Digital Picture Organization

This project has been in process for approximately the past 2 years. I looooove looking at old pictures and cherishing old memories. Thankfully, my mom was very good at documenting every piece of my childhood through pictures. I'm talking 14 extra-full 12" scrapbooks FULL of my childhood. Plus a few boxes full of pre-scrapbook-days pictures. Each time I return to my parents' house, my sister and I look at old pictures. Most of the time I just snap photos of each picture with my iPhone, but sometimes I actually scan the pictures to my computer. Turning scrapbooks and other old pictures into digital photos has made it even easier to revisit all of these pictures and memories. 

Sorting the pictures is actually very easy! I created a new "Pictures" folder on my computer, and added subfolders for each person in my family. 

I then created subfolders for each person in my family. I used general ages to sort most of the pictures. For current pictures and in the future, I will probably sort them by actual calendar year. 

Now, I can easily find all of our family's sweet old pictures. This one of my grandma, mom, and aunts is one of my very favorites :) 

DIY Chicken Wire Bulletin Board

I have pictures of my family and friends all over my apartment. I love taking pictures, and I love having them up to look at every day. My brother currently lives in Spain, and lot of my friends live in other cities and states, so seeing their faces in pictures every day makes everyone seem a {little} less farther away.

I found this big white frame in the attic at my parents' house. I went to Lowe's and purchased some chicken wire. The smallest roll of chicken wire I found was about 4ft x 10 ft. Let's just say I have enough left over to make an actual chicken pen. 

I wish I had more pictures for the step by step, but hopefully these finished-product pictures are explanatory enough. 

I laid the chicken wire over the frame and cut it about one inch bigger than the frame. I then nailed half-inch nails every 3-4 inches along the inside of the frame. If one of the pieces of chicken wire was near the nails, I twisted it around the nail. The other pieces of chicken wire are not attached to any nails, they just stay in place.

That's it really!