Giveaway: $250 Artifact Uprising Gift Card
If you’ve followed my blog for awhile, you know I am horrible at organizing my photos. I take so many, it’s impossible to keep track of them. I don’t delete all the bad photos because I don’t have the time and I don’t put photos in folders by event, so finding a particular photo is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Or a pacifier in the backseat of a car while driving, to put it into parenting terms we can all understand.
To make matters worse, for some reason my photos have stopped uploading into iPhoto and started loading into Dropbox and no matter what I change in preferences, I can’t seem to get iPhoto to recognize my phone again. So, Dropbox it is.
Except Dropbox doesn’t have a viewer like iPhoto and everything is just in one big folder and I feel like there is no way to go back and find anything at all.
Also, I have numerous iPhoto libraries on different portable hard drives and I am getting to the point where once I transfer a library from my laptop to a hard drive, it feels like I am abandoning those photos forever. Precious memories never to be seen again.
I have reached PEAK photo storage. My laptop is full, my phone is full and I don’t trust iCloud. It’s a mess and it gives me heart palpitations just thinking about it.
As crazy as my photo disorganization makes me, it makes my husband even crazier. Because here is Mike, a total Type A super disciplined guy depending on me, a total mess, to document our life and family.
I take good photos, so that’s nice. But does Mike have any tangible proof of those photos besides what he sees on Instagram? NOT REALLY. And even though my Instagram feed is meaningful to me, I realize it’s full of stuff Mike doesn’t care about.
Does Mike want a sponsored photo about a diaper bag in his family album? No, he does not. When he shows his relatives pictures of the kids when they come over for a visit, does he want to flip through pics of my shoes on the street and my hand holding a cup of coffee? No, he does not. Twenty years from now, when Mike looks back at the time in our lives when our kids were young, does he want to see an aerial shot of the oatmeal I ate for breakfast one morning at a coffee shop all by myself? Not even a little.
The kind of thing my husband wants is a bound hardcover book with photos of our really special moments selected specifically for the purpose of preserving our personal memories and not just put out there for the Mommy Shorts fanpage. Something he can safely store in a wooden box with our family name stamped on it and treasure forever.
Something like the gifts from Artifact Uprising— a company created by two professional photographer sisters who were concerned about the “disappearing beauty of the tangible”.
Artifact Uprising creates photo books, prints, and gifts for your digital photos, moving your stories “off your device, into your life™”. You can upload photos from your computer to their site or through an app on your phone and make the perfect gift for Father’s Day.
Their signature products include premium quality photo books with interior pages printed on 100% recycled paper and a collection of wooden products handcrafted with mountain beetle pine.
Mountain beetle pine (in case you’re like me and had to look it up) is upcycled wood from the Colorado forests from trees that have already fallen. It also happens to look beautiful when made into a wooden box with your family’s name on it.
I got a hardcover bound book sized for Instagram which made it super easy to find the photos I wanted to use, since you have the option to upload photos straight from your computer or directly from Instagram.
Even though my Instagram photos include a lot of photos of my lunch, it also includes my favorite photos of our family.
I used the full res photos from my computer when possible but didn’t drive myself crazy. If I couldn’t find it, I just used photos directly from Instagram and figured I’d deal with the lesser quality. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised to find that in most cases, the photos from Instagram held up just as well as the high res. Looking through the finished products, I really couldn’t tell the difference.
So, perhaps I have been organizing my photos all along on Instagram and Artifact Uprising can help me use that curation to create meaningful mementos my family can appreciate for years to come.
Ones that don’t involve photos of my shoes or my food.
As delicious as that oatmeal might have tasted one fine morning in March 2015.
Artifact Uprising is currently hosting a promotion where you can receive 10% off on any order placed on their website before tomorrow, June 11th.
Today, I am giving away a $250 gift card to Artifact Uprising! Just follow the simple rules below.
GIVEAWAY RULES
1) You must enter your email into the widget below to win.
2) Then visit the Artifact Uprising Father’s Day Gift Guide and tell me the item the dad in your life would want most in the comments below.
Read the full rules here.
I’ll be picking one winner at random on Sunday, June 14th, which is the last day you can place an order to be received by Father’s Day.
Good luck!
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winner update
And the winner is…. Liz Terk. Congrats! Please email abby@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize!
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This post was sponsored by Artifact Uprising, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
I would love the wooden calendar for my Dad. And a hardcover photo book for my husband.
My hubs would really like the wood block and prints.
My hubs would LOVE the wood block+prints for his desk at work!
wood block & print! 🙂
My husband would like the wood block and prints for his desk at work. Pretty sure he’s rocking no decorations currently.
Hubs would like the square prints, for sure!
I love Artifact Uprising!! And my husband would love the wood block – he could change the photos out whenever he wanted to!
my husband would live the hardcover photo book!
My hubby would love the hardcover photo album. 🙂
I’m thinking the wood calendar since it’s personal and functional and he looooves functional gifts. 🙂
The hardcover book would be amazing!!
We don’t have any dads in our lives right now, as I am a single mom, the dad is not anywhere in the picture, grandfather’s are gone, it’s a female-centric household for now. So… I will tell you what I want, as I am the one to tell my daughter ‘dad jokes’ and laugh when she farts and teach her those funny songs like beans, beans, the magical fruit…
That wooden box with prints is to die for. Just gorgeous. Honestly, I would be happy with any of those items; they are all beautiful!
HARDCOVER PHOTO BOOK <3
Mine would love one as well!
The hard cover photo album would be great
Hardcover photo book and the wooden box are beautiful. Dad loves taking pictures of his little queens. A book is a great idea.
My husband would love the signature prints! I also love the wood block prints! Super cute!
he would love the wood calendar! It’s definitely something I haven’t seen before, and a great touch to any room!
My husband would like the hardcover book!
I would order the hard cover photo book, only because I have well over 40,000 images from my sons 3 years of life, and my daughter will be born any day now!!!
My husband would like the hardcover photo book
Hi Ilana,
I love reading your posts, and I’m not even a mom. I do have a love for kids though, being a nanny… (Your kids are so adorable!)
I would love to win a gift card for my Dad. He is the sweetest most loving Dad. He does so much for me and I would love to do this for him. It’s been two years since we lost his Dad to Alzheimer’s and just this year his 15 year old Siberian Husky passed. It is a way of life and we knew things like this would happen, but I know he really misses his Dad and his dog. He’s had to make some tough decisions and I really see how much it’s affected him. I would just love to make him a book or maybe books about his Dad, and possibly one about his dog.
Either way, keep blogging. You write so wonderfully and the love for your kids really shines through!
Have a great day!
Alli
My husband would love the hardcover photo book! But everything else is gorgeous too.
Neither my daughter nor I have a dad (deceased) so I would choose the wooden calender for my Grandpa, my Little’s great PaPa.he would love that!
Hardcover photo book please
My dad and my son’s dad would love the hardcover photo album!
HARDCOVER PHOTO BOOK
He would love the wood calendar. He carries a clipboard all the time and would love that calendar
I think he’d love the hardcover photo book because he loves the one I made for fathers day 3 years ago when I still had only one child and had time for things like photo books (and Father’s Day).
My hubby would live the wood calendar to have at his office.
Hard cover photo book for sure!
A photo book. More then like complete 3-4 photo books so he has a large variety of our adventures.
Hardcover photo book!
my husband, and dad for that matter, would love the calendar!
My father would love a hardcover photo book of the adventures he and my mother have taken together. They’ve taken three cross country car trips – some with children, some without – and seen the Golden Gate Bridge, Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, wild buffalo, rolling prairies, red desserts, the snow capped mountains of the pacific northwest, and the white sand beaches of Florida. Museums, National Parks, National Monuments, Halls of Fame, they’ve done it all. Countless car rides and plane flights later and they’re celebrating their 25th anniversary in two weeks after getting married at 17 and 22 with the whole world telling them they would fail. They are best friends and wonderful parents.
I know my husband would love the hard cover photo book – since he always says he doesn’t understand why I take so many pictures when I never print them. Going thru pictures and printing them gives me heart palpitations!! yikes!
I husband would really love the photo book or wood prints to display on his desk. He really likes showing off the girls so it’s always nice to have something tangible and ready.
Also about the photo organization.. I suck. I have apps for it and don’t use them.
I hope it doesn’t disqualify me, but we don’t have dads in our lives at my house. I don’t speak to mine due to some extreme differences in life choices, my son has two mommies, and my wife’s father is a recovering alcoholic who she only speaks to once a month at best. She will probably call him, but I doubt she would send a gift.
That said, we love printed memories!! I would be all about those hard cover photo albums. I actually organized all of our photos from the past 4 years with the intention of printing them but haven’t gotten around to that part yet. :/ This would really be the kick in the butt that motivated me.
My dad would like the wood calendar!
I think the wood block + prints would look lovely on my husband’s desk.
The books! Definitely the books!!
The wood block would be great for his office!
A hard cover book would be awesome!
My husband would love the hard bound book. He would appreciate being able to browse the memories at his leisure while trusting that the quality of the product over time will hold true.
My husband would love the hard cover book. Also, my parents are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. I’d love to make them a book as well. Would be a very special gift!
The hardcover photo book for sure. My husband has NO idea how many pictures I have stored in my phone and computer and would never think to look. Having something tangible he can put on the shelf would be much more his speed.
The wood calendar, for sure.
My husband would love the Hardcover Photo Book. He gave me a photo album for our first anniversary with many spaces left to fill with pictures but we’ve never added any. This would be perfect!
My husband and my dad would love the wood block with prints.
My husband & my father would love any tangible proof that my 3 boys actually exist outside of my phone!!
He would absolutely love the hard cover photo book. Perfect for the coffee table! He’d much rather flip through pages of memories than scroll on a screen.
Definitely the soft cover book. My husband works in construction and he would be able to take it with him and have it in his truck. Love Artifact Uprising!
My hubby would love the wood calendar for his office!
Any photo album!
for the daddy to be on his first fathers day he would love the photo book whether it be hard or soft he would be happy! I wanted to make him a brag book for his first child 🙂 also wanted to include family photos of us and my father who is no longer here with us !
My husband would love the hardcover photo book for our wedding album. Kid came shortly after the wedding so we never got to check it off our list!
My dad would love a photo book. I have been living out of country for 7 years now and he would love have a piece of me and my life close by.
My husband would love any of the gifts, probably wood block photos the best though….
My husband would LOVE it if I would make a photo book not only for us but for his parents. Calendars make great gifts at Christmas time for all grandparents and Aunts and Uncles!
My husband would love a hardcover book! Or the wooden calendar for his office.
My hubs would definitely love the wood calendar for his desk.
I think my husband would most like the wood calendar.
The hardcover photo album. He’s been asking for one for years and I just can’t pull my organization skills together enough to get it done.
My husband would love the wooden calendar to have on his desk!
Wood block and prints
My husband spends his days building homes for other families, and sometimes he likes to show them as his home and his family look like. I’d love to make him an album for his office that he can share – and not always have to scroll through 3,500 photos on his cell phone to find those few good, client-worthy photos. 🙂
He would definitely love the hard cover photo book the most. Can’t wait to gift it to him!
I think my hubby would love the wooden calendar. It would look great at his shop!
I would love my husband to have a hardcover photo album. But honestly, he would rather have a signature print and wood cleat!
He would like the hardcover photo book. We keep them in our living room and I catch him looking through them sometimes. It’s so nice to be able to see them in a beautiful book rather than a tiny phone screen.
He would love the wood block and prints!! Or the wood calendar…really it’s all awesome!!
My dad would most likely love the hard cover book for his office.
I think my DH (kid’s dad) would like the hardcover photo book. We made one from shutterfly years ago and he really liked that.
Wood block and prints for his desk at work
I think the wood calendar would make an excellent gift. Now just to figure out which pictures to use…
My husband would love the hard cover to be able to see all the kids pictures nicely on his bookshelf! 🙂
My husband would love to finally have a hardcover photo album of our wedding, which was over 6 years ago. This product looks beautiful!
My husband would LOVE a hardcover photo book bc he’s also on my case about not documenting pics! Lol
I think my husband would like the wooden block with photo.
He would like the wood calendar.
It’s my husband’s first Father’s Day and he would love a hardcover book of his first year with our little one!
i think he’d like the hardcover book best. The wood is a nice touch to all the gifts!
He would love the photo book. Like you, I take so many photos on my phone, and I use Amazon Cloud to store them. They’re unorganized and never printed.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book. It’s the best way to include countless memories in one place.
The hardcover photobook for Christmas my husband actually made a photobook of all the reasons he loves me and I would love to give him a photo book of all the reasons kalea our daughter and I love him for Father’s Day.
My husband would love a photo book of pictures of our kids.
My husband would love the wood block prints since it’s unique.
My husband would love the wooden block with prints for his office. He is always asking me to get him pics of the kids because he misses them during the day. ❤️
I think I would pick the hard cover photo book for my husband. We are currently experiencing a huge change in our life. We are moving from the home we bought and lovingly renovated thinking we would be in it most of our lives. Things have changed and my husband is exploring job opportunities all over the country. I would love to fill a book with memories from this house: our beautiful big backyard, our garden, the kitchen where I learned to bake, the hallway where our son learned to walk. We have so many pictures and memories that have been untouched because they are trapped in a hard drive. I want them accessible to us when we move.
Hardcover photo book!
Well since they don’t sell naps, the photo book for sure!
The wood calendar 🙂
The hard cover photo book is amazing! My Dad and husband would both love it!
I would do the wood calendar for my dad’s desk at work so he could look at it all the time. I get married this November so a picture of us when I was little and on my wedding day would be awesome!
I also really want to make a hardcover book of my brother and sister-in-law for my 2 year old nephew as he LOVES looking at books and pictures! How fun!
Ohhh, I’m pretty sure my hubby would like the ‘hard Cover photo book’… And yup, I’m in the same boat as you and everyone else, unfortunately relying on my phone as my photo album, sigh… Time to rectify that issue!
my hubs – and dad to 1 and 3 year old boys – would love a hard cover book of all the antics he and the boys get themselves into. luckily mom is usually there to document them with photographs. 🙂
The hardcover photo book looks fantastic. What a great way to keep pics where you can get to them without having to dig through computer files!
The wood block picture holder for sure that is an awesome idea!
I would love to make a hard cover photo album for my husband with a collection of “his” “mine” and “ours” as together we have 8 kids and 2 grandkids.
He would love the wood block and print to display his two daughters at his office at his new job!
Definitely a hardcover photo book. What a great company!
My husband would love the hardcover photo book, but really any book at all that catalogued the thousands of pics we have of our two year old. We are on a deadline to actually do something cool with them before her baby brother arrives in August and we have a whole new batch of cute pics to battle!