Do your friends know you digiscrap?

[Sharon Kay]

This is probably been discussed before, so humor me because I must have missed the post. Do most of your real-life friends and/or extended family know you digiscrap? If so, what do they think about it? Do you show them your work?

ROTFLMTEO on this question...very few people DON'T know that I digiscrap...I carry my laptop almost everywhere I go! Basketball practice, robotics meetings, bowling league, in the van, on a trip, at mil's house, at my mom's house, at my sister's house. ...only the people at the grocery store don't know I think... GMBO :w00t:

Tonight I brought my robotics layouts to the meeting because my paper cutters were all THERE and I didn't have any way to trim my layouts before I put them in my son's scrapbook...I got asked if it would be okay to display his scrapbook in our competition booth this weekend!!! Well our robotic designers will have people seeing their kits this weekend! lol

 

[crystalbella77]

Nope not really..I have made a few things for my mom and sis and was just like "Oh how cute." Thy think scrapping is a waste of time.

 

[pbumbaca]

My friends and family all know that I scrap and digi scrap, etc. My mom paper scraps, so she gets it.

Pretty much, no one else does. I've showed my friends and they're just like "oh that's nice". Jordan is useless and tells me I make useless crap. Etc etc.

Whatever though, I do what I want

Dang, I can just substitute DH & Boys for Jordan here!

 

[ColleenSwerb]

LOL Pam!! You know that super cute groceries notebook I made? (It's in my galelery) I put it in the drawer where Jordan keeps the small craptastic pad of paper that he takes shopping with him. He refuses to stop using the little pad until it runs out of paper, and that the cute notebook I made is weird and unnecessary.

He's been putting up new blinds in the bedroom, and started the ones by my craft space last night. He said "You have TOO MUCH CRAP" no less than 9805434 times. I said "You play video games, I craft."

There are days when I want to smack him.

 

[LeeAndra]

I would say most of the people I encounter on a regular basis know that I love pictures and scrapbook/do something on the computer with them. I post most of my pages in albums on Facebook, so anyone on my Friends list can peruse them at their leisure, and there are a handful of ladies who do so regularly and leave me comments here and there.

My mom makes very plain and simple paper scrapbooks of my nephew, so she understands and appreciates the scrapping concept, but knows next to nothing about computers and has no idea what it takes to make the pages I make or has any interest in learning how or understanding more about digital scrapping specifically.

Jeff is similarly computer-challenged and doesn't understand how anyone could sit still for so long/be on the computer for so long as a hobby *lol*, but enjoys having his life chronicled and really digs the layouts once they've been printed into a book. I usually get a passing 'That's nice' if I'm just showing him a page on my lappy, but he's really good abt making and being a part of photo opportunities. He went on his son's field trip last Friday and took my camera along, at my request, and got SO MANY pictures while they were there. He took at least one shot at every different activity they participated in and even took some landscape pictures of the farm and pumpkin patch. I was so impressed and happy.

My BFF is not particularly creative or crafty, so she doesn't understand, either, but she's always up for a silly picture and usually comments on my pages on Facebook if they are of something we did together or a nice picture of Jeff and me. She is still really young, though, just married and a couple years away from babies, so I may change her mind yet once she has a cute lil' baby to scrap.

 

[Stacey42]

My friends & family know I scrap and they seem to like & appreciate it.

I have one friend who occasionally digi scraps, but she's usually too busywith knitting.

 

[mommy2aria06]

They know but are totally clueless and don't get why its exciting and fun for me

 

[MelissaL88]

My friends and family know. Dan thinks it's awesome - he's always asking to see what I've done lately. The boys are interested only if the LO is about them LOL! My Mom & my MIL both appreciate the LO's I do for them and they get it - although neither scrap. My SIL's are the ones that don't get it - I get a lot of "where do you find the time?" or "that's nice", so I don't talk that much about it in front of them.

I have converted my BFF to digi-scrapping (she never did anything crafty before). Now a second really close friend wants to learn - so I'm going to teach her what I can! That makes it all worth it - Dan's support and two of my closest friends being interested.

 

[Paula]

Yep, everyone I know is aware that I digiscrap.

 

[sugarink]

I think everyone I know, knows what I do but, I don't think it really interests them enough to keep up with my work. I sometimes wish I had someone else close by who also shares the same passion with me, but unfortunately not. I guess that's what makes meeting people all over the digi community wonderful!