Computer Scrapbooking Techniques

There are some cool woodworking plans that help you build things such as easels, chairs and other cool stuff. You can look here:
http://www.myartandcraftsupplies.com/Woodworking-Plans.html

And you can also get instructions on building furniture but that could be pretty hard: http://www.woodworkingheaven.com/Furniture-Making-Books.html

That barn sounds like a great resource for making things!

Find a magazine rack at a flea market. Then go to ebay and in the category “Magazine Back Issues” under “Books”–search for some magazines for the year and month you were married.

Go to Wal Mart and buy one of those posterboards that’s got the rigid foam in the middle. Then get a nice 5×7 or 8×10 of the two of you for the center. Around that, make a collage of pictures of your 10 years as husband and wife, and throw in a few of the dating years. You can cover your collage with clear contact paper or get a glass cut to size, then build a frame from some of your wood scraps. I did one (minus the frame) for my husband as a wedding gift, but I included pictures of us both from birth on.

Build up a stockpile of pictures of both you onto your computer. Do a color print onto cloth squares. Put squares together for quilt, computer cover, back of a couch. The printing can be done by specialty camera stores.

My sister-in-law made quilt of her child’s special moments, baby pictures, etc… & made a quilt with the graduation picture in the middle. She did this for each child’s graduation. It was beautiful.