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Post by DebiP on Jul 2, 2014 7:49:04 GMT -6
Math Date!!!!!  Good Morning! ARGH! Why do people have to be such doomsayers? I mentioned to someone that RW is closing and immediately the response was: "Well, scrapbooking is a dying art." Do you agree or disagree? |
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Post by Dancermom on Jul 2, 2014 7:55:45 GMT -6
I disagree. It is still going, and finding new people regularly I believe, but it is also changing. In some ways it seems to be going back to simpler pages and formats. Scrapbooking has been around for ages, I have books that a great grandmother put together, with a few pictures and memorabilia, nothing fancy, but memories for her. And people will always find ways to collect those memories.
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Post by vanessa burba on Jul 2, 2014 11:27:14 GMT -6
I totally disagree. I think it is an ever changing hobby.
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Post by DebiP on Jul 2, 2014 15:04:17 GMT -6
I actually spent a couple of hours last night (cannot decide which template I should use for a layout for the DT I am on, just did 20 with mine that is coming out, and need something different) reading what people had to say about Archiver's and Two Peas also closing.
I came away believing that scrapbooking may have shrunk, but owning a business is hard work and not everyone is like Sherri, dedicated to their calling. Also, if you do not have what your customers want, you are in trouble - which is what probably happened to Archiver's.
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Post by Stella on Jul 7, 2014 7:57:59 GMT -6
I think like any Hobby it goes in cycles I mean for a while Crosstitch was the thing and now crocheting is the thing so it depends on what cycle a hobby is in but it will come back around I don't think it's a dying art I have scrapbooks from Chris's great-grandmother so as long as there are proud grandma's there will always be scrapbooks.
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