PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Jul 3, 2021 4:28:39 GMT
Prior to the pandemic, did you primarily scrapbook at your home, neighbor/family member/friend's house, LSS, retreat, or elsewhere?
Do you intend to continue or resume scrapping there post-pandemic? If not & you plan to scrap somewhere else, where & why?
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Post by Night Owl on Jul 3, 2021 4:47:11 GMT
I'm a kitchen table scrapbooker. Even when crops were popular I never went to many because I get more scrapbooking done at home. My goal is to make a corner of my family room into a scrapbook area so I don't have to keep moving my stuff off the kitchen table.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jul 3, 2021 5:18:31 GMT
I've always been an at home scrapper. I like having my total stash with me, but more importantly I just cannot concentrate properly with other people around while I'm creating.
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cbscrapper
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Post by cbscrapper on Jul 3, 2021 5:21:23 GMT
Pre-pandemic I do it all - scrap at home, scrap once a month at a friend’s house (now we zoom), attend a quarterly day-long crop, go to a yearly multi-day retreat, and go to convention (and crop there) 1-2 times a year. I’m really looking forward to in-person events some day.
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scrapnnana
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Post by scrapnnana on Jul 3, 2021 5:33:44 GMT
Before we moved to Texas, I scrapped with friends at the LSS till it closed, then we met at one of our homes or at the public library.
After moving to our current home, I have a loft which I use for my craft room. I make my cards and layouts in my loft. I had been inviting friends over pre-COVID, but I get more done when I craft alone.
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FurryP
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Post by FurryP on Jul 3, 2021 6:35:02 GMT
I've always been an at home scrapper. I like having my total stash with me, but more importantly I just cannot concentrate properly with other people around while I'm creating. Yeah that. I have my own craft room with a tv, so if I am not crafting I am spending my "alone time" in there. My DH is a ball of energy and noise, and I need my quiet time.
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durangirl
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Post by durangirl on Jul 3, 2021 7:21:23 GMT
I have only ever scrapbooked at home. I have my desk, Expedit and carts in our breakfast nook in the kitchen. Lots of natural sunlight from three windows.
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sueg
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Post by sueg on Jul 3, 2021 9:08:33 GMT
I scrapbook at home, as I don't have any other options. Scrapbooking is not really well known here and there isn't a LSS in my city anymore. In 12 years living here, I went to a store crop once, but they have since gone online only, so no more crops. It was also a major hike across town to get to, so not something I could do regularly. I have a desk set up in our spare bedroom. At the moment, it is sort of in limbo, as DH was using the spare room while he was working from home, so I got bumped to a table in the corner of the living room. Now he is transitioning back to the office, and I will get my room back, but my table became the 'catch all' space during WFH, so much reorganising needs to happen.
When I was living in Australia I used to go to an all-day Saturday crop at an LSS once a month. We'd be there from 10 til 10, grabbing sandwiches from a nearby bakery for lunch and ordering pizza or curry for dinner. I used to love those days, and would get so much done. They also ran an annual weekend crop at a hotel, which I would attend most years. I'd love to have either of those options again.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 3, 2021 12:55:08 GMT
I scrap at home, at one end of our LR. I loved going to LSS to scrapbook with friends and grab lunch or dinner. I miss that so much!
I also do a weekend crop with a group of 12. We didn't go last year, obviously, and now the house we rented sold. I fear that we are done as a group event.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 3, 2021 12:59:15 GMT
I do most of my scrapping at home. I do go to a friend's house to scrap a couple of times a month. I've already resumed in person crops. I'm signed up for a retreat in January.
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Post by lasteve1 on Jul 3, 2021 13:08:52 GMT
I only scrapbook at home... I might want to try a crop someday, but I'm shy and also like having lots of supply options so I feel like a crop would be hard to adjust to. I scrapbook in my craft room at home
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Post by Citygirl on Jul 3, 2021 13:28:08 GMT
I have a designated room and was doing it in there, but now it’s too chaotic with small kids so I’ve resumed going to weekend retreats. It’s the only way to get uninterrupted time at this point.
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Post by stormsts on Jul 3, 2021 13:42:35 GMT
I am fortunate enough to have a dedicated scrap room in my home. Before all the scrapbook stores around me, I would occasionally attend crops but I have always preferred to scrap at home.
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Post by KelleeM on Jul 3, 2021 13:49:36 GMT
When I had a lss I used to go to a monthly Saturday crop. I think it was 4:00-midnight. That ended many years ago. Since then I go, usually every year, to a long weekend crop out of state. Last year we couldn’t go but I’ll be going in November.
I scrapbook at home in my bedroom. Since my husband passed away I slowly moved all of my stuff up from the basement. I removed his chest of drawers and put a 4 by 4 Kallax on that wall. I still have a tiny bit of stuff I have to sort out downstairs but basically have everything I need in my room. I open a room on Zoom every Saturday and hang out scrapbooking with whoever can join me. There could be 3 or 4 of us and once there were 13!
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 3, 2021 14:01:25 GMT
I still scrap at my kitchen table and don't do scrapping elsewhere. During the pandemic, we did a bit of a renovation and my son rearranged his room getting rid of a desk hutch and giving me back my six foot folding table. Now the hutch is sitting on my kitchen table where I've got quite a few things within reach. It's been awesome for scrapping and I can see down below into the family room and watch TV. The fold out table is now holding various construction supplies in our unfinished laundry room.
The goal is to finish the laundry room, get my folding table back, add more cubes in the living room, and get rid of the hutch on my kitchen table. THEN when I want to scrap, all scrapping can be done in the living room. Who knows when that will happen? I'm okay with my set up now.
The ultimate dream would be to finish one more bedroom in the basement and make that my office/craft room. Or possibly letting my daughter be down there and I'd take over her bedroom. I would be closer to the bathroom.
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vexedangel
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Post by vexedangel on Jul 3, 2021 14:08:34 GMT
I have a kallax in the family room. I did go to crops/retreats occasionally, and HECK YES will I be going back! <3
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jul 3, 2021 14:31:55 GMT
I scrapbook at home mostly- half of my basement is devoted to scrapbook supplies. I have a desk down there and I usually scrap once a week.
I do go on a 3 day scrapbook retreat every year. When there were local scrapbook stores I used to go to their crops but that seems like a million years ago.
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Post by Linda on Jul 3, 2021 15:07:32 GMT
I haven't scrapped outside of the house since the last LSS closed back in 2015 or so. I started out as a kitchen table scrapper, graduated to a desk in the kitchen, then when we moved, I had a corner of the family room for 12 years, we moved again this year and I have an actual room to myself for scrapbooking/sewing/family history. It's right off the foyer and is technically the living room but the family room worked better for us as a living/family room so I got it as the craft room. It doesn't have a door (open archway) and we might end up putting a barn door on it down the road but it's actually kind of nice to be able to see/hear everyone when they're downstairs
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Ryann
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Post by Ryann on Jul 3, 2021 16:16:47 GMT
I went to multiple 4-day weekend retreats a year (held at scrap inns or hotel ballrooms) and day crops, too. My crafty BFF and I would get together 1-2 a month. I have a craft room (in the space that would be the dining room) and rarely crafted at home alone. Now I get together via FaceTime with same crafty BFF 2-3 times a month and I craft at home alone every day. While I want to craft in person, I also have no desire to financially support those that continued to hold full retreats during the pandemic. I'm not sure how many in-person retreat/crops I will be going to in the future. I've tried to really embrace online communities during this time and have done online crops/retreats and have had fun with them - I'm doing one today!
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Post by ebbie on Jul 3, 2021 16:23:31 GMT
Many years ago, I only scrapbooked at scrapbooking retreats and crops.
Since my second child was born, I have only scrapbooked at home. I miss scrapbooking with friends, but $300 - 400 per weekend retreat is a bit much. After the pandemic, I do hope to attend a few day crops every now and again, however, I think I will primarily scrapbook at home. It's so nice to have everything that I need, or a few feet away. I transformed my living/dining room into my craft room. I guess you can say I have a lot of stuff, LOL.
I have participated in a few Facebook virtual crops, however, not on a regular basis - just due to time / family constraints. That might be something I will look into moving forward as well.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 3, 2021 18:10:20 GMT
100% at home but I’m tempted to go to a retreat when COVID is gone... My “room” is a wall in my bedroom but my die cut machine is downstairs next to the computer.
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Post by honeypea on Jul 3, 2021 18:50:22 GMT
Always at home. I went to scrappy meetups occasionally, back in the day, but I’d get nothing accomplished.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 3, 2021 18:57:29 GMT
I only scrapbook at crops and retreats.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 4, 2021 0:42:15 GMT
Primarily at home in my craft room. But, pre-pandemic I would rent a lodge with a group of friends three times a year for a crafty retreat. That hasn’t happened since October 2019. We have the place reserved for this October. Hopefully we keep trending in the right direction.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 4, 2021 1:17:16 GMT
In 1996-1997 when I was a beginnner scrapbooker..... I went to a couple crops at a local scrapbook store, and it was very cliquey and judgemental, so I never went back.
In 1996-1997 when I was a beginnner scrapbooker..... I also went to "girls night in" crops at an acquaintance-friends house a few times. That was fun. Then she moved out of state. I never seemed to get a lot of pages done though, beause >> too much socializing and eating snacks.
Since then, I've scrapbooked at home only.
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amom23
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Post by amom23 on Jul 4, 2021 1:46:05 GMT
For the last handful of years I've been a stay at home scrapbooker. The nearest crops are all at least 2 hours away. Thankfully I have my own little space here at home.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 4, 2021 4:24:22 GMT
I don't have any friends IRL who scrap, so I never scrap with others. I am a digital scrapper so I can scrap wherever I want. Usually on the couch in the lounge room, or if the weather is nice, on the outdoor couch in the backyard. When I was a paper scrapper I would scrap in my office / craft room.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 4, 2021 10:48:16 GMT
Prior to the pandemic, did you primarily scrapbook at your home, neighbor/family member/friend's house, LSS, retreat, or elsewhere? Do you intend to continue or resume scrapping there post-pandemic? If not & you plan to scrap somewhere else, where & why? When I scrapbook, I'm an at home crafter.
Once, during my first year or two scrapbooking (around 2004/2005), I went to a local crop. It was just a local, neighborhood type, open to everyone to attend sort of thing.
I didn't know anyone there, but tried to give off friendly vibes as I scrapped out of my tiny little box of stuff. Well, a cropper across the table from me reaches over and grabs my alpha stamps, preceding to title her layout with them.
I was young and didn't have a clue how to speak up.
She put them back right after using them, but I was shook, and left soon after.
And that was the first and last crop I ever attended in person.
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Post by simplyparticular on Jul 4, 2021 16:02:06 GMT
I scrapbook at home. I’ve tried other places for a single day (CKC crop, local crop, LSS open crop times, CTMH party/crop). Other than the CTMH, all were alone and I was 20 years younger than the attendees, and they weren’t very welcoming. The local crop they were downright rude, like I had stolen the (publicly advertised) space. I assume it sold out and someone they knew didn’t get in.
I haven’t done a multi-day retreat since the 1 days haven’t been great.
My most productive scrapping window was when I scrapped at my apartment coffee table from a Cropper Hopper Jr bag. I’m trying to recreate that with a simple setup in part of a room, since I own a lot more tools than I did then.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 5, 2021 18:07:57 GMT
I have a spare bedroom in the house. I also went to a quarterly crop 2 hours away (12 hour crop) and a two day crop at a LSS in town.
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