News - What's on my mind? wk3 — scrapbooking

My inherited family album sits in pride of place in my bookshelf. I love it. A weighty tome, with gold edged pages, thick card inserts and beautiful watercolour decorated frames around each photo. Photos of stiff Victorian men, and women in amazing dresses and headgear look out at me from the pages. Getting your photo taken back in the day was not a 5 minute task, it was an occasion. It involved making time on your precious day off, putting on your Sunday best clothes and taking a trip to a photographers studio... probably by train or 'charabang' to the nearest...