Creative Memories Great Gathering event, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., special presentation 10:15 a.m., Ocean Springs Parks and Recreation building. Organize and commemorate photographs and stories. Consultant coaching and access to supplies. Cost: $30. Details: Patty Mullins, 385-9756 or Patty4CM@cableone.net.St. James Fall Festival, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 14 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
My aunt helped me to discover Creative Memories brand a few years ago when I just started to scrapbook. I love their products, even though they are a little too expensive for my budget. I only use Creative Memories scrapbooks, and I have purchased their circle cutter, the oval cutter, and a number of sticker products that they offer. I love getting their catalog, so that I can get some scrapbooking ideas. And my Creative Memories consultant runs fabulous scrapping parties that take place all day on Saturdays. I really trust this brand.
Scrapbooking company Creative Memories is adding jobs in St. Cloud, Minn. as it looks to expand its digital scrapbooking offerings.Creative Memories had laid off 33 people in May as it restructures. But now 13 jobs will be added at its base St. Cloud as the company looks to expand digital scrapbooking.The jobs are a shift from Sparks, Nev., where an operation that had employed 85 people was closed down. Creative Memories will continue to operate a call center there.
Ominsky says her own interest in scrapbooking started about seven years ago when a friend invited her to a Creative Memories demonstration. This company, a bit like Tupperware or Pampered Chef, has consultants who give in-home demonstrations of its scrapbooking products.
Dottie Horsmon, a Catonsville Creative Memories consultant, says she has four to six parties in her home each month. "We want to help people preserve their memories at their best," she says.
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Creative Memories consultant Donna Holien was on hand to advise participants on how to craft their scrapbooks, as well as offer extra supplies.
"I like to remind people to keep it simple and make it fun," Holien said. "A decorated page is beautiful, but a completed album is priceless.
"Holien, who lives in Sterling Heights, started her first scrapbook when her daughter Kristy was a high school senior. She has been a Creative Memories consultant for more than eight years. Creative Memories is a home-based sales company that began in Minnesota.
While most of the participants at Dakota were parents or adults interested in putting together an album, some were students.
"I've been doing this since the eighth grade," said 17-year-old Kristin O'Lear, an 11th-grader at the school. "I like to look back on my progression."
Serious scrapbookers like Houghtailing often carry their supplies in rolling cases or bags on wheels.
In the past nine years, she has made about 35 albums, most of them detailing her life chronologically. There are pages of a lunar eclipse, a trip to a Seahawks game with her dad, cutting down a Christmas tree with family. She has two scrapbooks devoted to her wedding day and two more on preparing for it.
For Christmas last year, she made her father an album, because he'd lost many of his photos in a house fire.
But it wasn't until recently that the tables were turned. "A friend gave me a scrapbook as a gift this year and it reduced me to tears," she said. "I'd never been on the receiving end before.
"Houghtailing, who lives in Orting, estimates that it costs her about $150 to finish an album. Her friends call her the "do-over queen," a perfectionist who fixes crooked edges or changes a layout she doesn't like.
Scrapbooking has changed the way she looks at the world and how she takes pictures. She sees goofy details that others wouldn't notice -- such as a 1963 Alcatraz menu frozen in time, featuring stewed fruit.
"If a picture's not good, I cut it out. If my hips look too wide, it's out of there," said Houghtailing, who double-mats her photos.
Her husband, Kip, supports her hobby, mainly because he once told her it would never take as much time as his -- hunting and fishing.
Houghtailing buys her albums through a company called Creative Memories, which sells supplies through a sales force much the way Tupperware or Avon products are sold.
Wanda Ficker, a unit leader for Creative Memories, said there are about 1,800 consultants in Washington state alone. Like many, Ficker hosts a weekly "cropping circle" of friends called "crop till you drop.
"Nancy Fredlund, a consultant who works under Ficker, said she started scrapbooking nearly a decade ago when she wanted to mark her 30th wedding anniversary.
"People want to have that connection to the past," she said. "For me, I know when I'm gone, these albums will be there for my kids to pass on.
"It seems that because of that desire for connection between generations, scrapbooking continues to grow steadily.
Fervent scrapbookers are glued to the pages
Mary Lacher believes in setting goals and then making things happen, and that is apparent when she tells of how she has built a successful home-based business.
Lacher has been so successful with the Creative Memories company, a direct-selling provider of photo-safe scrapbooking products, that she is the featured "Star Performer" in the monthly publication that goes to more than 80,000 Creative Memories consultants.
Lacher was a stay-at-home mom living in Colorado when she signed on as a Creative Memories consultant. In less than eight years, which included a move back to her hometown Norman, her business network has grown to serve hundreds of people in several states.
She makes no secret of her key to success, summing it up as "giving you my best to help you reach yours." Her "best" thus far has helped her build an organization of 108 consultants, with a third of those being her direct recruits into the business end of the world of album making through the Creative Memories line.
The Norman Transcript - Making memories
Thousands of busy parents would love to create a keepsake photo collection for their new graduates but simply don't know where to begin. With Creative Memories' new PicFolio(TM) Album line, help has arrived.
As a keepsake gift or memory album that can be shared at graduation parties, the new PicFolio Albums ensure that school-day memories can last a lifetime. The albums, like all of our products, are designed to meet Creative Memories' photo-safety, engineering and quality requirements. They are bleed-resistant, fade-resistant and have a lifetime guarantee. The slip-in Story Sleeves make photo storage a snap to meet any deadline or to accommodate any skill level.
Photo preservation is a task that becomes increasingly overwhelming with every graduation, birthday and milestone event. In fact, a March 2006 national consumer survey(1) revealed more than half of all Americans struggle to find the time to organize and preserve their photos. The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation and Creative Memories, also revealed what happens to America's photos when there is no time to preserve them. About 60 percent of respondents said they most commonly store their photos in boxes, or even the sleeves they came in from the developer.
The new PicFolio Albums feature easy-to-use, timesaving innovations to help get those photos out of boxes and on display:
-- Story Sleeve Pages - Simply jot descriptions and stories on journaling boxes and quickly drop photos and journaling boxes into the tear-resistant Story Sleeve Pages.
-- Title Bars - Quickly label pages using the accompanying title bars. Simply insert them into the Story Sleeves along with your photos. It's a great way to ensure album completion.
-- Magnetic Strap Closure - The patent-pending magnetic strap closure makes it a snap to convert the album into an easel to display your memories.
"A completed album means your stories can be shared and cherished, as well as preserved," says Creative Memories co-founder Rhonda Anderson. "Our new PicFolio Albums allow even more people to share important memories and stories by taking photos out of boxes and preserving them for generations to come."
Creative Memories is currently offering two sizes of the PicFolio Album: the 11 x 14 Milestones Album in black or cream and the 6 x 7 Minutes Album in tan.
Milestones Album features:
-- Stain-resistant, matte-leathered cover
-- Thirty-two exclusive, tear-resistant Story Sleeve Pages, holding up to 160 photos (about 6 1/2 rolls of film) and/or 16 journaling boxes; including 32 title bars, enabling you to easily label each page of memories
-- Endless options to create simple or decorative album pages-- Meets the International Organization for Standardization's photo-safety requirements (ISO 18902)
-- Lifetime warrantyPortable Minutes Album features:-- Stain-resistant, matte-leathered cover-- Twelve exclusive, tear-resistant Story Sleeve Pages, holding up to 24 photos (about 1 roll of film) and/or journaling boxes
-- Magnetic album closure that doubles as an easel - perfect for putting photos and memories on display at graduation parties
-- Size that makes it easy to slip into a purse or suitcase to show friends and family as an album or easel format of an on-the-go brag book
-- Endless options to create simple or decorative album pages
-- Meets the International Organization for Standardization's photo-safety requirements (ISO 18902)
-- Lifetime warrantyWith this album line, Creative Memories is adding one more selection to a variety of options for preserving memories for generations to come.
For more information about the new PicFolio Albums, or to find a Consultant in your area, call the Creative Memories Home Office referral line at (800) 341-5275 or visit the Creative Memories Web site at www.creativememories.com.
New Album Line Makes It Easy to Save Memories - Just in Time for Graduation!
Julie Floyd is an independent consultant for Creative Memories. She offers a workshop on creating albums and scrapbooks the first Saturday of each month in her home.She also teaches classes at other peoples' homes for their friends and family."I became a consultant for Creative Memories back in June of 2005," said Floyd.
Many people take photos and store them in shoeboxes or the envelopes the developed prints are returned in. Most of these people are overwhelmed by the years of photos they have and are be interested in organizing them, but don't know where to begin. That's where Creative Memories comes in.
"I teach you how to store them correctly and show you how simple and fun preserving your stories and photos can be. It is more than a craft or hobby. It is treasuring your memories safely and easily," Floyd said.
For example, you might want to know whether to caption your pictures. Quick-captioning is the most basic style of creating a journal. Simply answer questions about the photo.
# Who is in the picture?
# What is happening?
# Where, when and why was it taken?
Some of the pictures might be grouped together to tell a story. Storytelling uses descriptive phrases or personal anecdotes to describe the experience. Imagine yourself sharing your photos with a friend. Now write what you would tell your friend.Floyd will help you get started with lots of tips and ideas. Creating scrapbooks is a popular hobby. But more than that, is a means to preserve your photos and memories in a safe way, for yourself and for your family.
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Marianne L. Behler, an independent Creative Memories consultant from Grass Lake, has been promoted to senior director. In her new position, Behler will be responsible for training and inspiring a team of consultants to generate quarterly sales of $150,000.
Marasco recently turned her hobby into a job. She's now a consultant for Creative Memories, a keepsake album company, and works with people who need materials to create their own scrapbooks.Next week, Marasco and several other local scrapbooking consultants will host an event called My Memoranza at St. James Lutheran Church in Brunswick.This two-day event aims to give people a chance to learn about scrapbooking and time to work on creating scrapbooks of their own."It is dedicated work time for scrapbooking," Marasco said. "People can buy whatever supplies they need to do their books, all they have to bring is some pictures they want in the scrapbook."The event will also give people not familiar with scrapbooking a chance to ask about products and learn more about the craft.Marasco said there is already a strong group of people who are avid scrapbookers in the Golden Isles.Beth Sutton, another consultant with Creative Memories who lives on St. Simons Island, began making scrapbooks after her daughter was born eight years ago."I figured if I was going to spend the money taking pictures, I wanted to do something with them other than put them in the box," she said.
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Saturday, April 8, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Moler Avenue Church of the Brethren, 136 E. Moler Ave. The event, organized by "Jim Brown's Army," will feature a bake sale, yard sale and the sale of Longaberger products, Premier Jewelry, Mary Kay products, Creative Memories products and more.
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