficient system for cataloging your
    life in photos and stories.

    My limited Olive Edition for Project Life is currently available only at Amazon.com. In addition to the items shown above, there is a big pack of 12" x 12" papers and super-fun month dividers. Everything is very reasonably priced. For more information on Project Life in general, visit BeckyHiggins.com. Becky and her team keep a faithful blog of ideas and inspiration. There are even videos to get you started. Also, for the daily play-by-play, follow @beckyhigginsllc and #projectlife on Instagram.

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    Comment to enter today's contest. Be sure to include your email
    address
    so we can contact you if you win. You don't have to type your email
    address into the body of the comment if you entered it in the email-address
    field on the comment form; I can access that info from behind the scenes. Today's giveaway will close at 11:59pm PST on Monday 8/12/13. Watch for the winner to
    be announced within a day or
    two at the bottom
    of the post. 

    For more info on my August giveaway madness, click here. Please
    share the word. Check back every day. I have amazing prizes planned this week from my friends at Copic Markers, Cricut, Puj Baby and more, prizes worth as much as $300. Prizes I wish I owned!

    Good luck!

    xo—Heather


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  • Project Life Giveaway

    ByHeather Bailey

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    GIVEAWAY TODAY—with a seriously awesome prize of one binder, one core kit and one big pack of photo pocket pages from my Olive Edition of Project Life. *Leave a comment below to enter*.

    While you're at it, have a look at the Paper Hearts Tutorial I posted yesterday, featuring the Olive Edition 12 x 12 papers. All of these items are available for purchase on Amazon.com—and psst—the Heather Bailey items are on special sale for 20% off through Monday at midnight EST.

    *Amazon is shipping the prize; they require the winner to have a U.S. address. Prize winner will be selected on Monday morning.*

    Good luck!
    xo—Heather

    UPDATE: The giveaway contest is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, announced in this post.

  • Goodbye October, Hello November

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I'm
    back from a whirlwind month, trotting here, there and everywhere. Let's
    see, Pennsylvania, Florida, the Bahamas, then Denver, Dallas and
    Houston as well. Some of these stops were lay-overs, but other stops
    included white sand, TV cameras,
    and my favorite fabric folks (Quilt Market). I've only been home long
    enough in between each trip to unpack, then repack again.

    I returned to a desk stacked with product proofs to review and
    approve—the HB world kept on turning while I was away—hallelujah. Here's
    the color proof for my new Project Life Olive Edition album cover with Becky Higgins. Yummy, yummy olive green.

    I went for a subtle, decorator-ly print with
    a mod bent so the album would look fabulous in its own right and
    compliment many of the Project Life kits. This way several completed
    albums can be stacked together on the shelf and make their own color
    statement in a room. The spines of the albums are solid green with a
    metal label frame.

    I believe this product line will be out soon. December, most likely.
    But, remember, Becky's Project Lifers are seriously dedicated. You have
    got to get in there and grab these things up the day they go live on Amazon or you might have to wait another couple of months for the next order to arrive. I know, it's impressive—go Becky!

  • Project Life – Olive Edition

    ByHeather Bailey


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    So here's the scoop!

    I just wrapped up designs for a new Project Life collection — the Olive Edition. Becky Higgins announced the news on her blog this morning, along with a ton of sneak peeks.

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    I'm sure a bunch of you are already familiar with Becky and her
    Project Life mission to "cultivate a good life & record it." If not though, I will LOVE to be the first to tell
    you. Project Life is a fun and easy system for housing treasured
    pictures, thoughts, memories, and life's important details, without the
    time, fuss, expense and gewgaw of a traditional scrapbooking approach.
    Of course, you can add as much gewgaw as you like.

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    Basically, you get a Project Life album, along with some thoughtfully-laid-out plastic sleeves (lots of configurations available) and a kit
    of double-sided cards to slip into those sleeves along with your photos.
    You can use the cards to track details and stories relating to your
    photos or just use the decorated sides of the cards to add personality
    to your album—or as placeholders till you are ready to write the details
    down. There are paper packs and plastic month dividers too.

    Here's the idea…

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    I have kept journals since I was ten years old. I know first-hand the
    benefits of keeping a personal record. You recognize your blessings
    better, you appreciate your day more, time doesn't seem so fleeting, and
    on top of that, you are left with a treasure for your loved ones to
    prize for generations.

    Project Life makes all of these life-keeping benefits easy to access.

    So, on top of my thrill in curating the new Olive collection for
    Becky, like the founder of The Hair Club for Men said in his commercial,
    "I'm also a customer."

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    The Project Life Olive Edition by Heather Bailey will be available to purchase in November through Amazon.com.
    There are swarms of PL fans waiting for each new edition to be
    available, so if you are interested, follow Becky's blog for updates and
    be prepared to shop the day the collection goes live.

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    So, go have a look at Becky's announcement post.
    She has way more preview photos posted over there than I do. Leave a
    comment. And read up on how Project Life works. There's even a cute
    little cartoon you can watch on her home page.

    (Fabric-folk, you realize these images sneaky-preview some new designs for you too, right?)

  • Gilding my Sneakers

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I've just returned from Creative Escape,
    a several-day craft-a-thon with hundreds of enthusiastic and kind women
    from all over the world: Japan, Canada, France, Australia, the U.S.
    Though I taught all day a couple of days in a row, I'm surprisingly
    refreshed. I blame it on the touching & funny keynote addresses
    presented by Heidi Swapp & Melanie Wellman — and my decision to wear tennis shoes instead of heels. 

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    The CE students went out of their way to express their excitement
    for my class, bring gifts (chocolate, jewelry, handmade cards, hair
    clips, etc.), and make the experience fulfilling for us teachers as
    well. (Thank you, ladies!)

    All 700 or so in attendance were deeply moved by the response to
    CE's designer lamp fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
    the final evening. All of the teachers at the event, and from past
    years, donated a hand-built, one-of-a-kind lamp to be sold in silent
    auction — all $ going straight through to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

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    To
    add excitement to the final evening, two of the lamps were sold at live
    auction. One bidder forked out $29,000 for charity to get her hands on
    Tim Holtz' lamp (neat girl too), and Heidi's lamp raised over $8000.
    Without gushing on, I'll just say I was seriously moved. I think we all
    were. It was a great time. Thank you, Heidi & the Bazzill team for
    including me in this year's event.

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    So…Now
    that the cat's out of the bag on the fundraiser, I can finally show
    photos of my lamp design — think tweet, tweet, chirp, chirp. I'll
    gather up some photos to post.

    It's great to be back. I'm wrapping up several big projects (hallelujah!) this week before heading out to Utah to deliver a keynote address at the Start-Up Princess event
    on September 11th. If you're anywhere near South Jordan, Utah next
    weekend, sign up for Friday's event and come say 'hi'. Or visit me at Material Girls
    quilt shop on Saturday the 12th — around 1ish (till 3ish?), I think. 
    I'll post a sure time as soon as it's confirmed. I'll also be on t.v.
    on Thursday, the 10th at Studio 5 in Salt Lake City. As for the rest of the trip — I'll probably be sleeping, huh?

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    In Limited Supply:
    album kits, fabric… patience

    ByHeather Bailey

    It is refreshing to be home again.  Not only to sleep in my own bed
    and hug on my little kids (of course), but now I can start scratchin'
    at those irresistibly- itchy projects I sketched up while I was away. 
    Here and there, at least.  First, I have some emails and interviews to
    complete, as well as some fabric strike-offs to sort through (yes,
    round one is in the house!).

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    So, check out my Flutterby Flip-Book mini
    album.  I used an old-fashioned wooden clothespin for the butterfly
    body.  A variety of cardstock wings make up the album's many pages,
    with a sprinkling
    of flowers and miniature butterflies thrown in for good measure.  The
    perfect album for celebrating a special event, a summer-load of
    activities, a new baby, a birthday, quirky kid-drawings, etc.

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    This is the workshop I taught at Inspired in North Carolina this month — the stinkin' cutest-est album ever.  We kitted up
    some extra albums, with full-on illustrated instructions included, so
    you can make an album too if you like. (Or maybe set up your kids or
    grandkids with a kit — gotta keep those children engaged over the
    summer.  My two have been squabbling all day.)  So, if you're
    interested, hop on over to the HB store.  Limited supply!  When they're gone, they're gone. 

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    Freshcut™ is in the same boat too.  Free Spirit's warehouse is plum out of my Freshcut collection now.  We received our last supply.  Though the demand for that collection never subsided, the supply certainly now has, so last call for Freshcut!  Heck, here's a discount while you're at it.  Use the code "AlmostGone" through June 1st for 10% off any fabrics from my Freshcut collection.  We'll all sigh as it trickles away.

    And this week is my blogiversary again — three years now.  I'll put together some sort of giveaway, so stay tuned for that. 

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    off to dig myself up an urgent dose of Tylenol.  My kids aren't used to
    being around each other all day.  It's adjustment time — for all of us.

  • A New Laptop & Free Internet at the Airport

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Posting on the road.  I'm sitting in the Charlotte airport waiting for
    my plane to board.  I'm at once disappointed to leave Inspired just as
    the main event kicks off, and excited to meet up with the Creative
    Escape team at Bazzill for a weekend of group crafting. 

    With all of my jogging this way and that this week, I've grown seriously more attached to having an assistant. 
    (Two now.  We welcomed Lindsay to our team last week — just in time to
    wrap up our kits for Inspired.  I'll introduce Lindsay more officially
    when I'm not racing against my departure time — & I have a photo
    of her.)  It is so nice to get emails telling me where to go
    & when.  Here's your confirmation #.  Donna will pick you up at
    7:00.  Meeting at this time.  Dinner at that time.  Turn right.  Turn
    Left.  Do 20 jumping jacks.

    This saves a surprising amount of brain power, which can then be budgeted toward other activities.  Budgeting your Brain Power by Heather Bailey.  Get it now.

    I had a great trip to Charlotte.  Loved the fog.  All of my flutterby flip-book
    students motored right through their projects.  I spent my break-time
    chatting with two women who drove four hours or so (each way) just to
    take my one hour workshop.  (Hi Lisa & Heather!)   I also met a
    sweet little girl for whom my workshop was a surprise present for her
    8th birthday.  (Happy Birthday, Olivia!)  Olivia's mom and she set
    aside time every Thursday evening to make projects together — isn't
    that great!?! 

    Yesterday evening was spent talking Trash (Ties)
    with dozens more women.  We did hair and laughed and chatted.  It was
    great, giggly fun.  The dozens of Trash Ties we packed were gobbled up like cotton candy at a carnival.  Licked clean.

    Then, last night, when it was time to pack in as much sleep as I could before heading out west for round two, my dern book got inconveniently exciting.  Could have had another hour of sleep if
    it were not for imminent danger, a surprise wedding and a sexy, first
    kiss.

    That's the brief.  Time to hop on a plane.