Family Reunion Ideas

Family Reuion ideas using Heritage Makers products:
http://blog.heritagemakers.com/?p=243
Games, activities, crafts, family cookbooks, etc.
These are SOOOOO cute!

Speed Scrap

Speed Scrap!
Recently, I have learned about a weekly event called "Speed Scrap". It is an online digi crop host by fellow HM Consultant, Channon Zabel. I love her creativity and willingness to take time out of her busy schedule to host events like this every week so that other digital designers and Heritage Makers can come together and do up a new page with fresh ideas with her help, guidance and cool "7 rules".

If you are interested in attending these "Speed Scraps", please CLICK HERE to join her facebook group!

Here is the definition of a "Speed Scrap":
7 instructions in 60 minutes with results of one great page.
You will be given a new rule or instruction for your page every 10 minutes. You will end up with one fantastic page. At the end of the first hour you will be given one extra hour to finish up your page and get it posted to the forum on facebook.

Here is an example of the rules from a past Speed Scrap:

1. Pick out a quote you love and find a picture that matches that quote. Do something fun with your quote by making one of the words either a piece of word art, make it out of alphas, or make one word a larger font.
2. Duplicate your one picture and focus in on one part and crop it out. Frame that picture and put it somewhere on your page.
3. Place two frames behind or on your larger full frame picture.
4. Now chose a solid piece of paper for your background paper. Chose a 2nd piece of paper, patterned or solid, make it fairly large and make a circle out of it. Send the circle behind your pictures.
5. Wrap your larger single photo that has two frames with a ribbon or rubber band.
6. Embellish with three (no more, no less) pieces of ribbon
7. Embellish with however many other pretty little things you want (hearts, stars, flowers) Remember less is more! And remember CLUSTER and rule of three.

Young Author's Contest

Check it out! Your kids (ages 8-17) can write their own story and enter this fun contest.

Storybooks about young people are usually full of milestone stories and family events. For this project, encourage your child to add depth to such stories by capturing his or her thoughts, feelings, personality quirks, likes and dislikes. Let your kids tell their own story any way they wish to or ask a few of the following questions to help capture this rapidly fleeting moment in time.
Check the link for full details, prizes and deadlines!

http://www.heritagemakers.com/contest/2009/youngAuthors

Here are some great ideas, suggested by HM, to get your child started:

my family

1. What activities have you and your family done together that you’ll always remember?
2. What can you do better than mom/dad/grandma?
3. What’s the nicest thing a family member has ever said to you?
4. How are you most like your mom/your dad?
5. What do you and your siblings enjoy doing most together?

all about food

1. What’s your favorite breakfast cereal/candy bar/fruit/type of food?
2. What food would you like to eat everyday if you were allowed to?
3. What’s your favorite vegetable?
4. Are there any foods you really dislike?
5. If you could only eat at one restaurant for the rest of your life, which one would it be?

my friends

1. What are the names of your closest friends?
2. What do you and your friends like to do together?
3. What’s the first thing you show friends when they visit your house?
4. Do you have friends who are also relatives?
5. What’s the nicest thing a friend has done for you?

at home

1. What do you like best about your room/your home/your yard/your neighborhood?
2. Is there anything of yours displayed on the fridge/on the walls?
3. What chores are you responsible for at your house?
4. What’s under your bed?
5. What do the kids in your neighborhood do for fun?

family traditions

1. What’s your favorite holiday and why?
2. What’s the best present you ever got?
3. What was your best Halloween costume ever?
4. What makes your family different from your friends’ families?
5. What family stories do you think you’ll be telling your own children?

my favorites

1. Do you have a favorite joke you love to tell?
2. What’s your favorite TV show?
3. What’s your favorite song/singing group/singer?
4. Which movie could you watch a million times?
5. Which toy or game would you never give away?

hope & dreams

1. What’s the most important thing you’ve learned about life so far?
2. Is there anything you really want to do that you haven’t been able to do yet?
3. If you inherited lots of money, what would you buy first?
4. If you had one super-power, what would it be and how would you use it?
5. If you could be someone different, who would you be?

school life

1. What would you most like to learn in school next year?
2. What book did you like reading best in the last year?
3. What school subject do you have to work hardest at?
4. What school subject is easiest for you?
5. What do you do at recess?

getting along

1. How do you think you and your brothers and sisters will get along when you are grown-ups?
2. Who in your family would you miss most if they were not there?
3. What’s the nicest thing you’ve done for somebody recently?
4. Have you ever learned something from someone you didn’t like?
5. How do you think you make the world a better place?

random facts about me

1. What’s your nickname and how did you get it?
2. What makes you laugh?
3. What are you really good at?
4. What did you eat for lunch today?

Being a Mom AND a Heritage Makers Consultant

Hello friends, family, consultants and clients!

I am excited to start blogging about specials, ideas, helpful hints and success stories related to my Heritage Makers business. I'll also throw in a few giveaways and have some fun contests too! It is my hope that I can reduce the size of my monthly client newsletter by adding info more periodically and timely right here! So, please take advantage of it and follow this blog!

One of my favorite things about being a direct sales consultant is the freedom to work from home. Well, there are a few downsides such as: while I am closing a sale, or helping someone with their book, a client of mine may hear "Mom, can you help me button my pants," or "Can you turn on Dora?" But I have to say, I really have the best of both worlds. I get to help others capture their heritage, while I am with my little ones, making my heritage!

How do I balance my direct sales business with my beautiful family? I think making sure I make TIME for the most important things first, and then scheduling out my heritage maker's events is the key. I really do try to compartmentalize my time, so I am fair to my family, and I can work smart during my business hours! I love that I own my own time, and therefore I own my own life! What an amazing thing to have the chance to be a stay at home Mom, and make great money in an industry that is this rewarding and growing so quickly.

I think for those, like me, who had never pursued direct sales as a business before, I would say, "Do it!". It really is the most amazing thing to build a business that grows each month and allows you the freedom to be who you want to be, in your career and more importantly, at home.

To learn more about becoming a Heritage Makers consultant, visit my website at:

http://www.createheritage.com/