How scrapbooking has changed my life

By:Cheryl R

Scrapbooking has totally changed me... Before I scrapbooked I loved to take pictures... didn't matter where I was or what I was doing... I took pictures of everything..

Then one day I was introduced to scrapbooking.. I loved it,.I had a new reason to take pictures...I actually improved in my pictures...everything became a picture to scrapbook... then my best friend's daughter was born... a new scrapbook started... my then fiance now husband...went to Africa for 2 weeks with his brothers, nephews, cousins and father...I sent him with a new camera and 10 rolls of film... Those pictures are now scrapped and in their own album... I had my wedding.. those got scrapped too... Then my Dad died...

I decided to do a scrapbook to not only remember him but to give his future grandchildren a glance at who he was and what he was like.. It's been a year since my Dad's death but I still haven't scrapped anything yet... I'm not ready.. I want his book to be really good (close to perfect as posible). I still need to collect the stories and find pictures from when he was little and growing up(I have plenty from after my brothers and I were born)...

I want to record as much as possible so years from now when I have grandchildren, they will be able to pass on my dad's stories and his book to their children. That way he will never be forgotten and eventually I will get a book done for myself along with my two brothers and hopefully those will get passed along to their children and grandchildren so (hopefully) our stories won't be forgotten.

Tomorrow at dMarie Daily: Once Upon a Time, by Leslee Wischmeier