Just Beth

My Pages Talk -- They really do!

I love it when scrapbook supplies come in handy in the classroom.  Trust me .. I have the supplies to furnish a classroom with enough cardstock and decorative paper for a month (or more). Take a look at this!

At the bottom of the right side of the display there's a white thin box called "Sound."  That's a 30-second recorder from My Pages Talk.   Coleman did a project on the Black-Capped Chickadee this past spring in kindergarten.  I remembered I had one of these recorders in my stash and he recorded the sound the chickadee makes from a website on birds!  Meant for scrapbooking but can be used for so much more.  I took a photo of Coleman's kindergarten class, had the class say something to his teacher, and attached it to a photo/frame ornament for a Christmas present.  

The price is around 15.00 -- can be bought at Archivers or from the company website. 

Here's the great part.  We can record over the chickadee sound for the next project on, say, zoo animals. 

This little recorder will be used a lot during elementary school!  

When are there going to be new episodes of Scrapbook Memories??

For almost nine years (NINE YEARS!) I have been able to co-host a show called "Scrapbook Memories" on PBS (and thankfully, BYU-TV -- we love you BYU-TV -- more on that in a moment).

When I left TV news I didn't think I'd do anything TV related again.  I was done with all of that.  But I had a small passion called scrapbooking and really wanted to do something with that.  Then I got a call from a contact I had in Cleveland.  Turns out the producer, Kathie Stull, was putting together a new scrapbooking show for PBS and wanted to know if I would help host it.  

Uhmmmm, yeah!  There went my resolve to get out of television.

That's the short story and I'll bore you with the longer one on a different post.  

So we are going to be taping SERIES 1600 next month.  That means we've taped this show twice a year for more than 8 years.  Two times a year I fly to Cleveland and tape 13 episodes in a very SHORT period of time. 

And if you still don't get Scrapbook Memories on your PBS station -- check this out!

Yep .. you can buy series 1500 .. and many older series on DVD.  Just go here! 

As for my love for BYU-TV.  That station shows our program each weekday around noon (depending on where you live).  That station is an option for many cable subscribers across the country.  That station (and we do LOVE it) is on DISH and DIRECT TV.  So if your PBS station doesn't show Scrapbook Memories -- never fear -- BYU-TV is here!