What To Do With All Those Pictures?

My friend Angela and I have decided that we want to make our girls a homeschool yearbook. The idea came from my former homeschool group in Alabama. I have two years of Summer's memory filled homeschool yearbooks from her first years of homeschooling on our bookshelf. Summer and I love to periodically thumb through them and let the photos take us back to the memories of our first years into our homeschool journey.

When I presented the idea of a homeschool yearbook to Angela she immediately jumped on board. We are now in the process of going back and gathering our pictures of our homeschool get togethers for the year 2008.

As I was going through my box of burned picture discs, I came across my families older pic CD's from the early 2000's.

Of course I couldn't help but to pop the oldest one in the drive and start reminiscing. I must have spent an hour or more looking at old photos I had not seen in a few years.

Being the photo fan that I am I couldn't help but think how all those wonderful family pics were just wasting away on a disc....never to be seen unless they are pulled out randomly for whatever reason.

I also have a box of old family photos I inherited when my mom died. They are crammed together in a box wasting away only to be pulled out once in a blue moon.

I keep asking myself..what can I do with all these pictures? How can I display my favorites in a creative, useful way?

I love my family photos to surround me so I do have a large collection of photos randomly displayed throughout my home. I have often wondered how odd it may seem if I covered my walls with wall to wall picture collages. To me, there is no better artwork than the photos from our life displayed for us to admire everyday.

As I scoured disc after disc of family photos I wondered....there has to be a way to display all of those memories. I love the idea of photo wallpaper...is there a such thing???

And of course being the photo lover that I am, I couldn't end this post without attaching a few of my favorites I have recently uncovered from the past...