Heritage album questions

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
Reply to
UnderWillowsBed
Loading thread data ...

Reply to
Dizzy D

You can go to a number of places like Walgrees and Walmart and Kmart and scan and print them out for about $13.

If you don't want to pay the CM prices, pioneer also makes green albums as does Westrim.

Good luck with what sounes like a big but rewarding job!

Reply to
M-C

Pat, will Wally World do a copy of the 8 x 10? I know the Wal Mart here has a machine you can use to make your own copies of pictures and can even use the same machine to shrink or blow up the pics. It might even do touch up. Anyways, last summer my sis & I used it to make copies of some old photos Mom had. The machine was real easy to use and for the 4 or 5 photos we did, it only cost a couple dollars.

I haven't seen a forest green album, but if I do, I'll let you know.

Good luck with your endeavor!

Reply to
Deb in AR

Reply to
Lizz Parsons

I like the idea of scanning the pages when you are done very much, but I'm assuming you do not want to scrap the original.

I am a big fan of WalMart's "Aladdin" machine. Instead of getting an ink-jet printed photo (as you do on the Kodak picture machine), you upload your photos digitally, and they go through the actual photographic process. So, you can insert your camera's media card, or a CD of photos, OR for your purposes, there is a scanner as part of the setup. Then, you just pay whatever the WalMart rate for an 8X10 is- according to their website, $2.86 each. Other places like Walgreens also offer this, but prints cost more.

(Of course, if you have a scanner at home, you could scan them there, use software to clarify or enhance, and then burn a CD to take to WalMart.

HTH,

B> Pat, will Wally World do a copy of the 8 x 10? I know the Wal Mart here has

Reply to
Bonny

I have a forest green album from Pioneer that I got at Michaels.

I also used a Kodak Picture Maker to make copies of some black and white photos of my grandfather and they turned out great. You almost couldn't tell the copies from the originals and it only cost about $7 for an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. Check around though, because I have seen different prices on the machines in different stores.

Reply to
Steven Rusk

Pat--went with my Mom to Walmart today to copy some of her pics. She had an 8x10 that she made two 5x7 copies of on one sheet, a 3x5 that she copied: one page with four small prints on it, one 3x5 that she copied two pages, each with four small prints on it, and a 3x5 that she copied onto one page with two 5x7s. Total for five sheets was $23. and change, and they came out great. One of the 3x5's was a pic of my Mom's Dad made in the 1950's. He was a farmer and never owned a suit and Mom wanted a nice pic of him to match a pic of her mother. She took the pic of her father in his overalls to a studio and they "painted" a suit on him. You would never know it from looking at the picture. They put the painting on china and that is what we copied. Came out pretty nice!

wanda in Va

Reply to
wanda in Va

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.