What kind of a gift do you get for someone who has lived a long and meaningful life, has everything they need, and most of what they want? They probably have plenty of clothes, plenty of jewelry. But mostly, they have plenty of memories. Memories of parents,...
Another new year – another set of resolutions! We all know about Losing Weight, Eating More Healthily, and Saving Money. There are lots of statistics showing what people resolved and whether they followed through. One of the top ways to ensure achieving the resolution is to have a...
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Lose weight? Exercise more? Eat more healthily? These are all great resolutions! But I’d like to suggest a resolution to preserve family memories. I’ve talked to several people recently who have large photo collections. The photos are in boxes and albums. There...
There are many, many photo backup solutions. You want to keep your photos safe. You know that disasters happen all the time: fires, floods, hurricanes, you name it. You know that photos should be backed up at least three ways: the original, on-site backup, and...
It’s hard to believe that 2018 is almost over!! It seems that this year just started. What better way to remember 2018 than to create a calendar for 2019! Calendars could be created to remember birthdays, to remember a special trip taken, or special events. In my family,...
“The Save Your Photos initiative is a public service outreach campaign developed by APPO to teach individuals how they can preserve life’s irreplaceable photos, videos, and documents, in case of an unforeseen accident or disaster. Protecting your photo and video collection could be the most important thing...
I love photos! I’ve always loved photos. Over the years I’ve created photo albums of every trip we’ve taken, an album for each year while the kids were little, and additional albums for special occasions. I now have well over fifty photo albums, plus several boxes...
Summertime is a great time for family reunions. Family reunions are an excellent opportunity to catch up with relatives you don’t get to see often and to share family history, family traditions and family pictures. Family history could be collected by recording family members telling stories...
After identifying the pictures to be worked on, the next step is to sort them. To me, Sorting is the hardest part of the process. The following four steps will simplify the sorting process: [caption id="attachment_17015" align="alignright" width="216"] Drawer full of unsorted, loose photos and memorabilia[/caption] Think...