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Scrapbooking: the millennial crochet hook for its benefits
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This hobby, which consists of decorating albums with scrapbooks and other elements, can help us avoid ourselves.
If our grandmothers had among their hobbies crocheting or knitting, American grandmothers were fond of knitting. «scrapbooking», to the unknown of the term, better known as scrapbooking design.
This hobby, so traditional in its roots, is now a trend among handicraft fans. An exercise, of simple appearance, which requires great concentration and involvement and which brings together different techniques and skills.
This is how Alúa Cid, one of the forerunners of scrapbooking in Spain, explains it: «It only requires dedicating yourself to it, without distractions, so you manage to forget about anything that worries you». And it even reveals another nuance. “It can also be therapeutic. Sometimes I wear it, I don’t notice it and they give me a thousand. You forget about everything else, ”explains Cid.
Under the term of «scrapbooking» they meet different techniques. You can focus on creating cards; in the composition of albums, in which you can not only paste cutouts and decorate pages, but also create the album from scratch; and it even covers a part in which to paint and draw illustrations.
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The many-profit side of the hobby is one of the strengths of scrapbooking. “I think it can help us in two different ways,” says Cid. On the one hand there is “the fact of getting away”, concentrating on a world where aesthetics prevail and you don’t think of anything else. On the other, “it is a hobby that encourages sharing and working in a group”, which helps to establish social ties that can be beneficial for us.
Community feeling
This feeling of community is widespread. As Alúa Cid explains, at the moment it is “a craft that very few people do”, so the moment you meet other people with the same hobby, it tends to create groups, a community.
Crafts can help us a lot. For example, in senior centers and residences, these types of activities are usually promoted, since they are hobbies that help to Develop creativity and activate the brain, as well as to promote our cognitive functions. Scrapbooking falls within this type of activity, and therefore has the same benefits.
«It is an activity that does not require physical effort, so anyone can do it “, explains Cid and continues:” It only has benefits: it can help someone with anxiety, to someone who is going through a difficult situation … it requires a lot of concentration and therefore you evade.
Alúa Cid concludes by highlighting that it is an activity within everyone’s reach, not only because of its ease, but also because of its accessibility: «In the end, with few tools you can do a lot of different things, and it’s not a big outlay either. ”