memory keeping: a simple dance scrapbook

We call our Ella, "Ella Bella Tu Tu" because she loves to dance. She started taking lessons at The Dance Conservatory when she was two years old. Even more than dancing, she loves to perform.

Last month TDC had their winter concert at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo. The dancers performed Mary Poppins.

There's Ella, third from the left.

At the end of the dance, the girls got to "strike a pose." Ella practiced hers over and over. :)

I found Ella thumbing through her "dance book" the other day. It's a simple scrapbook in a "half pint" or 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" album. I used the same size album for my family favorites recipe book.

After each dance concert, I add the program and individual and group photos to her scrapbook.

I've also included memorabilia (hair ribbons, tags from costumes and leotards, etc.).

And it's nice to have the card for the store we purchase dance apparel on hand. There's a postcard with the TDC information so she can always remember where she danced. DVDs of photos and filmed performances tuck nicely into the sheet protectors too.

I love this simple little album.