February 23
Photos – Display Ideas
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This month, I started tackling my boxes (and boxes) of photos. One of my goals is to “live” with my photos and be able to enjoy and share my memories by having them displayed throughout my home. That got me thinking about how to do this.
Frames are a must and probably the easiest and best way to display and protect photos. They’re also cool because you can get them to fit your décor and budget; but, I don’t want to rely solely on frames. Here are a few ideas I thought of:
Hmmm…I don’t know what to call this type of frame. An album frame? A multiple frame? I like it because it has an interesting presence. This one came from Exposures.
I love this…an artist’s interpretation of a photo. My mom had this pencil drawing done of my daughter. After I determine which photos I want to display, I would love to do several of these, from different artists, in different mediums. I love that they turn a treasured photo into an original work of art.
These are fun and simple…photo holders. I think these are great for photos you want to enjoy in the moment, but maybe don’t want to keep.   I also think they would be a wonderful way to display holiday/seasonal photo memories.
I’m looking for unique ways to “live” with my pictures and would love to hear your ideas.
I’ll revisit “photos” later on this year, after I’ve had more time to sort through mine.
Daily Inspiration
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
God ideas..love the painting of the photo. Wish I coud paint like that. Photos were taken to be looked at:)
xxx
( have decided to follow your blog)
Sorry that should be ‘good’ ideas
xx
You could always start another blog just to tell the stories of the photos 😉
Hellllllo Casper!
~~ Bunny
Have you thought about using shadow boxes? You can put several pictures that you like in one along with some mementos. My mother in law has one with the first pair of baby shoes each of her kids wore home.
I love having lots of photos in frames, but I just hate always having dust them. I have a wooden serving tray that displays pictures under the glass bottom. I just love this idea because it’s something I use all the time!
My grandparents had a “hall of the ancestors” where photos were displayed in chronogical order. I’ve been meaning to recreate it- it was wonderful to walk through that passage and commune with those spirits. 🙂
I’m not good at displaying photos. I received a photo frame for our 25th anniversary and it still has the people who came with the frame in it. LOL
I love the second picture frame thing!
Dachshund Nola
Mommy has a zillion frames! Daddy says she is a frame collector, she sees a cool one and she buys it. Now all she needs to do is put stuff in them.
Kisses
Nellie
Again you hit me with the cool memory quotes! 😀 Am getting ready to post my latest way to show off photos courtesy of my folks.
I’ve been thinking a lot about photos too since I’ve been going through albums that aren’t photo-safe and taking pictures out of them. Have been putting them in photo-safe boxes, but have thought how it would be nice to have some easier way of looking at some of them again…kind of like an on-going “memory gallery” of sorts. Your collection of frames on a bookshelf would be a good way to do that.
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