Here’s an essay on the importance of scrapbooking. Well, not exactly, but it’s definitely related.
….Our digital age makes snapping, saving, organizing, and sharing images so simple and immediate that we seem to be becoming indifferent to them. And while it is wonderfully easy to store and preserve photos electronically, consider the difference between opening up a physical album and pulling up a screen to flick through. A screen is a kind of barrier, a distraction separating you from those sitting right next to you. A physical photo album, spread out in front of you and a companion, is the story of your life. One picture elicits numerous tales.
Your ’80s high-school prom pictures. The toga parties you hosted in college. Your first car. Do you remember that person being at your wedding? Oh, those were the neighbors down the street we loved so much who had to move away! What a joy that homeschool field day was — do you remember that horrible sunburn?….
And now that you’re motivated, please visit my Close To My Heart shop for charming, elegant, whimsical scrapbooking supplies. Feel free to contact me with questions, tracymarisa@gmail.com.
There’s no time like the present for organizing your past.
