Scrapbook Inspirations

Scrapbooking used to be a favourite pastime of the Victorians. My Grandmother was an avid Scrapbooker and I still have two of her albums,filled with cuttings from postcards,greetings card and any wrapping paper or snippet that she thought was colourful enough to keep. In years gone by I have Scrapbooked with my own children,an inexpensive hobby that can while away the most miserable of winters day. The magazine is exactly as it describes itself..Inspirational ! Very individual ideas pop up,how to make table place setting names,customised napkin rings. A recent feature has been about making a home theatre and the characters..in readiness to ...

Ever since starting a family almost four years ago we seem to have taken an inordinate amount of photos! (Well you do when they are so little and cute, don't you?) As these were all taken with a digital camera, they were all tending to languish on files on the computer, and I really wanted to do something with the best ones and put them in an album. But, the question was, what to do in order to present them at their best. Then last summer, my neighbour showed me some of her photo albums and told me she was in to scrapbooking in a big way. My definition of scrapbooking is that it's all about storing and saving your photographic memories in a creative way (much ...