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Some women are obsessed with scrapbooking, making the hobby a $2.6-billion industry. Built around, you know, cutting and pasting. But it's serious business, as you know if you've heard about the scrapbook smackdown. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, it all started when 28-year-old "scrapbooking rock star" Kristina Contes won a contest sponsored by Creating Keepsakes (?!?) magazine. Ms. Contes' entry — pages featuring pictures of her feet and of her hairless terrier, Chloe — included a photo that — gasp! she didn't take herself. Ms. Contes actually called the magazine to request that her friend receive a photo credit. And when a "Hall Of Fame" book came out in October, with the photo credit, "disgruntled scrapbookers" caused an uproar, threatening to cancel subscriptions, boycott and sue. (On scrapbooking messageboards, a comment thread about "KC" reached 1,250 posts.) Because, you see, the rules stated that submissions had to be solely the contestant's work. Whoops! More »
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