Posts in DIY photo projects
Telling Your Graduate's Story: Ideas for the grad party

One year ago at this time, I was knee deep in emotion. My middle child, my only boy, was getting ready to graduate from high school. This wasn’t my first rodeo. I’d been through this grad party thing before with my oldest daughter, but like their personalities, it wasn’t the same.

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Limericks, Guinness and an Unexpected Pregnancy: A favorite album

The year was 2005. My husband and I, along with 3 of my in-laws (father, mother and sister) had planned a trip to the Emerald Isle in the hopes of experiencing a little bit of our heritage and the beauty of a country I’ve heard about my whole life.

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Achieving Digital Photo Bliss...it's all in the set up

Are you Mac or PC? iPhone or Android?

With the answers to these questions, you can be on your way to organized digital photo bliss. These days most of us are taking the majority of our photos with our phones, so setting up a process to get them off your phone and into your digital hub will protect your memories, save you space on your device, save you time and ultimately give you peace of mind.

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Things that sit in your gut: how to get started organizing your photos

Do things ever just sit in your gut? That one thing that you know you need to do something about, but you put it off and put it off? Then you do it…and you wonder what took you so long? This happens to me all. the. time. Organizing your photos just might be one of those things.

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ATTN: Parents of Graduates...you can't do this wrong

My middle child is graduating this year. In addition to the mom emotion of it all, I'm not gonna lie, finding and selecting pics to create graduation keepsakes has been rough. I'm comforted, however, by the fact that I can't do this wrong.

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How to sort "the box"

20 years ago I was a first-time mom, wearing a hunter green jogging suit, listening to my mom talk about the really tough decisions that she and her sister had to make regarding caring for my grandma. Now, I am the meat and cheese of the sandwich generation. One of the tasks that often needs to be tackled at this time is deciding what will happen to the family’s photos and memories.

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6 Photo Tips for when YOU take the BIG trip

I’m always looking for new, creative ways to capture my memories, and when you have an opportunity to take a trip like this, you owe it to yourself to find a way to relive those memories. Here are 6 tips for when YOU take the BIG trip…

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5 steps to tackling the box: Conquer, then divide and share

Raise your hand if you have a box of old family photos residing in your basement, attic or maybe in the back of a closet. Raise your hand if you had intended to do something amazing with these family treasures, but...haven't. Raise your hand if the reason you haven't is because you just don't know how to get started. You're not alone. Getting started is the hardest part, so let's conquer that fear...

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I have a hangover: the power of the picture

I currently have a vacation hangover…only I wasn’t really on vacation. If you follow me on Facebook, you saw that one of my dear friends from high school just lost his wife to cervical cancer. She was only 48. Jay’s friends rallied and several of us road tripped down to Nashville to Jill’s service last week. It was beyond sad and my heart aches for Jay and his kids, but amongst the sadness, there was so much joy in getting together with old friends and sharing memories.

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Inspired: 3 projects that I was inspired to create

I am queen of last minute, crazy, photo project ideas. I don't plan in that way, but when I get inspired, it's not uncommon for me to be up late, 100% focused on trying to bring that vision to life. Here are 3 photo projects that I was recently inspired to create/complete.

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