  March 15, 2010  Scrapbooking: Crafty trip down memory lane  I
was sitting at my mother's kitchen table, poring over shades of
blue and trying to figure out which paper matched the graduation
cap in the photo of the grinning 5-year-old holding her
preschool diploma.  While some take to the slopes or curl up
with a good book, my mom and I spend our winter free time
scrapbooking. I am relatively new to the hobby, but hooked. I
find it to be an odd mix "" an artistic endeavor with a
practical purpose. It's a creative outlet, for sure, but at the
same time, I am (very slowly) getting something important done
"" even if I can never actually cross "archive all of life's
most memorable moments" off the to-do list.  Scrapbooking is as
much about consuming as producing. There is a seemingly endless
array of tools and supplies "" not just paper in various colors,
sizes and textures, but all sorts of gluing and cutting
implements. "Adhesives" come in sticks, dots, squares and
rolling dispensers. Paper can be cut straig