What do you do with all your digital photos? Part 2 of 2

Last week I posted the first part - What do you do with all your digital photos?

Essentially I'm still not convinced digital is the way to go.  I feel that hard copies are nice.  You can look at them and display them.  Shutterfly is my website of choice.  They have pretty decent prices and always have sales.

But then the problem is, once you make all these photobooks, what do you do with them?

I saw this pin on pinterest. - I thought it was great.  She used plate hangers. And I thought that was a great idea.  You can display them and everyone gets to see them.  They can get taken off thew all extremely easily.  It was perfect.

 So this is my interpretation of displaying photobooks.  Right now I only have 2 to display,  I guess I've been busy getting married and remodeling the basement. Haha.  But that didn't stop me from wanting to hang the 2 photo books I have.

The problem came when I tried to decide how many plate hangers do I buy?  Do I buy 2? Do I buy 4? 6?  I really liked this hanger from Amazon priced at $6.55 each. But how often to things change slightly, or go out of stock.  And how would I know how many I would eventually need?  Or the bigger problem, where to store them.  So, I came up with the idea to buy 2 now, and then every time I make 2 more photo books buy 2 more slightly different hangers.  I think it'll look good, a little eclectic, and unique.  And then you don't have the matchy matchy problem.

Now to make more photobooks. :)

What do you do with all your digital photos? - Part 1 of 2

Honestly, I would love to know what you do with all your digital photos.

Do you upload them (all?) to Facebook?  

Do you print them out at Walgreen's?  

Do you upload them to a photo sharing site?

Nothing?

I guess I do a combination of everything.  (including nothing).  I upload some of them to Facebook.  I make some of them into photobooks. (Left and Below) 

Shutterfly is my favorite for making photo books.  I also like it because you can easily post them to a shutterfly website. 

  And others... just sit on my hard drive.  

The last one is the scariest, because I'm always terrified of my laptop crashing.  I used to have an external hard drive to backup my laptop (I've always been a fan of laptops).  Then one day my laptop crashed and before I could go buy a new laptop, my external hard drive crashed.  All that work of backing up stuff... wasted.  And who has the money to spend sending it to geek squad or whomever to get it fixed.  As sad as it is, a hard copy may still be the best way to keep things safe.  

C and I have talked about getting a real website, mostly for storing photos and stuff.  Or buying storage to store photos.  But there is always the pesky problem if costs.  

So, what do you do with your photos?

DIY Raised Garden Bed

It has been my dream to have my own garden.  And literally a weekend or so after we closed on the house, back in 2012, I built this raised garden bed.  

I used the instructions here - http://www.sunset.com/garden/backyard-projects/ultimate-raised-bed-how-to-00400000011938/

After reading the comments in the above link I read that the wood would sometimes bow outward due to the weight of the soil.  So I added the separator in the middle and so far it works great.  It has been 2 years and there haven't been any problems.  

Building the raised garden bed was a piece of cake.  One of the challenging (and expensive) things was filling the bed with dirt.  I can't remember the specifics, but I think I bought $100 worth of top soil.  I didn't even buy the fancy plant stuff, just regular black dirt and it barely filled the bed 1/2 way.  Each year I just figured I would buy a few more bags of dirt, or through in some peat moss or compost or something.  Last year I bought 2 bags of dirt and 1 bag of peat moss, and I'm sure I'll do the same thing this year.  

The bird netting is kind of a pain in the behind when it comes to mowing the lawn.  I need to figure out a better solution for it.  The netting always gets caught in the mower blades, or I don't pay close enough attention and the plants grow through the netting.  This year I think I may just keep the netting on the garden while the plants are seeds or when they are first planted, and then chance the birds.  We'll see.

I can tell you I've definitely got my money's worth of vegetables from the garden. :) Just ask my mother and friends.  I constantly drop off extras with them so they don't go bad. 

I'm so tired of winter that I'm already starting to plan springs garden.