Create a One Month Scrapbook

Creating a one month scrapbook is like creating the story of your life at any given time in life.

Choose a month for your scrapbook. Now make it a point to take 5 photos every day of that month. At the end of the month, you’ll have 150 photos to sort through to tell the story of your life.

Take photos of the activities you do on a regular basis. For example, I leave my house every day at 7:20 a.m. to take my daughter to school. So, I took a series of photos around this one activity. I took a photo of the clock reading 7:20 a.m. I took a photo of my daughter sitting in the car. I took a photo of the front of the school, and then I took a photo of the clock when I got home at 7:40 a.m.

At the grocery store, I took a photo of the empty cart. I took a few photos of food aisles. I took a photo of folks waiting in line. I took a photo of my full cart, and I took a photo of the groceries in my trunk.

For those who work outside of the home, take a photo of the clock when you arrive. Take a few photos of co-workers. Take a photo of your desk. Take a photo of the clock when you leave.

If you keep a small notebook with you, you can jot down notes for journaling once you begin to put the scrapbook together.

There are several choices for putting together your album. You can create 30 or 31 pages, with each page showing the highlights from that one day. You can create a scrapbook with title pages of "Week One", "Week Two" etc and then create pages within that week that show your typical week. Or you can create a scrapbook titled "January", or "June" and put photos in, in no particular order, showing what your month was like.

One month scrapbooks are both fun to prepare for and also fun to put together.

About the author:
Audrey Okaneko has been scrapbooking for several years. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or click here.