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Repurpose Moonpig Cards

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poppysmum Sun 28-Apr-24 14:21:29

I have seen some lovely alternatives for displaying photos such as a long hanging item with pockets for the photos do you remember those hanging plastic pockets a few years ago you hung for socks etc its like that
another I like is a wire with small clips on for hanging the photos plus it has little fairy lights on

Heathermomo Sun 28-Apr-24 13:23:53

Thanks for all the album ideas. I have slipped them into an album for the time being. My daughter has set up a shared app to share photos between the family. That app has thousands of pictures in it! The app offers 8 prints a month, and I've started an album showing a handful of the pictures each month. It's nice to flick through and see how she's growing up.

RunaroundSue Sat 27-Apr-24 10:27:05

I have put every single photo from when I was born of myself, sister, mum and dad and aunts and uncles and cousins into photograph albums. Then when I met my husband to be, I put all those photos in too plus baby photos of our children and when they were growing up.

Now when they send me photos to my phone, I download them and print them off and add them to the albums. I have many large albums and from the day I was born those photos tell the story of my life with my sister and parents all the way to 2024 and our grandchildren get them out asking who is this and who is that and it is fantastic to tell them that this is your great grandparents, grandparents, uncles, Aunts, cousins etc. etc. because they never met them as they had died before we were married. It is wonderful to see just who our grandchildren look like and they say, look, he/she looks like me.

I have saved every photo from Moonpig and other companies like them with photos of our family and they are all in albums and dated.

It is surprising how many times our sons ask me to send them a picture of the photos of them taken in the past. Every pet and car we have ever had is in the album. Our grandchildrens photos from being babies are in there and I honestly wish I had saved all the clothes I used to wear from the 1960's.

NotSpaghetti Sat 27-Apr-24 10:13:37

This kind of thing -
www.amazon.co.uk/Artwork-Pictures-Changeable-Childrens-Projects/dp/B0CB44L5H9/ref=asc_df_B0CB44L5H9/?hvlocphy=9046424&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&hvnetw=g&mcid=5d11debac48b317198b0f29e7b785442&hvadid=665496970949&hvpone&hvlocint&hvpos&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=gransnetforum-21&hvtargid=pla-2199402998861&hvrand=17270506288389616628

NotSpaghetti Sat 27-Apr-24 10:10:57

You could buy one of those frames that hold 50/100 sheets and rotate them?

V3ra Sat 27-Apr-24 09:16:41

You could buy a ring binder and some punch pockets, and store the cards in that. It would be easy to look through and show to your granddaughter.
Maybe have the latest one on display in a frame, then add it to the folder when the next one arrives?
As Bea gets older you could put her drawings in it as well if you want to keep them.

Calipso Sat 27-Apr-24 09:07:23

Why not take a photo of each one and save it in a digital form?

Heathermomo Sat 27-Apr-24 09:05:47

Hi all. I'm a new granny and my daughter has sent me some lovely cards with photos of my granddaughter. I can't bear to throw them out, but after framing the first one, what can I do with the others I've received? Does anyone have any ideas? I've already got a gallery of school photies going upstairs. My daughter calls it the chamber of horrors but I've spotted them looking at them and pointing out the pictures to their partners ๐Ÿ˜Š
Maybe I should start a Moonpig gallery of Bea?
Does anyone have any ideas?