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Title: Not what I was expecting
Review: This is a very well-written book about the why of scrapbooking. Stacey Julian gives you all sorts of reasons why you should scrapbook and ways to enjoy doing it. She reminds you of the important things in life that should be scrapbooked and gives you permission to not scrap every photo, not scrap chronologically, and not scrap anything you are not interested in scrapping. Somehow, I had the expectation that this book was an idea book showing layouts that used a single large photo or "a big picture", which it is not. Many of the layouts use multiple pictures on a page, and there was significantly more writing than I expected. There are lots of layouts featured in the book, and they all follow the simple style seen in the Simple Scrapbooks magazine. Stacy Julian is on the staff at that magazine, so that is no surprise.
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