In "Scrapbooks as Cultural Texts: An American Art of Memory", Katriel and Ferrel argue the scrapbooks are in fact everyday writing due to the day to day aspect of the pictures and captions as they relate to a person's life. I believe that though scrapbooks can be considered everyday writing, it is the captions, rather than the pictures alone, that make it so. There could be scrapbooks or possibly collages that have no words and could be identified by Katriel and Ferrel as everyday writing, but I would argue that point because they don't actually have any writing in them.
I can see how "zines" could be considered by some to be everyday in that they are unschooled and untaught but they don't necessarily have writing in them and would be a stretch to my current idea of what everyday writing actually is.
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