Back when a scrap book really was a "scrap" book.

[martelvonc]

This is one of those things not many people know about me. In fact I'm not sure anyone except my husband and children know this.

My little secret?
I've kept scrap books...for going on 12 years now.

Actually it's two and getting ready to head into #3. I fill it with beach and ocean images, stickers, craft projects & things that remind me of my favorite place on earth. I use it to remind me that I can build house there in a few years.

It is not a fancy book with plastic page protectors or themes for each page. In fact I avoid pictures of any people because this is MY book. Not someone elses. There are no photographs of family with little frames. I just find images I like and stick them on the pages where ever they will fit.

Someday I might let you see them if you promise not to tease me. I never even showed them to my therapist though I did take them to his office once. Don't know why, I just couldn't make myself pull them out of the bag.

ANYWAY.....

I want to find more scrapbooks like these. You know the old kind that were big, before scrap booking became so complicated, that have heavy card board covers with plain construction paper for pages? The kind you just glued things in. Newspaper articles, cutouts etc. These three I found, well, 12 years ago in K-Mart. They don't carry them any more.

Does anyone know where I could buy ones like this? I'd really like ones with bright blue covers.

Comments

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

I know what you're talking about and I have seen them for sale within the last couple of years. Can't remember where though. If I spot one I'll let you know.

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd appreciate it!

[elmsley-rose.livejournal.com]

oh yes! I remember ones just like that, using them in school in kindergarten or so. The feel of that paper, and the smell of the glue.

Could you try school supply places, that supplied pre-schools?

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Aren't they great! You can do anything you want with them.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

i THINK i saw those at someplace.. umm. maybe a childrens store? like a parent teacher store?

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

We have one of those near me. I'll try that. Thanks!

[spranglady.livejournal.com]

Try AC Moore, if you have one near you. They have a HUGE scrapbooking section, but they also carry the simple scrapbooks like you're talking about. (I know... I ring enough of 'em up!)

If you don't have an AC Moore, take a look around Hobby Lobby or Michael's, as well. They don't have as good a selection (I'm not biased... they really don't), but they might have something. If you can't find anything, let me know. I'll see what I can find at work, and maybe I can bring ya some next time I hit an event we're both at. :)

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, AC Moore, I can go to the one in White Marsh. It'll be an excuse to look at yarn too.

I bought one yesterday at JoAnn's with a neat black cover and pristine white pages but it just wasn't the same. I may save it anyway to make a nicer memory book for Paul in honor of his graduation from home school in June.

[francesca-tessa.livejournal.com]

WOW.. Talk about triggering memories!!!

I used to take those old paper folders with the brass prongs that you would put notebook paper in, and I'd go through the Readers digest (that's what magazine my parents got) and any old magazine I could get my hands on) and I would cut out any furniture or curtains or dishes that I liked. It ended up having a lot of colonial Sears and Ethan Allen furniture cause it was the late 70's and early 80's and that was who advertised then.... but it really helped me develop my develop my love of the decorative arts.

Once I got a job, I started hitting flea markets and auctions and buying furniture and dishes. I had a whole closet of dishes before I moved out.

And you know you are right. I have a ton of scraps that I've saved and not put in something because I unconsciously was thinking it had to be "nice" (even when I was too cheap to buy the fancy notebook to put them in.... Silly me.

[francesca-tessa.livejournal.com]

Oh, Borders books had some scrapbooks with black pages and they they would try to sell you the photo corners. When I was working in Knoxville they had a wire rack clearance and they would show up on those on occasion, the ones with the gaudiest colors..heh heh heh...

So maybe Barnes & Noble or some other coffee house bookstore equivalent might have a few on clearance as well?