Scrap around the clock

A store on Peddar Road will help you rediscover the joys of scrapbooking. Step back in time to when cutting and pasting meant an afternoon well spent

Scrap around the clock

A store on Peddar Road will help you rediscover the joys of scrapbooking. Step back in time to when cutting and pasting meant an afternoon well spent

There is something about paper that makes you want to run your fingers along its surface while you appreciate its texture, pattern and design.

One of the finished scrapbook pages

At Four Minutes to Four, a stack of papers will cajole you to do the same, and they all spell p-r-e-t-t-y. This teeny scrapbooking store suddenly takes the charm out of digital scrapbooking (creating electronic books online) that has emerged as a widely popular alternative. In a good old-fashioned way, you get to choose from buttons, stickers, strings and bows, cut and paste them to create a real, hardbound scrapbook.

The two month-old store done up in yellow, green and blue does well to break the highly clinical environment that the hospital standing opposite brings to the area. Run by Ruchi Chodhry who holds a Master's degree in International Business from Sydney, the store compromises of three walls stacked with an array of scrapbooking material and other products meant for kids, sourced from the US. A mezzanine level is reserved for the times when a teacher comes in to conduct scrapbooking workshops.

Apart from albums and printed paper, there are embellishments (look out for their cutesy paper clips) and stickers to brighten up your books. Check out the mismatched socks (for all age groups), three in a pack, for those who don't like playing it by the rules. Animals find their way on to neck pillows, luggage tags, lunch packs and travel bags for kids.

About half a dozen games find shelf space too - the sorts you won't find in other stores. There's also wallpapers, laptop and phone stickers and pouches. The guys at the store run regular classes in scrapbooking and take orders to make customised scrapbooks too.
Does the store shut at four minutes to four, we wonder. "There's no hidden meaning to the number.

I like names that don't mean a thing and I like the way this one sounds," laughs Ruchi. Clearly, this is one scrap you'd love to be a part of, rationale be damned.
At Four Minutes To Four, A-002, Poornima Apartments, 23/2 Peddar Road, beside Domino's Pizza and opposite Jaslok Hospital's back entrance.
Call 23514846

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