Here is a little photo frame I made today. I added some magnetic tape to the back and will put it on my fridge with a small pic of my kids! I like having little reminders around the house that bring our sometimes crazy life into perspective!
Materials Used (all Close to My Heart, except as noted):
Update for you on my Library of Memories course. It doesn't actually start for a few weeks, but I've started doing some of the pre-class assignments. The one assignment is to 'spend some time with' (not necessarily organize) your digital photos. Unlike many people, I do actually print ALL of my photos. So this step isn't necessarily as critical for me, I don't think. But the idea behind it is to go through the thousands of digital photos you have and pick the 'highlights' . . . the ones that are definitely scrap-worthy & that capture the 'highlights' of each season and year. Tag them somehow (depending on your photo software) or copy them to special folders so that you can find them & print them. Essentially, you want to pare down your collection to a more manageable size - it is time to accept that you are never going to scrap EVERY photo!
While creating my highlight photos for each year, I've also taken it upon myself to add tags/keywords to ALL of my photos so that I can find photos easier when I'm searching for a photo or subject (i.e. I have tags now for each of our names (me, hubby, the kids), 'friends', 'family', vacation, christmas, birthday, etc.). So when I started this process - I knew it was a big job. But wow!! It is a huge job! I have a LOT of pictures! Anyway - I'm still plugging away at it when I have 15 minutes to spare here & there. And I think in the long run it will be worth it & save me the frustration of trying to scan through hundreds of photos looking for a particular one - which I often do when I have a layout planned in my head!
