The Scrapbook

An Olympic Survey

A Skaters Journal

The Olympics

Care for your skates

Off Ice Training

Cool Stuff

The Jumps

Precision Skating

Famous Firsts

Bulletin Board

Sign My Guestbook

Whenever you go to a competition, save the program booklet, your name tag, tickets, cards, airline stubs, results sheets and anything else that may seem important. What somebody else sees as a piece of garbage may actually have some meaning to you. Take lots of pictures of every event, show and performance; some pictures really are priceless. For test days, save your test sheets; keep your ice show program. Basically, keep anything that someday may seem important or reminds you of a certain event.

I've tried to put all these things in a regular "drug store" scrapbook, but most of the things I wanted to put in it were too heavy for the books thin pages. If you are going to buy a scrapbook for all your memories, make sure it has very strong pages. What I did was buy 7 or 8 sheets of bristol board, and cut them in half width-wise. Using a hole punch, I made 3 fairly big holes going up the sides. Then, I put a ribbon through all the pages to hold the book together, and I tied it in a loose bow. I think you can also get metal rings for this purpose. Basically, now we have an empty book. Start putting your memories in the book in chronological order using tape. You don't have to use all the things you've saved. When I did mine, I left out a lot of things that didn't really seem important. On the cover, you could write "Skating Memories" or do something up on computer that can be taped to the cover. I also did up heading to go on each page, and phrases to go under the pictures. I went to a clip-art site on the net and printed out some images that added to the originality of the book. The good thing about this type of book is that you can add more pages whenever you like. The book will never "run-out".

Good luck making yours!