Memories are precious. They make you laugh, cry, abstemious, upbeat and more. Simply, memories make you feel. Sweet memories are kept. On the other hand, painful and awful memories are disregarded. Nonetheless, memories are to be cherished, whether they belong to the negative feeling or not.

Memories are not capable of pecuniary estimation. Hence, no amount of money can bring back good old times. Your childhood memories, your memorable gatherings and celebrations and other worth-remembering moments of your life cannot be literally extracted from the future. Moreover, there must be some sort of channels to bridge the gap between the past and the present.

These channels may come in several forms. With today’s advancements in technology, nothing can hinder you to linger on the happiest days of those life as well as those days that have taught you lessons to live by. Memories can stay for a lifetime, if and only if you allow them to hang around.

People use different ways to capture the essence of memories. During special occasions, camera, videos and other sort of gadgets are used to seize the moment. After that, the mementos are saved and kept. In the case of photographs, they are placed in albums to preclude harmful elements and other circumstances from spoiling them.

Photo album is the most common haven for precious memories. Ages ago, photo album was discovered for this purpose. Nonetheless, the passage of time cannot trim down its importance. In today’s time, photo album is still used for the same purpose. However, due to the advances introduced to it. The same has become more functional, stylish and versatile.

One of modifications introduced to photo albums is scrap booking. It is another way of preserving the momentum of memories similar to that of its ancestor – photo album. The only difference is that it is more flexible, artsy and captivating.

Scrap booking is placing photographs into albums and embellishing the later with word, design and style. Scrap booking may also include memorabilia, stories, testimonials and quotations. In fact, embellishments such as beads, yarn, threads, buttons, trimmings and the like can also be incorporated in a scrapbook to make it more stylish. This is done not only to make memories last but to make them more appealing as well.

The scrapbook that has evolved in the 90s is new and different. In this milieu, scientific knowledge about scrap booking was utilized to create longer photo preservation duration. This is to ensure that photos are not just contained in the scrapbook but said scrapbook must prevent the pictures from deteriorating.

Earlier, pictures don’t survive long enough to satisfy their possessors. Nowadays, technology has brought picture preservation to a new level. The pictures’ durability and façade are now improved. In fact, in today’s generation, cranky, faded and yellowed photos can be spared because of modern methods of storing them. Moreover, the life span of pictures has significantly soared.

Modern scrap booking ideas, methods and products are now in great demand. Said demand has paved way for the spawning of scrap booking businesses. In just a short span, scrap booking has been converted into a million dollar industry.

In fact, scrap booking has not missed the Internet for its haven. There has been hundreds of scrap booking sites that have sprung the online interface. Moreover, you can even find free scrap booking sites to learn some techniques and valuable tips about scrap booking.

Another important advancement in the field of digital photography is the introduction of various hardware and software to manipulate and transfer photos. These advancements resulted to scrap booking online. Electronic scrapbook is deemed a ‘permanent scrapbook’ since it can stay in the World Wide Web for a lifetime depending on the choice of the owner.

Nowadays, photo gathering, sharing and preserving are made easier and more convenient. Moreover, when an individual feel like reminiscing, he can easily get hold of the pictures and videos. Having a quick sojourn to the past is easy nowadays, because of the advances in technology, memories are easily kept and stored at the same time, they are also convenient to pore over or replay.

Scrap booking can be had in the traditional or modern way. The first one speaks of gathering materials and decorating a photo album while the second speaks of utilizing your computer skills plus technology to arrive at a striking scrapbook that every one will enjoy.