Aside from pulling out the boxes of tins filled with patches, buttons, pins, ribbions, bows, and other assorted items, we have been working on some scrapbooking themes that deal with the past and putting these items on the papers and/or use as embellishments, etc.
Things like
What happened on the day of birth…around the world…local…family…births…news bits, etc.
What happened on a specific day in the past. Brought back some memories like when we wore ‘Wear a Moustache’ patches on our jeans or the day the CN Tower opened and the Mighty Q had a big bash 
Some great links.
From Sympatico On this Day or This Day in History from The History Channel
Born the same day over at Biography’s Born on this Day or who died Biography’s Died on this Day and some interesting facts can be found here Year U Were Born 1920 – 2007 and at Birth Facts
We’ve also been adding to these themes and have done some themes based on birth zodiacs from all culture types. We included a person plant types, used the persons colors types, minerals, gems, etc.
Most of this info can come form a Zodiac’s Sign and Attributes for a specific culture.
Simple Zodiac,
What’s Your Sign also covers, in brief, the Zodiac, Celt Tree, Burmese, Chinese, Native American, and many symbols.
Astrology Online
What Plant are You a fun insight.
What’s in a Name? We also added their world names, like what is your name in Hindu or Spanish.
Etymology of Names, Name Meanings, Oh Baby.
other tidbits
What song topped the charts
There are a ton more facts out there to add to your scrap page layouts.
Good ideas are shared!
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*DaisyQ*
