I've used Instax at baby showers, a bridal shower, a 90th birthday, and a bachelorette in Hawaii. Here's the kit I bring, three ways to keep the photos afterward, and why I don't treat these as heirlooms.

After four years and twenty thousand photos on my phone, I realized what I was doing wasn't going to last. This is the whole system I’m building — the trunk I use as a limit, three albums covering birth through eighteen, and the video problem I still haven't solved.

If you've ever looked at your camera roll and thought I should really do something with all this, this is the whole system I use. Four categories, the tools that go with each one, the trunk I bought to stop myself from keeping everything, and the backup setup I put in place after losing every photo I had.

My mom, Donna, on scrapbooking, memory-keeping, and what she's learned helping clean out the homes of people who've passed. Episode 10 of Postcards for Posterity.

If you've ever stood in front of the CVS photo kiosk wondering whether it actually matters where you print, this post is for you.

I finally started my daughter's photo album this spring. And because I apparently cannot do anything the simple way, "starting her album" turned into ordering 111 prints from ten different photo printing companies so I could figure out — once and for all — where those photos deserved to be printed.