March 5, 2007
You can?t build a scrapbook without paper and card. And perhaps we should add a caution before going any farther: Collecting card and patterned paper is highly addictive! Well actually collecting paper of any sort is highly addictive. Don?t say you were not warned! …
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February 28, 2007
We want our scrapbooks to last forever. However, none of us is going to live forever no matter how much we may want it; and neither will they.
While it?s great to imagine our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren looking through our scrapbook and thinking how wonderful things were in our day, how handsome great-great-great-great-great Uncle Dave was, and what exciting, pioneering lives we lived (!) let?s not kid ourselves it will happen! If you doubt my theory, just think how tastes vary and how often we throw out something we didn?t think we liked only to wish a few short years later that we hadn?t thrown it out! Unless we lock our scrapbooks in a vault somewhere – dry and airtight, of course! – and throw away the key, our descendants are unlikely to have one of them in a hundred years time, never mind ALL the scrapbooks we make! Styles change; things get lost. We?re a fickle people. That?s life.
All that said it?s …
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