In 1976 Christensen began designing creative pages for her family’s photo albums creating her own memories. The conference at Salt Lake City opened the door to a massive interest in memory book designs in the United States, and Christensen was invited to give seminars and teach classes to countless groups, including Brighan Young University’s Camp Education Weed and numerous church, civic and school groups. During the twenty-five years following, she lectured continually throughout the Intermountain West.

Later in 1993 , The Christensen’s began a mail order division in the back of the building. The business grew very quickly by word of mouth there for they had to move its warehousing to a larger facility in 1994. They moved the shipping department to a larger ware house in 1998.

Keeping Memories Alice opened the first wholesale division in the scrapbook industry in 1993, providing other stores with a source to purchase products at one place. this helped move the industry forward as small scrapbook stores began opening up all over the United States.

Keeping Memories Alive made history again in 1996 as they launched the first commercial website for scrapbook supplies. Scrapbooking is now a multimillion dollar industry all around the world, Scrappers or scrapbookers get together and scrap at each others homes, local scrapbook stores, scrapbooking conventions, retreat centers and even cruises dedicated slowly to scrapbooking. These are a few of many great ways to learn tips and new ideas.

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In those days, scraps were printed pieces of paper with various ornate designes. The very first scrapbooks contained pressed flowers, paper cuts, feathers and other bits of memoriebilia. Scrapbooking became more popular in the middle class nineteenth century life.

A very popular type of scrapbook, "drawing room," scrapbook, was the center of social exchange and discussion for people during the mid eighteenth century. These were full of memories and stories of family members and activities.

Scrapbooking started to decline during World War 1. The recession caused scrapbooking businesses to close down.

During the mid to late 1800′s, various companies began producing leather bound scrapbook albums that included themed pages. Most common designs were of birds and flowers.

Famous American author, Mark Twain was into scrapbbooks! He invented scrapbook pages that had pre-adhesive pages for mounting pictures. This was one of Mark Twains most popular books sold.

In 1980, modern scrapbooking was made popular when Marielen Christensen presented over 50 volumes of her family memory books at the World Conference on Records in Utah, USA. It generated so much interest that the Christensen family opened a store called Keeping Memories Alive, that is still in business in Utah.

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