I’m always struggling with my photos. I take a ton, don’t edit them systematically and then leave them accumulating on my phone. This is problematic because only I have access to them—not my husband and not my kids. They sit there and eventually get lost in the abyss of google photos. I have so many that I don’t know what to do with them and the idea of going through, editing, sorting and creating albums is so disheartening for a working women with two kids and a busy husband (that has many qualities, but is far from interested).
I love journals, travel journals, scrapbooks stationary and paper. Now, I guess that this is being replaced by blogs and instagram. But there is something nice about having a physical product.
I was re-reading my copy of Charlotte Mosses ‘A Visual LIfe: Scrapbooks, Collages and Inspirations’ and I realized that she had a model that I could copy. The fo does:
Take camera/iphone and memory cards on vacation
Take photos during the day.
Spend a few minutes each evening editing photos (filters, cropping and deleting)
Before leaving/at airport or at home send all photos to be printed (she and I both prefer matte photos). These are relatively inexpensive and completely original.
All the photos are stored in boxes and tied together with ribbon printed with her name (!) love this idea.
Charlotte creates scrapbooks with them and she’s then converted into beautiful coffee table books of all sorts.
She keeps these sets of photos and spends time cutting and pasting onto archival pages that are kept in a working binder. When enough pages are created for a scrapbook, she gets them bo
So I’ve send off my first two sets of photos—one of general inspiration and another of our trip to Venice. I will let you know what happens next ;)
