Jul 31
Some of my earliest readers might remember one of the first posts I did for this site in 2005 (back then it was still named Inside Scrapbooking), titled All Work And No Pay. It was about the use of - or rather abuse of - design teams as free labor for marketing work by stores and manufacturers. Well, now a new "employer" has joined the list of those lining up for the free labor of scrapbookers who are anxious to put the moniker "design team member" after their name: blogs. Yes, I've come acro
Jul 31
The scrapbooking project came to a screaming halt earlier this week when … our kitchen sprung a leak and we had to decamp to another state. No, no, we’re all fine now, and moving back in to the recently-wet, recently-moldy, but now-mostly-old-and-icky shell-of-a-kitchen tomorrow (okay, technically, we aren’t moving back into the kitchen, exactly, but we’ll probably traipse through there a few hundred times on the way to the back yard) … but it has been a distracting few days. Did I get work
Jul 31
Bethel Center will celebrate its 35th year with an Anniversary Street Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 9 at the center, located at 2557 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco.
Jul 31
TORONTO - Kaboose Inc. (TSX:KAB), a Toronto-based operator of family focused Internet websites, reported a sharply higher net loss as the company booked non-cash charges linked to previous takeovers.
Jul 31

Fair Queen candidates
Chronicle Times, IA - Jul 1, 2008
Jessica's hobbies are camping, swimming, hanging out with friends and family, scrapbooking, cooking, reading and making crafts. She volunteers in the church ...