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Karen C - California wrote:
In article , Cheryl Isaak writes: I'm with Cheryl -- I don't "get" the current scrapbooking trend. Oh thank goodness - I have wondered if I was the only person not into it. Of course, this is the Martha-ization of our old-fashioned photo albums. Just gluing photos to black paper isn't good enough any more when you can do it more artistically (and more expensively). Problem is -- and my source admits it -- since you now have to cut and arrange and carefully re-write just the right words till you get them error-free, it's no longer just taking a few minutes when a film comes back from Fotomat to glue them in an album, but hours of searching for just the right background paper and right stickers, so people are getting even *further* behind in getting their photos in the album. (A venture I gave up 20 years ago, when I realized how much room the albums took up versus just keeping the photos in shoeboxes. In a 400-square-foot apartment, an extra cubic foot here and there adds up real fast.) Actually, I wouldn't blame Martha for this one. I actually find this attitude a little condescending. Those of us who are addicted to a hobby or craft should not have this attitude toward another craft. My mother is an avid scrapbooker, as is my cousin. I do it, but not as avidly, of course I don't have 2 children either. My mother admits that she is an incredibly slow scrapbooker, but for her it's process. It is also the one craft she loves. She finished an emboidery project the day she went into labour with me and hasn't done any since. Before this past summer it had been 18 years since she knitted anything. So for her, she comes from a family that has loved photography for many many years, and my dad had his own darkroom for a while. This was a natural extension of these hobbies. And yes we go to crops, but then again there are stitch-a-longs and stitching conventions, so I'm not seeing the difference. So, all of us at some point have had to defend our love of needle, thread and cloth, I don't think we should be condescending of those who love paper, stickers and pictures. They are creating works of art and heirlooms, just as we aspire too. Rachel |
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Rachel Janzen wrote in
news:9Km9c.25876$li5.9130@pd7tw3no: So, all of us at some point have had to defend our love of needle, thread and cloth, I don't think we should be condescending of those who love paper, stickers and pictures. They are creating works of art and heirlooms, just as we aspire too. Exactly. Thank you. K |
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lula wrote in
: K, you gave a wonderful explanation of scrapbooking! Thank you! I've only been scrapbooking for a little over a year, but now I wish I had had it in mind all my life. There are so many experiences I would have liked to have documented in a Divine Secrets type of scrapbook. I'll just have to do it from now on. K |
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Cheryl Isaak had some very interesting
things to say about Scrapbooking WAS Meet Matilda Mallstomper: I'm with Cheryl -- I don't "get" the current scrapbooking trend. Oh thank goodness - I have wondered if I was the only person not into it. And stamping for that matter. Not my thing either [although rubber stampers use stuff that also works nicely on polymer clay :-)]. The clay I at least understand. I'm not interested for myself, but can see the attraction. Try it sometime. :-) Lots of "paper" crafts leave me cold - just me I guess. I can understand why some people are interested in scrapbooking and such, it just doesn't tweak my interests. -- "Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing (or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL |
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Lula , i do keep work copybooks of all ,my art projects ,,, and after
my solo was aproached by a museum curator that wanted to buy mine ,,,, haven`t decided yet whether i wouldkeep or burn them later ,,,, mirjam On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:35:52 -0500, lula wrote: K, you gave a wonderful explanation of scrapbooking! Most of us have a drawer or box filled with old photos and other odds and ends of our lives waiting for something to be done, so it's a great idea to layout these pieces creatively in an album. Scrapbooking has its roots back to the 18th century. Women have been keeping journal scrapbooks and albums through the ages, illustrated with watercolor and bits of whatever could be saved of their daily lives. I'm attracted to "scrapbooking" but not in the memory sense of family trees......my interests are similar to your vacation and garden scrapbooks. This is a wonderful craft and trend that looks to be staying popular for a long while yet as more and more people are drawn to it. Artist's scrapbook albums and journals are fascinating to look through. A few of these beautiful watercolor journal / sketchbooks have been published in the last few years. I've been a journal keeper for most of my life......keeping journals on the many aspects of my life, such as the various art & design disciplines I work on.........as I posted earlier, wish I had kept a "scrapbook" of my life through the years but never thought to "illustrate" them. I've only recently started to draw simple little sketches in my design journals.......nothing "fancy" at least not yet....... --- Lula http://www.woolydream.com Needlework Adventures K K wrote: As an avid scrapbooker, I do it because I like to share memories. I did a scrapbook of my parents' 50th anniversary party that included the cards from those who attended as well as their photos, with notes written by each one to my parents. Many of these people have since died, and a scrapbook is one way to gather all of these memories from many people to pass on to my parents' granchildren. I also scrapbooked a lot of the memoribilia my mother had of my father, who passed away two years ago (and this is an on- going project...). Doing that I learned things about my Dad that I didn't know, including the fact that he was one of the first people to take the SATs. Again, gathering all this in one place, with the photos and the written notes describing the importance of everything there,is a way to pass these memories on. I don't cut the photos down to just someone's face; seeing the car or the house or the landscape in the background puts it all in context. I also scrapbook my vacations, including photos, pamphlets, maps, coasters, matchbooks, and anything else I can gather (the New Orleans book has beads in it and the Key West and Hawaii books have shells and sand). When friends come over for dinner or parties, they know where my scapbooks are and look to see what's new. At least two couples have in part planned their vacations around my scrapbooks! They found it inspiring to see photos of Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas, for example, next to the brochure of the ferry and the map of the fort. Seeing photos of black sand beaches on pages laid out to look like a black sand beach, and photos of Volcanos National Park with my journaled impressions of the experience influenced another couple in their decision to go to Hawaii. I scrapbook photos of my balcony garden every year, including the tags from plants or the labels from seeds. That allows me to go back year after year and either duplicate what I did before or try something new. I've scrapbooked cross stitch projects, with the pattern in a sleeve on one page and the photos of the front, back, and details on the opposite one. Since I give away most of what I stitch, it's the only way I can keep records of what I've done. Not trying to make anyone a scrapbook convert, just trying to explain that it's more than just cutting out faces and slapping them on some pretty paper. It's yet another creative outlet for me. K |
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Karen C - California wrote:
Of course, this is the Martha-ization of our old-fashioned photo albums. Just gluing photos to black paper isn't good enough any more when you can do it more artistically (and more expensively). Problem is -- and my source admits it -- since you now have to cut and arrange and carefully re-write just the right words till you get them error-free, it's no longer just taking a few minutes when a film comes back from Fotomat to glue them in an album, but hours of searching for just the right background paper and right stickers, so people are getting even *further* behind in getting their photos in the album. (A venture I gave up 20 years ago, when I realized how much room the albums took up versus just keeping the photos in shoeboxes. In a 400-square-foot apartment, an extra cubic foot here and there adds up real fast.) Yahbutttt, that's not my experience. I was reluctantly dragged to a scrapbooking class and went really for the kaffeeklatch aspect, but what I have found is that I like the creative aspect of it. I DO NOT, however, spend hours looking for just the right anything. I can do a two or three page layout from start to finish in a two hour crop. As a result, the photos that were sitting in envelopes around my house (because I wasn't even organized enough to get them written on and into a box) are slowly but surely being assembled into an album. Since I too am the end of my branch (and my siblings' kids are my siblings' responsibility), I have no compunction about cutting photos however suits me. And I write what I want on the page as I finish. I don't strive to get it "just right." I certainly don't spend hours on it. As a result, I am not further behind, I am catching up. And I get a night out that I might not have otherwise made time for with people that I might not have otherwise met but whose company I enjoy. Elizabeth -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* |
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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
Well Ericka , every one gets surprised by something else !!! But of course. No , i stil think learning how to put one`s memories together ??? is weird ... commercial meomories ???? Who said anything about commercial memories? The fact that there is a business that sells scrapbooking products and offers "training" (of sorts--as I understand it their "classes" are quite informal) through individual salespeople hardly means that the people who *use* those products or take those classes have "commercial memories." What about Spontenous feelings , authencity ,,, ????? where have they gone . Buying products and learning techniques means that one cannot have spontaneous feelings or authenticity? I don't understand that. Best wishes, Ericka |
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