Scrapbooking SCANDAL! (And scrapbooking in general)

"It's kind of like being a rock star," Contes said. "It's not what you think scrapbooking is."

Clearly

"Apparently, many lives have been destroyed by this catastrophe. The devastation will surely go on for many years to come, and this tragedy will not soon be forgotten."

Crimean War has nothing on this humanitarian disaster.

Sorry to do nothing to quote but

"I, seriously, was like the Lindsay Lohan of scrapbooking"

Few have the chance to say that in a lifetime.

BEST PARAGRAPH!

One person condemned Contes' lack of shame, admitting that she, too, had entered a contest once, and later realized she had broken the rules. "For about 10 minutes I kept thinking 'Don't worry about it, nobody's gonna know,' " she wrote. "But then I thought 'You and GOD are going to know.' " She withdrew from the contest so her children would still be able to look her in the eye, and then "proceeded to cry for about 3 days."

One person YOU ARE CRAZY!

"avant-garde scrapbookers" - who is the John Cage of scrapbooking?

Confession: I keep scrapbooks of my photos of my kids, and actually went to a few "scrapbooking" sessions. I seemed to not have much in common with a lot of the other women there (and it was alllll women), but I didn't realize how much this was true until a group of women insisted that we listen to James Dobson's views on stem cell research on the radio. Ugh.

It's kind of nice to know that there are other sides to scrapbooking. That being said, this scandal kind of makes me laugh.

Crying for 3 days over breaking a contest rule. My, that is really warped.

just like teh ilx

Has anyone ever been in a scrapbooking store? I think you start ovulating in sync with all the middle aged richie ladies, whether you want to or not. They really freak me out. People drop GRANDS on that shit.

I don't understand where people put all of it. Or how they organize it.

But yes, I've been in an Archiver's store and you are correct; you can spend a ton of money on it.

I kind of wonder if the popularity of scrapbooking will fade as more people move to digital photography. I guess you could print the photos out and then use them, but that seems like an awful lot of steps. </lazy!>

Aw, hell no, people do that shit. It think it is kind of nice actually because it always freaked me out that scrapbooking ladies take like family photos from the '70s of which there is probably only one copy and cut them into cutesy shapes such as school buses. W/digital photo you are at least not killing the original.

A lot of women I knew at church, when I went, were HUEG into scrapbooking and had engineer or doctor husbands who would pay for them to basically sit at home and be quiet and not bother them. So they would spend literally thousands on whatever the latest hobby was. Rubber stamps in the early '90s, buying hundreds of them and dozens of colored inks and embossing powder and fancy papers to make cards out of with teddy bear stamps on them. Then in the late '90s to modern era, scrapbooking. These women have entire rooms dedicating to holding all their spare crap and supplies. It is so weird to me.

I don't get how this lady is supposed to be totally edgy bcz last time I went to a scrapbook store* they had all these cray stickers that were all trendy graphic design of distressed Victorian cameo or digital houndstooth and all kind of interesting crap.

*Called "The Archive Store," I was looking for archive tape to fix a book and they had no idea what I was talking about, whereas I had no idea it would be a scrapbooking store as I am used to ones named "Scrapbook Cottage" or "The Paper Trolley."

omg how did I miss this bizarre, inexplicable story

ps what the hell is up with scrapbooking

Hahah, I was just searching for this thread.

Contes met one young woman who scrapped about her miscarriage. The woman printed a photo of herself for the page, adding stickers, stamps and Coldplay lyrics: "Come on, my star is fading and I swerve out of control. I know I'm dead on the surface but I'm screaming underneath."

On the one hand, how churlish would be of me to judge the manner in which someone else chooses to deal with traumatic events?

On the other hand, wtf

It's like Post Secret except expanded to an A4 sheet of paper. By the worst people in history.

On the one hand, how churlish would be of me to judge the manner in which someone else chooses to deal with traumatic events?

On the other hand, wtf

I say this to myself at least once a week.

Scrapbooking bloggers called it "Hall of Fame-Gate," naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007.

wow. i wonder what the runners up were.

Cutting up photographs into shapes and stuff drives me crazy! You're not preserving your memories, you're fucking ruining them!

Like a good lobotomy.