One hobby or interest I have is scrapbooking. I have scrapbooked for several years now, and it never really gets old to me. Scrapbooking is usually stereotyped to be a stay at home mom thing, but it really should not be. Anyone of any age and ability can scrapbook. I have scrapbooked several different events in my life. I really enjoy creating something that I can keep forever and that will hold my memories forever.
Scrapbooking is one way I can show my creativity and it also is one place I feel at rest. I don’t do any other types of art, just scrapbooking. I love putting together what I believe truly is art. Scrapbooking calms me somehow. It puts me in a place where all I think about is the happy pictures I am scrapbooking. I just remember the events that took place. I will continue to scrapbook because it really makes me content. I can sit down at the table and scrapbook for over an hour and I won’t even notice that I had been sitting for that long. Scrapbooking is a place I can let out all my stresses.
I started when I was in the sixth grade. I am really not sure why I started, I think it was because I saw other people doing it, and I thought that looked really fun and enjoyable activity. My best friend’s mom gave me my first scrapbook album and tools. When I look back at my first scrapbooks, I now laugh at my lack of abilities. I was really not that good at first, but over time I have gotten much better. I now try using new tools and have a better page outline. I am very glad I started scrapbooking.
I have scrapbook a variety of events and things that happen in my life. I have scrapbooked birthdays, holidays, and vacations. I love looking back and remembering that funny gift I got at that Christmas three years ago or that church camp I went to and the people I met. Without scrapbooking I might never have remembered that ever took place. Scrapbooking has created for me sort-of memory box. Each page is filled with different memories almost like I opened a time capsule that was buried years ago. I am grateful that years from now I will still have these memories with me and I will also be able to pass this down to future generations.
One specific event I scrapbooked was my high school years. This one album is filled with my high school memories. It makes me smile when I look at it and see pictures from my first dances, football games, and most recently graduation. I will be able to give this to my future children one day and they will get a small insight to my high school experience. My mom mentioned to me that she really wishes she had a memory tool like that. It will be neat to look back at my high school experience when I am old and retired.
Another specific event that I have scrapbooked was the ice storm of 2009. My town of Owensboro, KY was hit very hard from the storm. We were out of school for two weeks and some were out of power for months. Because this made such a big impact on my life, I thought I would scrapbook it. I was able to put my own pictures from damage we had, and I clipped pictures from the newspaper to also include in the pages. I know this will be very interesting thing to look back on and recount that hard time in my towns’ history.
I encourage others to start scrapbooking because it is an easy hobby that will allow memories to last forever. It is something simple that you can do that will keep your memories alive. Unfortunately, after starting college I have not been able to scrapbook. But, I hope to do this again in the summer months or at winter break. I never want to stop my hobby of scrapbooking.
Scrapbooking is one way I can show my creativity and it also is one place I feel at rest. I don’t do any other types of art, just scrapbooking. I love putting together what I believe truly is art. Scrapbooking calms me somehow. It puts me in a place where all I think about is the happy pictures I am scrapbooking. I just remember the events that took place. I will continue to scrapbook because it really makes me content. I can sit down at the table and scrapbook for over an hour and I won’t even notice that I had been sitting for that long. Scrapbooking is a place I can let out all my stresses.
I started when I was in the sixth grade. I am really not sure why I started, I think it was because I saw other people doing it, and I thought that looked really fun and enjoyable activity. My best friend’s mom gave me my first scrapbook album and tools. When I look back at my first scrapbooks, I now laugh at my lack of abilities. I was really not that good at first, but over time I have gotten much better. I now try using new tools and have a better page outline. I am very glad I started scrapbooking.
I have scrapbook a variety of events and things that happen in my life. I have scrapbooked birthdays, holidays, and vacations. I love looking back and remembering that funny gift I got at that Christmas three years ago or that church camp I went to and the people I met. Without scrapbooking I might never have remembered that ever took place. Scrapbooking has created for me sort-of memory box. Each page is filled with different memories almost like I opened a time capsule that was buried years ago. I am grateful that years from now I will still have these memories with me and I will also be able to pass this down to future generations.
One specific event I scrapbooked was my high school years. This one album is filled with my high school memories. It makes me smile when I look at it and see pictures from my first dances, football games, and most recently graduation. I will be able to give this to my future children one day and they will get a small insight to my high school experience. My mom mentioned to me that she really wishes she had a memory tool like that. It will be neat to look back at my high school experience when I am old and retired.
Another specific event that I have scrapbooked was the ice storm of 2009. My town of Owensboro, KY was hit very hard from the storm. We were out of school for two weeks and some were out of power for months. Because this made such a big impact on my life, I thought I would scrapbook it. I was able to put my own pictures from damage we had, and I clipped pictures from the newspaper to also include in the pages. I know this will be very interesting thing to look back on and recount that hard time in my towns’ history.
I encourage others to start scrapbooking because it is an easy hobby that will allow memories to last forever. It is something simple that you can do that will keep your memories alive. Unfortunately, after starting college I have not been able to scrapbook. But, I hope to do this again in the summer months or at winter break. I never want to stop my hobby of scrapbooking.
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