I’ve been writing about Homeward Bound a bit sporadically over the past couple of months. In Chapter 4 of Homeward Bound, Matchar critiques Etsy and “mompreneuership.” Matchar sets the stage for a feminist critique of Etsy with these statistics: 97% of Etsy … Continue reading
On my last trip to Chicago, I made it to a new-to-me scrapbook store called Craft Fancy in Arlington Heights. The store was a mixture of supplies for scrapbookers and cardmakers and had crop/classroom space. I was pleased with the … Continue reading
I tend to watch at least one new series from start to finish each summer and this summer, it is Arrested Development. I watched “Exit Strategy” (Season 3, Episode 12) yesterday and it has hands down, the best scrapbooking scene. … Continue reading
Last August I gave two presenations about my research at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction’s annual meetings in Denver, CO. I had intended to add audio to my powerpoints and then share them, but that never happened. … Continue reading
Last summer I attended CHA. I never got all of my semi-prepped posts for CHA finished, and thought in the spirit of Summer 2013 CHA, I would publish what was still relevant. One of the things I paid attention to … Continue reading
A couple of months ago (yeah, I’m late to this conversation), Brie Dyas at the Huffington Post wrote an article criticizing scrapbooking as something that will never be cool. Unfortunately, some of the criticism of the criticism wasn’t much better. … Continue reading
I thought I would share this post that I prepped last year after attending Summer 2012 CHA as a member of the press. I am pretty much a nobody in the scrapbook industry. Sure, I studied scrapbookers for my dissertation research, … Continue reading
Oops! It’s been over a month since I last blogged. I suppose it is fitting that today I am going to write about chapter 3 of Homeward Bound which is about the blogosphere. In chapter three, Emily Matchar tackles the … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. Last week I finished up talking about the completeness of scrapbooks. Next week, I’ll turn to scrapbook organization. In the meantime, here’s what you’ve missed over the last few weeks: Neverending … Continue reading
(The image above is an affiliate link. I do have to pay hosting and domain costs, afterall.) Chapter 2 As America industrialized, cash for work became highly valued. Emily Matcher writes, “labor was now valued by the amount of money … 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.
