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December 7, 2018August 28, 2025Celebrations, Digitize and Preserve, Family Legacy, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

3 Ideas to Help You Organize and Preserve Your Favorite Holiday Recipes

“Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.” Julia Child That may have been true for Julia Child, but when it comes to our once-a-year, holiday family favorites, I need the recipe! And it’s not just about how to make the food, but also remembering the people and the stories behind each dish. If you’re like me, you like to have all of your holiday recipes organized in one place, so it’s easy to find them. By organizing and safekeeping our recipes, we can make sure future […]

November 26, 2018August 28, 2025Celebrations, Digitize and Preserve, Memories and Tributes, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

Julie’s Favorite Photo Projects (a Special Guest Post on the APPO Website)

Picture This Organized was recently featured on ThePhotoOrganizers.com, the Association of Personal Photo Organizer’s (APPO) site. One of the most rewarding aspects of my job is helping my clients pull their photos out of bins and boxes to put them on display. Groups of photos can tell a compelling story, whether they’re in simple photo displays or more complex albums. In this APPO guest post, I share my own favorite photo projects. Albums, slideshow videos, and creative displays around my home each tell a story in its own unique way. Click here to read the full post.

August 24, 2018August 28, 2025Digital Photo Organizing, Family Legacy, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

Three Tips for Organizing Albums in Apple Photos

Are you overwhelmed by the large quantity of photos in your Apple Photos Library? Do you get annoyed when you have to scroll through ALL of your photos to find the ones you’re looking for? There is a solution! Albums to the rescue! An Album is simply a collection of images in Apple Photos. Apple Photos gives you the freedom to create your own albums and folders in the app. Organizing your photos in this way eliminates the time-consuming task of searching for images in the library. In this post, I’m going to show you to three ways to create […]

July 13, 2018August 28, 2025Digitize and Preserve, Family Legacy, Memories and Tributes, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

How to Tell Your Family History in a Keepsake Photo Album

“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.” –Chinese Proverb Do you have boxes of old family pictures and memorabilia stashed away in closets? If so, you might be looking for a way to use them to tell your family story. Documenting your family history will preserve it for future generations, allowing them to remember and connect to their heritage. The good news is you don’t have to be a genealogy expert to create a lasting keepsake of your family’s history. A wonderful way to hold onto and share the memories is […]

May 11, 2018August 28, 2025Digital Photo Organizing, Family Legacy, Photo Albums, Print Photo OrganizingBy Julie Kessler

From Overwhelmed to Empowered: How One Couple Mastered Two Large Photo Collections

What does a man do with 10 plastic bins full of family photographs, history and memorabilia? Jim Grange wasn’t sure, but he knew he needed help. When Jim and his wife Pam moved his dad and mom into an independent living community, they brought home all of his parents’ photos and memorabilia. Jim wanted to organize the photos and create keepsake gifts for his parents and siblings, but didn’t know where to start. Our team helped Jim and Pam with the step-by-step process of organizing their parents’ photos and videos, as well as their own family photo collection. This is […]

January 5, 2018August 26, 2026Photo Albums, VacationsBy Julie Kessler

The 4-Step Process for Creating a Beautiful Travel Album

St. Augustine once said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” Travel makes our lives better. When we see and experience other cultures and get to know people in other places, it deepens our worldview, teaches us flexibility, shows us the beauty of other cultures, and lets us rest and recharge. Sharing our travel experiences through a photo album helps keep our memories vivid, provides a record of the people and places we’ve seen, documents the experiences we’ve had, and provides a legacy of stories to pass on to our family members. […]

September 28, 2017August 28, 2025Archive and Backup, Family Legacy, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

What Millennials Absolutely Must Know About Their Photos

In my last post, I talked about how my photo organizing company helps seniors organize, maintain, and pass down their photo collections. Millennials have unique gifts that makes working with them different than assisting seniors, but both groups are wonderful in their own ways! My children, and my client’s children, are from the “millennial” generation, which typically means they were born between 1980 and 2000. In this post, we’re going to talk about how working with the younger crowd is different, why I love working with them, and discuss the most important lessons and advice I want to share with […]