Who was your high school music teacher? What songs do you love to hear at holiday recitals? Have you ever jammed with a real rock band? Music triggers memories. Have you documented yours?

Start playing some toe-tapping tunes and take a look through your photos. Glance below and see if any of these themes apply to your musical memories. Recitals, rally anthems, marching band ditties, cheerleading fight songs, talent shows, and concerts should all be remembered for the good times they were.

What do Magic Scraps, 7 gypsies, Goudy, Daisy D's, K and Co, Dannielle Johnson, Karen Russell, Creative Imaginations, Sweetwater, EK Success, Dibona and Artistic Expressions have in common? They have all produced fabulous clear plastic overlays for scrapbooking use.

Words, Words, Words! Face it, words are IN. I love words! Using alphabets of all kinds are a hot trend. I love to use metal letters, tiles, stickers, pre-made vellum wording, and ANY kind of lettering on my pages. Everywhere I go, I notice lettering styles and fonts. Am I sick? Obsessed? No, I just love words!

Help me celebrate this month: in honor of my turning a happy forty-something, let's explore all things birthday! Since each and every person we care about has a celebration of this kind, doing birthday pages pose a special problem. Are your birthday pages boring?

If you are running out of unique birthday treatments for your party photos, read on. What do you need? Title ideas? Page layout concepts? A fresh look at a classic celebration?

Simple, fast, efficient, and awesome. Those are a few of the buzzwords in scrapbooking today. We want to use tools we have on hand and make fantastic pages. We want to speed up the pace a bit and still have a coordinated look to our albums.

Do you know you can get 12 photos on a 12x12 page? (See figure 1 above.) You can do it using the simple Coluzzle-brand cutting templates and swivel knife that you may already own!

Smile! We say this almost every time we snap a photo. What a wonderful word and what a wonderful action to take. Don't you wish we all had more smiles in our lives?

Do you have trouble with journaling? Wish you could tell the pertinent facts and details in a really fun, new way? Do you want to experiment with adding personalized text and wording to your layouts in a unique way? Well, join me as I share how to use word puzzles on your scrapbook pages. This new way of journaling only takes seconds to create online and print out on cardstock. Add some word puzzles and word games to your pages with just a few keystrokes and the riddle of creating fabulous FUN pages is no longer a secret!

Need a theme album for someone special? Want to celebrate someone special and what makes THEIR lives wonderful? Do you need a gift album? Or maybe you'd just like to have an album about YOURSELF for once? Well, look no further. Even if you have no time to do a lot of homemade accents, you can make this heartfelt Dream Big album in no time. How?

How can you beat the clock? I bet you think I am going to write about using every minute possible to scrap? Well I do believe in squeezing it in whenever you need to in order to get the job DONE. But this time I want to talk about streamlining. Time is often elusive. We want more time to scrapbook and enjoy the hobby and yet when we get a bit of time, are we squandering the very thing we hoped to have?