Capturing His Moments: Albums vs. Scrapbooks
August 24, 2009 · Posted in children, crafts, erin, newlywed life by erin
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Memories are very important to me. When we found out that we were expecting a baby, Todd got our family a Canon Rebel. Then we purchased a pretty good little video camera after he was born. We don’t want to miss a second of his life and want to make sure that we capture the important little moments for him to look back on later.
Scrapbooking used to be one of my biggest hobbies. In college, my roommate and I would pull out all of our scrapbooking materials on a Saturday morning and sit and watch movies while scrapbooking for two days.
I love to scrapbook and have high hopes of putting together some gorgeous albums for Hudson that will be his someday. Here’s the problem: I don’t have a lot of free time! Scrapbooking requires space, making a mess, planning, and cleaning up. It could take 45 minutes to complete one page. That’s the extent of nap time some days.
My other option is to get some beautiful leather albums where I can just slip the photo into the sleeve and move on to the next one. I still have some scrapbooks from college that I haven’t completed and would like to finish before starting a new project. I have found some beautiful leather albums that can be engraved with his name and the year.
I guess I just have some dreams of being the super mom that scrapbooks her child’s entire life and gives it to him as a gift at his high school graduation. (I had some friends whose mothers did this for them in high school and I was seriously impressed—and jealous.)
How do you store your memories? Photo boxes? Albums? Scrapbooks?
Do you set aside entire Saturdays to catch up on your project or do you just find a few minutes here and there to work on them?
I am a HUGE fan of creating photo books! I used to do the scrap-booking thing and I have lots of nice albums, but I’ve started making all of our big “life events” into photo books and I LOVE it! I started with our trip to Greece as a one of Evs’ Christmas presents 2 years ago and it was such a big hit that I’ve begun doing them for each of our big trips and then just for each year. Right now I’m working on one with all of our pre-wedding events as well as photos from my 2 dear friends’ weddings.
I use Shutterfly and am very impressed with the quality and price. And they have lots of cover options (leather, picture cover, etc).
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I don’t have the patience, time or space for scrap books. But I do keep up photo albums. I try to upload all my photos every other week and ever month or two print the photos and get them into books quickly. I know for me, I will stay ontop of photo albums and won’t loose bits and pieces. I worry with scrap books I would get so behind things would just get lost.
I love photo books. You can get pretty creative, just as you would in a scrapbook, but they’re quicker and easier. They’re also a lot flatter, so easier to store! I’ve had great luck with Blurb, MyPublisher, and even Wal-Mart.
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I’m so glad I read this. I’ve been struggling with the photo album vs scrapbook issue for the last 2 years. Scrapbooking used to be one of my favorite hobbies, but I just don’t have the time these days. I think that I am just going to make photo albums for now but will also insert little notes with the photos, so I can remember some of the little things that were going on at the time. That way, it is slightly more personal than a photo album and will show my little girl that I put time and thought into it.
