A crafty NICHE; In less than a decade, scrapbooking has grown to become a $1 billion-plus industry.(BUSINESS)

Paige Marren fretted about opening a retail business just four months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. But her timing might have been as sharp as some of the cropping tools stocked at her scrapbook store, Paige’s in Time, in Oakdale.

Perhaps driven by consumers’ desires to stay close to home and record their memories, scrapbooking has grown in less than a decade to become a $1 billion-plus industry - complete with independent specialty stores, larger crafting chains, online discussion groups and events ranging from …

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