Reply #12: I love to scrapbook

[LibraLiz1973]

Even as far back as high school I was ALWAYS the picture person
and I used to make my own little albums.
Guess who my friends turn to now when they want to remember the past? lol


Then I took a creative memories class once and was hooked.
2 years ago, both of my nieces were graduating high school. I got their parents
to give me hundreds of pictures of them which I went through and scanned what I wanted
& got prints from Kodak. I used K&Company books which were SO nice.

I'm not really into getting the magazines and copying other peoples layouts-
I do my own thing using sticker, papers, stencils & free hand drawing.

The last page of the book for each of them was a baby pic, a toddler pic, a Kindergarten pic,
and 6th grade pic, their first high school dance and their senior portrait- along with the words
to Rod Stewarts "Forever Young". I've never seen people cry so hard when they saw it.
Heck, I got choked up doing it for them. It took me from November-June to do both books.


They both keep their books in a prominent place in their apartments and they both love them.
One of them just asked me if she gave me her college pictures if I would make a scrapbook for her
of those.

Scrapbooking is about memories- when I was growing up my grandmother always took tons of pictures and
created these beautiful albums. I wanted to carry that tradition on.

I think some people go nutso over it & want everything to be JUST SO. But others of us just do it
because there is beauty to be found in documenting your (or someone you love) history.