Only the imagination can limit the types of scrapbooks that can be made by the scrapbooking enthusiast. Any special event in any person's life can be the inspiration for a scrapbook. Here are some ideas for themes for a scrapbook album.
Do you have photographs around the house in drawers and shoeboxes? Most of us do. But you can't enjoy your precious photographs if they are lying around in drawers, boxes and in disorganized piles. Get them organized so you can enjoy them by putting them in a scrapbook. You can put them in chronological order, from the earliest times to the most recent photographs, or you can group them by theme, event or person. Be sure to use acid-free paper, glue and embellishments to preserve your memories. Especially be sure to use acid-free ink to label and date each photo for future reference.
A person's entire life can be chronicled in a scrapbook. If you are a parent or grandparent, you can use scrapbooking to keep a history of your child or grandchild's life. And because most communication and photos are shared electronically these days, sharing information via email is a great way to collect photos and newspaper articles to use in a scrapbook.
If the thought of chronicling a person's entire life seems like too much for you, consider scrapbooking a person's life year by year. Parents would certainly enjoy receiving an album per year of each of their child's life as a priceless, much treasured gift.
Did you or your family go on a special vacation recently? Think about saving souvenirs for a travel scrapbook to make when you return. The basis for each page can be pictures taken of places you visited while travelling. The album can be of one trip, or of the travel history of a family. If you know you are going to go on a trip, you can collect post cards and other bits of memorabilia as you travel to include in your scrapbook. When you return from your trip, you can re-live the good times and exciting places you experienced on your travels.
Scrapbooks are great ways to keep the memories of special events that occur in you or your child's life. You may become the family historian by being the family scrapper. Baptisms, Bar Mitzvahs, concerts, parties, birthdays, weddings, and family reunions are only a few of the many reasons to scrapbook. Whether choosing a category or theme for a scrapbook, or chronicling a life through pictures, scrapbooking is an important part of preserving history.
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