page design ideas, layout tips, and advice on how to select paper, crop pictures, and use colour; Scrapbook basics educate and engage beginners; Creative new techniques grab the attention of more experienced scrapbookers; Includes Leeza's own acid-free, lignin-free background pages.

Genealogist Laura Best follows up her well-received "Genealogy for the First Time"(R) with a colorful volume dedicated to techniques for preserving precious ancestral memories through scrapbooking. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come. The page designs all draw on color schemes and images common to various time periods, and there are also techniques for displaying the scrapbooked material in shadow boxes and frames.

A fantastic system for organizing and storing photos. Helps you to connect with your photographs. System has a universal application. Reaches out to all scrapbookers with a plan and guide.

Explains how to assemble photographs and clippings into a homemade scrapbook and offers ideas for borders and themes.

Ethnic Scrapbooking is the first culturally inspired book that will get you scrapbooking about other ethnic cultures, your connections to them, as well as your own ethnic heritage. This thick and juicy book contains over 100 "out of the box" ideas and images to inspire you to creativity. Ethnic Scrapbooking is for everyone. No matter what your race, ethnicity or nationality, you will be inspired to embrace the world around you and scrapbook too. Author, scrapbook designer, conference speaker Lisa Sanford lives a lifestyle of cultural awareness and preservation in Maryland with her husband, five children and grandson.

Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging prevailing notions of tradition as a relic of the past, Explaining Traditions provides deep insight into the nuances and purposes of living traditions in relation to modernity. Bronner's work forces readers to examine their own traditions and imparts a better understanding of raging controversies over the sustainability of traditions in the modern world.