Some of us investigate our origins through genealogy. Anybody that has bought and renovated an old a house will understand the element of looking after a little bit of heritage. It has to do with honouring the past and guarding a little bit of that past for posterity, in the hope that future generations will look after it as you have.

Thus I have always been a bit of a bower-bird. I have been collecting stuff, looking after it and and restoring things all my life. My wife is a bit the same, and so it seemed perfectly natural that over the years our parents and grandparents ensured that we became the recipients of a massive amount of family treasure. I suppose it is because older generations knew that we would love and care for their treasures, some of which were passed on to them for safekeeping.

As a result, we have access have a huge store of photographs, books, antiques, emphemera and other stuff that we can turn into design elements to help you with your scrapbooking and genealogy projects. You will see many of these things in my designs, including very old parchments, recipe books, newspapers, postcards and other mementoes. Some things have just appeared... when we renovated our 100 year old home, we found bottle tops, cigarette cards, playing cards, newspapers and coins under the lino, behind Victorian fireplaces and behind skirting boards.

I take great pleasure in developing themes and finding new ways to create designs that evoke and era and help you to 'set the scene' for projects that you might be working on. I always appreciate it when you ask me if it is possible to create a specific theme, and many of my designs have come about this way. So if you have a need for a specific theme, contact me - you never know, I might just have the makings to generate a background specifically for you.

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