Magpie: A Southern Scrapbook

It isn't everyday that I have the opportunity to leaf through a 115-year-old scrapbook. Much less one that belonged to a member of my family.

But that's exactly what I found myself doing while I was home in Virginia last week helping my Mom with her spring sale (btw, you can shop said sale by clicking here).

I've seen a few of our family scrapbooks over the years, but the one that belonged to my paternal great-grandmother Hazelhurst is incredible (photo of the cover below).

She saved everything, including ribbons from her debutante balls, playbills from theatre performances she attended, her (very full!) dance cards, and memorabilia from her world tour through Europe. A few of those pages follow below.

I don't scrapbook per se, but I did inherit the tendency to keep things that I find beautiful or memorable.

And if I have a great-grandaughter, I'd like to think she might spend an afternoon looking through bits of this and that from my life. Which is why?I'm officially motivated to get out the glue and immortalize the good times on paper sooner rather than later.

Source: http://magpiebyhaskellharris.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-southern-scrapbook.html

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