Sunday Photo Dump

Confession: I timestamp these posts for Sunday nights, but they're almost always put together on Monday mornings. Oooops. 

The first 6 photos that I Instagrammed this week are old family photos that I imported onto my phone and then posted to Instagram so that I can have magnets made out of them using Stickygram. 

I did this for Christmas for my mom and grandmother and they both loved the magnets that I made them... enough so that my grandma wants me to make her some more! The magnets themselves are good quality, and are reasonably priced-- $14.99 for a set of 9 magnets-- with free airmail shipping. (Disclaimer: I was not paid to try Stickygram magnets, I spent my own money on several sheets and was very happy with the result-- I am not paid to talk about them either, I enjoy the service and am gushing about it of my own accord!)

This photo dump image was fairly straightforward to make, I copied my Instagram photos (using Statigram), shrunk them down to 33% their actual size in MS Paint -- I'm at the office and don't have any fancy photo editing software here, haha -- and then pasted them into a grid. If you want to follow my Instagram feed, my username is @andraealynne. How imaginative, right?

The idea for this photo dump was inspired by Kelle Hampton at Enjoying the Small Things, who does her own photo dump every Friday night. Admittedly, her feed is a lot more interesting than mine, because her life is full of a lot more fun than mine seems to be these days.

I had to shrink the final image down so it would fit on the page... click on it if you'd like to see it in larger form!

a wee bit of nostalgia

My little sister (Elizabeth) had her high school grad and commencement this past week. I am ridiculously proud of her and at the same time feeling a wee bit... old. And nostalgic. Of course, I still remember her as the annoying little tag-along sister that she was when I was in junior high. 

Elizabeth is three and a half years younger than me-- she just turned 18 in January-- and in the past few years we've become quite a bit closer than we have been in the past, which has been a very awesome thing for me. It's nice to be able to call her my friend as well as my sister =) 

On Thursday, we made our way to the Jubilee Auditorium for a few family photos prior to her commencement ceremony-- there weren't enough tickets available for us all to watch the ceremony (which quite frankly was a bit of a relief, my own commencement in 2008 was more than four hours long and I did not want to sit through that again), but I had suggested that we all (myself+Rory, my parents, sister and grandparents) take a few photos beforehand. My grandmother and mother liked the idea, so it would seem that my own intuitive ideas are a good thing from time to time. Heh.

So we took a few photos. I think they turned out decently well! Click on the individual pictures to open up a larger copy.