The new crop of scrapbookers

Not really about digi, but a good article

Digital photo advances, cable TV exposure and a few key names like Leeza and Martha are reinventing the hobby as an elaborate and communal experience.

By Charlie Amter, Special to The Times

IT'S 10 on a rainy February night in Burbank, and 18-year-old Ali Nunley is eschewing the high school party scene in favor of spending her Friday night with a group of women inside a closed crafts store.Nunley's parents haven't grounded her; rather, she is here willingly to feed her growing addiction to her latest hobby, scrapbooking.

"I just think it's cool," she says as she delicately places a photo of her and friends on a recent outing to Knott's Berry Farm into an elaborately designed montage deep inside her thick scrapbook.Nunley is with 20 other women, ranging in age from 18 to 60, sitting at a 25-foot-long table at the scrapbooking store Once Upon a Page, joining in what's known as a "crop." The store's weekly "Friday Night Croppin' Frenzies," with participants sometimes dressing in pajamas, typically attract at least 15 women from 5 p.m. until midnight, all there simply to swap tips and work on books full of personal photos and artistic embellishments.

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