memorabilia
I’ll be honest here. I don’t add a whole lot of memorabilia to my layouts, except for in my vacation albums. There, I scrap airline tickets, bus passes, menus, receipts….
But in every day life, I’m bad about saving memorabilia. Wait. Check that. I’m good about saving memorabilia, but I’m bad about including it in my albums. A couple of months ago, I cleaned out a drawer full of playbills, receipts, ticket stubs, cards, etc, and threw them away. They never made it into my albums. I wish I’d saved them now, though. I could make a Year In Review page with them, and include that in the album. See? Even a seasoned scrapbooker never learns!
I read recently that a new Mom included her actual pregnancy test stick in her album. Not a photo, but the actual STICK. Not sure that’s something I’d add, but more power to her! A friend of mine once scrapbooked a dime. Shiny and silver. Or at least it was after she cleaned it off, after having retrieved it from her son’s diaper, after having carefully inspected each and every poop, after having watched her son swallow said dime.
I can’t say I’ve ever scrapped any really off-the-wall memorabilia. Dani’s baby curls are in her baby book, but that’s not weird. People have saved locks of hair for ages.
What about you? What out-of-the-ordinary memorabilia have YOU scrapped?
November 20th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Let’s see, I have: locks of hair, movie/event tickets, hospital arm bands, and some of those squished quarters that you make at theme parks. Nope, nothing out of the ordinary here.
However, I do have a friend that kept her son’s umbilical cord stump AND whatever that plastic ring thingy is called that some doctors use on baby boys when they’re circumcised. Yeah. Ewwww!
November 20th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
I’ve heard of the pregnancy test thing too. Not here tho!
I have the typical first haircut hair, tags etc from babies in the hospital. I did a layout for Eric’s birthday at Chuy’s (he and Elvis share a birthday, and every year Chuy’s has a fun party), when the restaurant was giving out Elvis masks….saved the mask for the layout.
I havn’t saved anything too weird for the books. Not that I can think of right now.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:07 am
I’ve included a piece of rubber tire, picked up from the race track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on NASCAR weekend.
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Bark from an arbutus tree. I love the look of it so I took some home for my album.
~Heidi
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Some interesting or unusual memorabilia I have included in albums:
1.My grandfather’s baby bonnet (lightweight cotton)
2.ration booklets from WWII
3.antique postcards sent to my Great Grandmother
4.Locks of my Great Grandfather’s hair
5.Crocheted lace made by my Grandmother (once edged pillowcases)
6.sergeant patches from my FIL’s WWII uniform
7.recipes written in my Great grandmother’s handwriting on big chief tablet paper
8.old postage stamps
9.a wedding thank you note from my great-great aunt to another family member
10.the little funeral brochures with life dates
11.coins
12.candy and cookie wrappers
13.fortune cookie message
14.A check written to my grandparents as a wedding gift in 1922
15.a paycheck written to my grandfather in the 1920’s
I have TONS of memorabilia saved for albums I haven’t worked on yet, so I don’t know which other things will actually make it into my albums.