Ethnic Scrapbooking

Busy Booth at Kensington, MD Book Fair

My booth was alive with creative excitement and wonder. Here are some new scrapbookers I inspired.

Kensington, MD Book Festival

This Sunday, April 27, 2008 stop by my tent and make a paper bag album and pick up your autographed copy of Ethnic Scrapbooking.

  Tons of fun activities going on all day, check out the link to the festival <CLICK HERE>

MAAAGC Friends

Greetings,

To all my new friends that I met at the Mid-Atlantic African American Geneaology Conference, wasn't it a fabulous event!  I attended three great classes and I'm eager to get back into the depths of my research.

Here's the link to a password protected site for you to purchase Ethnic Scrapbooking at the special conference discount you received on the postcard from me.

site:  www.ethnicscrapbooking.typepad.com/es_discount/ 

(es underscore discount)

  Note: enter the username (id) with no spaces all lowercase, same with the password.

I want to thank all of you for your kind words about my family albums and photographs...I treasure them even more since so many of you commented on how blessed I was to have so many photos. 

Over the next few weeks I'll scan more of my geneaology finds and share with you my displays and family reunion tips.

If you have trouble with the special discount code to purchase the book, please e-mail me at lisa@ethnicscrapbooking.com and I'll help you get it sorted out.

Please check back often here and on my blog www.ethnicscrapbooking.typepad.com for photos and my thoughts on this past weekend.

Podcaster reviews Ethnic Scrapbooking

CLICK HERE to hear more about Ethnic Scrapbooking...don't forget to leave a comment.

Women & Art Presentation

I was blessed to spend last Saturday at a coffee shop in Baltimore communing with other women and discussing our art. I never thought of or intended my scrapbook to be art.  After my book arrived last Fall, my 7 year old son said, "Mommy, your book is not scrapbooks...it's art!" I was so touched by his words.  My intention is always to preserve memories and to learn from our past, but it's nice to be recognized as an artist sometimes.

This event was part of SWAN DAY I hope to participate in more art related events in the near future.

Lain Ehmann mentions Ethnic Scrapbooking

Simple Scrapbooks Editorial Board member, Lain Ehmann mentions Ethnic Scrapbooking on her blog...check it out!

St Patrick's Day themed project

Hope to see you Sunday at www.cropmania's SOLD OUT crop in Annapolis, MD.

Pop on over to my blog to see a sneek peak at the project.

See page 105 in my book for how I connect to St. Patrick.

Interview with The Card Castle Queen

Check out an interview I did with Jacki over at www.thecardcastle.blogspot.com

Here's the link to the interview post <CLICK HERE>

Ethnic Scrapbooking in the News!

I was interviewed by one of our local newspapers about scrapbooking, because the reporter found me to be one of the "odd-ball" vendors at an African American Festival recently.

Here's the link to the News Article.  I'm not sure how long it will be posted, so check it out, if you have any questions, please post them in the comment section below and I'll do my best to answer them.

Afrocentric Book Fair

A second weekend in a row of book promotion.  It's really fun educating the African-American community about scrapbooking...even more so about my book in how it's my philosophy on how I educate my children about other cultures so that they will embrace those different from ourselves and not judge others by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (Leah, my 9 year old surprised me this week by reciting parts of Martin Luther King's I have a Dream speech)

My Display turned out very nicely, I change it up for each event, this one also included my latest example of Ethnic Scrapbooking (that I finished up the night before, I'll discuss that further on my blog) and I displayed the books written by new friend & mentor, Lisa Shephard Stewart of Cultured Expressions