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Features / December 2007
Leaving a Legacy: Memories
 Debbie Yoho
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During this season of joy and caring, visiting with our friends and relatives, is a time to cherish and preserve. Memories can never be erased and they make up the periods of time in our lives that are important to us in our own special way.
When Debbie Yoho’s nine year old grandson wants to remember the special days in his life, he immediately goes to Grandma Debbie’s scrapbook. Grandma Debbie has kept a scrapbook for each year of his life.
Debbie is the owner of The Scrap Shack, a scrap booking store that “has more”. “I was a cross stitcher for many years and I wanted to someday open my own cross stitch shop. A friend of mine asked me to come by her house one evening and she introduced me to scrap booking. I stayed at her house for more than 6 hours. I was ‘in love’ with scrap booking by the time I left,” she said. I had worked for 14 years prior to opening the shop. It took me about a year to research, get input from people, find a location, order supplies, etc. I opened the store in August of 2006.”
“The scrap booking industry is growing and will continue to grow. Scrap booking originally started in Utah by the Mormons. With their family-based beliefs, scraping booking was a way to pass down family memories and traditions,” she explained. “It seems like the older you get, the more you begin thinking about leaving some type of a legacy for your family. I hope that my grandson will share all these scrapbook albums with his family someday. He will always have photos of me and remember all the special times we shared,” she said.
Debbie recommends journaling in your scrapbook in your own handwriting. “Write a few lines to tell the story you are showing with photos. Write when something is happening, why it is happening, where it is happening, the people in the photos, and any other thing that will provide information about the event,” she added. If you aren’t the scrap booking kind, Denise makes scrapbooks for people at her store.
If you supply her with the photos and some notes about the photos, Denise can creatively prepare a beautiful scrapbook album for you and your family to treasure. For those who would like to begin scrap booking, Denise will be offering classes starting in January, 2008 with instructor Bonnie Leonhart.
According to Denise, “Scrap booking is a beautiful way to save memories for future generations. These scrapbooks, if properly done, can last well over 100 years.
So begin thinking about how you are going to pass on your legacy. Get that box of photos from under the bed or in the back of the closet and begin scrap booking. Or, during the holiday, get the photos out and have your family share special things about people in the photos. Remember to note everyone’s name in the photos. Make this year special and perhaps you can start a family tradition of scrap booking family memories each December.
Debbie Yoho is the owner of The Scrap Shack located at 1515 Grand Central Avenue, Suite 12, Vienna, WV (behind Coldstone Creamery). Telephone 304 865 7272. The shop is open Mon-Friday 10-6 and Saturday 10-4.
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