Simple steps to help you get started journaling in your scrapbooks which is the key to preserving your memories.
Difficulty Level: 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. Write this information under or around your photos.
- 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. If you are having trouble, keep it simple, for example, "Everyone was heard to say that they had a great time at the party."
- Your personal handwriting adds another element of history to your albums (even if you don't especially care for it). However, if you can't bring yourself to write in your albums try printing the journaling on acid-free paper from your computer and mount it on your pages.
- 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.
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