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I love to scrapbook, and have many ideas floating around in my head most of the time for things to create. To learn about archival safe products and get some tips and other information about scrapbooking, feel free to visit my site, A Scrapper's Journey. You will also find supplies there in case you need them.

On the inside front cover, you can do the family tree for Mom's. (You will do a second book for Dad's side of the family.) The first page will be the Table of Contents, and each 2-page spread will be for a different family.

You will start with your family: Mom, dad and children. You will have to decide on a theme that everyone likes. Maybe you enjoy camping, picnics or fishing. Maybe you like going to the beach or the playground. Whatever it is that you like to do as a family, use it as a theme. Purchase the materials that you will need: Papers, stickers and/or other embellishments, photo safe pens, etc. Then discuss the things that you enjoy doing as a family as you decorate the 2 pages and add the photographs. Add one or two momentos if you have them. You may need to put these into small photo safe envelopes and attach them to your page. Journal about your family and all of the things that you like to do together. Journal about funny says, favorite things, whatever you like.

The last page can be for a story about a special time that your extended family spent together: Chrsitmas, family reunion, etc.

I like to have one family photo, and maybe a photo of each person on one side with the journailing, then I like the idea of having a family story on the second page. Either about something that you did as a family, or a story that you all helped to create. Do not forget names of pets, dates, and other memory joggers.

When you have created this page, take a break for a while. While you are on a break, start to gather pictures, supplies and information that you would like from the next family. Take breaks in between. Most of all, just have some fun together.

Your family - each siblings family - grandparents and their children, etc.

(You could also add information about what life was like during each generation.