They want to see what is in those boxes that My grandkids and great grandkids are visiting today With good intentions I will someday, put all my pictures in an album I hurried to my carĪnd sat in the parking lot looking and laughing with a big smile. That belongs with those pictures and store them in a box. I will never forget those moments, of the pictures that I took. Someday, I will put all my pictures in an album Should such be kept? Be burned? What should one do These, handed down, that must have meant so much Īre these close kin that I should not disown? This large, framed one is labeled "Bumpkins' Band" Such solemn faces clothes-long since passe This father sits-frail to wife-and children stand Someone in cap and gown two small grave plots,Īnd this torn one must be some blacksmith's tools. Small bear on bear-skin rug a country school Old pictures tin types, profiles wedding shots This would go great with pictures of you or your customers working on their albums. Arrange other stickers or cut things out of paper to look like other scrapbook supplies. In the lower left put a teddy bear sticker. Using multi-colors of ABC stickers (including some stencils) write "Me and My Scrapbook" along the top and down the right side of a page. the message is that life has been good, and that it will continue to be. With a scrapbook, more easily than without, we can find ourselves someplace else in our lives. Old objects, photos, and notes have this effect on us they trip our memories. My grandfather's hand-written marriage proposal reminds me that my grandmother didn't intend to have children-apparently a negotiable point. The Secret Santa message my college roommate scribbled on some notebook paper is what reminds me of weeks of silly, hidden surprises. A hard copy of an E-mail invitation keeps fresh the office baby shower for our new daughter, Georgie. The Thanksgiving menus I have saved tell of the two years that the turkey weighed more than Nick. It is a museum of reminders that life has been good. This is the purpose of the family scrapbook. (put together by posters on Stampin' and Scrappin') Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost." (From Clutter's Last Stand by Don Aslett) They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode.A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger.Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book.
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