Ocean State Libraries

"Mickie Lambert creates "digital scrapbooks" for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie honors the old woman's last wish and begins curating her peculiar objets d'art. A music box, a hair clip, a key chain--twelve mementos in all that must have meant so much to Nadia, who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the...

The creator of the blog Posie Gets Cozy introduces thirty simple, creative, and fun-filled projects for showcasing memorabilia, displaying photographs, and preserving valuable memories, in a craft guide that utilizes a variety of techniques, including hand-sewing, embroidery, appliqué, and stenciling to preserve one's treasured keepsakes.

Passed and Present is a one-of-a-kind guide for discovering creative and meaningful ways to keep the memory of loved ones alive. Inspiring and imaginative, this bona fide "how-to" manual teaches us how to remember those we miss most, no matter how long they've been gone. Passed and Present is not about sadness and grieving. It is about happiness and remembering. It is possible to look forward, to live a rich and joyful life, while keeping the memory...

Filled with exciting ideas for collecting and transforming meaningful objects into beautiful three-dimensional collages.

"How To Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid Of Junk Without Destroying History" provides answers to the question: When someone dies or it's time to move - or just clean out the attic, garage, or basement - what papers and other things should we save for the sake of history and what can we safely toss? After reading this book, you can comfortably clean out your attic - or office, garage, basement, cupboards - with confidence that you're not tossing out historically...

In "Treasure Forever, " renowned craft experts Sheerin and Pensiero celebrate the uniqueness of every family's history and heirlooms. Organized around universal life experiences, the book's 30 how-to projects come with tips for how to personalize each in beautiful and unforgettable ways.

"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood-it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in...