Utah County Woman Scrapbooks Over 700 Olympic Pages

Utah County Woman Scrapbooks Over 700 Olympic Pages


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(KSL News) -- A Utah County women who loves scrapbooking and loves the Olympics decided to put the two together. She shared with us her gold-medal chronicles of more than 700 pages.

Erlene Taylor, Scrapbook Enthusiast: "Everybody was together. All the people were together."

Four years ago was a time Salt Lake native Erlene Taylor will never forget, and with the help of her Olympic-size scrapbooks, she and many others can always remember.

Utah County Woman Scrapbooks Over 700 Olympic Pages

What started out as a contest for the Deseret News became an Olympic project itself, scrapbooking the Games in chronological order from the awarding of the bid to the extinguishing of the torch.

Erlene Taylor: "I thought I'd have one notebook, one scrapbook, but I ended up with five."

Taylor's scrapbook is filled with past champions and also Olympians who are making history right now in Torino.

Her favorite Olympian so far for 2006 is "Flying Tomato" Shaun White.

Taylor's collection of Olympic clippings comes to a whopping 762 pages.

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