lera-92-07 diary

srijeda, 09.09.2009.

Wow

Wow. Scrapbooking drives me mental. First off, who decided that it was a verb in the first place??? Second, since when is a set of alphabet cutters $199? I was in Michael's, buying yarn and paint and I saw this locked cabinet of stuff. Locked, presumably because it's a highly shoplifted item? Beside the stickers? Yes, it was scrapbooking stuff. You can buy things that are like cookie cutters, only with blades sharp enough to cut paper or photos into fancy shapes, etc. but you pay quite a big price for it. I saw a thing that was like a printer, more like a plotter with a blade, for cutting out stuff into paper, with precision. You can buy acid free book pages, with little metal edges so the corners don't get dogeared, you can buy patterned acid free paper, to cut out little letters and things, themed stickers, permanent markers with different shaped calligraphy tips, crap, it goes on and on and on. And it is not cheap. I mean, I know that photos and mementos and whatnot are precious, but I have mine in a Rubbermaid tub. They're safe there. Now the patterned papers are adorable, and the cute cutting templates are super neat. But doesn't it get old? Isn't there some creativity lost, when instead of drawing something, you buy it all designed already? Are you inadequate if you don't have design skills to make your photo albums look like something not from this planet? It just seems all so ready-made. Are our kids going to laugh at the hermetically sealed, pinking shears cut out everything acid free everything whatnot? With the metal page edges so it doesn't get dogeared?Yep, I do feel confident buying stuff and making it with no pattern or stuff. I sand the patterns off the wood stuff and paint my own things on. But everyone has something to say, with creative stuff, I think. Do you want to look like the person with the matchy matchy everything storebought not a hair out of place? But the girl on Queen St. with the hoodie sweatshirt under the peacoat with the scarf with crazy colours, it looks much cuter.I sound like such a hippie.

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