Your Family Preserves

I don't know about you, BUT, our kids, over the years have collected TONS of  T-shirts, programs, or playbills from sporting events, dance concerts, drama productions, youth conferences, marching band shows, jazz festivals, forensic competitions, rock concerts, etc. etc. that were eventually grown out of or just not worn anymore, or put in a history book/box at one point or other. But if you think about it, all of these material memorabilia items show a veritable history of your or your child's life through the years of activities that they've been involved in. If you haven't already thrown them out or given them away, you may want to consider PRESERVING them as follows: What we did was create a quilt using the T-shirts and other images put onto T-shirts - 1) Collect all memory laden T-shirts/clothing, performance programs etc. 2) Have all items/images not already on material (a T-shirt) taken to a printing shop to have printed onto the smallest  T-shirt that the...

Greetings - I have a preserve for you today, that my family has had more fun with probably than any other preserve in our lives. It all came about because of all the many pictures we'd taken of our children through their childhoods. There they sat, behind closed pages of a binder, looked at only now and then, pretty sad. There were so many favorite pictures in those binders, that it was a shame that we couldn't enjoy them more often....sooooo I decided to go through all the books, take out all the favorite pictures of each child through their growing up years and organize them into a collage and frame them. I dated the backs of each photo for the future return to where they belonged if I ever decided to update the preserve as time went on. I purchased mat board in a color that would go with our decor, and also ordered frames and plexi-glass from americanframe.com (the best & least expensive framing supply store I've come across).  I cut each whole sheet of mat boa...

New posting - after "all these years"... Today it's all about preserving your son and/or sons' scouting history...OR your daughter's girl scouting history too. Now you may wonder if it is all that important - well, I guess it all depends on how far into scouting the little tyke(s) go.  Say they go far...all the way to the top (which isn't unusual in the LDS Church), you may want to consider preserving in some way, all those hours you...I mean he has put into the program...JK, after all, they are the ones who went on those winter, snow-cave-where-they-almost-froze-to-death campouts... I can only offer what I did with my three boy's scouting stuff, oh, and also my husband's stuff as well, since he was an Eagle Scout. You will notice that there are no Boy Scout shirts framed as I did the Cub Scout shirts. That is because those are still likely to be current and needed in the boy's adult lives as they have opportunity to volunteer and/or work in th...