Just a thought occurring to me lately.
When I started scrapbooking, it was so new we were excited when a new die cut came out, and we designed most of our own decorative paper. Now creating your own embellishments isn't even necessary. Yes, that was exciting and creative and unique, but also time consuming.
Now, I'm on the cutting edge of digital scrapbooking. There are a lot more options even now than in my first example, but at the same time, I wonder what will come next and if I'm wasting resources by starting to work on my books this early in the game (oh, please!, right?)
You could even bring this thought to my copious diapering blog entries. Five years ago, when my son was born, no one was using cloth. Last year a couple people were talking about going to cloth, but in my head, it was still the triangle of wet soggy diaper fabric and a pin. (I realize now that I may have been misinformed). Now, not only are the new cloth diapers easy to use, economical and cute, the stuff to make them is easy to find, and of just as high quality as the professionally made diapers. In this last example, I am kicking myself at not trying to go cloth with #3, but five years ago I don't think I could have even been cutting edge because there was no edge. Oh, I paid a huge amount of money for some flannel nursing pads :( Still really mad at myself about that one. I could have sewn them in half an hour.
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