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» Diane Laney Fitzpatrick - Great scrapbooking ideas!

I loved your ideas on scrapbooking and keeping journals, especially keeping a travel journal by writing on the backs of postcards. Next vacation, I'm doing it!
When I was younger, unmarried and living on my own, my mom and my siblings and I started a "family letter." One of us would start it, send it to a sibling, she would add her letter to it and send the combined letter to the next sibling, etc. Once it got around to the first person again, everyone had contributed to it, added updates on what their kids were doing, etc., and then the person who started it would keep it. Another person would start a new one.
I still have some of those family letters and I love reading about my now 24-year-old niece's first step or first word, news of engagements, job promotions and remodeling projects.
I know letter-writing is a lost art, but this same type of thing could be done through emails, even with pictures attached, and printed out for posterity.
Thanks for all your great ideas, Kim!
Diane

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