What do you miss the most?

I have to agree with lilacgal , it’s the local scrapbook stores. I would love to go in and browse and get to know the employees. And the crops they would have. I haven’t attended a crop since my local stores closed.

LSS and magazines. Oh and QVC craft days….HSN is just not as good.

I miss in-person shopping options - when we would take a road trip back in the heyday of scrapbooking, DH would always stop at an LSS if there was one along the way, an Archivers, an AC Moore, a big Joanns...

Our last big road trip - there were NO scrapbook stops. We do have a HL here now but our Michaels closed earlier this year and the TWO scrapbook stores here are both long gone.

I also miss QK - the excitement of the releases, the limited edition dies....the ease of 2x2 dies in the handtool (I have an Epic Six for bigger dies but I always reach for the handtool first)

And the variety....before AC swallowed up so many companies...

I miss living close to the LSS and meeting there to scrapbook with my friends. We all live in different states now, and that LSS is long gone. I taught there, worked there, and the owners were good friends.

There are 3 or 4 LSS in the DFW area, assuming they are all still around after COVID, but they are all too far away. I’m not willing to battle the traffic.

Definitely having multiple scrapbook stores in the area. I really enjoyed seeing and feeling all the products and walking around the store putting products together that would work for me. Online shopping is just not the same.

Gossamer Blue, also.  I was just pulling some of my old pocket page kits and thinking how much I liked them.

That we could shop Target and Walmart and have a pretty good selection...not just part of an aisle.



 

I miss scrapping with my friends. Hopefully that will change soon.

I still have an awesome LSS and a second hand craft store that has some good stuff now and then.

I just got 4 orders of scrapping stuff I ordered earlier this week. I do appreciate how fast everything got here, but I'd much prefer to shop in store.

I miss my not so local SB store. She had quarterly all day crops with amazingly comfortable chairs, excellent food and she would make these incredible oatmeal caramel cookies for dessert after dinner. Summer who was often in CK magazine worked there and and had her pages on display along with the owner’s who was also an excellent scrap booker . It was a beautiful store and she had an excellent selection. I really miss shopping there.

I miss the conventions too, taking classes etc. but by far the thing I miss most is the all day crops and shopping.

I wasn't really scrapbooking regularly until 2013 so I'm sad I missed out on the hey day, but I do remember having multiple stores as options and even a couple of stamp stores back when I dabbled. All of that is pretty much gone now. I miss Paperclipping Roundtable and Digiscrap podcasts along with all the magazines. I was in a bookstore the other day and the crafting magazines were sparse. I left empty handed.

I miss the energy.

Being able to go to several LSS. Seeing paper & embellishments up close before buying.

The Quickutz releases. Although I wasn't one who bought alphas as they were released, I loved seeing what they were.

I loved the anticipation of something new. The possibility of something new and innovative. Now it's just like, "Wonder what recycled design AC will bring out again.. " Ho hum.

I liked knowing other scrappers, and having a built-in commonality with them.

This will sound weird, but I liked scrapping before Marie Kondo and minimalism were in fashion. Now it feels like people would be more inclined to ask why I have such a hoard of photos.

I feel that so much. My friends love seeing my books, love seeing themselves in them, but I have yet to get any of them to print their photos from their phones. It depresses me sometimes. I've made a few baby books for friend but I have no idea if any of them have ever used them.

Scrapbooking overnights with my sister in law and the shopping we would do before and to restock during.

If I had to pick one thing, it would be LSS's. There were two in my town, one was HUGE and had so much stuff-paper, tools, embellishments, and stickers on the roll.

The other store was smaller but still had a great selection-and they had monthly crops and weekly make and take classes. I learned so many techniques in those classes. The crops were so fun too, everyone sitting at their little "desk", everyone gabbing, and dinner was provided. One time they did a chocolate themed crop, it was EPIC. They had a chocolate fountain, chocolate coffee, chocolate wine, and every chocolate cookie, snack, etc you could think of...I have never in my life eaten so much sugar. My BFF joined me for it, and we had so much fun!

The other thing I miss is having scrappy friends at work. I used to work with two ladies who scrapped, and it was so fun to talk about products, projects, sales and shopping! I talked one of them into hosting a CM party when I wanted to get into scrapping, I still have just about every tool I purchased then (2006). The only thing I got rid of were a few shapes in the shape cutting set-a heart, a diamond, and some wavy frame.

I also miss Glitter Girl videos. I go back and rewatch her old ones!

I also miss the variety of companies that used to exist. Seven gypsies, Daisy D's, Reminisce, Making Memories-and lots more I'm sure. Oh-there was a company that even made scrapbooking lotion (oil free), I STILL have some and use it when I scrap. Not sure how it hasn't gone rancid yet, but it hasn't, so I keep using it.

Apparently I miss a lot. But as much as I miss those things, I am still so thankful to have the supplies I do, paper magazines still (yay!!), this site where we can geek out together, and scrappy videos to learn and be inspired.