Hi
Helping my mom do some heavy stuff around her house a few months ago I realized that she had been hiding thousands and thousands of pictures in boxes in one of the closets. Now I bought my mom a scapbook kit over 5 years ago, its still in the box and hidden with the pictures. There were a few pictures in books, but they were those nasty magnetic things and were discoloring quickly. So, I set my self a goal to start organizing them and making books for her. I'm starting with her wedding pictures. Mostly 5 x 7s with a few formal shots in 8 x 10. All black and white. I found them in rubber bands in the bottum box. Oh the pain, as both a scrapper and curator.
There are no copies of some of the 8x10s and I know they are not cheep to copy but the first place I talked to wanted the originals just to give me a quote. They don't need restoration work so I can't figure out why. Except maybe they thought once I gave them to them for an estimate I would just let them do the work. The next place I called wanted $50 each! I know I can be cheep, but we never paid this kind of mony when I was working at the museum. But it has been a while since I did some thing like this. What do you think, is $50 the going rate?
Also, any ideas about talking my mother out of wanting the book in her weeding colors. I'm ok with the forest green, but the apple green may have looked nice on the flower girl but next to the black and white pictures, well, yuck! I was thinking af trying to talk her into maybe just a few pages.
Any idea where I can find a album with a forest green color?
Thanks for the help And I thought I was doing good with only 9 rolls of undeveloped film, I may never finish this project!
Pat In the cornfields and soybean fields of Illinois
2004 31 Pages Goal To keep my sanity