Recently, I had a great conversation with a colleague who works out on the West Coast about preserving family photo collections. JC Figueroa is the Customer Champion for Mylio, one of my favorite photo organizing programs, and he shares my passion for helping people save their family memories. While showing me the latest features for…
Author: Mollie Bartelt
Four Steps to Giving Your Kids Their Childhood Photos
As you contemplate the boxes, bins and photo albums of family pictures, it may cross your mind that there might be an easy way to tackle the mess. If you’ve thought about simply splitting up the pictures and giving your kids their childhood photos, you are not alone. After all, just making a stack of…
Collectionaire – Bringing Your Family Photos & Genealogy Together
Many times when we work with a photo estate project, it involves going through large bins and boxes of items. We often find old family documents, memorabilia and family history notes. A newer online program, Collectionaire, may be a solution for you. You may recall some of our stories where we have been able to…
Top 10 Reasons to Save Your Photos Today
We’ve been at this photo preservation business for quite almost eight years now. I realized the other day that it was time to go back to the basics. Let’s talk about why you should save your photos today! Here’s my top 10 reasons to tackle those printed and digital photos! It’s not all inclusive, and…
Costco Photo Centers Are Closing; Is Walgreens Next? Does it Matter?
This week we learned that Costco Photo Centers are closing at over 800 locations across the country on February 14th. Customers will still be able to print photos and other items on Costco’s website. CNN reported this information and mentioned, that this marks an ending a number of Costco services that have a decidedly retro vibe….
Carrying the Spirit of the Summer Olympics
We wrote this story during the COVID-19 shutdown of just about everything. It caused the 2020 Summer Olympics to be postponed until 2021! What crazy times. We are keeping all those affected by illness and financial loss in our thoughts and prayers. Our client story helps remind us to keep our spirits up as she…
How Can I Enjoy My Photos at a Time Like This?
We are in unprecedented times with the COVID19 virus shutting much of life down. While, at Pixologie, we’ve been hearing stories of people taking this time to work on their photo collections, we’ve also heard some different thoughts. Consider this from one of our supporters, “My wife is working on other projects because she finds…
Check Your Backups – The Cost is Too Great to Skip
Do you check your backups? Our client story this month unfortunately has good news and bad news. And, our featured client is none other than Pixologie co-founder Mollie Bartelt. While embarrassing for a professional photo organizer to admit, Mollie’s backups of her family photos and videos both failed. When she realized her digital photo collection…
Photo Estate Preserves Ancestors’ Legacy
Want an example of how a photo estate can preserve your family ancestors’ legacy? Back in Christmas of 1985, our client Eric gave his family two photo albums filled with many family memories. He wrote a note, “These photos made me more aware of how fortunate we are to have each other.” His parents and…
What is a Photo Estate?
When you are gone, what will be remembered of your life? How will your stories be told? What legacy do you want to leave behind? Creating a photo estate may help you answer all of these questions. Most commonly, people consider the word “estate” to relate to the net worth of a person including all…