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Sunday, January 13, 2008


I've always kinda thought that scrapbooking was kinda lame. Ok, fine, it's an artistic expression, but it's one that no one but you is ever going to look at, read, or give a shit about. So why would I be surprised that the biggest controversy to hit the world of scrapbooking is just as lame.
The trouble started in February, after Contes won a contest sponsored by one of the industry's most popular magazines, Creating Keepsakes. Her winning pages featured photos of her feet and her hairless terrier, Chloe. Her name went into the magazine's Hall of Fame and her work was published in a book of the top 2007 entries.

But Contes -- inadvertently -- had cheated.

Someone else had taken pictures that ended up in her portfolio. When Contes called Creating Keepsakes to request that her friend receive a photo credit, the staff member approved it without realizing she had broken an entry rule: Submissions had to be solely the contestant's work. The book came out in October with both names published.
Whew! For a second there I thought that Contes had used steroids, something else I could give a shit less about.



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