| Sometimes we are so busy scrapbooking our children | | | | about how your life was at that age compared to |
| and family that we forget to include ourselves in our | | | | your daughter's now. |
| pages. Are you lacking in photos and pages of | | | | Scrapbooking isn't just about photographs. Express |
| yourself? With a little planning, you can capture more | | | | yourself in other ways on pages. Write letters to |
| of yourself in your scrapbooks. While it's important to | | | | yourself that explore your feelings, dreams and hopes. |
| document our memories, we want our future | | | | You also can write letters to your children or your |
| generations also to know as much as possible about | | | | parents telling them about how they have touched |
| the person who took the time to create our scrapbook | | | | your life. These letters give others a picture of your |
| albums. | | | | personality that even a photograph can't express. |
| Plan to take more photographs of yourself. You don't | | | | So often we want perfection in our scrapbooks, and |
| have to have individual photos, but include yourself | | | | we use computers to type out our journaling. This |
| more in the group photos of activities and holidays. | | | | does give us nice, neat text with fancy fonts, but it |
| Teach another family member to operate your | | | | doesn't have the personal feel of our own handwriting. |
| camera and pass it to them at least a few times at | | | | Use handwriting in your scrapbooks more often. This |
| every photo opportunity. Allowing others to take | | | | personal touch will mean a lot to your children and |
| photos with your camera also gives your album some | | | | grandchildren. |
| variety. Everyone has a different photography style. | | | | If you can't come up with photographs of yourself, |
| Having pictures taken by others gives you a chance to | | | | create scrapbook page layouts about yourself in other |
| be in more photos. You might just be mentoring the | | | | ways. Take photos of your favorite things and favorite |
| family photographer for next generation. It's particularly | | | | places. "About Me" books give some great ideas for |
| fun to see photos taken by children. They tend to view | | | | telling others about you without photographs. For |
| the world from a very different perspective, and it | | | | example, save the tags from your favorite clothes and |
| shows in the photographs they take. | | | | create a page that expresses your sense of fashion. |
| If you don't have many photos of yourself, ask your | | | | Print the covers of your favorite books from the |
| parents or other family members for pictures of you | | | | internet and journal about how these books affected |
| at their parties and events. You might come up with | | | | you. Maybe you have a favorite brand of cookies or |
| several great shots that you can include on your | | | | special holiday recipes, include the logo from the |
| pages. Many people either other double prints or have | | | | packaging or write out a recipe to include in your |
| digital photographs that they can easily print. Try using | | | | pages. |
| photographs of yourself at different stages of your life. | | | | Look around you for other ideas to include more of |
| When you do page layout of your daughter, create a | | | | yourself in your scrapbook pages. Even your |
| double-page layout with a picture of you at the very | | | | Starbuck's Chai Tea Latte habit can be a |
| same age on the adjacent page. You might journal | | | | scrapbooking page! |