I miss...... Scrapbooking edition - Add Yours!

I miss Friday night crops at my LSS.

I miss getting scrapbook magazines.

Oh how I miss scrap magazines.

When we put our house on the market to move from PA to TX, I did a lot of purging. Having absolutely NO idea that scrap magazines were going to go away, I purged the vast, vast majority of mine. I SO regret that now!!!

Having an online magazine is just not the same to me. You can't just stick it in your suitcase for traveling because you can't always have a connection. When the Flight Attendant says to turn off your electronics, you can still study your magazine for the umpteenth time. You can't just touch it and scrutinize it like you can a paper version.

I miss my magazines.

I also miss the LSS. We used to always find an LSS in the area we were traveling to so we could drop in. There were soooooo many new ideas to see hanging on the walls of an LSS.

I also miss Archivers!! I can honestly say that I never lived in a town with an Archivers, but I loved planning a Saturday to make a two hour drive to visit an Archivers and have dinner out in a different city. My DS and DIL lived in a city with an Archivers and we would definitely plan a trip to Archivers when we would visit them.

I can honestly say that even though I receive the e-mails from Archivers, I have NEVER once made a purchase from them since they went online only!! It is just not the same as being in the store and I kinda resent that they shut down all their stores and made it sound like they were going out of business when their whole intent was to make more profit by going online only. I don't begrudge anyone making a profit, but when I asked specifically if they were going online only, they said "no, we are going out of business" and I ask "then why are you asking for my e-mail address" and their reply was "to keep us informed should they reopen any stores".

My fantasy is to someday have a large room with tables so I can host Friday night crops!

I really miss scrapbook stores too. i miss walking into a SB only store and not ones that have tons of other craft supplies. while i like michaels and joanns, i really miss the mom and pop SB stores.

i miss the older scrapbook collections and companies. thank goodness i hoarded when i did. LOL

I also miss the versatile & usable color palettes, patterns, & products from Chatterbox & KI Memories. Luckily, I still have both left in inventory & frequently incorporate it onto my current pages!  
I'm also disappointed with the lack of variety in the industry. Most of those previously boutique companies with unique styles now fall under the corporate American Crafts umbrella, which has streamlined these brands to resemble each other & offer similar embellishments! 

I miss the magazines.... I have been to hobby lobby twice now without seeing a magazine!!

My lss just closed... There is still one in the area but too small for crops...

I miss 24 and even 48 hour crops!

I miss scrapping with my sister, may she rest in peace.

Miss:

the monthly magazines - when the first peas started posting they received theirs, I knew mine would arrive in about 4-5 days.
the closed LSS's local and online.
Two Peas videos and especially the gallery
Kitty and Jamie + their warehouse videos
Quikutz monthly releases and all they hype that led to them
SB conventions with tons booths and bargains from name brand manuf.

sigh.....


Forgot to add:  I miss my Two Peas badges!!!!

I miss Two Peas……..soooo much!!

I miss the LSS (there is one here but her prices are SO high I don't go in)
I miss the crops at the LSS - the friends, the laughter, the late nights, the challenges
I miss the magazines
I miss the hoopla of new stuff coming out for CHA in January (and sometimes summer) - its not like it used to be
I miss the individuality of the lines/companies
I miss when they weren't all owned by one company
I miss making time to scrapbook
I miss that not many of my friends continue to do it

I miss the excitement of getting a new magazine in the mail. I subscribed to several and PaperKutz was by far my favorite.

I miss the tiny mom-and-pop companies that were launched from kitchen tabletops, like Kangaroo & Joey, Magic Scraps, and Pagerz lettering templates, etc.

I miss the thrill of sneak peeks from the CHA shows: I couldn't wait to see the shoppingdiva's photostream.

I miss my favorite lss most of all. She was a business owner who happened to own an LSS and she hired a lot of local art college students to work there. Great selection of product, clerks that knew their stuff, and everything you could possibly ask for in a store. When her MIL started having issues with dementia and then committed suicide, the store closed. So sad.

I miss the crop every National Scrapbook Day. Twelve hours of nonstop scrapping, pizza, bingo, door prizes, and friendship with girls who just understood the fascination with paper and glue.

I miss the monthly crops with a dozen friends and just hanging out. Sometimes I even miss the CM nazi loudly broadcasting my pages would be ruined forever because I had the audacity to use non-CM approved vellum which would cause the whole project to crumble and rot right out of my hands and before my very eyes.

I miss the days of using grease pencil on my photos, handcutting with circle templates, and Lindsay Ostrom's lettering books.

I miss those baby days of my kids growing up but I'm so glad I had this hobby to capture not only the celebrations but the mundane things that have slipped my mind even though I swore I would never forget.

I miss the loved ones in my photos that are gone now but seeing their photos and reading the stories is comforting and makes me miss them less.

I miss film cameras: there was something magical in opening that little yellow developing envelope to see how my pix turned out.

I don't think I'll ever fully give up scrapbooking but I do miss a lot of the way it used to be done and the way it used to make me feel. ((sigh))