Delete any blurred and duplicate photos and print the rest. Choose just one event – a recent holiday, wedding, birthday celebration, Christmas, new baby – and get the photos off your phone. If ‘do something about my photos’ has been on your to do list for some time, please start right now with this small step. Fast2Fab predesigned album Simple and quick! The full range of Creative Memories scrapbooking supplies can be seen by directly visiting my CM Advisor site. As mentioned I’m a champion of Creative Memories products. There are products to suit all tastes and styles. Scrapbooking does not have to be hard, creative or tizzy. Your life is an important one, and future generations will want to know who you were and what was important to you. I really want more people to appreciate the value of preserving memories. Will you have such an album to pass on through the generations of your family? Or just a USB containing thousands of unidentified photos? Beautiful scrapbooking supplies I’ve had such a lovely time scrapbooking them. Photos of me as a little one, learning to ride a bike, and away in the caravan, have now all been passed on to me. That way they will know something of his life as well as the lives of his father and grandfather. I hope that one day his children if he has any, and perhaps grandchildren and great-grandchildren will look through these same albums. The older he gets the more he enjoys looking through the albums I have created for him since he was born. I keep a ‘3 generations’ scrapbook for my step-grandson. I have a cupboard full of albums that capture the story of our lives to date. A friend introduced Creative Memories to me in 2005, and I’ve loved their products and the hobby ever since. When I first started putting photos into albums we didn’t call it scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is one of my favourite hobbies. But unless the photos are printed and scrapbooked or made into a digital photo book, those memories you have captured will be lost. Some may feel it is enough to post a few to Facebook, or maybe download them to a laptop or USB. Thanks to ease, immediacy, and a big storage capacity, thousands of photos are taken and hoarded on smart phones. The smart phone is becoming today’s version of that shoebox of unidentified photos from yesteryear. Is your smart phone like a shoebox of hoarded photos? It’s tragic to think that the story of someone’s life could be lost because photos have not been properly preserved. Without this information, the photos are essentially worthless. Sometimes the backs of the photos will name the person and place. I’m sure we all know someone who has inherited a shoebox of old photos from someone who has passed on. I have taken the photos out of the old yellowing ‘sticky’ album, and scrapbooked them very simply into a photo-safe Creative Memories album.īack in the 60s and 70s everyone got their photos developed, unlike now. Hence I still have these photos, complete with my neatly hand-written titles, from a trip to Tasmania in 1971. Quite frankly I can’t see the point of doing otherwise. A long history of preserving memoriesĮven back in the 60s, I was in the habit of putting all of my photos into albums. But since the days of the Instamatic, a camera of some sort has never been far from my hands. I eventually replaced the Instamatic with Dad’s old SLR when he upgraded, then later a series of digital cameras, and more recently a smart phone. Oh the anticipation of waiting a week or 2 for the prints to come back! Would they turn out ok? Would anyone have their eyes closed in that ‘special’ photo? In those days we couldn’t immediately check the photo, there were no photo bursts, and it used up too much film to take 3 or 4 photos ‘just in case’. I would then take the exposed film to the chemist and it would be sent away to be developed. That was the fun part! Prior to a special event I would load a new cartridge into the camera with the hope that I would have enough shots to cover the occasion. It had a cartridge style film with 24 exposures, and an attachable flashcube which exploded whenever a flash photo was taken. My brother gave me my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, when I was about 10. He had a movie camera when no-one else seemed to I probably got my love of photos from Dad. And that is why I scrapbook and don’t hoard photos on my phone.Ĭameras and photos have been important to me since I was a child. Do you take photos on a smart phone? What do you do with the photos? Could your phone be turning into that future shoebox of unidentifiable photos that some have in a hidden corner of the cupboard? I don’t want to risk losing any of my precious photos.
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