18May If Your Walls Could Talk…
If your walls could talk what would they say? Create tangible ways to remind family that the daily course of life matters greatly at home.
Although most of us don’t have time for the elaborate detail that the popular art of scrap booking demands, we can take shortcuts to documenting love and laughter
Revolve family and friend photos from camera to refrigerator to the file box every couple of months. Keep the display areas in your home (the fridge, a mirror)—like your lives— fresh and ever changing.
Think in themes. Buy a photo box or use shoe boxes for each member of the family or divide a single box into seasons, holidays, or family events. Make copies of certain photos to place in themed files that overlap. Add newspaper clippings and other memorabilia (e.g., ticket stubs or award certificates) to the files.
Feed souls with memories—let children you love make place mats with photographs by gluing them in a collage on plastic pats then laminating them. Create special ones for birthdays
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• Take snapshots of guests as an alternative guest book, logging their names and the date they visited.
• Be ready in a snap to capture your family on film. Keep a disposable camera in the glove compartment of your car one in a kitchen drawer another in a niche by the back door or in a jacket pocket. Send one with your child to school on her birthday or the day of a special assembly.
• Laugh a little more. Save bad or cast-off photos in a separate file for kids to make joke cards and silly collages on a rainy day Cut the photos apart and put them back together in funny ways. Stick labels with silly sayings (available in photo stores) onto the photos.
• Create stationery with a photo of the recipient scanned onto paper with a quote and contact information (your children will love this sort of personalized way to connect to their home!).
