ATTENTION PLEASE...
I need to share something HUGE and IMPRESSIVE with you.
My cousin married a sweetheart and a genius...her name is Ashley. She has started a business that NEEDS to be used. She has purchased some very expensive scanners to preserve pictures, negatives, slides and documents. There is more than 1 kind (I seriously don't know all the details because I was a little ADD and just wanted to see the pictures. Heh). But I know amazing when I see it. This is amazing. I gave Ashley a MASSIVE box of pictures, negatives and random documents that I wanted preserved in case of a fire or whatever. I love looking through the pictures and reminiscing but I don't necessarily need hard copies of EVERY single picture.
So, Ashley steps in to save the day. I know this idea isn't hot of the press but her prices ARE. She is very affordable and fast! The more pictures you give her, the less expensive it is. Honestly, I know everyone has boxes and boxes of pictures lying around taking up room and not even being looked at. They are probably turning yellow or brown and getting tattered and torn (that totally rhymed! haha). For me, this is as important as saving original documents.
Have you ever played the game where you have to say the ONE thing you would grab in the event of a fire? And you could only take one thing with you? I would take my computer. Pictures, music, documents, scans, etc. everything is on there.
So, I've taken the disc Ashley gave me, backed it up on our hard drive, kept the original copy AND made a copy to put in a separate place if the unthinkable does happen. Ashley brought me the pictures today and I could have cried. Some of the pictures from the negatives I hadn't seen in YEARS and I just hadn't gotten around to taking them in to get redeveloped. (sound familiar?)
The other thing I love is this: Someone else does it! I have a scanner too...I'm sure most of us do. But it's NOT convenient to scan several pictures at a time. She can do hundreds of pictures in literally just minutes and I'd so much rather pay someone to do something quickly than spend hours and hours doing it myself. Call me lazy but it's true.
Anyway, I posted some goodies that I found today. Hopefully it won't bore you--I just really wanted to share. Click on the business card to go to her site for more details.
My Dad and his sibs.
My Dad and his family
Scans from old negatives I had...
My comp pulling mango out of my teeth. Nice.
Tiana and I. It was so fun bumping into her in the MTC every once in a while.
One of the most FAITHFUL members in El Paraiso, Honduras. Liko was a total stud.
My cousin married a sweetheart and a genius...her name is Ashley. She has started a business that NEEDS to be used. She has purchased some very expensive scanners to preserve pictures, negatives, slides and documents. There is more than 1 kind (I seriously don't know all the details because I was a little ADD and just wanted to see the pictures. Heh). But I know amazing when I see it. This is amazing. I gave Ashley a MASSIVE box of pictures, negatives and random documents that I wanted preserved in case of a fire or whatever. I love looking through the pictures and reminiscing but I don't necessarily need hard copies of EVERY single picture.
So, Ashley steps in to save the day. I know this idea isn't hot of the press but her prices ARE. She is very affordable and fast! The more pictures you give her, the less expensive it is. Honestly, I know everyone has boxes and boxes of pictures lying around taking up room and not even being looked at. They are probably turning yellow or brown and getting tattered and torn (that totally rhymed! haha). For me, this is as important as saving original documents.
Have you ever played the game where you have to say the ONE thing you would grab in the event of a fire? And you could only take one thing with you? I would take my computer. Pictures, music, documents, scans, etc. everything is on there.
So, I've taken the disc Ashley gave me, backed it up on our hard drive, kept the original copy AND made a copy to put in a separate place if the unthinkable does happen. Ashley brought me the pictures today and I could have cried. Some of the pictures from the negatives I hadn't seen in YEARS and I just hadn't gotten around to taking them in to get redeveloped. (sound familiar?)
The other thing I love is this: Someone else does it! I have a scanner too...I'm sure most of us do. But it's NOT convenient to scan several pictures at a time. She can do hundreds of pictures in literally just minutes and I'd so much rather pay someone to do something quickly than spend hours and hours doing it myself. Call me lazy but it's true.
Anyway, I posted some goodies that I found today. Hopefully it won't bore you--I just really wanted to share. Click on the business card to go to her site for more details.
Scans done with a flat bed scanner...
These are so precious to me because these are pictures that could EASILY have colored (and are well on their way) but by catching them early we'll have good copies of them forever. I want to take all of my parents' pictures and have them scanned...they are just sitting in boxes and scrapbooks (before acid-free paper was around). Check out these beauties...
These are so precious to me because these are pictures that could EASILY have colored (and are well on their way) but by catching them early we'll have good copies of them forever. I want to take all of my parents' pictures and have them scanned...they are just sitting in boxes and scrapbooks (before acid-free paper was around). Check out these beauties...
My mom. What a hottie. Too bad I don't even look like her!
My handsome Dad. Wait--I don't look like him either. Whuut.
My Dad and his sibs.
My Dad and his family
Who hasn't taken these and LOVED it? But who wants to hang on to them forever? Not me.
Scans of pictures that I only had hard copies of...
Classic girls camp pictures. Back when I had a 10 mm camera and heads were always being cut off :) Good times...
Pictures from Olan Mills...you remember those. You get to choose like ONE pose from of a bunch and you don't even get copies of the proofs.
Just a picture of me and some friends looking hot.
Scans from old negatives I had...
It has only become recently that missionaries have digital cameras with them (lucky punks). The rest of us had to develop our film in the MTC or out in the mission field. For missionaries who went foreign, specifically in a very poor country, this was NOT ideal. They did a horrible job and the pictures didn't turn out all that great. Despite that, I felt really lucky to even have a camera because most people didn't. I gave away SO many of my pictures to the friends I made there and I wondered if I'd ever get around to making more copies for myself. So for the past 8 years they have just been sitting in a box with letters and other random things. Now I actually have DIGITAL copies of them and I could cry...I am so happy!
My comp pulling mango out of my teeth. Nice.
Tiana and I. It was so fun bumping into her in the MTC every once in a while.
Classic picture of me washing clothes in the river with the cows.
I love this picture. I think I have a secret obsession with donkeys now. Donkeys rock.
One of the most FAITHFUL members in El Paraiso, Honduras. Liko was a total stud.
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2) is that ladawn in that one pic of you and the 3 other girls?
3)love the girl's camp pic. swinging the braids in a very sexy way. work those dreads.