I love handmade paper. I think it has a personal quality to it for artisitic projects and scrapbooking that you can’t really get with most industrial-produced paper. I remember making paper by hand as a kid for a school product, getting a whole bunch of other paper wet and shredding it and basically pasting it all back together.  Of course the end product looked horrible since I was like 7 years old, but I was so proud! LOL That’s why I have a real respect for people who engage in handmade crafts. There is a level of artistry there that’s missing from most of what we buy today.