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sues
'slightly transplanted' Cubs fan :)
PeaNut 16228 - 6/3/2001
Posts: 26965 Layouts: 71
Loc: SW Chicago suburbs
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Posted 2009-05-08 4:02 PM (#333835)
Subject: News About Memory Makers Magazine
Please see attached from Vice President Teri Mollison regarding the closure of Memory Makers magazine with the September/October 2009 issue. Decisions like these are never easy and aren’t entered lightly, as you can imagine. We at Memory Makers have been proud and honored to be the scrapbookers’ go-to source for scrapbooking ideas and inspiration for the past 13 years. Subscribers: We are working closely with our circulation department and fulfillment company and will distribute information regarding your subscription closer to the publication date of the September/October final issue.
Best,
Beth Williams
Executive Editor, Memory Makers
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ajsweetpea
The Play Date Queen
PeaNut 48410 - 9/8/2002
Posts: 6504 Layouts: 0
Loc: New England
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I didn't know this. That's very sad.  I remember their earlier issues from when I first started scrapbooking! |
****Andrea****
Happily married
Mom to my beautiful kindergartener | |
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aimmer
MultiSlacker MultiStacker
PeaNut 157595 - 7/15/2004
Posts: 10273 Layouts: 36
Loc: coloRADo
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So many of my favorite magazines have stopped publishing in the last 12 months. I really love magazines, but I think eventually most will be web based. Kind of sad. |
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PierKiss
What if everything is an illusion & nothing exists
PeaNut 82319 - 4/21/2003
Posts: 9506 Layouts: 38
Loc: Inside the Beltway | Posted: 5/11/2009 5:16:58 PM
That's sad. |
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scrappychica22
AncestralPea
PeaNut 166112 - 9/2/2004
Posts: 4948 Layouts: 109
Loc: In Utah...not eating Jello
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sues
'slightly transplanted' Cubs fan :)
PeaNut 16228 - 6/3/2001
Posts: 26965 Layouts: 71
Loc: SW Chicago suburbs
| Posted: 5/11/2009 5:45:31 PM
Doesn't this only leave one now? Scrapbooks Etc. - the BH & G mag?
I wonder how stable they are. Maybe way more stable, now that they aren't dividing ad revenue. | |
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AthenainCA
Right Pea on the Left Coast
PeaNut 230510 - 11/6/2005
Posts: 13463 Layouts: 10
Loc: SoCal
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Is Creating Keepsakes ending too? |
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Athena - SAHM to two boys, 17 & 7
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*Donna*
AncestralPea
PeaNut 32500 - 3/14/2002
Posts: 4894 Layouts: 302 | Posted: 5/11/2009 5:56:44 PM
CK is still around, they just turned their SS subscribers over to CK since it's gone now. |
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Momof1sweet-lil-lad
AncestralPea
PeaNut 133429 - 2/27/2004
Posts: 4023 Layouts: 0
Loc: Hiding in Plain Sight
Count: 5 | Posted: 5/11/2009 5:56:51 PM
Heard that.
Is Creating Keepsakes ending too?
I haven't heard anything about that. With SS folding back into CK, I was hoping for a magazine with some substance again.
My absolute favorite mag (Cottage Living) quit publishing in December. The substitute turned out to be a new favorite. Thankfully!
But, I'm very leary of subscribing or renewing any magazine right now. Particularly CK. I was still getting tons of Renewal notices after hearing about them folding. I just don't trust CK's practices at all.
I sure hope SB etc sticks around. I really like that one. |
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***Amy***
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 63919 - 1/20/2003
Posts: 5307 Layouts: 38
Loc: probably at a sports game or practice
| Posted: 5/11/2009 6:19:44 PM
What about Paper Crafts? I think I got an issue last month, but now I'm not so sure..... |
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*Sara*
insert clever Pea Title here
PeaNut 36466 - 4/21/2002
Posts: 6251 Layouts: 80
Loc: upstate NY | Posted: 5/11/2009 6:30:09 PM
Wow. Guess scrapbooking just isn't as popular as it used to be.
I do have a little place in my heart for MM. They were the first mag to publish a layout of mine, back when I cared about that stuff.  |
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4everDaltonsMommy
PeaAddict
PeaNut 217227 - 8/2/2005
Posts: 1490 Layouts: 2
Loc: Some where out there.....
| Posted: 5/11/2009 11:21:57 PM
That's sad. MM is one of my favorites, the only one I subscribe to.
-Jen |
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On Nov. 5, 2005, my son was born, still at 37 wks. 7lbs. 12 oz 21in
"Some people dream of angels, I held one in my arms."
Danya Kay arrived Sept. 12 2006. 8lbs. 9 oz 20 & 1/4 in | |
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Pluck
PeaAddict
PeaNut 141671 - 4/13/2004
Posts: 1242 Layouts: 0
| Posted: 5/12/2009 2:02:40 AM
I have let most of my subscriptions lapse. I still get Scrapbook Trends and Cards (by the same company). I love both of them, but have noticed the books are getting skinnier and skinnier. It's kind of sad.
Ruth | |
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nlsnow
PeaNut
PeaNut 71556 - 2/24/2003
Posts: 18 Layouts: 0
Loc: Draper, Utah
 | Posted: 5/17/2009 11:36:16 AM
I contacted Memory Makers to request an interview. They refused to talk to me on the phone, but the publisher emailed me back with answers to my questions, including what will happen to subscribers who are paid up for several issues in advance. You can see the Q&A here. |
Nicole Snow
Salt Lake City Scrapbooking Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-4259-Salt-Lake-City-Scrapbooking-Examiner | |
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TreeLover
Liberally conservative, conservatively liberal
PeaNut 401406 - 11/28/2008
Posts: 8499 Layouts: 0
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Guess scrapbooking just isn't as popular as it used to be.
That might be true to a degree, but I think with so many people putting fabulous ideas on blogs and tons of online inspiration, the idea of a magazine as a go to source for ideas may have become outdated. I read four blogs from some women who are so creative it makes my brain hurt to think how they even come up with this stuff, and yet there it is, consistently. New ideas, new ways to use products and fresh mixes of items for awesome pages and cards. A magazine is incredibly stale compared to that. And not searchable, either. | |
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**cindyupnorth**
Tony is my hoochie
PeaNut 3902 - 4/16/2000
Posts: 15382 Layouts: 9
Loc: MN | Posted: 5/17/2009 12:56:36 PM
I think sb has it's ups and downs. Alot of people are doing digital. I think there are still alot of us sb'ing out there. But I know for me..something had to go in terms of money spent. So I stopped buying mag's. And I cut back on supplies. I had SOO much in my stash, that I have been sb'ing for the last 2 yrs, and havn't bought much at all, beside adheasive and cardstock. I hope CK can keep it going. |
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Mystie
I hold a PhD in horribleness.
PeaNut 8446 - 12/11/2000
Posts: 7997 Layouts: 146
Loc: Newport News, VA
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That makes me sad...there was a copy of MM in the scrapbook kit I bought at Target in 1998, and that opened the whole world of scrapbooking to me. I've had a soft spot for MM ever since. It feels like the end of an era. |
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Danielle in NC
UNC Pea - GO HEELS!!!
PeaNut 31919 - 3/7/2002
Posts: 8595 Layouts: 1
Loc: North Carolina | |
scrapoodle
AncestralPea
PeaNut 39500 - 6/2/2002
Posts: 4623 Layouts: 9
Loc: Go Cavs!!
| Posted: 5/17/2009 1:03:25 PM
They were my favorite scrapbooking magazine however I did let my subscription lapse since I do not scrapbook much. I always like them way better than CK. |
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paperaddict22
PeaNut
PeaNut 396650 - 10/23/2008
Posts: 178 Layouts: 0
| Posted: 5/17/2009 1:06:40 PM
That's so sad. MM was a nice alternative to CK and Scrapbooks, Etc. | |
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