BOOKS OF PICTURES

A cabinet in my office is loaded with my 80 year collection of photos.  It took me over a year to sort all of the pictures and get them in some kind of order.  I put up tables and started stacking loose photos according to the years or events. 

Rather than buying albums to store them in I used binders of all sizes with pictures placed on white paper with double sided tape and inserted into sheet protectors.  I write some kind of identification under each picture such as names and special events.

Since I am a fabric hoarder I covered these ugly binders with different pieces of fabric.  Each one is different and when put on the shelves all the colors blend together like an old fashioned home made quilt.  On the edge of the binders I indicate what years or occasions are in each binder.  Some of them are just dated and some are special with headings such as trips and weddings.

When one of the kids needs a picture I can go to the cabinet and find what they are looking for in a matter of minutes. 

 
This has been a fun endeavor for me.  Once all the oldest albums are created it makes it a lot easier to update and  besides that we don't seem to have as many loose photos anymore since all the pictures are on our phones  and computers but occasionally we print some of them.
Collecting pictures seems to be a thing of the past but it is still comforting for me to go back into the books and enjoying the  remembrance  so many things.

For now I will just keep snapping and making books!!