Make the Annual Album
How many photos are currently on your phone? Are you getting these pesky reminders?
“Your iCloud storage space is at capacity. Increase your storage now.”
“You don't have enough storage space on your phone. Visit your General Settings to make more room.”
Growing up, my parents had to take photographs on film. You’d have a certain amount of film to use, and then you’d bring your film to a local convenience store to get developed. You wouldn’t even know how your pictures turned out until you picked up your envelope of photographs a week or two later (or an hour if you sprung for expedited printing). You would then put your favorite photos in a binder album sleeve and pack away the extras.
Envelopes of my family’s extra photos.
That is no longer the situation today.
Our phones are our cameras today. We can capture every moment of our life, our children’s lives, as we wish. You quickly accumulate those photos on your phone. What now?
You may post a handful (or 30) on your social media accounts, text them to the family group text, and/or save them to a special digital folder to revisit later. But how often do you print them out?
You may display a few of your favorites on your walls, a shelf, or your desk. But many just live on the internet or your phone.
I’m telling you - make the album now. Do it while the memories are fresh. Do it before the amount of your photos become overwhelming. Do it so that your children can grow up looking back at their memories (without accidentally FaceTiming a random connection on your phone).
After each of my daughter’s birthdays, I have created an album from all of my favorite pictures of her from that year in her life. She is only two, but she loves looking back at those pictures. I also have less anxiety creating space in my phone, even knowing that I have everything saved in another digital folder.
A few pages from each of my daughter’s annual albums
I have talked to so many people who find the amount of photos they have built up over the last few years overwhelming to go through and even begin making an album or printing the photos.
Allow me to make it easy for you. The hardest part will be selecting your favorites for me to design into an album. We can make an album as large or as small as you need it to be. What may be overwhelming for some is so much fun for me. I LOVE organizing photos.
I had the honor to do a year-in-review for one of my best friends and her family. She was so happy to finally have those memories in a tangible album to share and cherish for years to come. I can do the same for you.
A few pages from my friends’, Jess and Aust, year-in-review album.
