Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. I conducted my interviews in 2008. I focused on scrapbookers who scrapbook conventionally or traditionally (i.e., with paper, adhesive, and printed photographs). I did not set out to explore the world … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. The last few weeks, I’ve written about attending crops. Some scrapbookers no longer crop with others for several reasons. The scrapbooker now has a permanent space in her or his home to … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. For some scrapbookers, physically spending time with a specific person is just as, if not more important than actually accomplishing the scrapbooking. Some crop with religious groups strengthening their involvement with … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. Cropping space may be temporary or permanent. Temporary cropping spaces may be within the scrapbooker’s home, another person’s home, or a more public place like a scrapbook store or a … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I usually write a post from my dissertation. It has been awhile since I last posted on my doctoral research. The last portion I wrote about had to do with scrapbook shopping. Today, I am going to start … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Over the last two months, I have written about some aspect of scrapbooking and shopping. Before I move on to cropping, here is a collection of the links to all of … Continue reading
I’ve argued elsewhere that scrapbooking is for the scrapbooker first and only secondarily for family if at all. But then there is this pesky mixed-message that I hear mostly from industry-workers: it doesn’t have to be perfect because you’re kids … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. During the time of my interviews (2008), there was a clear distinction between the products that were available at local scrapbook stores and chain stores but the chain stores were encroaching … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. A few respondents shop at local scrapbook stores while vacationing. A major reason people do this is because those stores might have something their store back home does not carry. Scrapbook … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. What Industry Workers Say… Scrapbooking is perceived as an expensive hobby and can quickly become expensive, but industry workers are quick to point out that it does not have to be … 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.
