New Year Photo Resolutions

Is anyone else a sucker for nostalgia and reminiscing through pictures and mementos? I am also a massive hoarder and keep pretty much everything - receipts, tickets, scribbled notes on napkins, you name it. I loved looking back on last last year (whaaat) so much in 2015, I wanted to make sure I could do the same this year so I wanted to print of a shit tonne of photos.

I also love displaying some of my favourite photos out and proud, not hidden in a scrapbook. But with this year being the year I finally move out of EXTREMELY SHITTY student housing and put on my big girl pants, I want a slightly more sophisticated way of displaying my photos than blue tacking them above my bed. Could I be more of a student cliche? Just turn on netflix and hand me the pot noodles. But yeah, I decided to turn my fave photos into bunting.

So, of course, to fulfil these resolutions I needed to print a lot of my favourite photos, which is where Snapfish* came in. You just upload the photos to their website and get them delivered to your door which is great for me. Cos I am about as lazy as they get. What even is outside?
I had a good old browse through my entire photo library (WHY DO I TAKE SO MANY PHOTOS) and narrowed it down to my 150 ish favourites.

I chose my favourite pretty, landscapey ones and a couple of semi-non-ugly ones of Martin and I to be turned into my bunting to display as a kind of reminder to look for the beauty in what is around is, because there is sooo much if people bother to look up from their phones for a few minutes. I also hoped it would be a way to watch my own personal photography improve and would be a way to add a bit of "us" to our new home when the time comes. Yay. The rest are to go in my lovely scrapbook that I plan on giving to Martin for our anniversary so we can continue to look back on the happy and exciting things we've done. :-)

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For the most part the pictures are good quality with a few anomolies, but unfortunately these were pretty bad, indeed. Some were more grainy than others but I couldn't put my finger on why some weren't as clear as others; it wasn't a clear case of phone vs camera photos.
Also, I don't know if I missed a trick and did something wrong but a lot of my pictures were cropped in such a weird way and I lost a few pictures that way, one or two ones were ones I especially wanted to display (the bike picture below, for example), but now I can't. I wish so much that I had picked a photo or two to go on some mugs, especially the travel mug which I think is faaaaab, for Martin and I as they looked amazing and are a ver reasonable price for a personalisation service, they can be so expensive!

Do you like to print your photos or keep them on the computer?

Do you have any suggestions for how I could display mine? 

Teri-May 

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