The joy of cutting things out and sticking things down.
, by Sarah Frame, 2 min reading time
Piles of your mum’s magazines. Scissors. Pritt glue. Sticky fingers.
When you think of scrapbooks, your mind is probably taken back to your primary school years.
However, scrapbooking (it’s now a verb), is not a pleasure reserved for little ones.
Top art directors, film directors, architects and interior designers keep a visual record of the things they love, every day.
And, nowadays, keeping these look books is easier than ever.
Keeping an old school scrapbook is still a popular choice.
It’s probably like reading a ‘proper’ paperback book, rather than reading on a Kindle.
But digital scrapbooks offer an abundance of choice and opportunity.
You’re no longer restricted by how many magazines you can find by the sofa (or in the dentist’s waiting room). You have the web.
Although there are others, Pinterest is perhaps the biggest scrapbook tool of all time.
You may already be using it to gather collections of your favourite things but how about using it as a room planner?
Let’s say you’re redecorating the spare room. It’s looking pretty dowdy at the moment and you feel like a change.
On Pinterest you can find references of colours, fabrics and styles. You can showcase the kind of bed you’re thinking about.
You can find examples of room sets that have a retro feel or a sporting theme (if that’s your kind of thing).
The point is, when you create a scrapbook, you make the pictures you can see in your head more real.
We know that Pinterest is used by lovers of Elderflower Lane. Every month, over 13,000 people take a look at our Pinterest board. Many of them add our pics to their boards. And some of them go onto our website to buy.
Many of them are just using their digital scrapbooks to dream away about an ideal home or a lifestyle they hope to have.
Perhaps, when you have a picture of something you’d like, you bring it a little closer.