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Memories in Miniature

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Pamela Frye Hauer's "Memories in Miniature" has the best photo keepsake and gift ideas I've come across in ages! As an international flight attendant, I have traveled the world from one end to the other, and I have stacks of albums with pictures of airplanes, landmarks, and faces from every continent. I considered myself a scrapbooker of sorts, saving train tickets and cocktail napkins to put in my photo albums alongside my snapshots, and making the occasional trip to Michael's to buy suitcase stickers. My friends would peruse the first few pages of my albums before gently closing them and changing the subject. But after a friend of mine turned me on to Pamela's book ("you've got to check out her ideas!"), I compiled some new mini albums, one of travel shots and several of my nieces and nephews, with shots from bris to bat mitvahs, and I can barely keep those albums on the shelf. Now my friends oooooh and aaaah over every page, and when they get to the end, most often they start right over again. Pamela's book is packed with unique ideas and great techniques for making a big deal out of small photos. What I like best about this book is the way she taught me to look at my photos differently, and taught me I can crop the best bits out of what might be a so-so 3x5, and make eye-popping mini memories! The magnets I've made using my very own photos of the Sydney Opera House and the Panama Canal are the showpieces of my kitchen, and my sister-in-law loves the necklace I made for her with my favorite photo of her twins -- her friends are lined up with their own baby pictures begging me to make more! And the fact that she illustrates her ideas with her own memories, using photos of what are obviously her family and friends instead of clip-art landscapes and studio portraits of models, makes even her most elaborate ideas seem achievable. I have already started collecting tidbits I plan to use for my own wedding invitations and favors, and we're not even engaged yet. (fingers crossed!!) I wonder if I could get Pamela Frye Hauer to help me put my wedding album together... You WON'T be disappointed with this fun and original book, and you'll be thrilled with the results you get with your own memories!!

"Memories in Miniature" by Pamela Frye Hauer is so cool, I love it! It's definitely not your typical scrapbooking book. The projects are geared towards "memory crafts", (using photos and mementos), but they could all be adapted to little art pieces and other projects not using photos. The style is really fun and funky and often has a retro/artsy feel to it. The cover doesn't do justice to all the great artwork and ideas inside. This big and colorful book has 4 chapters: Family & Friends, Events & Celebrations, Babies & Children and Home & Holidays; everything is covered in here, and all the projects are really vesatile. Each project in the book is 2 pages, with full color photos including variations, instructions and many have "how-to" photos too. Plus there are dozens and dozens of additional ideas and tips throughout the book!

The projects range all the way from building and decorating many kinds of unique mini albums, all the way to jewelry, magnets, snowdomes,home items and even little games! Pamela shows how they can all be used as much more than keepsakes too- like for one-of-a-kind gifts, invitations, ornaments, home decor, favors, etc. All of her ideas can be done quick and simple by beginners, or done with as much time and detail that an advanced crafter might like to invest.

So, if you're an artist, collector, scrapbooker or crafty at all, this is a really nice-looking, well put-together and useful book to add to your library!

This book is chock full of great ideas. Many pictures on each page versus five pictures of the same craft idea, one per page. I own a bookcase full of craft books and magazines. This book had several ideas that I had never seen before. I had never seen this one in a store. I highly recommend it.