But before we go to the video I want to let you know what in store for you today... One lucky winner is going to win a Scrap N Easel!!! Marlo, at Contain Ya Crafts wants to help celebrate my one year anniversary and is offering everyone 30% off Scrap N Tote and a FREE project tote with every Scrap N Easel. Just enter coupon code CREATIONS1 this offer is good through May 15th.
I hope that you all enjoy the video and find it helpful in organizing your family tree or similar project. I have learned that what works for one family doesn't always work for another. I had to organize my Mom's side of the tree entirely different than my Dad's side of the tree. But basically I started with my grandparents and worked backwards in as many directions as possible. Each sibling of my grandparent getting their own section, any decedents or branches from that person were contained in that section. Then again starting at my grandparents, each of their offspring and their decedents got a separate section. This system worked for me. I hope I explained this ok. Anyways...Enjoy the video!
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131 comments:
Christie,
Thank you for sharing your ideas on how to organize our heritage albums. I have gathered information, documents and pictures for years, but still have not tackled the huge project of creating a family album. I am inspired and love your ideas, thanks.
Thank you for a chance to win the fabulous Scrap n' Easel. Wow would that ever be handy!
Chritie,
Thank you for the organizing tips. I am always looking for tips that I can implement in my own craft room. I've just started putting things back after redoing my space, I can't wait till it's done so I can start working on some projects. I love your tips and have used quite a few of them.
The easel would be a wonderful way to help keep my projects organized. Thanks for the opportunity and for sharing your wonderful ideas.
gloria5456athotmaildotcom
Love, Love, LOVE your family tree albums! I've accumulated loads of family information and wondered how to put it all together and now I know, thank you SO much!
The Scrap n'Easel looks to be a fabulous organising tool too. Would love to own one.
nicky.stevensonatgmail.com
OMG I'm drolling. I'm fairly new to crafting cards, and focus on purchasing mediums and stamps and paper. The ScrapnEasel was out of range.....but NOW....fingers and toes are crossed. Not much crafted gonna be done like that tho ;)
Super nice of ContainYa Crafts to help you celebrate!
Laura
deepabyss100 at hotmail dot com
How great to be so organised, sigh! Congrats on your blogaversary! Valerie
I love family tree book ideas. You are so creative. I did a book on my family, I need to work on hubbies. His Mom gave me pictures and told me about them so it should go easy for her side. Thank you for the inspiration you give.
Love your books Christie
I am forwarding your book to a friend who is trying to get certified in Geneology (to do it for a living) and she would love this. What I am excited about is the contest it would be an awesome birthday present (yep, selfishly to me). This may just be the motivation for me to get my bottom in gear and create again since the way it positions it can make it easier for me. Thanks for sharing all ideas and inspiration.
Wow, very creative and so organized!! Love it all. The Scap N Easel looks awesome. Would love to win that. Thanks.
jellybird at gmail dot com
Wow, Love, how you've put together not 1 but 2 wonderful Family Tree Albums. A job very well done.
So pretty and great that you have so many vintage photos and memories.
Congratulations on your 1 Year and all the best for many more.
Thank you for the GREAT ideas and I look forward to seeing what other things you come up with.
Gail ;)
gailhoffe at yahoo dot ca
Thanks so much for the generosity of your time and talent to show us many usable ideas. Sure do appreciate it. Rose
rose@wilkos.net
What an amazing project! The time that you put into it is certainly evident! It is truly a family treasure! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway opportunity!!!
Great Heritage albums! If I ever get around to doing mine, I hope they are half as organized as yours. You are doing a wonderful job!
Happy anniversary and thanks for the opportunity to win some goodies!
kkmaehrer@gmail.com
Your heritage albums are fantastic! Thanks for sharing. My husband has been researching our ancestors for almost 30 years and I now I have some ideas of what I can do with some of the memorabilia he has collected over that time. Your work is always so beautiful, well thought out, and inspiring. sdrap2258@yahoo.com
Congratulations on your blogaversary! I love your albums. Like so many others, I have many materials and information but just didn't know how to really organize it. You have given us some great ideas. Thank you.
I love the scrap n easel too. Great idea. Thanks for a chance to win one.
Kris
dietzrobles at yahoo dot com
You put me to shame! I have 40+ years of memories and am just starting! Would love to win that Easel!
camaren at chartermi dot net
Christie, I am in awe of your perseverence and tenacity in finding and documenting your family's history!!! It says SO much about who you are as a person and I so admire you!!! I do think the way you chose to display the information is wonderful and speaks to your creative side, a style I love. Wonderful work of the heart, Christie...
These are terrific Christie, I have the same folders but not decorated at all, may have to do them now. You do have some wonderful ideas.
love
Trish D
lady.58 @ bigpond.com
WOW What an undertaking and how proud you must be of this additional addiction. The ideas you came up with for dealing with eaxh branch of the tree, am=nd making it easy to locate who is who is who will have every family member ( expecially the generation before us) green with envy. I guess it is time to start organizing a big time reunion so yuou can share this, and get way more.
I love the scrap 'n easel and would be proud to take it off your hands.
JannieQ@aol.com
Once again you have inspired me....I would love to do something with my family's history records that I have and you have shown me a great way of showcasing them....I have never heard of the scrap-n-easel....would luv to win this....thanks again Christie....
jmbody@shaw.ca
You are one busy gal. Thanks once again for all
your wonderful ideas. Congrats once again on your
first anniversary.
Leanna
nannamohr@hotmail.com
I just tore apart my old heritage albums to redo them. Hopefully, this will give me some inspiration and new organizational ideas.
mckayscrap@aol.com
your albums are great. wish i was that organized. would love to have a scrap n easel, but it's not in the old budget just now.
Wow - those are a lot of albums. I have made my own family history into albums -- but i haven't done them all for my kids. I mean i haven't made copies of my family albums for my kids. However, i have made an album for each of my kids of their history! Now i am just trying to keep current -- and i am woefully behind. This is an awesome prize you are willing share. Thanks for the chance to win this!
Judy Jackson
judystamper at verizon dot net
Great Family Album. It is so classy, I love it. You can tell you put a lot of time & thought into it. Thank you for sharing it.
Sknichols@eiu.edu
Love your albums, but my favorite of your posts is still the tour of your craft room! I watch it every so often, when I get in that I-gotta-get-organized mood. It's a real dream!
Thanks for this wonderful give-away. Great of Contain Ya Crafts to celebrate with the Scrap N Easel. I'd love to win it! trisha at gvtc dot com
Happy Anniversary and many more to come. Thank you for your inspirations. Once again you have inspired me to get things organized. Would love to own a Scrap-n-Easel, but it is way out of my budget, but maybe I will get real lucky and win this one. Thanks again for all you have shared with all of us.
Connie
cautry@terry.uga.edu
Awesome ideas and beautiful albums!!! Would love to try out the Scrap N Easel!
scrappingstampingmommy at yahoo dot com
Wow! What an awesome legacy you are giving your family. I have been working for years on the family tree albums for my family and you gave me some fantastic ideas. You and your family should be so proud.
I would love to win your Scrap N Easel prize. Thank you for the opportunity.
Vickie
mwleaf@hotmail.com
Thanks so much for sharing your books. I watched part of it this morning and will return to it later. Great job. And thanks also for the give-away. I haven't seen the Scrap n Easel before. Looks like it will be great for my back and neck!
Barbara
bkatplay at gmail dot com
Christie you heritage albums are fabulous. What a lot of heart went into creating them. One of thes days, I will attempt to make one of my families.
I just love how you organized all those family pictures. My scrapbooks are my most treasured possessions and I have my heritage photos all organized but really never knew quite how to start. I do now! Thanks for sharing your albums!
I love you you've organized your family albums. That is such a hard task. Your's are fantastic. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win! live4scrappin at hotmail dot com
I loved seeing your Family Tree Albums! I have researched my family history for 31 years! I have tons of Binders with my family tree research in them....letter written from the battlefield during the Civil War, marriage certificates, birth $ death certificates, photos, copies of census, military records, land grants, newspaper articles, etc. I love all of these things that give life to the individuals. My mother told someone, "Debra (me) talks about these people like they are alive and see knows them personally." I guess there may be something to that saying, 'Genealogist aren't crazy. We just sometimes lose our census!'
Debra Pate
debra_pate@yahoo.com
Oh I love your family tree books...and how you incorporated all the info is truly inspirational.....Now it makes me want to do something like it for my family.....thank you so much .....
Congratulation on your blog anniversary.....that scrap ease would be so also to have.....tfs
Your family tree books are a wonderful inspiration. Looks like you put a lot of hard work into them. I'm sure your family will treasure them. Thanks for the chance to win the easel.
tammys @ longlines . com
I don't know how you do it all, you must never sleep! Amazing.
Lynn
minpinsloveme at msn dot com
Thanks for the great video. I have been struggling with ways to have our family history easily available for our kids and grandkids to look over. Your Family Books have given me inspiration. Thank you.
As always Christie, you are amazing!! I wish I knew how to do half the things you do.. LOL!
Have a wonderful day
Debi in NorCal
tinkzilla63@sbcglobal.net
I know my sister would love your family tree album ideas and has probably watched this already.I watched the Scrap N Easel video and would really like to own one.Thank you for a chance to win it. Susan
th4eachday@comcast.net
This album is amazing. Thanks for all of the information that you share!
peggann at hotmail dot com
Thank you for the wonderful ideas...and thanks for showing the Scrap n Easel! This is the first time I had seen it. Cool tool.
My mother has a huge box of old family photos. When my five sisters and umpteen neices show up at Thanksgiving, our "LaLa Sisterhood" is going to have a project instead of just another get together. Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh, and the Scrap n Easel looks like a tool that anyone would be excited to have. I know I would!
LOVE your family history albums! I really wish my Dad new more about his side of the family but by the time my interest in family history began, both his mom and dad had passed on. I am currently working on my Mom's side.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Thanks for the tips. Love you books.
Oh my! What beautiful albums. I just loved getting a look at how you came up with something different for each page. Great job! Congrats on you anniversary. I love coming to your website and really enjoyed the tour of your craft room. Thanks for sharing with us.
Hi Christie -
Great video and thanks so much for all the wonderful information. I keep all the old family information and photos for my siblings since my parents passed away. And I would love to do something like this for them. Thank you so much.
Elaine Allen
thanks for sharing! You must have put alot of energy, planning and organizing into this. Such great details!
Plangille1@cox.net
Congrats on your blogaversary. I am such a fun and have subscribed to your blog through my reader so I don't miss a post. Your videos are just awesome--I loved the tour of your creative space. Thanks for the chance to win the Scrap N Ease.
Thanks for what you do. You are a real inspiration. Congrats on your blogaversary
Love it! I have been working on my family history and am retiring in June. Will be spending a lot more time trying to put it all together. This would be a great help. Hope I am selected.
Christie, thank you for sharing all your wonderful tips. Your site is by far my favorite one to go to for ideas.
kellymainmainkelly@yahoo.com
You are so inspiring, love those Family Tree Albums. I am a genealogist and have done Heritage albums but nothing like this undertaking.
Love that ScrapNEasel, how great to be able to see your design as you work. This would help be be more organized, I need that.
Scrap N Easel looks like a great product. I'm not sure I have enough family photos and info to do family tree albums, but I think it's a wonderful idea.
Wow Christie!!! What an amazing project to tackle, but what an awesome legacy to leave for future generations! You really did go above and beyond for this project and your work is very inspiring!
I can also see where the Scrap N Easel would be a very handy tool to have! Thanks for sharing your vids and projects with us.
Kim
Christie, I love your family tree albums!
cathyhartle at gmail dot com
Amazing! The album is such a treasure.
you do some awesome work
Very nice, Christie!
Christie,
I want you to know that I have moved from "accumulating" and "hoarding" into imagining and creating thanks to your positive attitude and gentle encouragement. The tin coffee table was the catalyst! Thanks for sharing the links and most of all, thanks for helping me get off my butt!
All the best to you,
Gabby
Wow, what a labor of love. Beautiful! Shari (cricutrookie)
What an incredible undertaking. You did a fantastic job keeping it all organized. Looks great.
Beasty
jschuler2000 at yahoo dot com
Nice job on your family album and the video too.
Virginia Montagna
montagnava@aol.com
Christie, Thanks so much for sharing your heritage albums. I have lots of information but have yet to put it into a book. That looks exactly like what how I want to organize it.
Cheryl:)
cjsteiger at aol dot com
Hi Cristie, I really enjoy receiving your email about the next adventure you have conquered. Thanks for sharing a little bit of all you do with us. I love the Family Album. Just a few things that brought warmth to my heart. Here are a few items that were really cool:
* great opening poem * using a binder instead of album - easy access for updating *separating by arms (branches) to highlight the family members - * highlighting information from documents to bring to life from small print *tabs for easy access to find family members. All of these ideas were great and I am so pleased you shared it with me. sony.simon@yahoo.com
WOW Christie... what a labour of love.... your family tree book is pure inspiration... we have a family tree on line... which we have just started... I think it's time to start a hard copy... ;p)
hugz from Sunny South Africa
shamela
I bow to you, oh Queen of Organization! And, I just gotta get me one 'o those Scrappin' Easels!
Scrappin' Easel, oh how I need thee!
Sharon - rileighjr@cox.net
WOW I love your family books. thanks for sharing them with us.
Annel
pud22164@yahoo.com
WOW!!!! That is a lot of work!!! Great job! You are so talented and I love visiting your blog. What a great prize someone is going to win. I would love it to be me. :) Congratulations on your anniversary.
Kathy Billings
eggdcr8tr@satx.rr.com
Oh, my! what a beautiful project. What a treasure to share with your family! Simply stunning!
jwatkinsin@juno.com
Christie,
Congrats on your blogiversary! I enjoy your site! Thanks for all the tips and tricks! Love your family albumn. Thanks for the chance to win!
Jenny
zenderzoocrew@yahoo.com
Congratulations! I get lost in the blogging world, there are so many but I'd like to Thank You for the sharing and generosity that you show to us. Thanks so much, and to top it off giveaways. DonnaB
blue5ft3 at aol dot com
Christie
Well you've work wery hard. Thanks for those 2 videos. Your albums are very well organized and beautiful.
Have a nice week
Thank you for sharing your family albums. I've been planning on doing some myself, but haven't made the time. Maybe now I will get started!
By the way, how did you make the charts? Did you do them in Word or Excel? Or are they pasted together? I'd love to copy your technique!
wow, amazing family tree albums. May have just been inspired to get my stuff organized lol. Congrats on day 2 of your blogaversary
Thanks so much for sharing! "Happy Bloggaversary!"
Denise in WA
www.rndhud6.blogspot.com
Christie
I loved your books. They are really beautiful.
Thanks for sharing
You amaze me ;) !
tracer68@yahoo.com
Love your album. I saw the tutorial you did on the easel when you first got it. It looks like an awesome tool. I am seriously considering having my sister order me one. I have left side neglect due to a brain tumour and I think this would be awesome to help me move my pages into my good field of vision without it sliding all over the place.
I love your blog!! I love coming here and seeing everything that you do. I am also very jealous of your scrap space. I wish I had a room that big :) Kathy kmundo@ymail.com
Love all your shares. Thanks
Love all your shares. Thanks.
jobiegg@gmail.com
Thanks so much for sharing your books! I have been trying to do a heritage album for quite some time so I love getting inspiration from others. Thanks for the chance to win!!
cherylphillips AT comcast DOT net
What a great job & inspiration!
Hey, Good job on the books and congrats on your Blog-aversary!!!
Christie, your books are beautiful.
And how you organize things... you're a role-model. TFS
The Scrap n'Easel seems great, I'd love to win it (crossing my fingers...)
Dorly Weitzen
Christie,
Its amazing the work that you do. I so want to copy your family tree idea,I love it to pieces.Thanks for all your wonderful ideas
Mary
mary.sf@sympatico.ca
Awesome job! how cool is that easel!! your tree looks great!
shawn price
silkydove@gmail.com
Christie, thank you!!! My parents both passed away leaving me with the photos and memorabilia, thanks for the inspiration. Thanks for the chance to win!
Good luck to all. Happy Blogaversary!
Thanks for sharing. Thanks for the chance to win.
Brandy : )
knightandschanke@hotmail.com
Congratulations on your blog-a-versary. LOVE that easel. Thanks for a chance to win this great prize.
Wow amazing. Just awesome.
Thanks for the chance to win.
annadowdy at gmail dot com
Christie thank you for the glimpse inside your family tree. I have had the priviledge of making scrapbooks like this with really old photos for my mother, mother in law and a sweet couple who will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary this week. I know what you are experiencing when you do the research and then put the books together. The people come alive for me and it's fascinating!
Cindi Estes
cindi3021@yahoo.com
Love your albums and I admire your energy. What a great gift to your family!
Thanks for sharing your work.
Caroline
Wow, your albums are wonderful! I have a binder for my family tree info but not decorated or with nearly as much info. What an inspiration!
Marianne/NY
Wow!! You did a fantastic job on this!!! Thanks so much for sharing. :)
Thanks for sharing! Your stuff is always amazing.
Chris
Thepaperpicasso@att.net
Beautiful albums! These are wonderful keepsakes for years to come. Thank you for sharing.
cinleeco@sbcglobal.net
Congratulations on your blogiversary!! You sure are a prolific crafter, I've loved wandering around your blog!!
Electra
vegginout1@shaw.ca
Hi! Happy Blog-aversary! I would love to win a Scrap N Easel. Look how popular you are, you do so many inspiring projects.
loriebradberry@earthlink.net
Thanks for the chance to win the Scrap N Easel. You have helped a lot of people with all your tips, videos, and pictures. Thanks for giving us the inspiration to think outside the box.
Thank you for sharing your family tree. I've thought about doing one and didn't know where to start. You have giving me lots of great ideas. Now I just have to start hunting down the information.
You have a great family tree there. I tried to do mine but in the 1600's is as far back as I could go. That is when they came from England. I can't find anything in England of them. Any ways, great work.
susanslomski@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for so many great ideas, I need to reread this post as there is soooooooooo much yummy info. I sure hope to win and I need to start my family tree, I gave up a long while back when I started scrapping.
Thank you for sharing your time and creativity with us...pennykitz@charter.net
Thanks for sharing your family albums. What a priceless treasure.
Love your family albums! Thanks so much for sharing these with us, and for the chance at some candy!
ravenrt@gmaildotcom
Love the tips and love the albums! Thanks for a chance to win!
Glenda
glendalea.blogspot.com
Congrats on your Blog-aversary Christie! I love, love, love your albums! Like others, I have accumulated a ton of family information, but it has been waiting for me (for way too long) to find the perfect way to organize it. You've helped me to figure out just how I'm going to do that! Thank you SO much!
Also, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your blog. I have used SO many of your ideas, everything from organizing to projects. One of my favorites was the tin tile table you made for your son. I used your idea to make a jewelry box for a friend and she LOVED it!
Wishing you many more happy blogging years ahead!
Julie (Luvs2Scrap at aol dot com)
Thank you for both video's. I am going to check with my scrapbooking stores here to see if they carry the Bow Easy or if they can order it for me. The rosette video is great as well. I have a lot of the wire ribbon. All of your blog ideas are very educational
Fantastic thanks so much for sharing can't believe how talented you are
Thanks so much for sharing. I am anxiou to do my family's history too
...you get an A for organization.. you are quite the talent,. thanks for the opportunity at your candy
mitz_zee@yahoodotcom
I love family tree albums , esp with old photos. Thanks so much for sharing yours. And thanks for the opportunity to win a scrap n easel . It's clearly a valuable tool for a scrapper.
LeeAnn from NC
proudtobefromnc@hughes.net
would love the bow easy...great product to make all the little bows
I saw the scrap n easel in person and it is awesome!! I do have the Bow Easy and it is is a great tool, also!!
Chris
jackaroojrt@yahoo.com
Christie....I enjoy your videos and your blog so much. I aspire to be as neat and organized as you are one day. :)
Brigitte
I have a Bow Easy and LOVE it (so dont include me in the giveaway). I love your tutorials and having a video does make it easier to learn. Once you get the hang of it, it is super easy. I also love the bows you can create using double or triple loops but just making additional wraps around the bow easy before making your tie.
Oops...just realized I commented on the wrong post...
Good Day Christie, I know this is late in posting but I commented on the wrong post> Oh my God thought your family book was truly amazing. I am in the process of doing mine and now I realize the work that is to go into it. Yours was super special made with so much Love and Thought sorry that I put my post on YouTube.colleenfroud@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for posting this video so we could see your beautiful work. I have been researching my family history too and I agree, it is alot of work. I don't have alot of pictures for my family, but I have lots of stories. Now it is just a matter of sitting down to type them all out and get them scrapped. Your books are beautiful. I love the idea of shrinking down the marriage licenses, wedding invitiation, and birth certificates. I never though of that. Thank you.
hi, thanks so much for showing us your books! I have started a similiar project but love your ideas. Could you show us how you made the pull out pages that have the trees on them? That is an area that I was having trouble with - and your idea is wonderful.
Incredible! What a lovely keepsake of your family tree! I really like how you put each branch on the tree in separate fold out pages!
Hugs-
Kavi Coulson
kavicoul@yahoo.com
Great videos. Thanks for sharing all that you do.
Aloha, Kate
I love my bow maker!
Love your videos! I would LOVE a bow easy! I have problems with my hands and it would make making bows so much easier for me!
What a fun tool! I'd love to win one.
I LOVE your ideas! Can't wait to implement them! :)
Oh My Word! Your albums are truly heirlooms. You family is so lucky. Wish I had your talent and time. The Scrap N Easel looks like a great tool (I'm a messy gluer too).
HI Christie, Love your albums - what a treasure! Have a question...hope you will answer! HOW did you make the flipout pages? Or were they purchased somewhere(and where) Knowing how "crafty" you are - I'm thinking you made them! Thanks for sharing!!
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