Scrapbooking!!!!!

My goodness! I have just 'discovered' the whole 'scrapbooking' craft movement.... and wow! it is HUGE. How did that one stay under the radar?

Personally, I have a trunk, and in there is such a mix of random odds and ends... old toy cars, photos, diaries, loose pages with old poems,.. books with addresses in them of friends long ago moved and lost, stuffed bears, smoothed out tin coverings from chocolate money given at new years when I was 7 or 8, letters, cards, certificates, merit badges from guides and scouts..... etc. you get the idea.

What I would be interested to find out is if there is a pattern in who is more likely to be a collector of memories? is it random? genetic? one person in a family who is 'designated memorabilia person'? or is it people who have lost of extended family around? or no family?

Whatever it is, its interesting that memorabilia is such a strong cultural force in our lives. museums, memorial serveses, remembrance days, birthdays, anniversaries. .... etc. we like to remember and be nostalgic over the past, to tell the stories from our childhood, re-watch favorite films, savor the music of out youth, and to laugh at old jokes from the past with lifelong friends.....

This scrapbooking is a new form of story telling. almost a journal, almost a photo album, but more, trying to capture not just the words and images, but the atmosphere of a moment in time as well.

I might have to give it a go!!