Slovenian Women's Union of America NYC

On Sunday, January 29th we met for a Scrapbooking event. Many thanks to Tea for the great idea and to Vesna for providing our meeting place and refreshments. Tea arranged for Deanne D'Aloia, an independent consultant for Creative Memories, to give us a presentation. Deanne shared her expertise and enthusiasm for scrapbooking. It was quickly apparent that scrapbooking ties in with genealogy research! Deanne explained that photos stashed away in boxes all have stories and those stories need to be documented for anyone else who might look at the photos. We all have photos where we no longer know the names of the people in the photo, the date it what was taken, the location, the occasion, etc. It is important to jot down this information and preserve memories for our own enjoyment and for future generations. But we were told to use a grease pencil on the backs of photos as pen or pencil can ruin photos. We were also told that not every photo is a good photo, so use the good photos in a scrapbook and throw the bad ones away. And a very good reason to scrapbook? Most of us have stored photos in magnetic photo albums, in time the pages yellow and the glue on the pages wears off. The scrapbook pages we were shown are acid-free to last a lifetime. Scrapbooks can be created for new babies, weddings, special occasions and, of course, cherished old family photos.

We were all given catalogs and some orders were placed immediately while others need time to think over the project they want to start and what supplies they will need. We look forward to seeing some of these scrapbooks at future meetings!

Thanks to everyone who attended. Tea and Deanne passed around their scrapbooks so we could see the finished products. This is a creative and personal endeavor, well worth the time and effort. Adrienne brought some lovely old family photos. These photos will make up a nice heritage album. This was the first meeting for new member Emily - welcome! This was the first meeting in awhile for Tanja. She brought our youngest attendee - 9 week old Daniel.


New York City Branch of Slovenian Women's Union of America