Last week, I showed you some examples of how I scrapbook concerts without photos. This week, I have a couple of concerts with photos to share with you. At this point in my life, concerts are much rarer. I now … Continue reading
Once upon a time people went to concerts and left without any photographic evidence of their awesome taste in music beyond a ticket stub. Sometimes (think a bar or a club) there wasn’t even a ticket stub to record their … Continue reading
Over the next few weeks, I will discuss my results regarding how scrapbooks are actually organized. Think about the following phrase for a moment: I scrapbook chronologically. What does this phrase mean? From my non-dissertation observations, there seems to be … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago a friend posted a link to the following article on facebook and a few hours later a reader emailed it to me as well. The article is a wonderful and thought provoking piece from Slate: … Continue reading
Remember that dissertation that I was always writing about on here? You know, the reason I started this website in the first place? About a year ago, I had several posts written and scheduled. Once these scheduled posts ran out … Continue reading
The first time I visited Archiver’s was probably 6-7 years ago in one of their Chicago locations. I was unimpressed. I liked their use of space and their selection. I did not like their lack of customer service. I came … Continue reading
While on my winter break between semesters, I decided to finish several mostly finished albums. I have a tendency to get mini-books mostly finished, but not completely finished. I like to save the journaling for the end and that was … Continue reading
My niece should be celebrating her first birthday this month. Instead she died before she had a chance to live. My sister labored before delivering her via Cesearan in October 2012. I helped my sister create a shadowbox to memorialize … Continue reading
I was struck by Mat Honan’s recent article in Wired Magazine, The Quality of Your Smartphone’s Camera is Only Half the Picture. He writes: Photos have become just as ephemeral as the moments we’re trying to capture. His criticism is based … Continue reading
At first I was deeply skeptical of Creative Memories is rebranding as Ahni & Zoe. I was fearful that, they too, had jumped on the pocket scrapbooking bandwagon. I think it is too soon to tell if they have or … Continue reading
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.
