Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Do you have the talent

Do you have the talent for making a creative memory scrapbooking? by John Foster

The other day I was clearing up my attic and it was then that I came across my scrapbook, which I so painstakingly used to preserve and maintain during my school days. All the memories associated with the various events listed in the scrapbook and also the whole process of creating the scrapbook came flooding back and it felt really wonderful. Scrapbooking is one of the oldest hobbies and you will find people from all corners of the globe indulging in this hobby. This hobby has surpassed the phase of just being a fancy for school kids to becoming acceptable all over as a source through which one can keep numerous memories of their life alive. Pictures, words, phrases, texts have a wonderful way of keeping memories alive and by indulging in creative memory scrapbooking that is exactly what all of us are trying to do. Just a glance at my old scrapbook was enough for me to feel nostalgic, remember about all my friends and the good times we used to have back in those days.

Creative memory scrapbooking is all about giving a free rein to your creativity and making a scrapbook that is unique. Often one is not aware of the kind of qualities, abilities and talents they have till they actually try their hands out at something different. This is one hobby by indulging in which you can actually find out if you are someone cut out for doing something creative or not. Creative scrapbooking is just idea to know that, you can make a scrapbook on any theme or you can just put up many themes in your scrapbook. Basically, you can make it just in anyway you want and that is why you can try out many things. The concept for making the scrapbook or the theme can be inspired by just about anything and everything, you just have to unleash that creative stark which you have inside you.

A wedding can be an interesting creative memory scrapbooking idea that you can implement for making the scrapbook. Put down in words all the interesting events that are part of the wedding ceremony, tell about the bride and the groom and their families. No wedding is ever complete without the traditional blooper; perhaps you can just have a section dedicated to all those bloopers and perhaps put up picture about that as well. You can even ask the family members and some friends of the couple to put their thoughts about the couple and the wedding. You can put up pictures for the wedding and pictures of all the events. Gift the couple the scrapbook and let me tell you they will simply adore you forever for this.

The whole concept of making a scrapbook be it creative memory scrapbooking or any other has become pretty easy as the internet is providing one with several options. One can actually make the scrapbooking by using the trail and error method so that they can make a scrapbook just like the way they wish to make it.


John Foster has special interest in arts. He gives advice to anyone who wants to know about online art school and scrapbooking and others. He refers to www.layersofourlives.com in many of his sessions for art school class for scrapbooking, creative memory scrapbooking and DIY scrapbooking art,Scrapbooking Book.


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Christmas

Christmas Charities that Give Services to People Who Need Help in Winter by Muna wa Wanjiru

Christmas is a time of joy for lots of people and the various Christmas charities that are found at this time help many different people. One of the most seen charities that can be found is that of the Salvation Army. Charities like this are able to give various services to people who need help during the winter season.

The Christmas charities like that of the Salvation Army provide needy families with good, hot food and a nourishing drink. Besides these items the Salvation Army charity can help out in winter time by ensuring that various families or homeless people have a warm place to live during the winter season besides that of the streets.

With the help of Christmas charities these various people are given the care that somehow slips by them due to many reasons. To make sure that they are able to provide the care that some people in society needs, these Christmas charities depend on donations made by people who have heard about them.

The donations that can be given to the Christmas charities generally don’t have to be monetary ones. They do however have to be a form of donation that the charity can use. This means that any donations of food should be in the form of canned, dried or non-perishable food stuff.

You could if you have the time and money, give another type of donation to these Christmas charities. As this time of the year is usually cold the charities that run food and shelter services generally find that they are hard pressed to keep up with the people who need them.

For this reason if you can give a donation that is in the form of fully cooked warm meals this will be much appreciated by the people. Another way that you can help out Christmas charities out is by lending your time as a volunteer and help the people who come to these charity centers looking for help.

Of course since most of the Christmas charities are not that well publicized they are seldom known of. If you are interested in helping such a charity you could do a charity search to find a list of the various charities that are located in your area. With this information you will be able to provide monetary funds, food, clothing, medical supplies and other items that are sorely needed by these charities.

So the next time that you are thinking of providing some help to a charity you should see if you can find any Christmas charities that are listed in your area. You will be surprised by how much help you have the ability to provide.


Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on Christmas charities, visit his site at CHRISTMAS CHARITIES

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Charities

Donating Your Money to Local Charities Can Be Very Satisfying by Muna wa Wanjiru

While there are many different charities that you can find in the world giving some help to your local charities can be just as satisfying. This is because you will be able to find out how the charity works. Also you have the ability to help out with the charity in whatever manner that you can.

This of course is only possible if you are looking at helping local charities that can be found in your area. So before you start thinking about providing money to various charities that are found abroad or in far away states, you might want to look at what you can find in your neighborhood or even your state. With this aid that you can give the charity all the help that you can.

Your local charities will have their various donations listed clearly. Sometimes these donations will be listed on a blackboard. In other cases the local charities will have their donors names listed on a bulletin board so that the information is shown clearly.

Additional this information also provides prospect donors about the type of monetary amounts that people are capable of giving. By looking at these amounts the people will not feel that they are giving a useless amount of money even if they can only give about a dollar.

Since many of the local charities that you can find deal mainly with problems that people face in their struggle to live, these types of charities are seldom in the news. Therefore you should check out if the charity that you are looking into helping is really a legitimate charity. There are numerous foundations and organizations that will be able to see if any of the local charities in your area is actually helping anyone.

Of course while it is a good idea to be careful about helping out with charities that you have no idea about, there are many well known organizations that you can give your support to. These local charities can be ones like providing the neighborhood children with a place to go and have good clean fun after school.

The local charities can also be involved with the saving of homeless and abandoned pets. These charities can sometimes be found working in partnership with animal shelters to provide new homes and lives for these animals. By helping out the many different local charities you give them the chance of helping their causes too.


Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on list of charities, visit his site at LOCAL CHARITIES

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A Place to Dream

A Place to Dream by Dan Ronco

I grew up in a tough blue-collar neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. My folks both had to work to put food on the table. Not that we were poor. When I was seven, we moved out of the top floor of a three family home into a house just down the street. Yeah, we moved the sum total of half a block. But it was our own home: three bedrooms, one bath and a screened-in porch. I could reach out a window and touch (well, almost) the neighbor’s house. Could hear them, too. Sometimes.

I could walk to Alexander Street School, which I attended through sixth grade. Three stories high, if I remember correctly, lots of faded red brick, two playgrounds (one for the big kids, one for the little) and a ten foot high chain link fence around the big playground. We played basketball, stickball, or punchball every day after school.

It was great fun playing with my friends, but I always left after an hour or so. Time to go to the library, which was just down the block. Another red brick building, but this one was a place to dream. I could walk down the aisles and pull out another world. My favorites were stories about horses, dogs and baseball. Walter Farley was a special author, bringing the world of Alec and the Black Stallion to my little corner of the world. Racetracks, ranches, the countryside — these were places way outside my range of experience. Made me understand that Newark wasn’t the whole world.

The baseball stories were great, too. Little morality plays in the guise of sports, where the good guys always won. No matter how bad things seemed to get, the good guys would come through and win the championship game in the last chapter. Something you could rely on.

I loved those books and I looked forward to my trips to the library. It was both safe and exciting. I don’t think the library changed my life, but it sure enriched it.

Every child should have a library.


Dan Ronco is a writer of technology thrillers and science fiction. He is the author of PeaceMaker and the soon to be released Unholy Domain.

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Get connected to your loved

Get connected to your loved ones via creative memory scrapbooking by John Foster

Whenever, you think of scrapbooking your memories get charged up and you are compelled to show your creativity once again. The most amazing thing about scrapbooking is that it is just not a hobby chosen for children but it is being loved by all age groups who believe in preserving and displaying the cherished memories in a beautiful and real way. And those can be called only yours’ and will always belong to you and your loved ones. So friends, get your tool box and get set ready for an amazing scrapbooking experience.

However, if you think that that creative memory scrapbooking is not a game for you, then think again, believe the world that goes ga ga over this awesome activity. And trust your nerves and get started with creative scrapbooking, it is just not an activity, but a way to explore yourself that further connects you with your loved ones. Making a creative scrapbook is very easy. All you need to do to create that masterpiece is to collect materials like old magazines, unused fabric materials and lots of other stuff that can be found conveniently. Other thing that is essential for a perfect creative memory scrapbooking is a good layout design and of course an idea-an idea that can make your peers turn green with envy. In fact, scrapbooking is a fun activity, as it allows the person to explore and experiment with various themes and tools. Well, you can say that this art can be mastered by anyone who has guts to explore his or her inner self. However, if you are short of ideas, then you can always choose from various themes, such as holiday, birthday, wedding, college, your first day in school, or even at work.

In fact, if you are an avid reader and a fan of any author or a poet, then you can make a scrapbook on him or her. The other themes that make an ideal way to create creative memory scrapbooking are anniversaries, baby and bridal showers, and many more yet to come. For that unique and out of the scrapbooking, you just have to concentrate and prepare material according to your taste and theme. For instance, if you plan to make a scrapbook on traveling theme; then you can utilize your boarding passes, air tickets, hotel booking receipts and leisure activities pictures along with the souvenirs. And if you still want to be different, then you can create a scrapbook on your children and their special moments like award ceremonies, sporting activities and many other things that they are proud of.

However, if still you are not satisfied, then you can always look around your surroundings for creative memory scrapbooking. Moreover, taking inspiration from your favorite celebrity’s latest fashion is not a bad idea either and you never know, your scrapbook may turn out to a rainbow of colors. After all, you are putting your blood and sweat into it, thus it should reflect you and your inner self. Hence, you should be enjoying it.


John Foster has special interest in arts. He gives advice to anyone who wants to know about online art school and scrapbooking and others. He refers to www.layersofourlives.com in many of his sessions for art school class for scrapbooking,creative memory scrapbooking and DIY scrapbooking art,Scrapbooking Book.


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The Famous Lampton Worm

The Famous Lampton Worm by Fred Watson

I live in the Northeast of England in Washington (formerly in the county Durham, but now in Tyne and Wear) which is situated between the River Tyne and the river Wear. If you haven't been to the area before, you may be surprised to see a Greek temple dominating the skyline. The temple stands on Penshaw Hill and was built in 1844 by Thomas Pratt as a memorial to the first Earl Of Durham, John George Lampton.

Penshaw, the Wear and the Lampton family in particular, feature in the legend of The Lampton Worm. The worm in question was no ordinary common all garden worm, but was, despite it's small beginnings, a worm or wyrm that grew into a giant snakelike dragon. The local myth was adapted in 1867 from an oral tradition into a pantomime song, written by C. M. Leumane and performed on stage at the Tyne Theatre in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

There are at least two versions of the song, one in the Northumbrian dialect and the other in the Wearside dialect. One of which is below and since it is in dialect the following word translations may help.

whisht = quiet / haad = hold / yer = your / gobs =mouths / aa'll = I'll / ye = you / aboot = about, heuk = hook / thowt = thought / leukt = looked / varry = very / whatnt = what / oer = of / waas = was / waddnt fash = couldn't be bothered / hyem = home / hoyed = threw / noo = now / gann = go / an = and / nowther = neither / seun = soon / growed = grew / greet = great / neet = night / coos = cows / swally = swallow / brairns = children / hed = had / craaled = crawled / gannings = goings / knaa = know / byeth = both / hoo = how / hev = have.

The Lampton Worm.

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
An' aa'll tell ye an awful story,
Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
An' aa'll tell yer aboot the worm.

On Sunday morning lampton went,
A'fishing in the Wear.
And catched a fish upon his heuk.
He thowt leukt varry queer,
But whatnt kind oer fish it waas,
Young Lampton couldn't tell-
He waddnt fash tu carry it hyem,
So he hoyed it in a well

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
etc, etc.

Noo Lampton felt inclined to gann,
An' fight in foreign wars,
He joined a group of knights that cared,
For nowther wounds nor scars,
An' off he went to Palestine,
Where queer things him befell,
An' very seun forgot aboot,
The queer worm I the well.

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
etc, etc.

But the worm got fat an growed
and growed,
An' growed an awful size,
Hee'd greet big teeth, and a greet big gob,
An greet big goggly eyes,
A when at neet he craaled aboot,
Ta pick up bits a' news,
If he felt dry upon the road,
he sucked a dozen coos

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
etc, etc.

This fearful worm wad often feed,
On calves an lambs an sheep,
An swally little bairns alive,
When they laid down to sleep,
An when he'd eaten aa'll he could,
An he had hed his fill,
He craaled away and wrapped his tail,
Ten times round Penshaw hill.

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
etc, etc.

The news ov this most aaful worm,
And his queer gannins on,
Seun crossed the seas an got t' the ears,
Of brave and bold Sir John,
So hyem he came and catched the beast,
And cut him in two halves,
An that seun stopped him eatin bairns,
An sheep and lambs an calves.

Whisht lads, haad yer gobs,
etc, etc.

So now ye knaa hoo aal thu folks
On byeth sides o'er the Wear,
Lost lots o' sheep an lots o' sleep,
An lived in mortal fear,
So let's hev one to brave Sir John
That kept thu bairns frae harm
Saved coos and calves
By making halves
Of the famous Lampton Worm.

Copyright Fred Watson 2007.


Fred Watson published his first book, a fantasy adventure novel aimed at the 8-12 age group, in November 2006. A grandfather of four, he loves to write for all age groups, has an abiding interest in history and continues on a regular basis to add new stories etc to his website. Footprint Publishing

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