What is a Scrapbook?
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last few centuries and dont know what a scrapbook is, this is it: Basically, its just a book full of stuff. What stuff? Anything you can think of. To most people, its a hobby of making collages full of writings, pictures, drawings or even ticket stubs, airplane tickets and museum passes. Dont be too quick to dismiss the idea of scrapbooking as childish or unimportant.
Scrapbooking, on the surface, is a simple creative outlet. But, on a deeper level, its a way of recording our histories or notable events in our lives. Scrapbooks are a great way to express yourself or show others who you are and where youve been. Today scrapbooking is a multi-billion-dollar industry. There are scrapbooking clubs, blogs, etc. and it doesnt appear to be going anywhere in the near future.
When did Scrapbooking Start?
A scrap used to be how you refer to a picture that is unmounted. People kept entire books full of unmounted pictures and those were, literally, the first scrapbooks. Scrapbooking is not a phenomenon that came about recently. Though not in their current form, the idea of...