Sunday, July 19, 2015
How a Family Quote Photo Frame Can be a Teacher

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Barbara Tremblay Cipak is a writer, country music enthusiast, and home decor rebel who blames her decades in the real estate industry for her love of color! Since leaving neutral behind, she's built The Heart of Country Music where she writes about life's color in song and FunkthisHouse where former souls once trapped in neutral-decor-world roam free and funk'n love it! Barbara is also the author of the #Stumped Riddle Book Series. You can find her books, along with fun riddles for distraction, personal challenge, or parties at StumpedRiddles.com. Barbara’s riddles are meant to help you turn the world off with a smile!

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I agree that the 'old fashioned way' of honoring (and remembering) family is important, Barbara. Every home should have a group of family collages and these quote frames sound like a delightful way to do that. In my home, many of my walls are decorated with either family photos or family artwork from my daughter and son-in-law (both artists). In fact, I was just getting ready to hang a row of photos of the grandchildren down a hallway at my place. :)
ReplyDeleteI was just on the phone with my friend and we were talking about this very thing of putting up our own drawings and art - she had sketched a photo of her cat that is passed on now, and she's going to frame it and put it up on the wall - wonderful that you've implemented this - a project of mine is to get more of these collage frames and get them on my walls as well
DeleteAfter our house fire, our (grown) children reached out to family members who sent lots of old family photos to replace at least a fraction of what was lost. They put some in albums, others in frames and, of course, I've added more recent family photos since then including a huge collage frame. What a wonderful lesson here, so very important!
ReplyDeleteSusan, how awful about the house fire, that had to be beyond scary, and too lose photos and precious memories is really the worst part of it all - so glad your family replaced some of it for you, but given the wonderful family you have, doesn't surprise me. <3
DeleteAfter our house fire, our (grown) children reached out to family members who sent lots of old family photos to replace at least a fraction of what was lost. They put some in albums, others in frames and, of course, I've added more recent family photos since then including a huge collage frame. What a wonderful lesson here, so very important!
ReplyDeleteI keep all the family photos out in the "family room."
ReplyDeletelol, and that's right there why they call it a family room :)
DeleteWhat pretty frames Barbara! I agree with you, we should have family photos prominently displaced and I especially love the collages. I have a wall in our home dedicated to the family vacations. A collage for each vacation, except Disney World. I do believe it got 3 collages, but they all serve as a remember of fun family times together. I had a guest once that commented that you could watch our children grow up on that wall. I had never thought like that before, but it is very true.
ReplyDeleteOh, I also meant to say, I really love that quote, "the most important things in life aren't things". Absolutely right!
DeleteA collage for vacations! NOW that's a great idea! I was just saying I'll be doing one per person, but now you have me thinking about doing it for special events too
DeleteBeautiful frames....beautiful quotes! I have so many family photos in frames both old and new that I keep many in a drawer and rotate those I have sitting out every few months. It is always great to see the different photos when i change the walls.
ReplyDeleterotating them is a great idea - I'm deciding on a new project I'm going to be taking on; A collage frame per individual (we have so many kids!) that this should work for us - I've been thinking about this for a while now too
DeleteI have thousands of photos saved digitally. And each time I lose them, due to whatever technological glitch at the time, I swear I'm going to return to printing and framing photos. I think your idea of the family quote frames is a wonderful idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dawn, now I have to get to finishing up my family photo frame displays as well!
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