I like to document my travels and adventures and I often make a scrapbook of some kind either while I’m away or when I get back. Travel scrapbooking is one of my favourite things to do at home.
It was also invaluable during the first months of the pandemic when I wasn’t allowed to leave my house, to be able to sit amid piles of photos and tickets and postcards and other ephemera and just sink into my travels while I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything.
My scrapbooks range from really small simple 4×4 literal scrapbooks up to 12×12 display books but my favourite are the 6×6 small square scrapbooks which mostly involve holepunching stuff. You can make your scrapbooks as ugly or as beautiful as you like, as simple or elaborate as you like. These are mine.
Since I’m not travelling at the moment, I’ve been catching up on documenting previous travels – in the form of travel scrapbooks. I’ve done them sporadically over the years (my earliest is the school French exchange in 1998 and it was of course the educational part of the “holiday abroad with your friends when you’re… More Travel scrapbooking part 1: 10 things to take
While we’re all safe at home for the foreseeable future and with no new travel on the horizon for some time, it’s a good time to look back at our past travels and one of my favourite ways of doing that is by making scrapbooks. Actually, I’ve discovered I have a surprising amount of scrapbook… More Stay At Home Storytelling: too many photos in a travel scrapbook
Well, now seems as good a time as any to go back to my trip to Russia last year because one of my major projects at the moment is to get the scrapbook finished. The main obstacle is picking which of the 2-300 photos to have printed. The other obstacle is making it fit in… More Stay At Home Storytelling: Russia scrapbook, Moscow pages
Back in 2002, I went on a school trip to Russia. I’ve written about part 1 (Moscow) here and part 2 (St Petersburg) here – but there’s more! Earlier in the year, I rediscovered a stack of boxes under my bed, containing assorted precious things from my schooldays, mostly. If I’d stopped to think about… More Documenting Russia 2002
I wasn’t going to bother with this post because I stuck a picture of my diary/scrapbook/journal at the beginning of every diary entry but this thing is my baby and I want to share it. I find that if I don’t have things to look back at, I forget things. There are huge swathes of… More Keeping travel memories: my Laugavegur scrapbook
Last November I went to Latvia and because I’m using it for the Explore My World section of my Silver Voyage Award I made a little scrapbook of it which I showed you late last year. I enjoyed it so much that I thought I’d go back to September and make one for my trip… More Meet my Iceland scrapbook
I like travelling. I like, in theory, scrapbooking. But when I look at other people’s pages, I just can’t figure out where they get the time, the embellishments and the imagination. I have an over-huge 12×12 scrapbook downstairs with a page, or occasional double-page spread, on interesting places I’ve been but they’re so so plain. I’ve… More Simple travel scrapbooking
I spent a couple of months earlier in the year unemployed and during that time, I got a bit into scrapbooking. I’d owned a scrapbook for at least five years and finally, I not only filled it, I had to order two sets of additional page protectors. I also discovered “scrapbooking on the road”. It’s… More Scrapbooking on the road
Today we’re looking at my Switzerland scrapbook. Scrapbooking is one of my favourite activities when I’m not travelling – in fact, it’s one of my favourite activites full stop. I am currently (and hopefully temporarily) unemployed. That means my wings are clipped until I get a new job and a new income. But it’s not… More Year Abroad: My Switzerland Scrapbook