Scrapbooking events and memorabilia

Can you remember back when we were allowed to go to concerts and events? I remember when I was a teenager, I saved all my concert ticket stubs up. I had them from Status Quo and David Bowie and was quite proud of all the concerts I had been to. Of course I wanted to keep these little tickets and I didn't know about scrapbooking then.

In my bedroom, I had an old Lloyd loom bedside cabinet in a muted pink. ( remember them) any way it had a glass top. So I carefully unscrewed the little brackets and arranged my tickets under the glass so they were safe and I could see them.

Unfortunately after yet another argument with my step mother, I left to live with my grandmother again. Only to find my stepmother had got rid of the Lloyd loom cabinet complete with my concert tickets.

When my son started going to concerts, he came back from seeing Feeder and meeting Dave Grolsh with a signed copy of his ticket stup, a signed flyer and a signed guitar plectrum. He was made up.

These items were arranged simply on a 12x12 scrapbook page and kept in an album. I have just found the album again and have framed his memorabilia page for him to hang in his own home.

Thanks for reading

Kim

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