Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Many handcrafters (e.g., needle crafters such as quilters, paper crafters such as scrapbookers, and others) refer to their supplies as their “stash” (Stalp 2006a, 2006b, 2006c; Stalp and Winge 2008). These … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Many scrapbookers consider themselves addicted to scrapbooking. Newspaper reporters commonly describe scrapbooking as addicting, an obsession, and a passion. My respondents also use these terms when describing their or others relationship … Continue reading
Last week, a couple of interesting topics trended on twitter: #childhoodmemories and #teenagememories. It got me thinking about my own memories from these periods of my life. I’ve created scrapbooks for both time periods but they were photograph and memorabilia … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Is scrapbooking deviant? No. I suppose sometimes it could be considered deviant. I suppose sometimes a person could be a deviant scrapbooker. Is scrapbooking criminal? No. I suppose you could run … Continue reading
Last week, I told you about the importance of writing your story. Your story can be written in your own handwriting or typed up and printed out from a computer. If you are a digital scrapbooker, you can even have … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. We live in a culture that focuses on the pretty. Fashion magazines are devoted to teaching us how to decorate our outside selves. Home improvement and decorating shows are devoted to … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. In my study, I found that redoing a scrapbook page is rare. One scrapbooker talks about how she redid one layout three times before giving up on it. She does not … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Many scrapbookers, if not most, edit photographs in one way or another. Photographs are edited from the beginning—when the photographer decides to take a photograph, something else remains unphotographed—to the end—when … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. Scrapbooks contain narratives about the past. These narratives to some extent “must be fictionalized in order for us to make sense of our lives … in order to survive” (Mavor 1997:115). … Continue reading
Each Wednesday, I write a post from my dissertation. According to Katherine Ott (2006) in The Scrapbook in American Life, “no scrapbook can present meaning without the collaboration of a reader, yet no reader (aside from the scrapbook maker) knows … 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.
