Creative Memories Scrapbook

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01. Where It’s From
02. What Is It?
03. Low Self-Esteem
04. The Inner Voice
05. Affirmations
06. Self-Nurturing
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08. Self-Talk
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Creative Memories Scrapbook - How To

We all accumulate a great deal of stuff over the years. Mementos from our own lives and from our children's pile up. It all needs to be organized and presented. I had drawers full of ticket stubs, theatre programs, newspaper cuttings and so on. Some people have memory boxes for this sort of thing but I have a creative memories scrapbook.

The book traces the history of my family and I, starting with the birth certificates for my husband and myself and going on to school memorabilia for both of us. There are landmark items from our marriage from the printed wedding invitation to photographs of all our houses and cars. Holiday items such as postcards, admission tickets and brochures take up a lot of room. A separate creative memories scrapbook was done for each of our two children, as they seem to fill it more than us.

There are programs from school sports days, school certificates and awards won at sport. My son has soccer awards and my daughter has them for fencing. My son played for a local soccer team and I kept all the match reports. Their school would be mentioned in local newspapers sometimes, so there are the cuttings for that. As they become teenagers, the memories change. Tickets from their first gigs and music festivals start to appear.

Not only is all this stuff tidier, it is well presented and everything is together in a chronological order. It's lovely to look through the creative memories scrapbook and it's something I treasure. It would be high on the list of things that I'd save if there were a fire. I have done this to have something to pass on and not just for my enjoyment. Sometimes, my kids ask why I am keeping a particular item from their childhood. I tell them that something may not seem significant to them now but will do in the future. When they are older and when they have kids of their own, they will be glad that I kept all those childhood souvenirs.

The pages in the books have colored card, to make the mementos stand out and to stiffen the pages. They stand proudly on our office shelves. It's so much better than trying to find something in a drawer or a shoebox. I tell the kids that it will all be theirs one day. They groan but I know they are really pleased to have a creative memories scrapbook although they might not admit it for a while.