Old Scrapbook

I was so thrilled to find an old scrapbook of mine in my garage this weekend! It is one of those old-style ones with the brownish paper tied into it with strings. (that paper is pretty brittle so I am kind of afraid the pages will tear out) I didn’t even remember that I had it!


It looks like it covers about a 2 or 3 year period starting about a year before Lee and I got married going to about a year or two afterwards. I have ticket stubs from concerts in there as well as concert programs. There is a lot of memorabilia – including some from our honeymoon trip to San Diego and Disneyland. I have some old Viva El Paso programs in there. The big thing I noticed is that I didn’t write anything on any of the pages – just taped the stuff in there – with scotch tape! I also didn’t put any pictures in it – but I do have pictures I took at many of those events – so maybe I could add some to the pages – or scan the memorabilia and create new pages. I just don’t know. If I was to add the pictures I would make sure to note that I added them later – but then the original would have been changed so I probably won’t do that. I could just add a new page in between with pictures. That way I would not change the original. I am brainstorming as I write this.....

I also have another older scrapbook (same type with the pages tied in with string) from when I was in elementary school. (This one I never forgot because I have kept it in the house all this time in a drawer in my room) In it, I have a birthday card from my great-grandfather. There are also class pictures from elementary school – Pasodale did not have a yearbook until about the time I left in the 7th grade so we all got a year-book style page with pictures of our own classmates and teacher and principal, Mr. Harlin – but not any other classes. I think I have a piece of net and some rice from a wedding I was in for Mary Ann Walker when I was really small. I am so glad to have saved it all these years.

I will scan a few pages from both scrapbooks and add them into here later. Now – the big dilemma – do I leave them as is and worry that the pages will fall apart or maybe try to put them in 12 x 12 Page protectors. Hmmmm – I am not too sure what to do about that.

I also have an old scrapbook at my house that belonged to my Grandmother - Me Ma. I borrowed it from my parents so I could scan the pages. It contains pictures from a vacation trip my Grandparents took when my father and Aunt Paula were very small. After looking through it several times, some of the pages have torn out. It is the same type as mine – the brittle pages are tied in with string. I really would like to somehow preserve it but I also don’t want to mess it up. Maybe the pages could be laminated (not sure I would really want to do that) – or again, put into 12 x 12 page protectors. I am not sure of the page size – I will have to check them! For all I know, there is a product out there made specifically for preserving these kind of scrapbook pages. That would be awesome. I need to check into that.