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

I mentioned in a post at Blisstree, Scrapbooking with Alzheimer’s Patients, that I had taught a workshop at nursing homes.  A reader inquired whether I sold kits so individuals or nursing homes could do it on their own.
Yes, I do put together the kits, but I hadn’t actively promoted this business because I’ve been wondering what direction to take.  However, this inquiry got me thinking…“Here’s a need.  I must fill it.”
So now I’m doing more than dabbling.  I’m putting together a business plan.  It seems practical at this point in my life, because it’s a fairly simple kit to compile, along …read more