Why do I love scrapbooking?
by Barbara Hudson on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 2:19pm
I probably say too much about scrapbooking here on FB, but I felt a need to "defend" my reason for encouraging this hobby. I have been an avid scrapbooker for the past 13 years and already have too-ooo many albums completed. But there's still so many old and new photos which need to tell a story! As a retired person I have more time than ever to think and record the past, but also life is still happening, thankfully. So I keep doing it and enjoying it! I have wonderful children and grandchildren who do exciting things all the time! I have sweet memories that can't be left unsaid!
A very important reason for scrapbooking is not only placing those photos in an album, but also journal those times and thoughts while you still remember! I have already noticed that some memory of things about my children when they were small is just not there! You think you will always remember but you don't! I did not do a good job of journaling those day to day things which probably seemed like chores at the time. But now I would love to be able to share more of those times with my grown up children. I frequently tell young mothers to "write that down" when they tell me something cute about their child. "You may forget it"! I have some young friends who are completing Project Life albums about their everyday happenings with their children. They record simple things everyday, not just on birthdays and special occasions as I did when my children were small. I highly recommend this kind of scrapbooking for young mothers. Even documentation of a boring, rainy day at home could become a sweet memory to a grown up child someday.
None of my older relatives are still alive for me to question about "things as they were back then". I so wish that I had questioned my grandmother more and written down her memories at the time. These would be more valuable to me now than any possessions that she could have given.
Because of my mission to encourage scrapbooking, I started a group at the Active Life Senior Center and have made a whole new group of friends because of this. I hope I have somehow helped them to get" hooked" on this special hobby. We scrapbook about our children and grandchildren of course, but my request is that they include pages about themselves. I give them an outline to make their own "Book of Me".
When I lost my mother, I looked through her personal things for any written thoughts she might have left behind. I didn't find much, but I did have some recipes that were in her handwriting. Somehow those became so important to me. I try to stress in our class that someday what we leave behind may be valuable to our children.
Scrapbooking can be therapy when you are struggling through loss of a loved one or some other life changing event. It took me a while before I could, but placing good memories of my husband on paper was very healing for me. I've heard this often---scrapbooking is theraputic and is a lot less expensive than seeing a psychiatrist.
Bible scriptures even offer encouragement to the scrapbooker! Psalm 78:4...."We will not hide them from our children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that he has done. Deuteronomy 4:9 ....lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.
So maybe I have just explained to myself, if no one else, why I have this huge collection of scrapbook supplies which I will probably not use up in this lifetime.
A very important reason for scrapbooking is not only placing those photos in an album, but also journal those times and thoughts while you still remember! I have already noticed that some memory of things about my children when they were small is just not there! You think you will always remember but you don't! I did not do a good job of journaling those day to day things which probably seemed like chores at the time. But now I would love to be able to share more of those times with my grown up children. I frequently tell young mothers to "write that down" when they tell me something cute about their child. "You may forget it"! I have some young friends who are completing Project Life albums about their everyday happenings with their children. They record simple things everyday, not just on birthdays and special occasions as I did when my children were small. I highly recommend this kind of scrapbooking for young mothers. Even documentation of a boring, rainy day at home could become a sweet memory to a grown up child someday.
None of my older relatives are still alive for me to question about "things as they were back then". I so wish that I had questioned my grandmother more and written down her memories at the time. These would be more valuable to me now than any possessions that she could have given.
Because of my mission to encourage scrapbooking, I started a group at the Active Life Senior Center and have made a whole new group of friends because of this. I hope I have somehow helped them to get" hooked" on this special hobby. We scrapbook about our children and grandchildren of course, but my request is that they include pages about themselves. I give them an outline to make their own "Book of Me".
When I lost my mother, I looked through her personal things for any written thoughts she might have left behind. I didn't find much, but I did have some recipes that were in her handwriting. Somehow those became so important to me. I try to stress in our class that someday what we leave behind may be valuable to our children.
Scrapbooking can be therapy when you are struggling through loss of a loved one or some other life changing event. It took me a while before I could, but placing good memories of my husband on paper was very healing for me. I've heard this often---scrapbooking is theraputic and is a lot less expensive than seeing a psychiatrist.
Bible scriptures even offer encouragement to the scrapbooker! Psalm 78:4...."We will not hide them from our children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that he has done. Deuteronomy 4:9 ....lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.
So maybe I have just explained to myself, if no one else, why I have this huge collection of scrapbook supplies which I will probably not use up in this lifetime.
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