News - What's on my mind? wk3

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, I'd like to know what you think.... Are we spending too long on the artistic creation of our pages?  If you're anything like me, you'll look at Pinterest and be excited by these wonderful art pages.  You know the ones I mean, with one photo and lots of paint and textures, or hours of fussy cutting?I feel as though we have lost sight of the original reason we make scrapbooks.  There seems to be so much hype around these beautiful one photo pages, with multi medium backgrounds.Have we forgotten the...

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...