Are you a Solitary Scrapbooker?
Everything is so much more fun when you can share it with someone, don’t you think? Whether it’s traveling, shopping or scrapbooking. Sharing the experience with a like-minded friend doubles its value.
That’s why I bless the fantastic scrapbooking communities and bloggers that exist on the Internet. I don’t have any ‘real life’ friends to share my hobby with (all together now…aaahhhh). My sister enjoys card making but she’s not interested in scrapbooking.
And none of my other friends or family have a glimmer of interest. It would be a very solitary pursuit for me if I didn’t have all my Internet scrapbooking friends.
Somehow I find scrapbooking is something I can’t actually talk about with non-scrapbookers. They tend to get that strange look that seems to say ‘Oh yes, that’s all that messing around with cut-outs and glue, isn’t it”.
Let’s face it, unless you actually do it, it’s hard to connect.
And I wondered how many more are in a similar situation: relying on Internet friends to share their interest with because their ‘real life’ friends aren’t interested in scrapbooking.
Are you in this situation? Or are you fortunate enough to be able to hang out with your scrapbooking buddies in real life?
I’d love to hear how you feed your enthusiasm and share your passion. Why not tell us about your own ‘scrapbooking support service’ in the comment section below. It should be fun to hear how you all manage to fit scrapbooking into your social life.
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I was a solitary scrapper for a long time, with a huge list of internet friends that I cyber cropped with, but for the past two years, I’ve been thriving creatively with a group of local ladies that I found to scrap with. It’s incredibly more fun, and I’m MUCH more productive, but my studio has suffered, because I’ve been working to make all of my supplies more mobile!
I am fortunate that both my sister and mother have in recent years learned how to scrapbook. A couple of my friends do too, but we don’t get together often enough (in my opinion). I’m so obsessed with scrapbooking, I could do it 24/7! And I know of the glazed look you get from non-croppers…LOL.
I am also grateful for my online/internet scrapbook friends. It’s so fun to see different creations and projects and bounce ideas off one another!
Cheryl and September I am so envious of your off-line scrapping friends. I truly appreciate my on-line freiends but I’d love to be able to share my scrapbooking enthusiasm ‘in real life’.
It isn’t easy, but you can have real ones too. (gosh that sounds silly, but I think you know what I mean! LOL)
If you have school age kids, start asking around. See if anyone sells Stampin up or CTMH or Creative Memories. My son is in high school and there is a “senior night” that is a celebration of graduation…. the kids usually go off on an SF Bay Cruise for the whole night, which costs a lot of money. Therefore the parents do fund raisers. That is how I stumbled on this group of ladies. I went to one of their fundraisers, and hit it off.
Another way is at your Local scrap store…I would go and take a class or two even if it was something dumb. and many have crop nights so you can meet folks that way too.
I always scrap with my sister or friends. Every now and then I’ll work on stuff by myself, but only my digital things.
Well there was more support and people to share with when I was doing traditional scrapbooking, now though I share with my online friends and my sister who lives 800 miles from me.
Hello, you got nice articles here..i would love to add this to my blog to help me out with this new addiction..
Yes it seems that digital scrapbooking tends to lend itself more to on-line connections rather than ‘real life’ ones, Tink.
Hi Chuchie. I’m happy for you to add Scraps of Mind to your blog. I hope you enjoy the tips and ideas here and find then useful in your scrapbook addiction.
I am a solitary scrapper too…I use to have a group of friends that I scrapped with but then I moved south and havent found anyone to scrap with so its just me in my wee room talking to my self and sharing with my online friends. I dont mind though, its kind of peaceful if a tad lonely at times.
Yeah, it’s always difficult when you relocate, isn’t it Vicky. And with scrapbooking not being quite so popular in Australia and New Zealand as it is in the US, it can be even harder to find like minded new friends. And yes, don’t we bless our on-line friends.