See kids, back when I met your mother, we had these things called mag-a-zines... Anyone else a How I Met Your Mother fan? Anyone?
Anyway... last year I acquired this pile of magazines from my aunt, via my mom. I put them in a secure location and then forgot to look at them, until today.
History lesson: I didn't really get into scrapbooking until 2008, so I missed the early days and all the local scrapbook store fun (all the stores here were closed by 2008) and the trends.
Things I noticed: people in 2003-2004 (at least people who got published in scrapbook magazines) typed their journaling. No handwriting anywhere.
People scrapbooking in 2003-2004 filled the entire page, no borders.
People scrapbooking in 2003-2004 put some weird crap stuff, on their layouts. Shells, wire, sea glass... I wonder how that holds up over time...
Also, as my daughter brought up, most of the kids in those scrapbook layouts are at least 25 years old now. Yikes.
It was fun taking a trip down memory lane, even I took a different route...
