Excerpt from an article in the Buffalo News:
Full Article: buffalonews.com/life/next/article548216.ece
Sometimes one of the best things about the summer is looking back on all the fun times you had. A great way to do just that is by creating a scrapbook — you’ll be a lot more likely to stroll down memory lane if your pictures, postcards and ticket stubs are displayed with pride instead of shoved in a shoe box under your bed.
Attica resident Sara Bartz, 16, has been scrapbooking for about six years. She said it’s an easy way to express creativity and easy to do while watching a movie or TV, which makes it a perfect hobby for inclement nonsummer seasons. Not only are you staying busy and productive, you’re reliving summertime fun.
“Scrapbooks are a good way to show what you did that summer,” she said. “And then you don’t have to be so sad that it went, because you still have it with you.”
Scrapbooking can be as expensive or inexpensive as you want — Bartz said plan on spending around $30 to start for basics. You can use construction paper or standard white printer paper for your background, or buy sheets of patterned scrapbook-specific paper. There are tons of ways to make each page unique, like stickers, stamps, quotes and accents you can buy at places like Walmart, Jo-Ann Fabrics or Michaels.
Another option, if you’re feeling intimidated by the scrapbooking idea, is a photo journal, where you organize all your summer pictures into albums and write a little blurb for each so you remember what made it so special. Even just updating the framed pictures in your room can help keep summer fresh in your mind all year.
