Tuesday 13 February 2007

Is scrapping a fad?

As the partner of a scrapper, it is very important to me to understand the dynamic world of scrapping.

One concern for me is that all of a sudden, like Buck's Fizz, scrapbooking will collapse and vanish from the face of the earth leaving only some non-fading acid free memories and a black market trade in Basic Grey paper.

This of course has significant implications for the partners of scrapbookers. For some of us there future holds not only the double crises of global warming and peak oil, but also the potential demise of all we have worked and paid for over the last few years.

There is the faint hope, that scrapbooking like knitting, will be a sustainable hobby, and that a thousand years from now, historians will marvel at and thoroughly misinterpret the 2007 scrapbooking efforts of Mrs Grendel like some modern version of the Bayeux tapestry.

I must confess that my fears arise from the lack of any scrapbooking related political apparatus - given that most interest groups these days seem to have at least a lobby representing them in Capitol City.

Without this level of political clout scrapbooking remains at best an 'interest' or 'hobby' group - at the whim of market and social forces beyond their control. Why don't I see a scrapper running for President in the US, Prime Minister in the UK or Australia and for Dictator in Uzbekistan?

Now is the time scrappers, Carpe Papyrus!

Vive le Scrapolution!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great, I just love the sensation of cool sweat running down my back. This post worries me so!
Naw, SB-ing will live on in some form or other as will most card-making/paper-crafting. This is what we will keep telling ourselves....

Mandy Charlton, Photographer, Writer, Blogger said...

When I become Prime-minster Scarpbooking will be available to all on the NHS, tax breaks will be available for the purchases of Chocolate, anything acid free and all cropper hopper products!!

Anonymous said...

mandy, presumably the “Imaginative Reminiscences” brigade will insist their product only be available to those willing to go private???

ScrapManda said...

Guess what Hilary does in her spare time????

"Grendel" said...

Are you serious? Are we facing the prospect of a president who at any time could plunge the world into scrapbooking madness?

Kim Langston said...

I am be sending my Congressman a homemade card as I speak... Vive le Scrapolution! I wonder how successful a Scrap PAC would be !?!?!?!?!?!

Anonymous said...

If scrapbooking is what Hilary got up to in her spare time, is it any wonder that Bill got up to things in his spare time!?