Family Photos and more

We all are looking for new ways to incorporate photos in our decor.  There are so many beautiful frames in the marketplace now made especially for creating galleries.(Michaels, JoAnn's, Pottery Barn, Target) You can even purchase or download templates to help you place your photos on the wall.  We have the means to download photos of family, pets, travel or just landscapes and nature.  Manipulating photos is easy on your computer or photo website (Snapfish, Shutterfly, etc.)  Change color to black and white or sepia.  Add borders or text.  Zoom or crop.  It is fun and easy.  Best part is if you do not like it you are not hurting your original photo.  Just hit revert to original! I have a few ideas to share with you.  I am currently working on a family gallery and wanted it to include something unexpected so I got out my old Scrabble game and began making words and photographing them.

  This photo is the one I framed for less than $10.  What you come up with is unlimited.  Do one with your family name, your children's names, Mr. & Mrs. for wedding photos, Baby, pets...get the idea?  Everyone has a Scrabble game and it is fun.  You can use the wooden tile holder or lay them out on a dark background and photograph them that way.  Use your imagination and have fun.

Next I want to share a display idea for a small photo.  This one is of my great-grandparents with me as an infant.  I love this photo as it is the only one I have of them.  It doesn't fit well on a wall because it gets lost.  So, I decided to put it in a large glass vase on a shelf.  It is visible but protected.  The vase beside my photo will hold something when I decide what.  Thinking white alphabet balls.  Will make those myself - they are very expensive to purchase!

As your travel why not capture photos of scenery and landmarks in the cities you visit.  Look for unusual shots that will catch the eye on your wall.  I have a gallery that I add to as we go on another trip.  It is fun to decide what to photograph and how to shoot it.

 This photo is of the Brooklyn Bridge taken looking up at the cables and the next one is of snow covered picnic tables beside an office building in Chicago.  I looked up and saw their reflection in an overhang of the building so that is what I photographed. It looks like they are floating.

 

This final photo was taken at Times Square.  Love it because I even caught a NYC taxi in the photo.  


Adding galleries of this type makes your home your own and makes the space feel more personalized.  It is fun to capture these memories and displaying them makes it easy to relive those special times over and over.