What kind of scrapbooks have you made?

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Until last year, I had never really got interested in scrapbooking. It seemed like it would be fun, but I had not had a reason to do a scrapbook. My oldest grandson was a football player and a senior in high school. I had decided that I would get all the needed articles and make him a big scrapbook of all his years in football up until graduation. I had accumulated lots of newspaper articles, pictures and other things to put in the scrapbook. I went to Michaels and bought a black leather book and lots of paper to work with. Took me right up until almost graduation to finish that book. I think it probably had about 40 pages or more in it. There were so many, I had to add the extenders. We also made him a CD of parts of games for his memory album. He really enjoyed it and it will be something he can keep for life. Then, came this year. You can't do for one grandchild and not do for the other. Our granddaughter was graduating, so that meant a trip to the store for another scrapbook and more items! This one took much more time to make than my grandson's. She was a soccer player but I didn't have as many articles in the paper to use. I had to be very creative. Thank goodness I had lots of pictures of soccer gsmes/tournaments and pictures from the trip to Oxford, Mississippi and Ole' Miss that she had to make and take pictures for a class at school. I happened to be with her and her Mom and took some great pictures. She was really excited when she opened her book and began to look at it. She only missed one thing - her favorite picture of her kicking the ball and I did not include that picture in her book. And I still have to make her CD for her memory album. We did not have time to do it by graduation. I was still working on her scrapbook the morning before her graduation!! Have you made scrapbooks for grandchildren or even your own children? These are books the children can look at and enjoy for a lifetime. I included many of their friends in theirs, too.