“Creative Memories” consultant Joy Lockman is looking forward to the upcoming class she’ll be holding for scrapbook lovers this Saturday (Feb. 3) at the old CN station here.
As a consultant for the international organization, Lockman has been busy honing her skills over the past four years. And she’s hoping to get others as interested in scrapbook making as she has been this weekend.
“I attended my first home class in Kenora,” Lockman said. “I really enjoyed the class but I thought that it would be very hard to have to drive to Kenora every time I wanted to attend it.
“When I got back home, I decided to start as a consultant myself so that I could offer the service to other people in the area,” she added.
Although Lockman admitted it’s been a slow start getting people involved in the organization, she is hopeful the interest in memory books will catch on soon.
“I think more and more people are becoming aware of some of the unsafe ways there are of keeping photos,” she remarked. “Today there are far better ways of preserving keepsakes and photos than the standard magnetic albums.
“At my classes, I try to educate people on the correct way to preserve their valuables.”
The class, which offers basic scrapbook-making techniques, will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“Right now, I have about 12 women coming to the class but I have room for 16,” Lockman said. “In fact, of the 12 people we have, there are four women attending the class that have never done any scrapbooking before.
“Usually I have only one person who has never worked on them before so it will be very interesting to see how everything will go on Saturday.”
And for Lockman, the chance to get women together for the day gives her the opportunity to bring back into fashion the old-style women’s socials of yesteryear.
“We don’t have very many opportunities for women to connect with one another,” she noted. “There used to be quilting bees but we don’t have those any more.
“I would love to have those kinds of social settings again and I am hoping my classes will help to revive them.”
Though women tend to make up the largest part of her classes, Lockman is hoping men–as well as older people–will take the opportunity to attend one of her workshops.
“The other day I held a home class for some women,” Lockman recalled. “The host of the party had her mother there and she said to me that she was too old to do anything like this. She said that it was for young women with children, not for older people.
“But when I took out an album I had made of my brother and sister, her eyes just lit up. She got quite excited and said that she could do that with all of her old pictures.”
Lockman said each class gives her the chance to share her own passion for memory book making with others, and she’s hoping her enthusiasm will rub off on her students.
“Women tend to take the time to keep pictures but today we are taking so many that we are not able to document them properly,” she stressed. “Keeping memories like this fresh helps to preserve them for children and grandchildren.
“I think that is really what is important and I am hoping my classes will help people to do this.”
Lockman currently holds her “Creative Memories” classes at the old CN station on the third of every month. The price to attend is $10, or it costs $15 to have a home class.
For more information, contact Lockman at 481-1162.
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