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Saturday, 8 September 2012

Memories are made of this

Back in July when I was in Amsterdam, we visited a photography museum/gallery called Foam [link].

The exhibition I found most interesting there was a massive collection of peoples' old photo albums. It lamented the digital photo galleries of today on Facebook and Instagram and Flickr, and wished for the nostalgic days of when we used to go to the chemist and get our camera film developed, then carefully arrange them into albums of memories.

You can still do this today, either with your old skool camera film, or by getting your digital photos printed (websites like Snapfish and Jessops have special offers where you can get free prints sometimes).

Looking back through photo albums always puts a smile on my face. It's easy to make an album and invokes memories of times past, making you think how much you've developed, how things have changed and how things have stayed the same.


It's a great activity for a lazy weekend afternoon when there's not much on the telly and the weather is a bit naff.

It's treasured memories of years spent together.

It's remembering funny times spent with good friends.

It's that 21st birthday where everyone got all dolled up and then it rained on the way to the club. 
It's the canal holiday with the strange little icing figures on the giant, delicious carrot cake.


It's an adventure through the woods and it's a fabulous work Christmas do.




Sunday, 21 August 2011

IrisMacro and I are trying to compile a list of happy things. It started off as a quest to find 100 things that make us happy and is affiliated with Iris' awesome blog, UNdane: Iris Jones vs. The Great Mundane.

But we're not happy with that. We won't stop 'til we're at 100 BILLION happy things! :o)

We started the #100happy tag on Twitter to try and spread the joy and also created a Flickr group to share the photographs that make us smile.

#100happy can be anything that makes you feel happy: as big as the thought that one day there might be world piece, or as silly as the realisation that there's a plate of cold sausages in your fridge when you get home from work.

Here's a few of our faves:



 Christina 

 Christina 



 Emmy Lou 

 Little Seattle 
 Emmy Lou 
 Amelia F 
"Dad officially in remission!! YESS!! Take that Cancer, your ass has officially been KICKED! #100happy"

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What makes YOU happy?