Jeanine Buttimer was raised in a home where family history was treasured.
That point is proven with the boxes of family memorabilia.
“I’m a saver. I feel I need to save and document everything,” Buttimer said. “It is a part of me and a part of how I was raised — to save family history for the next generation.”
Buttimer has turned her passion into a career as a scrapbooking company consultant for Creative Memories.
“I took a Creative Memories class and realized what they were preaching was what I did in albums years ago,” she said.
She holds scrapbooking workshops in her home, where people can get ideas on creating their own personal scrapbooks.
“The workshops are almost like quilting bees,” Buttimer said.
Buttimer said she teaches people how to make scrapbooking manageable.
“People walk into craft stores, and see 500 different albums and 1,000 types of paper — it can be overwhelming,” Buttimer said.
A small part of Buttimer’s business is creating scrapbooks for people.
“A grandfather in town called me to create a scrapbook for his grandsons,” Buttimer said. “They had taken a trip to Chicago and seen the train yards and engines. He brought over 36 photos, I put them in, and he wrote in descriptions of the photos. His grandsons were so excited about the book — they thought it was so cool to have something their grandfather made for them.”
She has since done albums for the man’s wife and children.
“I feel like I am a part of the family, working with the intimate photographs that they give me,” Buttimer said.
Quotable
“I get such a feeling of accomplishment. When I do two or three pages in a night, the first thing I do in the morning is get up and look at those pages,” Buttimer said.
Her goal
“To help people document their family story,” Buttimer said.
Check it out
To learn more about scrapbooking or attend a workshop, visit Buttimer’s website at www.mycmsite.com/jbuttimer
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FOOD Italian food, like pizza or pasta, and chocolate
BOOK “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
VACATION SPOT The beach or the mountains
