real men DO scrap
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an interesting article about men and scrapbooking. Read it here.
A million years ago when I was a Creative Memories consultant, I held an annual “Sweetheart Crop” in February, at which the women would coerce their husbands to sit beside them and crop photos, peel stickers, and journal. The guys always made lots of noise about how it was damaging their manly reputations to be sitting there, but the truth is, most of them enjoyed it, and a LOT of them were really good at it. Some of them were more creative than their wives! With beer cans in their cup holders and college basketball playing on their headsets, the guys scrapped photos of Christmas (I remember a paper-pieced tornado with toys flying all around it, created by a macho cowboy-type named Phil), images of NASCAR (Charles documented photos of his 25th birthday, on which he paid big bucks to drive a car at breakneck speeds around the Texas Motor Speedway), and memories of fishing trips, hunting weekends and vacations.
Long after Darren was forced to co-host those Sweetheart Crops with me, he still occasionally scraps. Our “Ireland” album is a joint effort. He wants to scrap our most recent Colorado vacation with me, too. And one of the albums I’m most proud of is this: Daddy/Daughter Backpacking Trip which he created himself, 100%.
Yep, it’s true. Real men DO scrap.
I don’t need the industry marketing it that way to tell me so.
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