Some scrapbookers focus on scrapbooking the first year, especially the first year of a child’s life. Perhaps this is a holdover from the days of store-bought baby books?
Regardless, the first year of a child’s life seems to be more scrapworthy than subsequent years. Some scrapbookers make sure to scrapbook their child’s first year in a special album but then resume scrapbooking one family scrapbook each year. Not only is a child’s first year scrapworthy, but also the first year of a relationship is sometimes chronicled in an album.
Have you created an album about the first year of something (e.g., a child, a relationship)? Did you continue scrapbooking the subject? Did you transition to something else? Why is the first year so special compared to other years?
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Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
