Showing Off My Favorites...No Holes in the Wall Necessary!

Lara, the Lazy Organizer, is hosting Talk About Tuesday. This is a blog carnival were you can share just about anything! It is a great way to meet other bloggers. And Lara has a really great blog, so be sure to check it out!

This week, I am going to share my way of displaying my seasonal favorite photos. I love to take pictures of the kids, and I love to show them off. But I have two problems trying to accomplish this.

One, I am not a huge fan of small picture frames scattered about the house. I have a couple of them here and there and I am always seeing frames that I like. I just feel like my pictures never look that great in them. I almost never take posed pictures of my kids, I am more inclined to snap away while they are going about their business. Anyway, what I am trying to say is that my "action" shots never seem to look right in the smaller, table top style picture frames.

Second, I have a phobia of putting holes in the walls. I can't do it. Maybe this is because my husband, K is horrible at hanging things level, and I have a thing for LEVEL. If something is off even .000000001 of a cm, it will drive me nuts. And he does not believe in going back and patching the holes he makes while trying to get the object in question, level. Yes, he just leaves all of the mistake holes behind the pictures. It makes me a bit twitchy just thinking about it. I do have some large paintings and prints around my house, that the painter hung for me. They are level, with no random holes behind them. They make me happy. Anything that K has hung, gives me anxiety.

So given these two dilemmas I am faced with, it is a bit of a challenge to display my current favorite photos.

This is the solution I came up with.

It is my very own photo gallery that I did myself. It makes me happy.

It is a collection of my current favorite photos from whatever season we happen to be in.


Some of the photos are color shots, some I've changed to black and white. I don't worry about them all being the same. I also include more than just photos of my kids. This picture above of the Moku Lua's reminds me of happy times spent in Hawaii. The sandy feet are a reminder of our families love for the beach.

These pictures are all ones I have taken over the summer. I will take them down soon, because for the Holidays I decorate the mantel with garlands and lights, but after the Holiday stuff is put away I will run off some prints more reminiscent of wintertime, like sledding or a snowman, or maybe I will frame a photo of a grey winter sky. Whatever photos are my current favorites, will make it in the frames.

So this is what I do to display photos around here. It works out well for me because I don't need my husband to put any holes in the walls. I just lean the frames in an overlapping fashion and I have room for eight frames. No level needed!

I realize not everyone may have a mantel to display large frames like these, but I've used this idea on a counter top, a ledge style shelf and a dresser. Any size or number of frames would work. And the pictures don't need to match!

It doesn't get any easier, give it a try!