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Scrapbooking

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Jack in a book.

A scrapbook is an album of diverse photos, family documents, special papers or clippings, and other kinds of mementos with special meaning for the scrapbook maker. Scrapbook subjects include vacations, pets and kids.

As a means of preserving cherished moments for future generations, scrapbooking has grown tremendously in the past several years, in part because of the rise in digital scrapbooking. It is a $3.3 billion industry and has even surpassed golf in popularity among American households. An estimated 25% of households participate in what was a traditionally a hand-on craft consisting of gluing photographs, items and personal notes into a decorated scrapbook to make pages of memories.

Scrapbooking as a hobby has recently evolved into a mix of traditional and digital techniques. A hybrid scrapbooking retailer has emerged which preserves the friendly, social aspect of scrapbooking while leveraging the speed and convenience of the digital. These retail facilities combine the traditional store plus a coffee/tea and pastry café with a state-of-the-art photo printing center with computer stations where customers can edit and print their digital photos.

National Scrapbooking Day is on the first Saturday in May as pronounced by the National Scrapbooking Association a few years ago.

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