I absolutely love taking photos and when I dump my camera, I love to sort through them and edit them. I send a handful to the people in the photos, I upload some to Facebook (duh), and I put the rest on our private family photo site. But there are so so so soooo many photos I adore that I want to share with other people, outside of an email, you know? I’m working on putting together printed photobooks of every year we’ve been a family (12 years now), they can run about $100+ if they have a heap of pages, so some years will be far more expensive than others to make a book out of, but I’m really excited about it. In the meantime, since I’m not a scrapbooker, I do what I can to turn photos into gifts that wont just sit on a shelf and collect dust. These little photos gifts will defo not be left laying around. They’ll be used and seen everyday and the friends and family that use an image of me hugging them to hold up bills on their fridge will hopefully think of us when they reach for juice in the morning. <3

You’ll need…
-smallish polaroid-framed photos
-magnet sheets
-cardstock/something the same weight (I used the cover of a Care Bears coloring book)
-glue stick
-clear tape

Gather all your supplies, mount each photo to a piece of cardstock, and then mount that on a piece of magnetic sheet cut to the same size. Then smooth a piece of wide, clear packing tape over the front of the photo to protect it. Trim up all the edges and you’re done! Crazy simple. Honestly, the bulk of the work with these is editing the photos to have a polaroid frame around them and then cutting the magnet sheets. Either (or both) of those jobs can be done ahead of time so when it’s time to sit down and make these, you’re finished in no time. They’re fun to display on your fridge and have your friends randomly notice themselves holding up notes, and everyone we have given a set to has looooved them! So sweet!
Man, we have a lot of good looking friends and family, don’t you think?!