Celebrating Family






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Whether your a seasoned genealogist or a newbie who just inherited a shoe box of family treasures . . . inevitably at some point it is time to figure out how to display and share your family treasures.
Now is the time to create the keepsakes for the future !
Family Photo Bracelets

My go-to gift for family members
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Celebrate Chinese Ancestors by modifying traditional Chinese Crafts with family photographs
Yes – You can make this Family Memory Game project in ONE Day !

This custom Family Memory Game can easily be done in ONE DAY including the time to have the photos printed at a commercial 1 hr printer for a higher quality product if you do not have a good printer.
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Use Vintage Post Cards to make custom photo mounts
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Celebrating the Veterans in your family with Military Collages. READ MORE
Celebrate Family names with the simple
Word Cloud Pumpkin
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Day of the Dead –
Honoring Ancestors in Mexico.
Read more about how ancestors are celebrated in Mexico and by Mexicans in other countries and how “Day of the Dead” art and genealogy relate. Click here
Creating Pedigree Charts that Celebrate your Heritage

Styled after a Tlingit Button Blanket, these pedigree charts shows off family heritage – READ MORE
Perfect Tote for Genealogy Research
Word Clouds are easy to make and when you use family names it makes the perfect embellishment for a simple tote for genealogy research . . .Read More . . . .
Your Pedigree – A Long Line Of Love
The concept behind these projects are taking the initials from your pedigree, and carving the initials in a tree. Stamping the initials into pre-cut wooden or paper hearts.
Read More . . . and see more examples
From Basic to Elaborate: Scrapbooking the Love Stories of your Family on boxes of chocolates.
Whatever your scrapbooking style it is easy to adapt to the top of a box of chocolates. Read More . . .
Simple Cookie Cutter Photo Christmas Ornaments

Whether vintage cookie cutters from grandmothers kitchen or bought on sale after the holidays, cookie cutters make the perfect frame for family photo ornaments.Click on image to see more Photo Cookie Cutter Ornaments and simple instructions for making your own.
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Coffee Cups – The perfect photo album
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How to transfer Photographs to Tin

Tin Ornament with the photograph of John L Whedbee Sr and his grandson Charles in aproximately 1930, Arkansas.
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Trimming the tree with Family Photos…
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Passing down the family recipe’s
Bible Journaling your family history:
It’s Not Your Grandma’s Bible Any More
Click on image to read the inspiration behind this page illustrating the life of my great grandmother, Anna Theresa Downs Freund in conjunction with Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

As Bible Journaling becomes more common the way we document our family history in them changes also.

Click on image to go to the tutorial for making your own version of this and a simpler version of the family headstone reproductions necklace.

Click on Image for tutorial for creating your own classy Halloween Jewelry featuring your own ancestors photographs
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I am so excited to be able to share my love of genealogy and art !
I’m excited to try some of these. Especially with my girls.