Rein in Your Photos, Videos and Memories: Photo Rodeo

Have you heard of a Scrapbooking Crop?  (Yes, paper scrapbooking has its own lingo.)  A crop got its idea from an old-fashioned "quilting bee" where ladies come together to socialize and make a quilt.

A Scrapbooking Crop is similar.  People come together to work on scrapbooks, sometimes for entire weekends, socializing and sometimes sharing materials.  But always sharing ideas and excitement.

Years ago when I started digital scrapbooking (memory-keeping in digital photo books and pages), I started hosting Digi-Crops.  But today my Digi-Crops are getting a remodel!  Today I am introducing you to Photo Rodeo: Rein in Your Photos.

My two favorite things about Photo Rodeo are:

1. It's online (over Zoom) so anyone from anywhere can attend.
2. It's time to do whatever your memories need.  It's not just about putting photos in pages (although that's definitely one possibility).  Reining in your photos might mean they need to be organized or uploaded or culled.  And, in reality, Photo Rodeo isn't just about photos.  If you need to gather old family videos on VHS tapes for digitizing with the Forever Box, do that!  

So, Photo Rodeo is time for you to set aside and spend with your photos/videos and memories with friends.  It's casual and fun.  (And free!)

It's great to celebrate our wins together, and I love to see scrapbook pages people are working on (Zoom is so nice for screen sharing!).  As you'll see in the agenda below, there's time for both socializing and some quiet time to work.  

Photo Rodeos will be held once a quarter:  spring, summer, fall, and winter.  Some will be daytime, some evening, just to mix up the time and hopefully fit your availability now and again.  You can always find the current Photo Rodeo Zoom link and the passcode to join at this link.

If you're new to memory-keeping and/or to Photo Rodeo, here are all the details you'll want to know.

FIRST THINGS FIRST

The best memory-keeping tool I've ever seen since working as a memory-keeping consultant since 2005 is called Forever.  You'll want a (free) Forever account to get started.  Open it at that link.   

It's smart not to trust your memories to just anyone, so you can learn more about Forever here.  Forever, as you might guess, is all about longevity.  Your photos and videos and photo-memory books are guaranteed to be there for your lifetime plus 100 years with full privacy, no data mining, no advertising, etc.  Basically, if you'd want it for your memories, you can find it at Forever.  That's what I've found for myself.

There's always a sale happening, too.  You can find information on 3 ways to get the best prices here.

One last thing if you're new to Forever, before I get to the Photo Rodeo details:  There's so much you can do with Forever, from making photo-memory books with free and easy software to fully creative digital scrapbooking!  See all the possibilities here so you can choose whatever fits your available time, interests, and needs.

All right!  Let's move on to everything you could do at Photo Rodeo, with plenty of tutorial videos to help you get there.  I suggest watching ahead of time so you're ready to hit the ground running at Photo Rodeo.

THE AGENDA

Photo Rodeo: Rein in Your Photos (& Videos) is a wonderful opportunity to work together with other memory-keepers, ask your Forever Ambassador (me!) questions, and share your wins, no matter how big or small.  We sprinkle in some quiet work time as well to lessen distractions and help you focus on things that may need your attention.

IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD, ORGANIZE, OR EDIT PHOTOS AT PHOTO RODEO

I made you this tutorial video to show you exactly how to do it.  It's so easy, and it makes finding and sharing your photos super easy, too.

This is a great feature of preserving your photos in Forever Storage, too--you can edit them!!  

You can also tag them and add descriptions.  Tagging helps you find photos faster, and descriptions are the memories and details associated with the descriptions.

All these are great options for taking care of your photos and memories at Photo Rodeo.

IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE PHOTOS AND MEMORIES IN PAGES AT PHOTO RODEO

One thing I absolutely love about preserving photos and memories in pages with Forever is options!!  Whichever you prefer, your books (or individual scrap pages) will be printed using inks, papers, and bindings that are THE highest quality in the industry.  

If you're looking for quick, simple memory-keeping, you'll love Design & Print.  It's free, web-based software using pre-designed (free) templates.  You can choose each page design in your book separately, too!  The software is very intuitive and I always tell people the learning curve is practically a straight line.  See what I mean in this little 5-minute video:

Or, if you prefer creative, flexible digital scrapbooking where you can play with fonts, put any text or photos anywhere you want on a page, you'll love Artisan.  It's a computer program that you purchase and download like any other program, and it's designed for a PC.  Mac users can use a partitioning program to use Artisan.  You can try the 30-day free trial if you like!

Learn more about the computer specifications required for Artisan here, and then see a little overview here in this 14-minute video:

IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE OLD PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MEMORIES AT PHOTO RODEO

I'm sure you're like me--not all your memories are in photos.  Some of them are in video, old scrapbooks that are falling apart, slides, etc.  One fantastic way to spend your Photo Rodeo time is to pack a Forever Box!

The price of a Forever Box includes 3-way shipping and the cost of digitizing a certain number of items.  You can add more to fill the box, if you like, for an additional per-item cost.

Here's how it works--how to pack a Forever Box, what can be digitized, etc.  

Just be sure to order your Forever Box here before the next Photo Rodeo.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE UNFORGETTABLE PHOTO GIFTS AT PHOTO RODEO

There are a lot of options for using your photos for gifts, too!  Here's just one example:

You can find several more ideas at my Fast, Fun Friday! series playlist here, or at my 10 Gift Ideas That Won't Be Re-Gifted article.

DON'T FORGET!

It's not just you.  You're not the only one whose photos/videos need some reining in.  Friends are welcome at Photo Rodeo.

You're not the only one looking for TIME for memory-keeping, and Photo Rodeo is exactly that:  time.

As a fantastic bonus when you bring a friend who is new to Forever, you can share your Referral Link with them (where they will open their new Forever account), and you'll get a $20 coupon as thanks!  Here's a short video about how to use your Referral Link.

THE NEXT PHOTO RODEO

I hope you'll join me at the next Photo Rodeo!  I'm there to help with any questions anyone has, too!  I bring my own "project" or plan for what I want to do at Photo Rodeo, but it's a backup.  I like to prioritize answering questions if needed first.

Click that image or this link to get the specific information about the next Photo Rodeo so you can save the date.

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