Love this post from Cosmo Cricket. What is the point of scrapbooking? This is one of the main questions I address in my dissertation.
It’s so refreshing reading a post by an industry worker talking about what scrapbooking is about: sincerity. It’s not that industry workers don’t address this issue; it is just rarely so simply stated. Now don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of talk about recording your stories, but that’s kind of intimidating. My story. Why does anyone care about my story? Now sincerity, that is something I can do–and tell my story in the process. Scrapbooking is storytelling, but it is also sincerity. Why do you scrapbook? Leave me a comment below.
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
