A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to NPR and they did a story about a feature from Bicycling magazine. The feature was about the bicycle ride of a person’s life. I’m not much of a cyclist. We do … Continue reading
If you create many layouts of children, you have probably run into the challenge of telling the story in different ways. I have a tendency of saying “you love to” or “you had so much fun.” Of course, I believe … 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
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
A few weeks ago, I asked my facebook fans what sorts of topics they would like to read about and one fan wanted to learn more about how to select photos for a scrapbook page. I start by taking a … Continue reading
I like to add interesting bits of trivia to some of my scrapbook pages. If I attend a baseball game, I include the score of the game on my layout. When I did a page about my walk across the … Continue reading
One of the “rules” of scrapbooking is that you should journal on your scrapbook pages. The journaling is what makes it a scrapbook page. In the words of one of my respondents from my dissertation, “without the words, it’s just … Continue reading
Each Thursday, I review a book or blog related to scrapbooking. Today’s review is on Scrapbooking Everyday Memories, a special issue from Creating Keepsakes. It is on newsstands now and will be displayed until February 7, 2011. This special issue … Continue reading
Full Disclosure I bought Journaling That Matters on Black Friday, but then won my purchase back during Ella Publishing’s Black Friday special promotion. So, I got it for free, but intended on paying for it. Ella Publishing is also an … Continue reading
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: … 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.
