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July 16, 2026August 26, 2026Celebrations, Family Legacy, Storytelling, VacationsBy Julie Kessler

How to Preserve the Stories Behind Your Vacation Photos

The moment you return from vacation, something interesting happens. The suitcase gets unpacked, the laundry gets started and life picks up where it left off. Meanwhile, hundreds of vacation photos quietly find their way onto your phone. You promise yourself you’ll organize them later. Later next month, but next month becomes next year. Before long, you’re scrolling through hundreds of pictures trying to remember where that little café was, why everyone was laughing on the beach, or what made that ordinary afternoon one of the best moments of the trip. The photos are still there, but the stories are already […]

June 18, 2026June 18, 2026Celebrations, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

Top 10 Tips for Planning a Memorable Family Reunion

There’s something special about seeing family members gathered in one place. Whether it’s cousins reconnecting after years apart, grandparents meeting new grandchildren, or relatives sharing stories around a picnic table, family reunions create memories that last far beyond the weekend itself. But as anyone who has planned one knows, organizing a successful family reunion takes more than simply picking a date and sending a few text messages. From coordinating travel plans to choosing activities that appeal to multiple generations, thoughtful planning can make the difference between a stressful event and a memorable gathering that family members talk about for years. […]

April 4, 2025March 19, 2026Archive and Backup, Digital Photo Organizing, Digitize and Preserve, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

Why You Need a Professional Photo Organizer (And How We Make It Effortless!)

In today’s digital age, our lives are captured through thousands of photos spread across multiple devices, cloud storage accounts, and old albums collecting dust. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed trying to keep everything in order. If you’ve ever struggled to find a specific photo, duplicate images clutter your storage, or you fear losing precious memories due to outdated technology, you’re not alone.

January 8, 2025March 22, 2026Digital Photo Organizing, Photo Albums, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

Make Memories Last: 5 Things You Should Do With Your 2024 Photos

The start of a new year brings the perfect opportunity to reflect on the memories of the past and prepare for the year ahead. Your photos are more than just snapshots—they’re your legacy, your family’s story, and a celebration of life’s moments, big and small. By organizing and preserving your photos from the start of the year, you can ensure that they’re always ready to revisit, share, and cherish.

April 21, 2020August 15, 2025Family Legacy, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

A Time and Reason to Tell Your Story

Picture This Organized helps you share your life journey with family and friends. We sort through the past and preserve the most significant pieces for the future. Tell your stories through pictures and videos of travel, activities, and milestones that can be shared with generations to come. During the current crisis, we are still able to guide you while gathering photos, art, film, and managing your existing collections. Although we can’t do in-person consultations, we can support you through webinar appointments to show you what we do and how we do it. We’ll explain ways to prepare your items or […]

June 21, 2019August 28, 2025Celebrations, Photo Albums, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

Let Us Create Your Dream Wedding Album

Brides, grooms, and their families work hard for months to create a perfect wedding day. When the dancing is over, the guests are gone, and some of the memories have faded, the one thing that lasts for generations are the wedding photos. A few short weeks after the wedding, everyone who was part of the day is excited to view the photos! It’s no wonder that WeddingWire.com’s survey of 18,000 newlyweds in 2018 showed 90 percent of them hired a photographer for the big day. Whether you want to display your own wedding photos, or give a gift to newly […]

February 8, 2019March 4, 2026Family Legacy, Photo Albums, StorytellingBy Julie Kessler

How to Update Your Photo Legacy With an Expanded Hybrid Album

If you love viewing and sharing your pictures in photo albums, do any of these scenarios describe you? You have shelves full of bulky scrapbooks. You’d like to add to a forgotten photo album left unfinished. You made a scrapbook or photo album for a family member, but now you want to update it with current pictures and stories. If so, I’ve got the perfect answer for you! It’s called a hybrid album, and I guarantee it’s going to open up all kinds of creative possibilities for you. You create a hybrid album when you take an older photo album […]