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Displaying Creatively

February 10, 2012 by Meg | 1 comment

We did a little rearranging on the Annex…so hopefully you’ve gotten to check it out.  If not, it’s my Pick of the Week!

Our Home Decor section is now called “Creative Display” and has been broken down into more categories to help you find exactly what you’re looking for to decorate your home:

One of my absolute favorites right now are the District Market printed burlap panels from Tim Holtz (so bonus Pick of the Week?):

These are just a few of the designs available on the Annex.  I’m seriously considering putting a few of these above my bookcases at home.  We’ve got this library ladder bookcase thing going on in our living room and I think the Subway panel would be a very nice addition to the look we’ve got going on.  Culynn – thoughts?  :)

Happy Weekend and Happy Decorating!

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Oh Memory Cards

January 27, 2012 by Meg | No comments

Where do you keep your memory cards?

Are all of yours tucked in pockets and purses and all over the place like mine are?  I think I have one in my wallet right now, three or four with my scrap stuff, another two or three on Culynn’s desk, and a few more hiding in my camera bag.  They’re EVERYWHERE.

My Pick of the Week is really the perfect product for me right now (I don’t like to delete photos off of memory cards until I know I have them saved in at least two other places – I’ve lost thousands and thousands of photos before – not a good feeling):

The Memory Card Organizer from Pioneer.

It holds up to ten memory cards, each card protected in its own little compartment, AND there are memory areas to note which card has what on it (I need that SO bad…I search through every card EVERY time I need pictures).

Another great way to stay organized in 2012!  Get your Memory Card Organizer on the Annex today!

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Pins and Deals

January 17, 2012 by Meg | 1 comment

Happy Tuesday!

You know what Tuesday means at Archiver’s…50% off all photos prints and copies!

It’s kind of ridiculous that I didn’t think of this sooner…

Pinterest has AMAZING photography and wonderful tips and tricks all over the place.

I got a “fancy” camera last March, right before my family went on our “last family vacation” before I got married.  I seriously love my camera…but almost a year later, I’m still learning the ins and outs.

That’s why I love Pinterest and the incredible inspiration it can be…so here’s my Pin of the Week for this Tuesday with 50% off photo prints and copies:

Here are just a couple of the photos that I’ve find on Pinterest that I just think are gorgeous:

And another one:

Ok just kidding.  :)

Your photos don’t have to be the best of the best to include them in an album or a scrapbook layout.  Some of my favorite layouts are of the goofy photos or the photos that didn’t quite work.  My mother in law has a tricksy camera that doesn’t always let her take the picture she wants…so sometimes you have to make do with what you have…but sometimes those are the best memories!

Do you have any great photo tips or tricks?  I’d love to hear them!  Leave a comment or post one on the Archiver’s Facebook page.

Stop by your local Archiver’s today for 50% off all photo prints and copies!

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It’s not too late…to make adorable cards!

December 15, 2011 by Meg | No comments

Hi.  My name is Meg and I’m a procrastinator (and a perfectionist, but you knew that from last week).

Every year I decide to make Christmas cards and I go out and look through all of the papers and stamps and embellishments and get so excited and inspired.  I buy all the goodies I need to make cards…

…and then I never make them.

Last year I was going to be SUPER simple and stamp a nativity image on gold cardstock and call it a day.  Yeah…it sat and is currently still sitting…

So this year.  I got married and my dear friend Kirsten told me it’s the law that my Christmas card has to be a wedding picture…that should be easy right?

Thankfully there are a bunch of card ideas on the Archiver’s website with photos…here are a few:

I think I’m going to go the simple route (especially if I decide to write a cute letter) and print a bunch of one photo, pop it on some cardstock, add some bling (I love bling!) and stamp a sentiment inside.  Easy.  As.  That.

We’ll see how this turns out…I’ll keep you posted.

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Well Now What?

December 5, 2011 by Meg | 2 comments

So if you’ve ever gotten photos from Shutterfly, they usually come with the contact sheet of the tiny little photos…

I usually use them as a reference so I know which envelope has which photos.  But then what.  Once you’re done scrapping those photos, or putting them in albums, or putting them in frames, then what do you do?

Here’s my idea (that’s not really my idea, but I can’t remember where I found it!  I think it was from Laura Kurz):

Each little picture on this page is from my contact sheets.  It took me a while to lay them out the way I wanted (Hi my name is Meg and I’m a perfectionist) but once I had it figured out, all I had to do was adhere, add some letter stickers, and done.  I pop-dotted a few of the pictures, just for a bit more dimension.

This will be the first page in my honeymoon album, and just a great way to document all of the fun things we did in St. Maarten in June.  It also kind of takes the pressure off of scrapping every single photo.

I’m waiting for a bunch of prints from my wedding…and I think the first double page spread is going to be contact prints of the entire day.

You can also do contact prints on the Sony machine at Archiver’s!  Just sayin’.

Happy Scrapping!

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Big Changes ’round Here…

November 30, 2011 by Meg | 10 comments

Oh boy.

We’ve had some big changes around here at the Archiver’s Home Office in Minnesota…

WE MOVED!

We packed everything up and the Monday of Thanksgiving week we started to unpack and organize and enjoy the chaos that is moving!

Check out the befores…

Lobby/entrance:

Front conference room where most meetings happened:

My cube (please excuse my mess…I was packing!):

Photo-shoot area:

Looking into the creative room:

The creative room in the middle of the move:

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National Scrapbook Day: Why We Scrap

May 6, 2011 by Meg | 2 comments

 

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY EVERYONE!!!


For my blog post today, I thought it would be great to go back to kindergarten…and share this post.  Scrapbooking means so many different things for so many different people.  Here are just a few of the endless reasons why we scrap:

 

Heather:  I scrapbook because I want to remember the things about my family that make me smile, the places we travel to, the things we celebrate, and the everyday things about us as a family.  Along with family scrapbooks, I create an annual album for each of my kids and give it as a gift each Christmas.  These books are my favorites because they’re such a meaningful way of showing my kids that they’re important and loved.

Tanya:  When I look back at my family’s old photos I have so many unanswered questions, I don’t want my children or grandchildren to have those same questions.  It is truly a gift for me to see my daughter’s face as she looks through my scrapbooks of her.  She loves hearing the stories over and over about when she was a baby, when I’m gone I want her to still have that connection to the stories about her awesome life!

Meg:  I made my first scrapbook for a school project in 9th grade.  It was for an imaginary trip to Thailand and I wanted to do something outside the box.  Shortly after making that album, I went on a family vacation to Florida, and when I got back I just had to scrapbook our trip.  Now 10 years later, I still love scrapbooking family vacations, funny events from high school and college, and I absolutely cannot wait to scrapbook my wedding and honeymoon in about a month.  Scrapbooking is my way of preserving my photos and memories for my future children and grandchildren.

Micaela: I scrapbook for many reasons. Not only is it a way for me to use all of the creative ideas floating around in my head, but it is also a way to preserve all of my memories.  I really enjoy journaling in my scrapbooks –Nothing too long, just enough to remember how I felt in the moment, a funny quote from a friend, or what was going on during that particular event.  I never want to forget the amazing places I have been, the people I have met, and all the things in between. When I look through my scrapbooks, flip through the pages, pictures, faces, places, and memories, I will forever remember how incredibly blessed my life has been.

Abby:  Ever since I was little, I’ve always loved making things and being creative, so scrapbooking and card-making is a natural fit for me. It’s my creative outlet–I love playing around with colors, patterns, and designs, whether it’s on a layout, a one-of-a-kind card, or a project for my home. Plus, scrapbooking allows me to do something with the thousands of photos I take, too!

Kirsten: I have a crazy love of photos.  I scrap to force myself to get my pictures off my computer and onto paper.  I scrap to remember. I scrap to release stress and leave it all on the page.  I scrap to tell stories about the people I love most.

 

We’re celebrating National Scrapbook Day at all of our stores this weekend.  Stop by now through Saturday night and make not one, but TWO scrapbook layouts!  Happy Scrappin’ Everyone!

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New Year’s resolution #2.5 – Back up those photos!

January 4, 2011 by Meg | 7 comments

Whoa!  We’re posting twice in a day!  That never happens!

But…we think it’s super super important to back up your photos!  Here’s my “picture backing up horror story” of the day…

My sister and I were hanging out at home during the summer of 2007.  I was a camp counselor that summer and I was home for a couple of days before heading off to the National Youth Gathering in Orlando, Florida with my church.  Andrea and I were decorating our t-shirts for the trip and listening to my iTunes and realized we needed to run out and get more supplies for our shirts and random other things for the trip to Florida.  I turned off my laptop and we ran our errands.  We came home and I turned my computer on so we could listen to some music whilst decorating our shirts…and my screen was black with a funky technical error message.  No need to panic yet right?  Just use my “fool proof” method of turning it off and then back on…

Wrong.  The same error message popped up.

Holy buckets what was I supposed to do!  I was leaving the next day for a trip to Florida for a week and then was back at camp for the rest of the summer…I didn’t have time to deal with this!  My dad took my computer to a place that had “saved” hard drives before, hoping to save my thousands and thousands of photos from a summer and a half at camp, two and a half years of college, and everything else thrown in the mix.

I got back three folders of pictures, some Word documents and that was it.  Awesome.

So lesson learned BIG TIME after this one.  Once I had my new hard drive and started taking pictures again, I made sure I backed up pictures on cds right after I took them, and definitely before I deleted them off my memory cards.  I studied abroad in Germany spring semester of my junior year of college, and I made sure I saved copies of those pictures right away! (I guess if I lost them though, I’d just have to go back to Germany, huh? ;) )

But then I learned about this great little gadget called the Picture Keeper.  Holy buckets is this a great little deal.  You pop it into your computer, click one thing, and it finds ALL of your images!  Then every time you pop the Picture Keeper into your computer after that, it just finds the new images!  So cool!  It comes in FOUR different sizes – 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and the GIANT Picture Keeper Pro which can hold up to 250,000 photos (depending on the size of your images).

Don’t let what happened to Abby and me happed to you!  It’s the WORST feeling in the whole world!

SAVE THOSE PHOTOS!!

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New Year’s resolution #2: Back up my photos!

January 4, 2011 by Abby | No comments

Yesterday, I told you about my resolution to take more photos in 2011. Another resolution that goes hand-in-hand with that is to back all of those photos up on a regular basis!

A few months ago, I hopped on our home computer to download the newest batch of photos from my camera. My personal method for photo organization is to create a folder for each month of the year, all within my “photos” folder. Once I have a few months built up, I back them up on a CD and then move them elsewhere. On this particular day, I opened up my “photos” folder, only to find about 9 or 10 of my monthly folders from 2009-2010 were GONE. These folders contained the photos from my New York City trip, my Las Vegas trip, and a lot of other events–my two trips alone accounted for almost 2,000 photos! I had been really busy and had not burned CDs of my photos in a really long time, so those files were the ONLY copy I had (aside from the small percentage of photos I printed). And, they were gone.

I think in that moment my heart stopped beating for a second! This really could not be happening.

Luckily, my computer genius boyfriend came to my rescue. He spent an hour doing his computer magic and located my photos. They weren’t gone completely, but somehow (and to this day, we have no idea how) those folders were moved to some obscure folder buried deep inside other folders on our computer. I breathed a sigh of relief–I got lucky. But, I know lots of people who haven’t been as lucky as I was.

That afternoon, I spent several hours backing up every single photo onto a disk. I ran out the very next day to Archiver’s and bought this Pioneer CD binder to store my disks in. I like it because all of my labeled disks are in one place where I can easily find them. I also have a second copy to keep inside our fire-proof safe as well, just in case.

The lesson to be learned–back up your photos and then print hard copies! I work at Archiver’s, where I’m surrounded by photos every day; I spend my days writing about the importance of photos and memories; and yet I was naive to think that losing photos wouldn’t happen to me. It CAN–it can happen to anyone. Your hard drive can crash; you can be hit by a computer virus or a lightning strike; or another disaster can occur that’s out of your control. It really doesn’t take much at all to lose your precious photos and memories!

So, for 2011 and going forward, I’m going to make the effort to back up my photos on a regular basis, no matter what. It may not be the most fun task to do, but trust me, it’s far better than the alternative. I hope you’ll do the same!

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New Year’s resolution #1: Take more photos!

January 3, 2011 by Abby | 6 comments

Happy New Year everyone! In honor of the brand-new year, we’ll be sharing our New Year’s resolutions here on the blog this week.

One of my personal resolutions for 2011 is to take more photos and improve my photography skills. I tend to take a lot of photos when I go on a trip or attend a special event, but I’m noticing that I take very few photos of my everyday life. In fact, there are a few months in 2010 where I didn’t pick up my camera at all! (Terrible, I know…)

I intend to change that this year. There are plenty of everyday moments and memories that I want to remember and capture in photos, like the funny things my puppy does, get-togethers with friends, the places we go (near or far), and other interesting things that happen. Sure, I have some photos of these things, but as I look back on 2010, there are a lot of moments I missed, too. This year, I don’t want to miss anything!

Who’s with me? One cool idea to achieve this goal is to take a snapshot every day, whether it’s something exciting you did or just a glimpse into your everyday life. At the end of the year, you’ll have 365 photos and an entire year of your life recorded. I don’t have kids, but I can see this as a fun way to document how they change and grow throughout the year, too.

It only takes a few seconds to snap a photo, but the memory will be documented for years to come. It’s worth it, if you ask me!

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