You want mayhem? Advertise to teach a class titled “Princess Acrylic Album” to a group of scrapbooking maniacs who are willing to pay $35 for 90 minutes of your time…… and deliver nothin’ but six pieces of crown-shaped acrylic, two binder rings, a yard of fishing wire and 20 jingle bells. Oh, boy! Don’t get me started. Don’t even get me started.
Only 20 minutes into the facade, my scrap-happy cohort, Darla, who was just as excited as I was to create the beautiful album pictured above, crossed her arms, huffed, and refused to participate any further. Good grief. The class description included these words, and I quote, “Learn how to position pictures, paper and embellishments to create a stunning clear album!” OK, NONE of that happened because we weren’t asked to bring pictures, there was no paper provided and JINGLE BELLS??? Hello? Are we making court jester albums? NO! Does an acrylic crown have anything to do with Santa’s sleigh bells???? NO! OH, buckle up. It got worse.
More class description, “Your layers of paint, embellishments, ribbons and patterned paper all play off each other to create a beautiful keepsake.” Blood is pumping with more velocity as I relive this scrapbooking nightmare. Did we see paint? NO! I already touched on the enormous assortment of embellishments at our fingertips. Did we see ribbons? NO! Did we see patterned paper? No! Pardon me while I go find the phone number for the Better Scrapbooking Business Bureau.
Not only was the class falsely advertised, we paid for PG-13 commentary by the instructor. She referred to her sons with unrepeatable derogatory terms (that I had never heard before in all of my 42 years on earth.) She made sexual innuendos relating to scrapbooking…. and her husband…. I wanted to plug my ears and do the loud “LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA” deal. No wonder Darla was arm-folded and fuming. The instructor’s lucky that she didn’t get impaled by my Xacto knife that was unnecessarily listed on the Supplies Needed List. We left with 25 minutes still to go in the pathetic class. There were no class feedback sheets this year at the scrapbooking convention. I wonder why?
OK, I’m over it now. I’ve vented and I’m moving on. On to patterned paper, ribbon and paint to make my acrylic crown album DARLING without the help of paid instruction. I’ll post a photo when I’m done…. maybe I should forward it to the convention people????
Tags: acrylic album, clear crown album, false advertising, princess crown album, scrapbooking
My Sister's Jar 
April 21, 2008 at 5:01 pm |
Ok – say it with me…….LET IT GO!!!!
April 22, 2008 at 12:58 am |
Ha ha. This made Leah and I laugh. She was cutting my hair and I was reading your blog out loud. And then we relived the vision of Zaza dressed up like a birthday cake and laughed some more. Amanda would simply adore a Princess Crown Album (since I won’t let her have a pink bedroom).
April 22, 2008 at 1:08 am |
I just did a Google search and found the instructions for that exact album. There were no jingle bells or fishing line mentioned! So funny, I’m still laughing.
April 22, 2008 at 4:21 pm |
At least one of us is laughing. I am anticipating my creation of the birthday-cake-looking album on May 2 at scrapbook night. :o) Stay tuned.
March 6, 2011 at 8:41 pm |
[…] It’s finally done! Nora’s Princess Crown acrylic album! That only took me four years! Here’s the original story from the scrapbook convention class that I took…. and was thoroughly disgusted with: https://mysistersjar.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/pathetic-princess-crown-albums/ […]