When did "Scrapbook" become a verb?

[Sugar Smack]

How long have I been out of this loop? I'm a graphic designer who wantonly sticks her photos in an album I bought from Target! What have I missed, here? I turned on the TV guide channel to see if Melrose was on yet and there's this 3,000 piece "scrapbooking kit" fest going on. Stickers, envelopes, fonts, ribbons, "designer papers", embellishments, die-cuts, stencils, page protectors.

The woman pushing this thing is huffing and puffing as she speaks; I'm afraid she's going to pass out. She's pulled out a photo album that looks like a wedding cake. And the one she's speaking to seems to be new to this, because with each new item presented, she gasps in astonishment and awe. And I keep hearing the word "perfect". There seems to be a happy subset of our culture who wallow in bliss, called "scrapbookers". Scrapbookers ="people who scrapbook". And now I'm hearing they "party". Who are these Wild Things, anyway?

WHERE DO I SIGN UP?

[peekaloo]

1. I was recently sent a survey on coupon shopping and I noticed

under the hobby section it listed scrapbooking. Huh?

Yes, I've been known to scrap books when they get old and worn but the term was new to me also.

I bet their parties involve some sort of glue sniffin'. }(

[Sugar Smack]

2. "I bet their parties involve some sort of glue sniffin'."

No DOUBT! :rofl:

I mean, here they are, breathlessly carrying on about "simplicity". They keep talking about how there's no need for "glue". Methinks they doth protest too much.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Dude, you are a few years behind the times.

Making scrapbooks is all the fucking rage nowadays. Hell, they even stores just for "scrapbooking", and church groups that meet to work on scrapbooks, and scrapbooking parties, and, as you saw, those gigantic kits for scrapbooking.

It's a total fad, and has been for a few years.

I'm sure it will disappear soon as the artless women who go from fad to fad find something else to do, like knit shawls or make raggedy ann dolls.

We had stamping a few years ago, now it's "scrapbooking".

Though i have to admit that, even while probably most of the scrapbooks being made are rather artless, the fad IS getting people to actually organize their photos, ticket stubs, postcards, and etc. into generally nice volumes that are usable and tell a story, even if every one of their photos from the Grand Canyon and Moab and Hawaii has a family member occupying at least a third of the surface area of the shot, or otherwise blocking the one thing that's actually of interest and the reason they took the picture to begin with.

[Sugar Smack]

4. LOL!

Actually, I first heard the word about 2 years ago, I think, I'm not sure, when the word was chiefly still used as a noun. The people selling the kits were still a little uneasy during the transformation.

I've seen some nicely-done scrapbooks too from these, but what I was looking at this morning was frufru hell. And I guess I became a little concerned because to me, it's almost impossible for any human being to maintain that particular level of enthusiasm and excitement. Even if they are acting.

:D :hi: :pals:

[peekaloo]

5. The Beanie Baby collector migration?

All those "red eye" shots would make a nice Satanic scrapbook.

[Left Is Write]

23. Hmmm.

I think I've been insulted.

[Sugar Smack]

27. Why?

Please don't feel insulted! :-)

[Left Is Write]

39. Oh, just words like "fad" and "artless."

I make scrapbooks because family, history, and roots are very, very important to me. I use Creative Memories products because I appreciate the quality, and I like making attractive pages. It's a soothing, relaxing hobby also.

My gramma made scrapbooks too, back when it was photo corners on black pages in bound books, and I'm so glad she did - she put in names, places and dates no one else would know now.

I'm as much against the "verbing of America" as anyone, but the shorthand language seems to evolve on its own. I'm not insulted by the complaints of nouns being turned into verbs - that would make my quite the hypocrite! (Or should I say I'd be "hypocriting" myself? ;) )

I just know the stereotypes about scrapbook women, and they are no more flattering than soccer mom and minivan mom stereotypes. As far as some people are concerned, one might as well say "Stepford Wives."

I'm aware that Rabrrrrrr did not mean to insult me personally, and there really are women out there like he describes. It's annoying to feel lumped in with all of them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Well, it is indeed a fad that is soon running its course,

though I'm sure it will continue at a high level of participation. And I did not call "scrapbooking" artless, I called certain scrapbookers artless. But not all of them.

And as I said in the post, I do appreciate that a good thing about scrapbooking is that its getting people to get their photos and memories organized and arranged. Something I wish my mom had done, as now we have boxes of photos, many of people we have no idea who the hell they are, and most of which we will throw out when we finally go through them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

73. Nah, you've only been insulted if you are one of the artless

people who go from fad to fad, or one of the people doing the yucky scrapbooks.

I have a feeling that your scrapbooks have panache and a sense of individuality and personal artistic vision, as opposed to "let's see how many holes I can punch in this page and how many ivy and rose leaves I can glue on the sobofabitch".

[politicat]

47. It's here to stay - it's low skill level.

Knitting and doll making and tatting and tole painting and macrame require manual dexterity and a modicum of intelligence. Gluing shit to paper is a kindergarten skill, and requires little or no skill or eye for design.

Fads that live forever are the ones that require little to no skill, have an extensive marketability (because there are a gazillion papers and doo-dads and crap) and can be sold as "making memories" because of course we can't make memories with our brains. That would be too simple and free.

Stenciling is also on this list of oh, god why won't it go away? crafts.

[Rabrrrrrr]

70. You could be entirely correct on that one -

Though I do think that it's peaked, and rather a lot of people will get bored of it. But I think you're right that it will continue on at a much higher level of participation than it had before the fad started.

[Calliope]

6. It became a verb shortly after "journaling" became a verb

[Sugar Smack]

7. I remember "journalers"!

They seemed generally happier than the rest of us; we who wrote in journals.

:bounce:

[ccjlld]

8. My Mom does this stuff

I think she goes waaaay overboard, but some of her stuff does turn out nice. She did what they call a "Heritage Album" with all the pictures of relatives from several generations back. It's nice because it lists who everyone is, and we won't lose the family history.

One of the good things about the trend is the archival quality stuff. Even if you don't do the fancy pages and cutesy albums, it's nice to preserve your pictures so they will last as long as possible. Those sticky back photo albums are really bad for photos, turns them yellow over time.

[Sugar Smack]

9. Yeah, I guess what I was doing was poking fun at the two selling

the kits, not at the people who do it themselves. We pack rats, archivists and listmakers tend to stick together. I have respect for people who can organize their pictures in a way that tells a good story. The kind of album I've got now has plastic sheaths, not the sticky backs.

The women on TV selling the scrapbook kits have thrown in so much goop that it becomes harder to see and appreciate the picture.

:hi: Welcome to DU!

[ccjlld]

13. Thanks for the welcome

I've actually been here about 2 years but am pretty shy about posting.

You're right about the goop! Some of the stuff I see in craft store is just icky! Some pictures are so good that all that extra stuff just takes away from the beauty of the picture.

[Left Is Write]

26. My philosophy is to keep it simple.

I do simple but nice-looking pages, and I place the emphasis on telling the story. I have completed family albums from 2000 to 2005, I have an album of all the Christmases since we were first married (except this past Christmas; haven't had time to add those pictures yet), a wedding/honeymoon album, baby albums for each child, and vacation albums. I've also made gift albums for the grandparents, and am working on school years albums for each child.

[ccjlld]

34. Wow!

You've gotten a lot done. My mother made us all albums that go from birth to graduating high school. One of the things that I thought was neat was that she put little pockets in between certain pages and put stuff in them like our report cards, birth announcements, ribbons won, etc. It's also nice to know the stories behind some of the pictures I always remember seeing as a kid.

The Christmas albums sound great too.

One of the really nice things (but kind of sad) was my Mother set out the Heritage album during the visitation for my Grandmother. Friends and family could look through it and see pictures of her when she was young, pictures of her, Grandpa, and mom as a young family. I actually thought it made a nice little tribute to Grandma. It also got a lot of the older folks talking about memories of Grandma and that was really nice.

[Left Is Write]

42. I love having a Christmas album...

I tend to do lots of pages for the holidays - parties and gatherings, visits to Santa, and not only Christmas Eve/Christmas Day pictures. They'd take up too much room in a standard one-year family album, so they all go into one album.

It's fun to set it out at Christmastime and page through all the Christmases past. Eventually, I'm going to do one for all of the Christmases I have pictures of from before I got married. I also still have to do an album for the years 97/98/99 (I started with 2000 because it was 2000 when I started making the books!), so we will have albums starting with when we got married. Those three years should all fit in one book, though.

Last year, I bought two Creative Memories Big Books (12x15), one for me and one for my husband, to chronicle the pictures and memorabilia we have of our childhoods. My mother and mother-in-law each gave me several folders and boxes to bring home with me after we visited last summer. Those will be ongoing projects to work on whenever; I like to keep current and work on old stuff as time permits.

[Sugar Smack]

35. Hello, fellow archivist.

:hi:

I like the simpler books, myself. Themes, ditto. I suppose with regard to personal taste, I wouldn't want to distract too much from the picture itself, that's all.

[Left Is Write]

43. I agree.

I put several photos on each page (with a theme) and keep the embellishments fairly simple. I want to enhance my layouts, not overpower them. For me, the focus is on the pictures and the stories. For other people, the focus is on the layout itself (and maybe they'll only have one picture on the page). To each her own, but I really prefer focusing on the photos.

[tanyev]

10. Scrapbooking. The word just gives me the shivers.

There is a little store near our Starbucks for the scrapbooking set called "The Scrap Bucket". Sounds like a really bad restaurant.

[Sugar Smack]

11. I just got finished Magic-Erasering my tub.

(It's cleaning day! LOL)

:hi:

I've been in my share of craft stores, & have my guilty pleasures. I stuck rhinestones all over a cabinet once, but I've never seen a store entirely dedicated to the scrapbook.

[GalleryGod]

12. Right After "Off Putting" was coined. As in...

Well, that comment was quite off putting.

[Sugar Smack]

15. I'm Off Putting the rest of my chores.

After Magic Erasering the tub, I need a break.

:rofl: :patriot:

I've never seen Insomniac. Any good?

[GalleryGod]

21. It was a HOOT...I didn't know about it until he did a Philly Episode

[bridgit]

14. i'll be transitioning toward an answer on that after we get back...

from breakfast, washing the car, and getting 'dry' & ass-sand for Tim :7

[Sugar Smack]

17. Woo-hoo!

Transition away, me luv! Sounds like a nice day ahead, too. Sweet. My day later is to go dinnering w/my friends. :woohoo:

[gollygee]

16. I do it!

It's great fun! Every third or fourth Friday night I get together with friends and "scrapbook" or "crop" as it's also called. And the events are called crops.

:D

[Sugar Smack]

18. I THOUGHT I heard a reference to "crop"!

That's kinda cool. As a name for a gathering of people, I mean. Thanks for realizing it was a gentle tease, too.

:pals:

[Left Is Write]

22. I do it too.

[Sugar Smack]

28. My poking was at QVC - type enhusiasm,

and not at people who participate. Maybe if I read my OP again, I may see where you feel insulted. I laugh at myself and the things I do a lot; I'm a compulsive-compulsive listmaker, I glue rhinestones onto things, I have a weakness for buying books & so should stay away from bookstores. I'm sorry if I've insulted you.

[Sugar Smack]

29. Also, it's about turning nouns to verbs,

and using the closest thing handy. :)

[Left Is Write]

40. You didn't.

And no one should stay away from bookstores.

[Sugar Smack]

41. LOL! Thanks for understanding!

:D Did you see MrsGrumpy's thread? OUTSTANDING.

:pals:

[Left Is Write]

44. No....I've only been in and out of this thread and maybe another one...

in between doing the breakfast dishes, cleaning the catbox...and contemplating getting out my scrapbook stuff! :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. Gosh, I wish you lived close by. I don't really have anybody to

work with. My grandma was really going at it for a while but is kind of wound up right now...and my daughter isn't really "into it" anymore at almost 16. Sigh...

[Left Is Write]

53. That would be wonderful...

I always get more done when working with a friend or friends.

[ScreamingMeemie]

55. I've gotten some really great ideas doing that.

My daughter used to do some really neat things. Young minds are so creative.

[Left Is Write]

57. My daughter was working on her senior year scrapbook...

and she had some fabulous pages. She's put it aside for now, though, because after she broke up with her high school sweetheart, it was a little too painful for her to go through all the pictures.

[ScreamingMeemie]

59. I have been putting together a scrapbook on my daughter's Spelling Bee

odyssey from a couple years back. I feel badly that it isn't done, but I only enjoy working on it when she is around. We have fun remembering the trip and the little anecdotes. I have one page of just snippets of quotes with the Washington Monument being the background for them, and I think it's my favorite page ever. :)

[Lavender Brown]

19. my sister used to do it, hosted the parties and everything,

but then she was bitten by the ebay bug and sold all her scrapbook tools on ebay. :eyes:

Some of the scrapbooking sites are neat:
http://www.scrapbooklady.org/scrapbookladyhome.html

[Sugar Smack]

20. Bitten by the ebay bug!

Good way to put it! As long as she kept her own scrapbooks, she wasn't bitten TOO hard. :D

[ChoralScholar]

24. Elfrangel 'Scrapbooks' also....

I'm glad someone enjoys it. It seems a little over the top for me. I just wanna see pictures in an album.

I bought a 10 dollar scrapbook the other day for my High School newspaper clippings. I made a couple of comments with a pen, but that's it. I guess it's just not for me.

Glad you found something you enjoy, though!!

[Benfea]

25. We're Americans, dammit!

Creating annoying colloquialisms by turning nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns is part of our birthright!

[Sugar Smack]

30. I will think deeply about that one as I coffee with my friends

this afternoon! ;-)

[no name no slogan]

31. Why would anybody wanna put that in a booK?

when I take one, I usually want to flush that badboy as quickly as possible. I even keep the catboxes pretty clean, too, because I cannot stand the sight of it in my house.

oh, SCRAPbook. Never mind.

[Sugar Smack]

32. You're naughty.

Speaking of which, I'm thinking of reading "No One Here Gets Out Alive" again. Whaddaya think?

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. *sniffle* I am a scrapbooker..

:cry: I happily crop, and punch, and stamp and mat photos....sniffle. It's fun. But none of my albums look like wedding cakes.

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

36. NOW I FEEL BAD!!

I'm sorry! I take it back I love you all! I always have!!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Oh...don't feel bad. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. I got my grandma

into it...and she is creating some wonderful things that will be treasured by my family forever. No worries. My skin is tough!!!...today anyway.;) :hug: :loveya:

[Left Is Write]

45. Oddly enough...neither do any of mine.

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. Hi Left is Write!!

How are you?? I bet your scrapbooks are wonderful. I love looking at photographs. :hi:

[ashling]

38. shortly after

"read" became a noun.

[jpgray]

48. Verbing weirds language

[Sugar Smack]

49. Watterson!!! My favorite cartoonist EVER!!!

I'm hoping this is just a "Hiatus" *please just let it be a hiatus*

[jpgray]

50. I grew up on Calvin & Hobbes books

:D

I wish he would self-publish or otherwise put more stuff out there, but it doesn't seem that it's going to happen. He used to randomly sign a few of the collections in his local bookstore, but then people started selling them on ebay and such so he stopped. -Very- reclusive guy, apparently.

[Sugar Smack]

52. Me too. He was a classic. And who came up with the "Calvin

Pissing" stickers, anyway? Why not use some character who DOESN'T have class? I always see those on the same vehicles with "3" on them.

My favorites were the "sled experiments" and the Dad, who cracked me up by being such an "Outdoor guy". Calvin to Mom: "How long did you know Dad before you married him?"

And the "Dad polls": "Ooh, suicide, Dad!" :rofl:

[Left Is Write]

56. I love Calvin's snowmen.

[Sugar Smack]

60. Me too! I had to run to my bookshelf after jpgray

reminded me and go through some of the best artwork I've ever seen. This stuff is just timeless.

[ccjlld]

65. Thanks!!!!!!!

I was trying to figure out what to get my husband for Valentines and the posts about Calvin and Hobbes gave me an idea! They recently released "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes". It's a 3 book hardback set with every Calvin and Hobbes strip in it. He will love it! Now I just hope I can find it!

[Sugar Smack]

66. EVERY single one??

That's great, and such a beautiful gesture on your part. Thanks for letting me know; I'll be looking for this set as well.

[ccjlld]

69. I'm pretty sure it's every one

I know when we picked it up, it was very very heavy! It was really nicely done.

[In_The_Wind]

54. I didn't know it was.

Damn ~ What would I do without you Sugar!

[Sugar Smack]

58. Hey, sparkle-lips!

Hehe! Without me, you may be conquering the world!

How are you today, me luv? :D

[In_The_Wind]

63. Hello my conspirator in fun!

I've only just realized that my cross country trike ride would make an excellent book.

Isn't that a hoot?

[Sugar Smack]

64. If you take me on one of your cross-country rides

I'd love to help *pleasepleaseplease*!

We'd have to make it look like a kidnapping, of course. You could come to my workplace & hold a plastic pink watergun to my head. I could clutch at my heart & act all scared, then step lively as I gather my things & stuff them in a bag.

It IS a hoot! :D

[In_The_Wind]

67. I thought you'd feel like that.

We just need to spring you from work.

You could go part of the way (like north to Redstone's) instead of east/west. You know you could take some awesome pictures for your project. A joint venture so to speak.

I think Jon may start the ride with me, then take a bus back home after a few days. He'll probably be ready for a bail-out after spending that much time in close-quarters with me.

I'm taking my laptop. I want to keep a journal of the trip and perhaps run a thread for the month I'll be gone.

[Sugar Smack]

74. Please take your laptop with you, and your camera.

You're one of the most fascinating people I've ever met, Joani.

Hah. Bail-out? Never!!!! :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[Initech]

61. Heh, I also want to know when the word "text" became a verb.

[Sugar Smack]

62. I think when "message" became a verb.

I could be wrong, of course.;)

[no name no slogan]

68. hey I could use a massage

just keep it above the equator :evilgrin:

[Sugar Smack]

72. *sniff* "MASSAGE" , as far as I know,

has ALWAYS been BOTH a noun and a verb.

And what does this have to do with differential math, anyway? You are WAY off topic.
:evilgrin:

[no name no slogan]

75. Sorry, I been playa hatin' for the last 48 hours

and I can't think straight :(

[Lars39]

71. I don't like it, I think it's gimmicky.

I think all that splicing and dicing also cuts out memories. I can look through my parents old photo albums, where they had painstakingly glued the little corner do-dads down, and see parts of rooms and furniture and knick-knack and pets and dishes with food, etc.,that all give a more complete memory or history of my family. I wouldn't trade that for all the well organized cutesy glitz in the world.

[El Fuego]

76. It's turning into a little industry of it's own.

There's a big market in scrapbooking doo-dads and supplies.