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Scrapbooks – Making Your Memories A Family Treasure
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Sep 30, 2006, 14:42

Scrapbooking has rapidly become a fun pastime for people of all ages. You can create beautiful albums to show off your family photos and other momentos. Another added bonus is, once you have completed your scrapbook, it will quickly become a gorgeous family treasure that will be around for generations to come.

Scrapbooking is the perfect way to preserve your pictures and memorabilia. It can also help to create a bond between you and your children, by bringing you closer together. You can relive your wonderful memories, while putting the scrapbook that will house them together. You will also be making new memories with your family as you relive the older ones.

Preserve and Remember Your Past

Scrapbooks are a great way to preserve and relive the memories of your past. The pages of a scrapbook will come alive now , as well as twenty years from now when your children’s children flip the pages. Your scrapbook will keep your memories alive and allow the history of your family to be carried on to future generations.

Share Your Story With Your Loved Ones

Your scrapbook brings life to your pictures. Instead of a picture album full of just faces your scrapbook will tell will the story of the activities and times of your life. A scrapbook is like a beautiful storybook; your own story and the story of your family and friends, told by your photographs and mementos. Each page unfolds to a new chapter, bringing back the memories, and telling a new story to new viewers.


Unique Memories Can Live Forever

Your memories can easily fade as the years go by, as you are making new memories. A scrapbook can help to ensure that your memories will live forever for your family and friend to share. Handwriting your memories, your thoughts and feelings of each event, is one of the best ways to keep those memories alive on your scrapbook pages because it is so personal. It will bring back the excitement and joy of each event as you page through your scrapbook. Bring those wonderful times back to life, as though they just happened!

A Family Heirloom Binding Yesterday and Today

If you haven’t started creating your own scrapbook, you can start today.Your scrapbook will be a treasured family heirloom put together with love and joy to share the wonderful times of your life. Record special moments, thoughts and memories on every page of your scrapbook.Add little pictures,words,thoughts,and feelings on each page. Future generations will be able to look at your album and know what you and your life was like.

There are many supplies and pages available to scrapbookers, but you can also look around the house for things to use. Pieces of lace, fabric from an old dress, show the fabric of the clothes you wore in a picture. The shoe lace of your child's baby shoe. A button, or old movie ticket can add excitment to an ordinary page, bringing the memory to vivid life. Try different items, you will get the hang of it in no time! It's fun, and you will be creating a tradition of sharing and love with your family. What are you waiting for?

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