Scrapebooking for future memories

At one time my wife and I had a thriving coffee shop. Over the years we had amassed a considerable sum of memorabilia from the coffee shop ranging from a multitude of photos to certificates awarded to us from the city.

For the last couple of years my wife has been getting involved with scrapbooking and had some supplies and scrapes to use up. It was then that she decided that it was high time to organize the coffee shop data and to use up some of the scrapbook supplies she has been purchasing.
She really enjoyed the times we had with the coffee shop and looking at all the memorabilia from it would tend to bring joyful tears to her eyes. When not having the shop would hit her the most she would glance through many of the boxes of photos, menus, etc that we had saved. She proceeded to put together an interesting scrapbook of the years we had our coffee shop. Here is how she went about this time consuming but easy process.

As with any scrapebooking project you must start out by deciding two important points. What kind of book you want and who will be featured in it. For our project this was easy. My wife wanted a book that would convey a timeline of our business so give a look back in time when
our grandchildren would someday see the binder.

There are several approaches to scrapebooking that you can take. You can set it up as a photo album with associated comments or you can include various valued items. My wife chooses to include items such as flyers for the singers during our open mic sessions, poetry clips from some of our poets who frequented the shop and various little treasures of that nature.

Normally you should know how many pictures or memorabilia you plan to include in your book. This is a hard call and if you are like my wife you play it by ear. She knew how she was laying it out however the exact number of pages was a mystery. She did know that she would need a large book so filling it was not a problem she encountered. Keep in mind that the amount of items that you plan to include in your scrapbook determines the size. Sizes of book are in the range from small to the very thick books.

My wife shops around for her supplies going to not only craft stores but also the Dollar tree. She continually seeks out various stickers that she can use on the pages she creates.
After she has gathered all her supplies she proceeds to sit down and sort through all the photos and the memorabilia. She follows the

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