Scrapbooking tips

Since I have blogged about scrapbooking so much and enjoy it so much, I decided I would maybe focus this blog even more on it. It's good to have some semblance of a theme I suppose.

I think the biggest pro about scrapbooking is being able to show off pictures in a better way then having someone just rifle through them prints or a Facebook album. A scrapbook organizes them and people spend more time looking at the photos and sharing in the memories. Plus, it's personally more fun to take a trip down memory lane with a scrapbook. Also, my grandmother used a photo album that uses a sticky substance to secure the photos, and years later they are now permanently attached to it. I used photo corners in my scrapbooks, so if I ever wanted to take a photo out, they aren't permanently attached.

On that note, here's some musts for you if you're considering starting a scrapbook:

Family Tree

Earlier this week I found out my grandmother had fallen and broken her hip. She had to go through surgery and will have a long recovery at her age. I was very sad to hear the news and it finally got me going on the scrapbook I promised to make for her of all her old photos.

I'm really enjoying this scrapbook, though it's much harder than the ones I have made for myself. When I scrapbook I very much like to keep it neat, ordered and simple. But the photos she has span a century and there's really no set way to organize them. I also don't know all of the people in the photos, though luckily she wrote names and sometimes dates on the backs (which is something I should remember to do with my photos.) It's so awesome going through them though. Photos from the mid-1900s of my grandma in beautiful old fashioned dresses and my grandfather (who I never met) in his uniform.

I'm sure there's a lot of stories behind every photo -- though I actually don't know many of them.

In the end, I decided to not be so worried about categories and themes for pages with this scrapbook. I think the photos tell enough that it won't matter.

I'll start sharing some of the pages on this blog soon!

Also, "Laverne and Shirely" just came on TV. Sweet. I haven't seen this show since I was in middle school.

Scrapbooker Extraordinaire

So I don't know a ton of scrapbookers, so maybe this statement is a little off base, but I am the BEST scrapbooker EVER.

Yeah, I said it. Want proof? Check it out: (note, the pages aren't in order here, in the book it's chronological and I'm not done yet still have a ways to go (final press run, Gettysburg/senior week, graduation)

http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/kmd87/Senior%20Year%20Scrapbook/