November is one of the best months of the year to engage with your photos. Once the holidays hit, it’s hard. Diving into your photos and memories in November is productive, gives you time to revisit and enjoy your memories, and best of all, gives you the opportunity to touch hearts this holiday season. Here are 6 ways you can prepare your photos and memories for the holidays.
Read MoreGraduation is an opportunity for parents, the graduate, family members, and friends to connect through their memories. While I love a picture board, my goal with photo displays is to not only display the photos, but to tell a story with them. Here are 8 ways I told my daughter’s story at her graduation party.
Read MoreHave you seen Hamilton? When I first saw it in Chicago, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I hadn’t listened to the music until the week before, so I felt like I was a little late to the party. What I didn’t expect was to walk away thinking about how this man and others chose to tell their story. We will all leave a legacy, whether we want to or not. How are you going to tell your story?
Read MoreMany of us who have been through a graduation celebration can look back and smile...either because it was truly a joyous occasion or because it's over! For me, I think it was both. I laughed, I cried, I stressed and I learned things for the next time. Here are some of my photo projects from my first graduate.
Read MoreHave you ever seen your life laid out in front you? Often when a client comes to me, she/he has a mix of printed pics, digital pics, some videos and maybe some memorabilia that she/he wants to preserve. Most often, those pics span many decades. One of my favorite things to do is to use that collection to tell that person’s story in pictures.
Read MoreWe are undoubtedly living a historic event right now…the Pandemic of 2020. Because we know this, it gives each and every one of us a unique opportunity to tell the story as it is happening.
How do we do this? Here’s one way…
Read MoreRecently I took a Mom/Daughter road trip to St. Louis, MO with 2 other Mom/Daughter duos to visit our dear friends that moved there a few years ago. On our last night, we were sitting around (maybe with a glass of Prosecco) and started talking photos. 3 Moms, 3 different photo challenges and perspectives.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreI will be the first to admit that I am not always camera ready when my mom wants to take a picture of me. My hair is messy, my skin is breaking out, or I didn’t get much sleep the night before. None of those things stop my mom from wanting to take the picture. “It’s for the memories,” she says with a big smile.
Read MoreDo 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.
Read MoreMy 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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