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Post by artisticscrapper on Jul 24, 2017 1:10:35 GMT
I do if people bring up hobbies. Then they tell me their interests. That's about it except the few times they happened to be scrappers as well. Fortunately I've never gotten the mean girl remarks. If I did that would be the last voluntary interaction I would have with them.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jul 24, 2017 1:50:26 GMT
Another reason I don't tell people I scrap is because I don't want to share what I have made. It's my own private thing I like to do. I couldn't care less about anyone else. But when one of my kids opens up a book I just love it. I got to look at one last night with DS and his girlfriend. She mentioned she wanted to try doing something with her photos. So I pulled out a paper book and I pulled out a digital book and all three of us looked last night. She told DS how lucky he is his mother captured all those memories.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 24, 2017 2:45:28 GMT
I couldn't care less about anyone else. But when one of my kids opens up a book I just love it. I got to look at one last night with DS and his girlfriend. She mentioned she wanted to try doing something with her photos. So I pulled out a paper book and I pulled out a digital book and all three of us looked last night. She told DS how lucky he is his mother captured all those memories. I don't care if my family looks, but they have no interest.
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Post by canadianscrappergirl on Jul 24, 2017 3:26:45 GMT
Another reason I don't tell people I scrap is because I don't want to share what I have made. It's my own private thing I like to do. I couldn't care less about anyone else. But when one of my kids opens up a book I just love it. I got to look at one last night with DS and his girlfriend. She mentioned she wanted to try doing something with her photos. So I pulled out a paper book and I pulled out a digital book and all three of us looked last night. She told DS how lucky he is his mother captured all those memories. Awe that's sweet that makes this hobby even better doesn't it!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 24, 2017 3:49:58 GMT
I've never cared what people think about the things I like or the things I do. DH is the same way. We march to the beat of our own drum and always have, LOL. I've always been creative (and good at it) in multiple ways all my life and I've had a ton of hobbies over the years. Paper crafting is the only thing that has really stuck other than sewing. Since I've worked in the industry on a professional level as a retailer, designer and instructor, I think people take me a little more seriously than thinking of some little granny with her CM albums and stickers at a hen party in the church basement.
Most people who know me even moderately know at least a little bit about what my abilities are, and quite honestly many of them are in awe of what I can do once they see some of it. Scrapbooking is just another one of those things. So if people ask, I tell them but it isn't until they see some of my finished work that they even begin to understand what it is I actually do. I think a lot of people aren't very creative (or don't think they can be) so when they encounter someone who truly is, they don't really know what to do with that.
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Post by thracian on Jul 24, 2017 16:26:47 GMT
I am lucky. Most people in my life respond fine when I share that I'm a scrapper. I don't really think twice about talking about it. I even post my pages on Facebook. Every now and then someone will say something like, "How do you find the time for that?" And I just say that are important to them.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jul 25, 2017 7:19:18 GMT
I don't share that I scrapbook so it's really only my family who know. I have a couple of friends who know I'm "crafty" but I've never really told anyone I scrapbook. I'm a fairly private person in my real life and tend to take criticism to heart much more than I should so I've always kept my old lady hobby to myself.
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Post by AmandaA on Jul 25, 2017 15:49:43 GMT
My same thoughts and opinions have all been said already, so I will share this as an interesting addition to the dialogue....
Earlier this summer I traveled to Oregon (all the way across the country for me) for Ali Edward's Story Camp. The experience that myself and a lot of others had was being asked by people around town (at the hotel, in the restaurants and shops) why were we visiting, what brought us here, etc. Typical small talk when they realized we weren't from around there. It was interesting to hear how everyone tried to describe why we were there. Memory keeping, scrapbooking, story telling, documenting, etc. And in one case when I just said that I was here "for some classes" someone actually said "oh the scrapbooking thing going on at the hotel?" Ha ha. She had been educated. Anyhow... the overwhelming reaction from people once they got the 411 on it was "how cool". It kind of surprised me to get that kind of reaction from the general public about the craft and that people would go to such lengths to travel like that for their hobby.
I also thought it was interesting that I didn't hear a single person tell one of these stories where the person asking the questions had any idea who Ali Edwards was (or that such a big name in this hobby lived there.. like big enough that people traveled from all over the US and Canada to come take classes from her). Some of them would show a photo to the person and get a response "like oh yeah... I recognize her, she shops here often". So I suppose it must not be uncommon for scrapers both big and small to go about our business with some degree of anonymity.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 25, 2017 22:06:07 GMT
It kind of sounds like scrapbooking was like being in glee club before Glee hit the television. I would love to play the part of Sue Sylvester if we choose to turn our hobby into a television series.
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Post by deekaye on Jul 26, 2017 2:43:30 GMT
I have a fairly stressful career and work long hours so my down-time is scrapbooking. I love it, I need it and my friends and family know it's what makes me happy! I can really only think of one relative who has turned up her nose and said she doesn't get the appeal.... well, she climbs mountains on her down-time. I don't get the appeal there either!
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Post by Mary W on Jul 26, 2017 3:15:49 GMT
Everyone who knows me knows that I scrapbook. I pretty much announce it! I take tons of pictures at events and just say, "Excuse me, but I'm a scrapbooker." If they don't like it or don't understand, that's their problem. When I show people my home I'm very proud of my scrap room. I even try to recruit people into the hobby. When I get the comments about them not having time for "things like that." I ask what hobbies they have or what they like to do. Then I tell them that I find time for scrapbooking like they find time to do the things they enjoy. I love my hobby and am in no way embarrassed to tell people. It makes me sad that so many of you are.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 7:10:07 GMT
I have been scrapbooking since I was seven years old. I am in my 40's now and a SAHW. I tell people I scrapbook. I never received any hate, side eye, or judgment. I have had people ask me to make scrapbooks for them. That is a different peeve for a different thread, lol. Never any hate. A lot of my friends are super supportive of my scrapbooking. They like to look through all our old memories of us growing up as kids, teens & twenty years olds. My friends give me things to put in my scrapbooks. I love it when a friend admires something in my scrapbook that is fifteen years old and I get to remind them they gave me that item.
The only time I ever got bad feedback was my DH's family. He doesn't know them well at all because of an abusive background. Last year they came down because of a death in the family and they asked why I didn't have family photos on the wall and I told them I don't like to keep photos on the wall because I worry about damage. I keep them in scrapbooks. Then they expected me to pull out all the scrapbooks so they could be nosy. I told them no. They got angry about it. My husband told them they were there to get info from him to settle a will and not bond with us.
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Post by scrappyesq on Jul 26, 2017 13:00:41 GMT
I used to hide it. After all of the comments about me being old, boring etc...my (now ex) best friend had the nerve to tell me that scrapbooking was some white people sh*t (true story). The only person who was supportive (and who paid for my habit while I was unemployed) was DH.
Now I couldn't care less. I like being creative with my hands so I tell people all the time that its my thing along with card making and knitting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 14:37:55 GMT
Everyone who knows me knows that I scrapbook. I pretty much announce it! I take tons of pictures at events and just say, "Excuse me, but I'm a scrapbooker." If they don't like it or don't understand, that's their problem. When I show people my home I'm very proud of my scrap room. I even try to recruit people into the hobby. When I get the comments about them not having time for "things like that." I ask what hobbies they have or what they like to do. Then I tell them that I find time for scrapbooking like they find time to do the things they enjoy. I love my hobby and am in no way embarrassed to tell people. It makes me sad that so many of you are. Good on you! I'm just not a "talker". I'm more likely to listen to you talk about your passion. If you seem interested, I'd love to talk about scrapbooking but most people just really don't seem to want to know anything about me, but would rather talk about themselves.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 26, 2017 14:57:03 GMT
I have a fairly stressful career and work long hours so my down-time is scrapbooking. I love it, I need it and my friends and family know it's what makes me happy! Exactly. DH knows I need my time in what I call "My happy place".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 7:16:57 GMT
I used to hide it. After all of the comments about me being old, boring etc...my (now ex) best friend had the nerve to tell me that scrapbooking was some white people sh*t (true story). The only person who was supportive (and who paid for my habit while I was unemployed) was DH. Now I couldn't care less. I like being creative with my hands so I tell people all the time that its my thing along with card making and knitting. WOW! That is hateful! I am sorry she said that to you. Guess she doesn't watch a lot of YouTube or follow Instagram.
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