Scrapbooking

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I started [|scrapbooking] in high school before it had a name.When my sister graduated from high school, she had gotten a memory album.Little did she know that I would steal into her room and look through this book.I loved this book.It was so cool, and it was half empty. So when I was a freshman in high school, I started collecting anything and everything in a box under my bed.For four years I waited to order my memory book and get to work on it.When it finally came, I stayed up into the wee hours of the night working on it.I couldn’t stop.I was obsessed with finishing it.My book, unlike my sister’s, is bursting open because it is so full.It is one of my prize possessions and the instigator of a lifetime of [|scrapbooking]. So through five years of college, I scrapbooked.I have a scrapbook for each year recording all my precious memories.I started on my family.I would cut up pictures and used colorful contact paper cut into different shapes for the background.I made a book for my mother’s family, my father’s family, and all of my friends.If only I had known… A couple of years later, when I started working, I discovered “Creative Memories”.This was so cool!This was a new way of recording your memories with paper, stickers, and colorful pens.It had lots of creative gadgets for cropping pictures and making everything neat and orderly.I promptly dismantled all of my other books I had created for my family, and redid each and every page.I love all the idea pages and books.It makes me look a lot more creative than I am.Anyone who is not a scrapbooker, thinks that I am amazing!Those who are in the know, recognize the hard work, time, and love that goes into each and every page.