Memory Scrapbooks Blog

Is your 4th of July barbecue the highlight of the summer? Does your family participate in the Veteran’s Day or Memorial Day parades that run through your town?

If being Patriotic speaks more to your lifestyle than a festive mood that comes with national holidays, highlighting your Patriotism in a scrapbook should be an easy task!  You already have the theme – all you need to get this fun project off the ground is a few supplies.  So gather up all the family photos and check out these items to set off your Patriotic Scrapbook!

• If you want something really special, consider Pioneer’s American Flag 12×12 Scrapbook or American Flag Bi-Directional Memo Album to hold your Patriotic photos and memories.

• If your Patriotic scrapbook or photo album is dedicated to a veteran in your family, there are gorgeous embellishments available that will make any Sailor, Marine, Member of the Air Force, or Soldier proud.

So if you want to do something really special for your next scrapbook, look no further than the colors of the flag.  When you’re finished, you will have a scrapbook worth saluting!

Life is full of moments that are so joyful and satisfying.  These moments are great, and are to be treasured and remembered forever.  Scrapbooks help us make these moments memories – the times that help balance the scales for the less than wonderful days we have from time to time.

A favorite quote of mine reads, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”  Bearing this in mind can help you live a better, more fulfilled existence.

Telling yourself a story through pictures and other pieces of the past, or giving yourself some time to sit and complete a project, can be a very therapeutic, enriching exercise.  Does this sound like a familiar activity?  It should – it’s  what we do when we scrapbook!  The benefits of scrapbooking are more than just something that will keep our minds and hands busy.  Scrapbooking is an outlet that can help us forget a day that just didn’t go so well by remembering the times that were just right!

In the end, scrapbooking is a way to remind ourselves that we’ve got the proof in pictures, quotes, and newspaper clippings that we are making the most of our time, love and life!

I know it sounds silly – I know it sounds crazy – but one thing I make sure to do every Thanksgiving is take a picture of the Turkey!  Yes, I’m the person who makes everyone wait to dig in, just so I can get a picture of the bird and all the fixings to go along with it.  Get frustrated if you wish, but I know you have the same desire to document that perfect turkey for future generations to look at and wonder, “Why in the world would you take a picture of the turkey?!?”

I’m sure you’ll be asking yourself the same question at some point.  But MemoryScrapbooks.com has the excuse you’ll need to give into your turkey photography desires!  Use the picture of the turkey as the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving Scrapbook!

You may be thinking, “Isn’t Thanksgiving all about family?”  At it’s foundation, it certainly is.  But try surprising your dinner guests this Thanksgiving with hot dogs and apple sauce.  I bet they’ll have a  nervous breakdown if they don’t see that bird!  The food isn’t necessarily the true symbol of Thanksgiving, but it is the part that brings everyone to the table.

Here at MemoryScrapbooks.com we’re always trying to find new and interesting ways to share the wonderful art of scrapbooking with you!  So in the interest of sharing, we created a new Ning.com page, which features photos, links to scrapbooking supplies, and a forum for you to ask questions and share ideas.

So be sure to visit us at TheEmbellishedLife.Ning.Com and check-out our new page!

Halloween is the most delightfully spooky time of year.  There are ghouls and goblins everywhere, searching for candy in a house to house mission to collect the most sugary goodness! With all these fiendish characters running about, it can be difficult to remember which little ones already came to your door.  If you want to remember each creepy crawly that comes for candy at your home, break out the camera and Scrapbook Supplies.  You’re going to make a Seriously Scary Halloween Scrapbook!!!

First you have to prepare yourself.  Have the camera ready and charged. If you’re using a traditional camera, have a lot of film on hand, because you’ll have a long night of photo ops ahead of you.  When the Trick-or-Treaters come to the door, have them do a trick, have them sing a song, do a little dance, or tell a joke (your candy doesn’t come cheap!), and take a couple of cute, and scary, pictures!

Don’t just photograph your ghoulish house guests – go out into the night!  You and your neighbors put a lot of time into decorating, so take pictures of all the scary houses in your neighborhood.  The world looks much different on Halloween, so get some pictures of the people out on the streets.  Pictures like these will give your scrapbook the variety needed to keep it from looking like a simple collection of monsters!

Prepare yourself this Halloween season and you’ll have a fun Scrapbook to look at with friends for many years.  With a little effort, it is sure to be boo-tiful!

Like most travelers, you likely take pictures and collect cute or funny postcards from your vacation destination. They’re fun to look at when you get home, but what happens to them after a week? Are they stashed in a desk drawer, in a shoe box in the closet, left in the glove compartment of your car, or do you just plain lose them? In any case, you can never find them when you want to show them off. Make it easier on yourself and organize all those vacation memories in a Vacation Scrapbook that you can leave on the coffee table as a testament to your travels!

Memory Scrapbooks has a great selection of scrapbooks for your vacation photos and all the little knick-knacks that you brought back. If you just got home from a tropical location, this Palm Tree 12×12 Scrapbook would be perfect to keep all those pictures of you lounging by the beach and swimming in the blue ocean. Tiny trinkets can be tucked inside this gorgeous Photo Box.

Just got back from a big city like Chicago, Boston, or NYC? Pack all those sightseeing photos or the pictures from the night life in this City Maps 12×12 Scrapbook so you will always remember the sights and sounds!

If you organize your vacation photos in a scrapbook, you’ll always have a good story in great condition at the ready!

How are you going to remember your wedding day? The cake won’t stay good much longer than a week. Eventually you’ll hang the dress in the closet. And the worst part? You will have to come home from your honeymoon and go back to work! So how are you going to hold onto those fond memories from the best night of your life? By organizing all those loose wedding photos and cards into a beautiful scrapbook you can display in your home forever!

If you have tons of photos that need to be organized, you can use one of our beautiful Wedding Photo Albums. They range from your standard Decorative Wedding Album to a very elegant Frame Cover Wedding Album.

If you have more memories that you want to save, or just want to be more creative with your wedding memories, try our line of Wedding Scrapbooks to hold all your wedding memories. You can choose a very elegant and decorative Scrapbook or a very simple and sweet Scrapbook to display memories from your special day.

Carefully choose how you will display your wedding memories. Make sure it fits the décor of your wedding, but also be sure it matches your personalities. And when friends and family visit, be sure it is proudly displayed on your mantel or bookcase!

How do you preserve the sporting accomplishments of your family? Most people would say they have a space on the fridge dedicated to a certain family member, or a shoe box filled with newspaper clippings and photos of grand-slams, 3-point buzzer beaters, and amazing last minute goals. If these memories are worth saving, they should be saved in something a little more permanent (and less prone to coffee splashes!). Memory Scrapbooks has a Sports Theme Scrapbook that would be perfect for all your family’s sports memories.

If you have a linebacker or quarterback in your family, remember every sack, touchdown, and interception with a Football 12×12 Scrapbook.

Smack one out-of-the park with this Baseball Scrapbook. Now you have a place to keep all home run pictures, stats, and newspaper headlines about the big games.

Maybe you have a young basketball star in the family. Slam dunk all those photos and news articles in this Basketball 12×12 Scrapbook.

We have many ways for you to preserve all those wonderful family memories you captured from the bleachers. Or, if you have your own accomplishments to show off, you can have them ready for the next time friends and family visit. Leave the crowd cheering by hitting a home run with these athletic scrapbooks!

Concerts are full of good memories, like watching your favorite singer or band perform your favorite songs while you and your friends sing along. But how will you remember it, and how will you share your memories with your friends and family who weren’t there? Like most things in life, this could all be solved by scrapbooking!

Putting together the perfect concert scrapbook depends on the pictures. But more and more venues are not allowing cameras in the concert area. Be sure to take a lot of pictures while tailgating, or hitting the diner after the concert with friends! This way you will have fun photos to fill your scrapbook with if you cannot get any photos of the concert.

Also, while at the concert there are plenty of little things you could pick up for making a scrapbook. During the show the artists usually throw guitar picks and drum sticks into the crowd. In some cases you could find yourself with a t-shirt, autographed photo, or a set list. These hard-to-come-by items could really make your scrapbook, or Storage Box, quite interesting!

The one item every concert go-er has in their possession is the ticket stub. It’s a nice little reminder of the concert you’ve been to, especially if you were lucky enough to get it signed!

There are plenty of things you could put into your concert scrapbook to remind you of that night – just make sure it has personality! The scrapbook should reflect your mood and the mood of the concert. This way you can represent how you felt that night.

The most important part of this process is to have fun, and be sure to have enough supplies. If you need any refill pages or the scrapbook itself, check in with us at Memory Scrapbooks for all your scrapbooking needs.

A quick look at MemoryScrapbooks.com confirms that beautiful, high-quality photo albums and scrapbooks don’t have to cost a fortune. But we though we would help spark your photograph organizing campaign and show you one of our favorite ways to stylishly organize 1000 photos for just over a nickel apiece!

• This Designer Photo Album is available in six great patterns. The covered spiral binding is easy to flip through and has a clean, multi-directional layout. Plenty of room is included next to each photo to make notes!
• This Fabric Photo Album in two great black-and-white patterns is classic, chic and affordable. Built to accommodate 4” x 6” horizontal or vertical photos, it’s the perfect size for most shots.
• Are you looking for a classic style in rich leather? These Leather Bound Photo Albums are priced to stock up on! Available in seven popular colors, each accommodates 200 photos!
• Looking for a natural look? These Natural Paper Photo Albums accommodate many photo sizes, and have a fresh appeal!