the other tiger
Moo Card Garland
When our son was born, I went from spending my days taking photos of food for my blog to taking photos of my baby for...well, that was the question! We don't have much free wall space to hang framed photos, and you can only make so many photo books. After ordering a couple custom photo ornaments for gifts last Christmas, I decided I wanted to free ourselves from all the Christmas decorations we'd accumulated just to have something to decorate with and start creating my own ornaments from our photos.
The custom ornaments aren't cheap, so to fill out the tree I ordered a pack of Moo.com's half-size business cards, which let you put a different photo on the back of each one. I picked out 100 of my favorite pictures, or roughly two photos for every week the year. For the fronts of the cards (which became the backs for my purposes), I choose a red background and had a verse from a Christmas carol and the year printed in a suitably Christmasy font. We made a trip to the craft store and brought back two spools of 1/8 inch satin ribbon and a 1/8 inch hole punch. To make the garland, I simply punched a hole in each of the top corners of each photo and threaded the ribbon through. It took a lot less time than I was expecting, and with just a few hours of work I had decorations for our tree that truly reflect all we have to celebrate in our life now.
I'm planning to continue making these every year. Once our son is old enough to help, I want to turn it into a family tradition, sharing memories as we make the new garland and hang the ones from previous years. I like the one I made so well, though, that I may restring it on less holiday-colored ribbon and leave it up all year long.
(Check out my original review of Moo Cards in the second half of this post on my food blog, Pie of the Tiger.)
Moo Card Garland
When our son was born, I went from spending my days taking photos of food for my blog to taking photos of my baby for...well, that was the question! We don't have much free wall space to hang framed photos, and you can only make so many photo books. After ordering a couple custom photo ornaments for gifts last Christmas, I decided I wanted to free ourselves from all the Christmas decorations we'd accumulated just to have something to decorate with and start creating my own ornaments from our photos.
The custom ornaments aren't cheap, so to fill out the tree I ordered a pack of Moo.com's half-size business cards, which let you put a different photo on the back of each one. I picked out 100 of my favorite pictures, or roughly two photos for every week the year. For the fronts of the cards (which became the backs for my purposes), I choose a red background and had a verse from a Christmas carol and the year printed in a suitably Christmasy font. We made a trip to the craft store and brought back two spools of 1/8 inch satin ribbon and a 1/8 inch hole punch. To make the garland, I simply punched a hole in each of the top corners of each photo and threaded the ribbon through. It took a lot less time than I was expecting, and with just a few hours of work I had decorations for our tree that truly reflect all we have to celebrate in our life now.
I'm planning to continue making these every year. Once our son is old enough to help, I want to turn it into a family tradition, sharing memories as we make the new garland and hang the ones from previous years. I like the one I made so well, though, that I may restring it on less holiday-colored ribbon and leave it up all year long.
(Check out my original review of Moo Cards in the second half of this post on my food blog, Pie of the Tiger.)