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Vacation Tips for Scrapbookers
| July 1998 Vacation Tips |
| Take your scrapbooking tote so that you can work on your pages on
the trip. The Cropper Hopper Jr. is a new product from Leeco designed to be VERY portable.
Crop In Style is a great tote bag and the new Crop In Style XL features wheels! The Stampin' /Scrapbookin' Lapboard by 20th Century Crafts is another
accessory to take on the road with you. Use it in the car or your hotel room for a flat
surface to work on.
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| Vacation Tips 1997 |
Time to take a family vacation? Whether your family will be
spending a weekend camping or two weeks at Disney World, you will want to capture your
memories. Here are some tips on taking a memorable vacation. To help capture the memories
along the way:
- Cut up some acid free, lignin free white paper into 3 x 5 inch cards.
Take it along to jot down events, stories, dates, notes, captions and the names of people
and places. When you get home you can use the cards as a reference or mat them and include
them in your album. (Look for this paper at a stationary store reasonably priced)
- Use a small spiral bound album for your children or you and use it to
journal about vacation memories while on the road. Use a pencil to "x" out
several pages and then go back and add a few photos to these pages after you get home.
Canson makes a nice album for this purpose.
- Use your regular calendar to document your trip every night after the
kids are in bed. Write down those memorable happenings before the details are forgotten.
Use your regular calendar (Day Runner, Franklin, etc.) to jot notes about the day's
activities.
- Give the kids a small camera so that they can take photos of: you,
their favorite parts of the vacation, their cousins, the inside of you car, etc.
- If you are on a long vacation, you may even consider taking your
supplies and working on your pages each night in your motel room. See the tips in the next
column for help on what to take.
- Patronize a one hour photo that uses the Kodak Color Watch System so
that you are assured of consistent quality when you are in an unknown area.
- Save all of your memorabilia in large Ziplock bags. Take one bag for
each day of your trip and place all items you want to save in the bag and date the bag.
- Don't forget to save the maps, too. Maps can be used with a light box
to trace your route onto a page. A traced map makes a great title page. the map can also
be treated with a de-acidifier and used on your album pages.
- If you are visiting relatives, be sure to take a list of questions
for them if you are anxious to learn more about your family history. You will learn more
from a few well phrased questions then you will if you ask "tell me about your
life".
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