History of “Keeping Memories Alive”

On August 2006 The Scrapbooking Industry commercially celebrated twenty-five years of existence which was stated by not other then Marielen W. Christensen of Keeping Memories Alive, the worlds first scrapbooking store was head quartered in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA, in 1981.

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.

The above article taken from http://www.scrapbookartisan.com/moderndayscrapbooking.php