Grandparents’ Day – Create a Business of Preserving Memories
September 13, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Various holidays and special events play a role in the scrapbooking/family story business I’m evolving. I can visualizing teaching workshops and furnishing supplies for preserving grandparenting and grandparent memories.
What stories do you have to tell about your grandparents? Also, if you’re a grandparent, there are memories you want to preserve there, too.
Various ways I’d suggest to my students:
Photo albums with detailed captions
Scrapbooks with stories and photos, also memorabilia
Shadow boxes that tell a story or preserve a memory
Mixed media collages that can be framed
Postcards you can send to family members
Keeping a journal about events as they happen
Writing down the memories you …read more
A Heritage From Grandparents, Who Often Inspire Us in Life & Business
September 17, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
HomeBizNotes.com
This past week, over at the b5media Lifestyles Channel we paid a tribute to grandparents, in recognition of Grandparents Day.
The b5media Lifestyles Channel pays tribute to their own grandparents with memories, recipes and values handed down from generation to generation, said Channel Editor Gayla McCord.
At Quilting and Patchwork, where I also blog, I wrote a tribute to my grandmother for my quilting heritage and for introducing me to this art. As a result of this, I operated a home quilting business for many years. Now this enjoyment of quilting has translated into writing about it as part of my writing …read more


