Scrapbook Storytelling: Saving Family Stories and Memories with Photos, Journalling and Your Own Creativity

Jun 06

In my loft I have some beautiful Victorian family albums crammed with sepia photographs of my ancestors. The trouble is, I don't know who any of them are! If you think that making a good scrapbook is solely about taking good pictures and composing pleasing layouts then stop and read this book, or repeat the mistake of so many people's families. Journalling is all about getting it down on your page who, where, what and when and here is a whole useful book about it.

This truly is a neglected topic, and a keen scrapbooker like me devoured every useful word. There are helpful lists of questions to ask yourself in here, ideas to get you started and reasons why everybody can write whatever you were told in school. How to scrapbook the wonderful things that children (or anybody) say, ways of getting it across with more punch and lots of full color example all make this a keeper. I particularly liked the way photos commemorated not just the extraordinary and the special, but the sad and those everyday events that are more evocative of life than a dozen well-scrubbed holiday and vacation shots. From getting over writer's block to getting the family involved in making an album to how to write up those precious heritage photos this will soon have scrapbooks bursting with useful words. Very inspiring and user-friendly.

May 05

There are a barrage of books out there that teach you the techniques for building a better scrapbook, but the visual element is only half of the art. This book actually gives you tips on how best to get your wording right. Covering everything from how to tell your own story to conquering writer's block, you'll come away from reading this with new confidence to become a better scrapbook storyteller.