We had a fun Grand Re-Opening celebration in November and are ready to keep going strong in December. This is month of busyness for a lot of us. We have tons of holiday parties, dinners with friends and family, gifts to buy, exchange, and open, and decorations to put up. Just a quick reminder to focus on what matters, record some family memories, and love on those special in your life. I was recently reading in an online forum some people who were not sure what they should be doing with their time. My response: "At the end of your life, what will you have wished you did more of?" I believe that at the end of my life I will stand before my maker and savior and be held accountable for my life. I hope that I can say that I did everything to my best to Love my God an Love my Neighbor. For me right now that means raising my kids and taking care of my family. Scrapbooking fills two roles for me in this bigger picture. It helps me to preserve our family history and memories. It also give me an escape to refresh myself - life with three little ones full time can get overwhelming at times and I need to take a break at times to come back with new life and energy that they deserve from me. So what is your purpose? What do you want to fill your December days with this year?

Facebook Fan Freebie

Are you a fan? Head on over to our facebook page and click the like button to get an exclusive freebie! Right now it is a template from a recent layout of mine, but it will be changing in the next few days so keep checking back.

Free Member Area

I continue to add PSE Tool videos to our free member area. You can learn all about the tricks and options for each of the tools along the left side of the Photoshop Elements screen. So far we have the following tools covered with step by step videos:

• Move Tool
• Magnify Tool
• Hand Tool
• Eyedropper Tool
• Marquee Tool (Rectangle and Elliptical)
• Lasso Tool

You can click here to watch them.

I also added a tutorial for you on how to cut up individual letters or elements from a sheet that might look like this:

Subscriber Area

December is upon us which means we are ready to feature another class. This month, instead of putting up a new class, we are going to go back and feature our Organizing with Picasa class. This is a fabulous class that lets you organize pictures, scrapbooking supplies, layouts, or really any graphics on your computer. I wrote this class, back when I fist got Picasa and shared all of the different things I was finding to do with it. Now I want to update it and share with you exactly what I'm now doing. Watch out soon on our blog for a video showing off how easy and helpful my Picasa method is.

If you want to follow along with this class or check out any of our other classes, simply sign up for a membership and have immediate access. Oh, and you may want to wait a day or two and check out our facebook page for a coupon!

In the Store

Our Perfect Picture and Tips for Text classes are now up in the store if you would like to just pick up a class individually.

Check out Template 30!

Also in the store are these fabulous rounded edge templates to help you round edges on your pictures or papers.

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