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January 19, 2018August 28, 2025Celebrations, Family Legacy, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

How to Create a Meaningful Memorial Tribute Video

Memorial tribute videos are a beautiful and meaningful way to say goodbye to a friend or family member. Tribute videos can help you illustrate how a person lived and honor that person’s memory. They’ll also be a great opportunity for people to get to know a different side of a loved one, through the story of the photos you share. Most importantly, working on a memorial video can be a healing part of the grieving process. Grieving families might get overwhelmed by this process, though. If you’re not sure what tool to use, how to choose the right photos, how […]

September 22, 2017August 28, 2025Celebrations, Digital Photo Organizing, Family Legacy, Memories and Tributes, Print Photo OrganizingBy Julie Kessler

7 Ways Photo Organizers Can Help Seniors

I love working with seniors in my professional photo organizing business. I enjoy helping seniors preserve the family legacies that are captured in their photos, while being mindful of managing a photo collection that they would like to pass onto their children and grandchildren. I define “seniors” as anyone in their 50s and older with grown children and grandchildren. Seniors are especially important to me – maybe because I’m technically a senior citizen, too! I enjoy the chance to help my own tribe of people who share my passion for families and their stories. In this post, I’ll be talking […]

July 24, 2017November 14, 2025Celebrations, Family Legacy, Memories and Tributes, Photo Albums, VacationsBy Julie Kessler

How to Document Your Family Reunion This Summer

Family reunions are one of the few times you can get your family members all in one place at one time – and that means it’s the perfect time to do some storytelling, and document those stories! Since we talked about family reunion planning in our last post, I wanted to give you some tips on documenting your family reunions this summer, and that means taking photos, recording stories via audio, and creating videos. All three can be quick and easy to do, and you’ll be so glad you took the time to document your family stories. You never know […]

May 25, 2017August 29, 2026Archive and Backup, Digitize and Preserve, Memories and Tributes, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

How Does a Photo Organizer Create an Album (and How Long Does That Process Take)?

During the photo organization process, many of our clients ask us to create special albums of their precious memories. I love creating custom albums for my clients, and it’s one of my favorite parts of being a professional photo organizer. When you create a photo albums, you get the opportunity to share photos in an accessible way, and showcase the stories those photos tell. Albums can be a personal way to honor a life or a milestone, reminisce about a memory, share mementoes (such as recipes or artwork) or favorite interests (like fishing, painting, photography, or nature). It’s fun to […]

January 3, 2017August 25, 2026Celebrations, Family Legacy, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

8 Ideas for Displaying Your Photos (or Giving Photo Gifts!)

I love displaying my favorite photos where I can see them often – and my clients do, too! The images I display include family portraits, snapshots of my children when they were young, and various vacation memories. The décor in my house is mostly items we purchased while we were on vacation, or handmade items given to us by friends or relatives. There’s very little on our walls, shelves or tables that doesn’t remind us of a person or place that’s important to us. In the past, decorators have told me that it’s not necessary to use my photos for […]

December 13, 2016August 25, 2026Celebrations, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

5 Creative Ideas for Displaying Your Child’s Artwork (Without Getting Buried in Paper)

My kids are all grown up, and they’re out of the house now, but I can still remember the mountains of paintings and doodles that came home from school, Sunday school, and summer camp – plus the vast quantities of last-minute drawings my kids produced while they were waiting for dinner to be prepared. As parents, we want to encourage creativity, and there’s something lovely about the innocence of a child’s drawing or painting – so we often feel moved to display our kid’s artwork on our refrigerators or bulletin boards. Then as the quantity of artwork grows, we might get […]

November 28, 2016August 28, 2025Celebrations, Digitize and Preserve, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

How to Create a Family Recipe Book

My husband Tom and I got married 33 years ago, and to this day, I treasure one of the gifts we received at our wedding. This gift was a recipe book – compiled by my sister, in her beautiful handwriting – that includes recipes of favorite dishes from both sides of our family. This book contains everything from appetizers to holiday meals, and it’s become one of my go-to reference books during our 3+ decades of marriage. My sister called it “The Keepsake Recipe Collection,” and it is one of my most special (and most treasured) possessions. Back in 1983, […]