POULSBO — When Melissa Jarvis-Crawford was diagnosed with cancer, she though it was a certain death sentence. She’d lost several family members to the disease, and, when diagnosed, her biggest fear was that she’d be forgotten.

She sought out a way to ensure her friends and family would honor her memory.

“I wanted them to be able to look at something I’d made and say, ‘remember Melissa?’” she said.

She turned to scrapbooking and cardmaking, which she also found helped her cope with the diagnosis.

“Scrapbooking was my therapy,” she said.

She took up the hobbies while stationed in Groton, Conn., with her husband.

When her family relocated to the Poulsbo area, her hobby turned into a business, and Missy Moo Ink was born.

Missy Moo Ink, a crafts/scrapbooking shop on State Route 305 in Poulsbo, is named in honor of her father’s nickname for her when she was a child.

The shop is a place for friends to gather and be creative, she said. She also sells handmade cards for special occasions.

Jarvis-Crawford understands that scrapbooking can be an expensive hobby. She was a single mom for nine years, and during that time, scrapbooking and crafts were the furthest thing from her mind and budget.

Making crafts affordable is a the top of her business agenda.

For $6 an hour per person, groups can come in an use her non-consumable supplies, such as due cuts, she said.

“You have unlimited use of my big shot machine, dies, embosslits, textered impression embossing folders, punches and other non-consumables,” her Web site states.

In addition, for those looking to dabble in arts and crafts, she offers evening and Saturday classes. Right now the classes center around Halloween crafts, but she’s about to kick into high gear with Christmas cards, she said.