Have you ever wondered what a personal photo organizer does with her own family photos? Surely they are already perfectly organized, shared with the family and safely stored for generations to come.

As APPO founder Cathi Nelson likes to say “The cobbler’s children have no shoes.” Often the personal photo organizer is so busy organizing and preserving her client’s family treasures that her own photos go neglected. When she does have time to work on her own family photo collection, that’s when the magic happens.

We want to share with you some true stories of what a personal photo organizer does with her own family pictures with the time or the need arises. We hope you are inspired to start your own photo organizing project as well. Or call a Photo Organizer. We’d be happy to stop our project to work on yours.

A Family Photo Project: How I Tackled Sorting & Digitizing Our Family Photos | ThePhotoOrganizers.com

A Family Photo Project: How I Tackled the Sorting and Digitizing of Our Family Photos

Chantal Imbach, Simply In Order

Photo Organizer Chantal Imbach of Simply In Order shares how she helped her mother sort, digitize and archive almost 4,000 of her family photos. In this blog post she shares the planning, preparation work, decluttering and scanning process, editing and adding metadata, and the final results of the very personal photo organizing project.

 

Creating The Wedding Album 2.0 | ThePhotoOrganizers.com

Creating the Wedding Album 2.0

Karrie Converse-Jones, TurningLeaf Curation Services

Karrie Converse-Jones of TurningLeaf Curation Services shares her experience of creating a new and improved wedding album for her and her husband…a wedding album 2.0 if you will. What a wonderful 20th wedding anniversary gift for herself and her husband.

 

Capturing the Moment: How A Photo Organizer Enjoys Photos In Her Own Life | ThePhotoOrganizers.com

Capturing the Moment: How A Photo Organizer Enjoys Photos In Her Own Life

Kathy Rogers, Baltimore Photo Solutions

Taking casual, everyday photos and creating a simple photo book is one of Baltimore Photo Solutions’ Kathy Roger’s favorite ways to capture the moments of life.

Celebrating a Life In Photos: Creating a Video Scrapbook | ThePhotoOrganizers.com

Celebrating a Life In Photos: Creating a Video Scrapbook

Lisa Tonjes Moritz, HOPE Organizing

When her husband’s father passed away, Lisa Tonjes Moritz of HOPE Organizing worked with her family to organize and scan over 10,600 photos. Then she created a video scrapbook to honor him at his funeral. A year later she repeated the process for her own beloved grandmother.

 

Sharing Family Photos: Is A Private Family Website Your Answer? | ThePhotoOrganizers.com

Sharing Photos: Is a Private Family Website Your Answer?

Sherra Humphreys, S & R Studio

If you are looking for a secure way of sharing photos with your entire family, Photo Organizer Sherra Humphreys of S & R Studio wants you to consider setting up a private family website.

 

Mom's Boxes from OrganizedforLife.com

Mom’s Boxes

 

 

Hazel Thornton, Organized for Life

What do you do when 16 years after your mother has passed, you start sorting and making sense of 33 boxes of scrapbooks? Luckily when you are a Professional Organizer and Photo Organizer like Hazel Thornton of Organized for Life is, you come up with a plan and you work the plan to tackle Mom’s Boxes, as she calls them.

 

What is your favorite photo project that you’ve done? Tell us in the comments. 

 

Read about more personal photo projects

What Does a Personal Photo Organizer Do With Her Own Family Photos? Part 2

What Does a Personal Photo Organizer Do With Her Own Family Photos? Part 3


If you need help organizing and preserving your lifetime of photos, videos, and keepsakes, find a photo organizer near you at the Association of Personal Photo Organizers.
Don’t forget to grab your copy of Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed from APPO founder Cathi Nelson.

What Does A Personal Photo Organizer Do With Her Own Photos? Part 1 | ThePhotoOrganizers.com