Memories….like the corners of my mind, misty water coloured memories of the way we were….. and just like the song lyrics my memories were scattered pictures.
Well scattered and piled and thrown into groups together in the throw all space under our staircase. You see I am a hoarder. I am constantly fighting my addiction to keeping things. All kinds of things but mainly memories. Problem is I can find a memory associated with anything. That 5 year old baby wrap? My baby boy was wrapped in it on the way home from the hospital. That cute dress? Little Miss A wore it for her first easter. Some things are just worth keeping. One of the most precious ways we keep these memories is with photos. I say precious, because they really are, but that’s not how I was treating them. Here they are the poor mistreated memories…
Lets just call it the leaning tower of photos. They were not labbeled, not in covers, literally years of memories just piled up without a care in the world. But I do care! I want those memories forever! This was one of those projects that I knew would take more time than any other project. But without the time put in now these memories could be lost for eternity.
Step 1. Gather up ALL the discs. One by one view what is on them. This was going to be distracting. I fought it. Armed with my labelmaker and some clear disc cases. I labelled each disc and each case, with Date and Event. It is important to label both so they always find their way home! Needless to say…this took forever!
Step 2. I now have a labelled and semi organised pile of discs!!!! I just need somewhere to store them! I found this divine “CD” Storage box at Kikki K and it was 20% OFF!
- Kikki K CD Storage Box – Cloth
Step 3. You could just place the labelled CD’s into the box put I wanted to take it to the next level of organising. I bought this perfectly perfect paper pad and chose some of the matching pieces to become dividers for the CD box.
Loving this colour pallette! I used one of the CD cases as a template and allowed a 1cm overhang for a label.
Step 4. I laid all the card out so I could label each piece strategically, left, middle, right so each date will be able to be clearly seen from the front of the box. You could print out the dates and use a more creative font but I have a slight obsession with my labelmaker and I wouldn’t want her to feel unloved 
Step 5. Now I simply placed the discs into their correct order by date, matched with their corresponding date card and……drum roll please…..
and you know I had to make a matching label for the front!
There you have it, our memories, from the corners of our home into a place where they can be treasured and found for eternity….
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That’s great! My issue is I still need to back my photos up onto disks. But then I still need to store them aswell so will keep this in mind.
That was part of Step 1 and I am afraid very time consuming! But it was sooo worth doing! Now I can sleep knowing that all the photos are safe and sound.
2007 was a big year for you
hehe Gorgeous, this I need!
It was the year Master O was born!!! Poor second born child got only half as many!
I really need to do this. It looks so organised and beautiful. Mine are scattered all over the place, some not even in cases – it’s no way to treat precious memories. Thanks for the inspiration
so glad you like it Katie! Now get to work
Oh lovely! This is a great idea and it looks gorgeous!
Also, I just pinned this. Hope that’s ok!
Love that you pinned it! Thanks Becky for spreading the love!!!
That is impressive and highly organised. Rachel x
That’s too nice Rachel!!! It was a job that just had to get done!!!
I love it! I have my pics on discs, but I do need to store them better than I am at the moment. Might be time to do this.
Great use of those 6×6 pads Larissa…and as if I needed to be enabled any more to go to Kikki.K! All of my photos are still on the pc. I must do something about that before it dies. Thanks for the prompt.
Clever idea. I have to start putting mine on discs because they’re all on my HD right now. Can’t imagine how I’d feel if I lost everything on my HD!!
Love it! I desperately need to organize photos. It’s just one of those jobs I’ve been putting off….
Awesome Idea. You have no idea how many of those disc holders I would need. I could almost start a photo storage box wall. LOL
This is something that I really need to do before I lose every memory we have. Thanks for the inspiration. xox
That looks so pretty! I love it.
I’m so bad and haven’t copied any of the photos we have on our computers to discs. We have got the photos on a hard drive though but we really should put them on discs.
If only I had the patience…
I LOVE this idea. I have a drawer full of messy discs which I’ll sort out now. Simple yet effective idea.