Simple steps to help you get started journaling in your scrapbooks which is the key to preserving your memories.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: Varies
Here's How:
- Choose acid-free, permanent, scrapbook pens in colors that coordinate with your scrapbook page.
- Begin by adding a title to the page. You can keep it simple; it could just include the event and date, i.e. "Easter 1998."
- Next, start with the basics, especially dates and full names.
- Continue by adding some basic circumstantial information, such as where the events in the photos took place, or why the people in the pictures were there.
- If you have room on your page, you can complete your journaling by adding some personal thoughts, emotions, poems, or quotes.
Tips:
- Your personal handwriting adds another element of history to your albums (even if you don't especially care for it).
- Try fun things on occasion like adding sticker pictographs to your journaling to jazz it up.
- Lastly, remember that your family's story is the most important part of preserving the past and the present for the future, don't neglect it with too few words.
