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Hi, guys, I have to make a memorial guest book for my aunt that just passed. It is going to be very simple, but I was wondering if anyone had ever made one before and what pages they put in. I am specifically looking for the pages where the friends and family sign in. Does anyone already have one that they could share with me? Any help would be appreciated.
Do you have an album already or are you starting completely from scratch? We just bought one from the funeral home for my mom's funeral. I will remove the pages and "scrap" them into the eventual book with the cards and letters we recieved, funeral card, newspaper article, etc.
If you are starting from scratch, print out pages on nice paper in your printer like this:
Use a three ring binder photo album from the LSS and chose one with a pretty cover - take out the plastic pages and replace with your printed sign in pages -
Anything memorial I try to keep simple and keep the same theme/colors throughout. You want the stamping to be secondary to the memories. I've made memorial albums for my Mom, my Dad, and my two daughters. For each I chose a color scheme and one type of embellishment and kept it throughout their album. HTH.
I am actually going to be doing a memorial book for my aunt. Her son just passed away very suddenly. It won't be a guest book but I am going to have pictures of him throughout his life and I am also going to include the passages from the bible that were read at his funeral. Hope that gives you an idea for something else.
I highly recommend an accordion album. Last month I made two - one was a guest book for a wedding and the other was a memorial album for my grandparents. For the wedding book, the inner two pages were a free-style guest book (kind of like how you would sign a year book). I also included a box of square notes that guests could leave well wishes for the bride and groom. For my grandparents' memorial album, the inner two pages were a copy of their memorial/obit write up.
Feel free to PM me if you would like to see pics.
Charlene
I saw this on the creating keepsakes magazine website and thought it might help generate more ideas for creating a memorial book.
Document your loved one�s handwriting.
Use a favorite poem.
Talk about a lesson you learned from your loved one.
Do a random layout with bits and pieces about your loved one.
Record some of your loved one�s trademark sayings.
Scrapbook the eulogy (if someone wrote it down).
Include your loved one�s favorite song or artist.
Pick your top five favorite pictures of your loved one and scrapbook them.
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I personnally like a memorial book to be a book about their life and not about their death, although that cannot be avoided in the telling of the story. I like the book to lead up to that part. I recently fininshed scrapbooking my Uncle's war letters from WWII, where he died at age 20 as a flyer. I had no pictures, but researched by reading the letters then putting the diary together. Finally, I heavily used internet pictures of retro events and stickers, stamps etc. to chronicle the book. I used a military and red/white/blue theme throughout. Since I did not want to damage the integrity of the original documents, baby book to obits, I made "color" copies which created the same old look. I covered a flip lid box with the same theme to contain the documents, and made it the same size as the 12 X 12 book. Therefore, the book becomes part of the cover but can be removed for viewing. I am very pleased with the results. In the process, I felt I spent a lot of time getting to know this person I had never met.
Again, memorialize a life not a death and you will have an awesome book.
Memorialize the Life: Thank you for sharing this. My younger son Joshua was killed in 1999 at age 27 in Keystone, Colorado, in a ski accident. I have yet to create his memorial book although I have made a number of false starts. I don't have a scrapbook prepared either. Every time I start, emotionally my heart stutters, and I've had to put aside the pictures.
I will be celebrating 2 years as a breast cancer survivor on April 26th, and just celebrated my 60th birthday yesteday so I'm aware that I don't have forever to create The Book of Joshua for his older brother who still has not come to terms with his baby brother's death.
I NEED to do this: for Ben, for myself, and in a sense for Joshua. Joshua was a real "piece of work" with a lot of charisma, and there are many "Joshua" stories that I want to record.
I'm hoping this year will be the year that I CAN do it. I think maybe I need to tell myself just one page or one Christmas or one topic at a time, instead of always starting with the idea that I'm creating THE BOOK.
Thank you for sharing the huge project that you undertook for your uncle.
Cheers!!!
SharonK- Crystal, MN
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I personnally like a memorial book to be a book about their life and not about their death, although that cannot be avoided in the telling of the story. I like the book to lead up to that part. I recently fininshed scrapbooking my Uncle's war letters from WWII, where he died at age 20 as a flyer. I had no pictures, but researched by reading the letters then putting the diary together. Finally, I heavily used internet pictures of retro events and stickers, stamps etc. to chronicle the book. I used a military and red/white/blue theme throughout. Since I did not want to damage the integrity of the original documents, baby book to obits, I made "color" copies which created the same old look. I covered a flip lid box with the same theme to contain the documents, and made it the same size as the 12 X 12 book. Therefore, the book becomes part of the cover but can be removed for viewing. I am very pleased with the results. In the process, I felt I spent a lot of time getting to know this person I had never met.
Again, memorialize a life not a death and you will have an awesome book.
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The key for me was to do the research and write a chronilogical diary of sorts in snippits, that would later become each pages theme. Once that was done, I took the snippit or two if they were related and located pictures or resources, like first haircut snip etc that would go with that and put them in a folder numbered page 1, etc. When it came to making the book, I simply pulled out the next few folders and worked the pages. The emotion was poured into the preparation, making the scrapbooking part fun. I was emotional, but seriously, if you don't get emotional doing a project of this significance you really aren't doing it justice! Make the folder creating part a family project which will inspire lots of story telling and insight you may not come up with on your own. I am sure therapists would call this whole process healing and theraputic for all.
OK, so maybe I am somewhat of an over organized overachiever, but hey it works for me!
I love all the ideas everyone has posted for the memorial book - I just assumed that Karen was creating a guest book, in a hurry, for the service. I will refer to this thread for all the ideas as I create my mom's book. Karen, sorry for your loss.
You guys have such awesome ideas. I was looking for a book for people to sign in when they got to the memorial service, but I love all the other wonderful ideas here, also. Thank you so much for all your input.
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Memorialize the Life-I hope I'm ready
