Today I completed my “scrapframe” from my recent San Francisco trip. This is something I do for all my adventures / journeys / travels. However today I felt like sharing what I do, because I don’t think this term “scrapframing” is coined…..maybe I should add it to Wikipedia.
Many people do scrapbooks, which is a great way to preserve memories, but it is still in a book. Each page hides the others, so you can’t see everything at once. I like to display my adventures in poster frames. That way you can see all I did from the flight into the adventure to the flight home.
I love to travel and I am also a little bit of a hoarder, (but not the bad kind that fills their home with boxes of stuff.. No, the good kind, like a librarian) I keep flat things when on my adventure or traveling. It could be a plane / bus / train / boat / taxi / pedicab ticket or a handout for whatever I did, but to me, it is a timestamp of where I was and what I was doing at that moment in time.
I found the best thing to do with all these papers, tickets, maps, name tags, postcards, pictures, room cards (sometimes), etc is to put them on the wall. I could just tape or pin the items up there, but why not make it clean and frame it? Once it is in a frame it becomes a story that can be hung on any wall and shared.
All the things in the frames are about the best memories from that time. They may be small and some need explaining but others are easy to grasp. You can look at the scrapframe and figure out I went to Alcatraz, but I’ll have to personally share the story about negotiating in Chinatown over the $12 duffel bag.
Here is what is in my San Francisco Scrapframe that highlights the trip.
- Printed itinerary
- US Airways ticket stub YUM to PHX
- US Airways ticket stub PHX to SFO
- Ripped-out page from US Airway’s in-flight magazine with stuff to do in San Francisco
- BART map – from the airport, we rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit to Union Square
- MUNI Voucher for 6/3
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – ticket and map
- San Francisco Botanical Garden Map
- San Francisco Maritime – Nation Parks handout
- Aquarium of the Bay ticket stub
- “No Fins No Future” button from the Aquarium
- 1945 US Penny minted in San Francisco – I got change at some point
- Black Pancake Records matchbook – record store dedicated to vinyl
- MUNI Voucher for 6/4
- Coaster, Business card, and Room card cover for the Stanyan Park Hotel
- Room card cover for Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf
- Postcard for Zero Zero Pizzeria – Great Pizza!
- Self Guided Tour Handout for the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien
- MUNI Voucher for 6/6
- Alcatraz Ticket / map / passport book
- 4 free Irish Coffees at the Buena Vista because Erin got a hair in her meal (1 of 2)
- 2 MUNI Vouchers for 6/7
- Receipt and warranty for that duffel bag
- United Airlines ticket SFO to LAX
- United Airlines ticket LAX to YUM