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Scrapbooking becomes full-time job
Sat, Apr 1, 2006
By TAMMY BARTHLETT The Brunswick NewsWhen it was suggested that Amy Marasco make a scrapbook about her Australian honeymoon, she thought it would be a fun way to document the trip. What Marasco didn't bargain on was getting hooked on the hobby she began five years ago."Once I got started, I didn't want to stop," said the St. Simons Island resident, adding that it was exciting to put the scrapbook together and watch it grow.And after she had her two children, 1-year-old Carli and 3-year-old Madeline, scrapbooking became an almost full-time hobby. She made albums of her children as infants and is continuing to do so as they grow. Marasco also makes scrapbooks of everyday events in her family, such as taking trips to the zoo and her youngest daughter's fascination with pacifiers. "I am more about getting the comfort items now," she said, meaning visits with the grandparents and school events. "I find satisfaction with scrapbooks. I feel rejuvenated after I have worked on a book about my family."Marasco is also determined to do a scrapbook of her wedding. She said all she has now is a photo album of the event."I love the pictures," she said. "But I want to make a book of things I remember." She said when she looks at the photographs from the wedding taken by someone else, she does not recall all the day's happenings. Creating a scrapbook will allow her to collect all the moments her wedding photographer didn't capture.Marasco recently turned her hobby into a job. She's now a consultant for Creative Memories, a keepsake album company, and works with people who need materials to create their own scrapbooks.Next week, Marasco and several other local scrapbooking consultants will host an event called My Memoranza at St. James Lutheran Church in Brunswick. This two-day event aims to give people a chance to learn about scrapbooking and time to work on creating scrapbooks of their own."It is dedicated work time for scrapbooking," Marasco said. "People can buy whatever supplies they need to do their books, all they have to bring is some pictures they want in the scrapbook."The event will also give people not familiar with scrapbooking a chance to ask about products and learn more about the craft.Marasco said there is already a strong group of people who are avid scrapbookers in the Golden Isles. Beth Sutton, another consultant with Creative Memories who lives on St. Simons Island, began making scrapbooks after her daughter was born eight years ago. "I figured if I was going to spend the money taking pictures, I wanted to do something with them other than put them in the box," she said.Sutton said she has a room completely dedicated to making scrapbooks and attends craft events all over Georgia.The hobby also has been a social event for Sutton, who moved to Brunswick three and a half years ago. At a recent party celebrating her 50th birthday, Sutton said she looked around at all the women there and realized she had met most of them through scrapbooking."Some of the women were people I would have never met outside of doing this," she said. Another thing both Sutton and Marasco love is that their daughters are getting into making scrapbooks as well. Marasco's daughter Madeline loves looking through her own scrapbooks and at pictures of herself. She goes through them multiple times and, "it's almost like story time, except they are stories about her," Marasco said."She will glue the pictures onto the book and she is always telling me and anyone else listening, 'Mommy I scrapbook stuff, too.'" Sutton's daughter, 8-year-old Sara Beth, is currently working on a scrapbook of activities she's participated in.The family aspect of making scrapbooks is important to both Marasco and Sutton because it allows them to preserve moments and events that have happened in their lives."It will pay off in the long run when my daughters can look back with their children at the scrapbooks and know who we were," Marasco said.
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