Today's guest post is from Melissa, who blogs at Daily Life - Bits & Pieces
In today’s digital
age, so many times photos get “stored” away on our computer’s hard drive and no
one gets to view and enjoy them. Today I’m going to reveal three ways you can share
and enjoy your photos and memories of past Christmases.
1. I keep family
photos on our mantel year round, and last year I decided to replace them all
with Christmas photos during the holiday season (for me this means the day
after Thanksgiving to the day after New Year’s). I pulled out photos from past
Christmases and photos taken with Santa Claus over the years (one is of me
& my sister when I was around 4-years-old!). I used extra fames I had
stored in a closet and created a display of holiday photos.
2. I also pulled out
the few scrapbooks I have that are specifically Christmas ones – 2001 Photo
Album, Santa’s Day Out 8 ½ x 11 scrapbook, 2009 December Daily – and put those
on display where they could be easily picked up and browsed throughout the
holiday season.
3. We have a digital
photo frame in our living room where I typically have the past several months
of photos playing throughout the day. I use a flash drive to easily change out
the photos on this frame. Last year, I saved all the digital photos I had from
Christmas holidays onto one flash drive and had that playing throughout the
season. When we hosted our family get-together here, my nieces and nephews
spent tons of time watching those photos of previous get-togethers, Christmas
Day, holiday lights, parties and decorations.
This year when I pull
out all my Christmas boxes and bins to begin decorating for the holidays, I
will once again put framed photos on the mantel and Christmas scrapbooks out
for easy browsing and start the holiday photos playing on the digital frame so
we can enjoy and share photos and memories from previous years. If you have
other ways of sharing and displaying photos during the holidays, please leave a
comment to tell us about it. And I hope you’ll try one of these ideas this
year!
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Melissa lives and scraps
in the great state of Texas. She is married to a wonderful Christian man who
not only shares her beliefs but also totally supports her scrapbooking
addiction and often surprises her with new items for her stash. She has scrapbooked
most of her life, starting in elementary school putting memorabilia in a
scrapbook her Mama started when she was born. She’s been using the new
scrapbooking methods and supplies for the past 12 years and truly loves
preserving memories in a way that is also an outlet for her creativity. She started
blogging early in 2010 and shares many of her layouts and other scrappy
projects online. You can find her at: www.melissagross.blogspot.com.
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Thanks, Melissa, there's some great ideas that I might try out myself this year. I wonder if Steve would be upset if I asked him to build a mantle for Christmas? After all, it could be multi-purpose, somewhere to hang stockings, too!
Nice post Melissa! I now have two Journal Your Christmas albums completed and I will be sure to get them out and display them this year. Maybe Santa will take a peek
ReplyDeleteLOL Cat - good luck on getting that mantle built!! Thanks for the chance to join in on your 100 Days of Christmas posts!
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of putting out christmas scrapbook albums.
ReplyDeleteI ALWAYS wish I had a mantle at Christmas....and maybe Santa would bring me (early!) a digital photo frame...I LOVE that idea!!
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Great ideas! I love dedicating the mantle and a digi frame to all Christmas photos. Such a great way to enjoy them all season long!
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