Childhood Memories Mini Album

Just before Christmas, I got my copy of Ali Edwards' new book entitled: Sharing Your Story. This book has inspired me to create some hybrid mini albums.

Since I started doing some digital scrapbook pages in late 2007, I've never really done much more than document my kids life except print out the pages and putting them into a scrapbook album. Didn't also think much about getting into the traditional scrapbooking road because I've no place to store embellishments and nor do I have time to spend putting pages together.

Anyway, so I found out that you can do what is called "hybrid scrapbooking" which is mixing a bit of digital and a bit of traditional.

After reading this book, I have done 3 mini projects so far. The 3rd one (first 2 you will find in my other blog) is one I did for my kids. It's documenting a few memorable bits and pieces of things I loved to do, loved to eat, or remember of when I was growing up in Tacloban City, Philippines. It was also something of a walk down memory lane for me and was interesting challenge to find pictures. Majority of the pictures were 'borrowed' from Filipinos I found on Flickr as well as some of my old photos. You can see the pages of this mini album by clicking here.


When all was done, I gave my kids the album and they loved it! That was the most rewarding part. Even if they cannot read what is written inside yet, they were curious to know what I've written and what all the pictures were about. We've revisited this album a few times already as I've included a few pages about songs I remember and they've asked me to sing them a few times... I'm hoping one day I'll get to take them to my hometown and show them the actual stuff...

I cannot thank the Filipinos who shared their pictures enough as otherwise I wouldn't have been able to put this together. So THANK YOU once again...