Throughout the seventeen years of my life, I've collected alot of things. Notes, pictures, scraps of papers, bulletins, pamphlets, ticket stubs, papers, photos... you name it. Fortunately for me, I've kept all of those things to remember my life. Unfortunately for me, I've kept all those things which have become crowded in my desk drawers, stashed in corners, under my bed, in books, etc.
I was complaining about my collection of paper memories one day when my friend casually suggested that I take everything that is bursting out of my drawers and compile it into a fabulous collection of scrapbooks.
Well that friend is a genious, because that's exactly what I did.
Seven scrapbooks later and I'm still not done. I've cleaned up my room, but now scrapbook pictures my mom has collected, too. I'll scrapbook my favorite pair of hair chopsticks that my sister broke, I scrapbook movie tickets, receipts from when I buy favorite things, bottle caps, pictures of my friends and me, pictures of my mom and her friends, everything and anything.
That's what I love about how I scrapbook. I do buy pretty stickers and fancy paper, but my scrapbooking style is much less strict than those scrapbooks that are pictured in magazines. I scrapbook haphazardly, lovingly, crazily... I've even scrapped wrapping paper from my favorite Christmas presents. Basically my scrapbooks are more like collages of paper memories.
I love them!
I did that in my junior and senior year of high school and I still have those books. I'd save a napkin to remember eating out with friends. I'd keep a twig because it meant something. It's fun to look back on. Seven books! You will have lots of things to remind you of your life.
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