Chances are you have a draw, box, or other container filled with precious mementos from years past. They may be old family photos, artistic creations made by your children or grandchildren or other cherished items that you can’t bear to part with.

The trouble is you also don’t know what to do with them. Surely you’d love to have them organized. You’d also like to be able to show them off, but the idea of pulling out a cluttered box of photos and treasures doesn’t appeal to you.

Scrapbooking is the perfect way to not only organize your precious memories but also provides an avenue of creatively showing them off.

You can organize them any way you like while drawing from your experiences or the personalities of the people connected to your photos and memorabilia in designing your layouts. There is not set method you must use, no standard you must follow, which makes creating the scrapbook yet another precious memory.

Although many people may think of photographs when they hear the word “scrapbook,” there are many more things that are, and can be, included.

As mentioned early in this article pictures painted by children are one of the items that can be included, as well as movie ticket stubs and even cards from special occasions. But have you considered the possibility of a scrapbook that doesn’t have photos or something you physically kept from a special occasion?

This type of scrapbooking is called journaling, and is growing in popularity.

If you’re concerned about placing especially old photos or other old items in your scrapbook, there’s no need.

There are many types of acid-free supplies that you can purchase for scrapbooking that are designed especially for use on very old, fragile photos and other such items. You can also use photo mounts that don’t require placing adhesive on the photos.

No matter what type of precious memories you have hiding away in your closet or attic there’s a way they can be displayed beautifully and personally in a scrapbook.

Unleash your imagination and have un with all those long-hidden treasures that you’ve kept locked away. There’s no time like the present to get started on your scrapbook, since new memories are being made each and every day.