Nanny to Mommy

Family photos are the best way to capture memories and preserve them for future generations. But, as anyone who has ever looked at a family photo knows, they're not always perfect. From the awkward poses to the bad lighting, there are a lot of ways that family photos can go wrong. But once you've taken the photos, you can't just throw them away - you have to figure out how to make them look their best.

Here are a few simple tips that you can follow to edit your family photos perfectly.

In today's tech-obsessed society, social media platforms may be the ideal venue for virtual travelers around the world to see the world's beauty, but to travel is about so much more than grabbing that perfectly balanced Instagram photo. Traveling should be interesting and worthwhile. It should enthrall and continue to inspire you, refresh the pages of your life for rejuvenation and high ground you, also continue to educate and challenge you, and most importantly, humble you. Travel provides us with our most memorable, fascinating, remarkable, unique stories, most treasured memories, and innumerable irreplaceable lessons that we might choose to pass on to someone else. It teaches people like us about ourselves and each other; it broadens our perspectives and forces us to refocus on what is important, much like a reset button. Traveling is an experience in life that you will never be able to duplicate in your tiny hometown. It gives us a different, wider perspective on how others live, greet each other, eat, converse, and quarrel, whether joyful or sad. We often form opinions based on things we've never personally experienced. We open the door to these kinds of experiences by traveling long distances; some are perilous, such as white-water rafting or trekking Everest, but for others, one thing is important: you experience something new.

Although I am an affiliate for Shutterfly, I have been using them to make beautiful creations for years. I have been using Shutterfly to create lasting memories that I absolutely love. I love that you can stack coupons and they always offer great freebies. Like, ew customers can get a Free 8x8 Photo Book just for signing up and right now you can get free prints if you order through their app. How amazing is that?

I get all my prints from them. And I make a wall calendar for my father-in-law almost every year so he can have beautiful, quality pictures of his grandkids in his office as well as a very useful item that even has everyone's birthday already on it. I have created so many other beautiful photo gifts as well.

I have been working hard on getting better about printing pictures this year. I'm scared that technology will change and I won't be able to see my beautiful memories that I love so much. My favorite gift to give my family members is photo gifts of the kids. That way they can have the pictures they have been asking for, but in a fun new way.


Turn your photos to canvas with CanvasChamp. Their photos on canvas are great for decorating your home or office and perfect as photo gifts! They have a fairly easy to use canvas prints designer. I do wish that it would tell you whether you had a high enough resolution picture to fit the canvas frame that you would like.

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll probably remember that disposable cameras provided the majority of family photos. You’ll have noticed now, though, that times have changed, and gone are the hand labelled folders of fingerprint-smudged, developer-printed pictures. The dawn of the camera phone, with the decent quality photos you can take on them, combined with new found opportunities for storing and sharing our photos on social media, has entirely reworked our attitude toward taking pictures. Interestingly, Infotrends calculated that in 2016 we took 1.1 trillion photos, predicted to grow to 1.4 trillion by 2020 - almost exclusively on smartphones!

Naturally the ability to capture and share more of our experiences is affords us amazing opportunities, but there is a danger to forego quality photos for overstuffed Facebook folders that people may only flick through once. To get people to really engage with your photos in this new age of Facebook albums and Instagram likes, we have created a guide to list of easy to follow tips for taking great family photos in 2018.

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.

This post is sponsored by TreeRing Memories. All opinions are my own.

So the mommy guilt is real in our house. Like seriously. My daughter has a beautifully detailed and decorated baby book filled with her firsts down to the exact day included with a picture. Pictures? Yeah I use to print TONS when she was a baby. But my son? I take a ton, but they aren't printed out and his baby book is only half filled because I never wrote stuff down. But I have found a cool app that helps eliminate "mommy/daddy guilt" - we all get so busy and although we snap a ton of pictures of our kiddos, it's often hard to compile them into memory books for them to look back on. TreeRing Memories helps remedy this issue.

TreeRing Memories focuses on helping moms with three specific problems:

I love giving personalized creations for Mother's Day. We live in an age where we don't print pictures anymore, but it is something that is still so important to do. Since Mother's Day is coming up and my mother-in-law casually mentioned that she really liked photobooks and that she really doesn't have very many printed pictures of the grandchildren. So I decided to make her one with Mixbook.

When creating a photobook, the thing I loved the most was how many different options there were to create the perfect photobook. Each page can be customized in a way so you can always create a different book each time. Even if you choose one of their start templates and auto add your pictures, you can still customize it in any way you like.

I received complimentary products to provide his post. All opinions are my own.

I received complimentary products to provide this post. All opinions are my own.

 

"AdoramaPix helps people turn their digital photographs from abstract computer files into beautiful keepsakes designed to last a lifetime. Their contemporary metal prints capture memories in rich color and vibrant detail. Because your images are infused right into the metal, and not painted on the surface, their metal prints are extremely durable. Not only will your metal image be water and weather proof, but scratch resistant as well. You can even clean it with glass cleaner. Your memories deserve to live in true, archival luxury with AdoramaPix metal prints."

 

These products are featured in our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide.

I don't know about you, but I am terrible about printing off my pictures. But I LOVE photo gifts! Especially quality canvas prints. So I was very excited to receive the opportunity to review a canvas print from CanvasPop. CanvasPop is an online printing company with a huge passion for quality art, photography and home décor.


I love that you can print photos from Facebook, Instagram, or upload from your computer. You can also select an option for them to edit the crop to best fit your needs. They also will send you a picture of your print to make sure it looks great on canvas. They also supply the hardware needed to hang your canvas, which is simply amazing because I know as soon as I receive my canvas print I can hang it on my wall.

I received complimentary products to provide this review. All opinions are my own.

The PaintYourLife Studio was established with the clear objective of creating custom art. Their studio offers high quality handmade paintings, Prints on Canvas, and graphic design services. Most of their clients buy Artworks to decorate their homes and offices in their own unique style, while other customers use the products as gifts for their loved ones. I received a 11"x14" gallery-wrapped (1.5" deep) over a wooden frame to review and I think it would make a great Mother's Day gift.

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I used one of the pictures that were taken for Valentine's Day. It turned out so cute. I didn't know whether I would save it and send it to my husband's work as a surprise, but I ultimately decided to keep it for myself. Tee Hee The entire process was very easy and they contacted me to make sure I would be receiving exactly what I wanted.

The Results

What makes PaintYourLife studio stand out among the others is their commitment to customer care. They give the same personal attention to every customer and for every order. Each order is inspected by one of their artists and also by their customer service members. Their team is always listening to the customer’s needs beginning with pre-order questions to after order concerns. It is their goal to ensure that every customer goes away with a piece of art that they will enjoy for a lifetime. Throughout the process, their customers are kept up to date with the status of their order. They use the latest techniques and the best materials to ensure a top quality finished product. At heart we are artists so we care about quality and details.

What do you think of PaintYourLife? Do you like giving canvas' as gifts?

Although I received complimentary products to provide this review. All opinions are my own.