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 say probably the photo books, but any are good choices. Nice quality!
I think much like your husband, mine would really like a photo book so all my pictures of our family aren’t just on my phone or my hard drive…. I love the idea of an instagram friendly layout!
Photobook and wood block prints. So beautiful.
Hard cover for sure! Beautiful!
My dad would LOVE the hardcover photo book.
My dad would like the wood block with prints. He always lives pics of his grandkids.
Our amazing Dad would love the wood calendar for his desk. He is in sales and everyone asks about his boys, and he has loved the family calendar I have made him in the past (which was not anywhere near as cool as this one!).
I would get the hardcover photo book.
My husband would love a hard cover photo book! I have so many great pictures of him & our daughter since I’m always behind the camera. But I don’t have the best organizing skills either and they sit on my phone/laptop/SD card. I love seeing how happy he gets when I show him the photo after it’s taken but he never gets to see them again!
My husband would love the calendar or the woodblock print for work. Love how modern and sleek everything is!
hardcover photobook
He would absolutely love the hard cover book and the wooden box – actually I would absolutely love to have them, I just assume he would too 😉
My husband would love the wood block with a photo. I can see it sitting on his desk at work :).
My hubs would like one of the photo books…he always complains that I never take the time to do anything with the photos I take on my phone or on 2 cameras…which is why I can’t have a new camera…
Print and wood cleat or the calendar would work best for my hubs.
My husband would love the wood block and prints for his desk!
Hubby would kill for one of the book forms (I’d choose hardback). This month is our ten year anniversary and I’ve been saying for years I’d love us to create one for us.
the hardcover book!
Hard cover photobook
My dad would love the wood block and prints, and my husband would love the hardcover photo book!
My husband would love both the hardcover book and the calendar. We could all use a nicer calendar!
I think all the men in my life would love the wood calendar! All that stuff us SO cool!
I would adore a hardcover album of my two girls and our family. Perk of being a single mom, I’m dad too!
The wood block + print looks like a great piece to add to his work desk!
My husband would love the wood block print for his desk!
For sure…the hardcover book! He loves to share with his clients (and he thinks its better than using his phone…LOL) Signature Prints he would also appreciate for his office. I personally also love the post card pack! How great is that! I am going to order one from our visit to Italy! Great way to send a thank you and an “I’m Thinking of You”! (Who doesn’t like getting mail?!)
Both my Dad and my husband would like the hardcover photo book best. 🙂
My husband would love the hardcover book filled with photos from our most recent trip to NYC. This was his favorite vacation to date and he frequently reminisces about it and looks at the photos we took on the computer. Would be so great to have an actual photo album to reminisce with.
I think my husband would like the calendar – with the magnet, he could hang it in his locker at work!
hardcover, all the way!
My husband needs the wood calendar to remind him of sweet daddy moments throughout the year.
I would love a hard cover photo book for my husband!!!
My husband would love the wood block and prints… he is very minimalist in everything except his love for our two boys.
The wood calendar would be perfect for his new desk at work!
My kids dad would love the hard cover book. He doesn’t get to see the kids all year until the summer so it would be an excellent gift for him to keep memories.
my hubby would love a photobook!
The wood block and prints would be perfect for my husbands desk at work 🙂
The traditional hardcover album
hardcover photo book!
My husband would be so happy to get all my instagram photos in a book! Or the wooden box, I can see him keeping it on his desk for when he misses at munchkin at work.
The hardcover book is beautiful! What a great gift for a dad!!
My husband would love a hardcover book of our years together. I have yet to get a single photo album done lol
My husband and my dad would LOVE the hardcover photo book. I did one for the year leading up to our wedding and haven’t had time to do another one since then….being a mom keeps you busy…
My hubby would love the hardcover photobook. He has been getting on my case about all the pictures that I take and he never gets to see. I can totally imagine giving him a hardcover photobook and seeing his eyes get all misty (though he swears he doesn’t cry) as he sees all the pictures of our family & the kids as they have grown over the last 3 years, including all the photos he has never seen before
He would probably like the soft or hard cover books!
One of the fathers in my life is my FIL. He lives in another country and is unable to see his grandchildren except when either he travels to see us (last year) or he we travel to see him (later this year). My in-laws are older and technology options are not there for us to share quick pics. In fact, I don’t believe they will even be able to travel to see us anymore, and it is extremely expensive for us to travel regularly to see them.
So my gift would be the hardcover book. Our twins are only 21 months, but I believe that a hardcover book would be unforgettable gift to be treasured for many many years to come.
definitely the photo books. A picture is nice, a thing with a picture on it maybe even nicer, but there is NOTHING like flipping through a book and seeing how time has passed, or the total mosaic of accumulated memories – it’s all the little moments put together that make a life.
the hardcover photo book
The wood block is amazing!
Id love to get my husband the hardcover book!
My husband would love the wood calendar for his desk. He teaches engineering and it would fit perfectly on his desk in the shop!
My hubby would love the softcover photo book!
Hardcover photo book!
We’d have to go with the hardcover photo book. My husband works in construction and doesn’t have a spot to put any of the nice prints – and the book would tell the most amazing stories of our lives!
I’m not sure what my dad would be most excited about, but I know my husband would die for the wooden block. I could totally see him enjoying it on his desk at work. Plus we have super cute little girls, so that would make it all that more special.
I’m sure he would like the hardcover photo book. I think the woodblock and prints is super cool, though.
soft cover book so beautiful!
My husband would love the print in the wood cleat! It would look great in his office, and he doesn’t yet have any pictures of our new baby on display.
I would order my husband the wood block plus prints. That way he could keep adding new photos as the baby gets older.
I love photo books, but I think that the Dads in my life would most appreciate the photo and wood cleat that hangs on a wall and can be seen all the time.
As much as I’d love to get my husband a cute block & print set, he’s out of town so much that I think a hardcover book would remind him of our shining faces while he’s away (all the looks, none of the noise).
My dad would most definitely want the hardcover photo book and my husband would want the wood calendar!
Both my dad and husband would like the signature print with wood cleat!
My hubby would love the hardcover photo book!
I think my husband would LOVE having the wood block + prints on his desk of our wedding.
Hardcover photo book— it’s beautiful and would survive our house! The softcover photo book would get chewed by the puppy and likely colored on by the kids….
Hubby would love the hardcover photo book filled with pics of our 5.5 yr old and our 3 month old. I have a total of two pics printed of our 5.5 yr old and none of our 3 month old. (That’s a finger and a thumb in the shape of an “L” on my forehead.) I’m just one computer crash away from total devastation. Must. Print. Photos!!!
The wood cleat and print is awesome, my husband would love that, he has been talking about getting more pictures up in our house for months.
My husband would LOVE the hardcover photo book! He’s always saying we need to be better about getting prints and having something that would last forever would be really special to him.
The wood calendar. A unique, modern twist on the classic photo calendar.
I have not printed photos since about 2012! I feel horrible and would love an easy way to organize my favorite pictures! My hubby would love a photo book for father’s day!
My Husband would love the hardcover photo album!
My husband Would love the photo book!
I think my husband would like the signature print + wood cleat because if I got him anything else, he would just bemoan his lack of desk space/space in general. Something that can be mounted to a wall though? We have tons of walls! Happy father’s day – take your pick!
My husband would love the wood calendar (I would too)
My husband would love the wood calendar!
Beautiful products!! The hardcover book would be a wonderful gift!!
My husband would love a hardcover photo book. He isn’t on Facebook and always complains that he doesn’t see all the pictures of our boys that I take. This is a beautiful, tangible way for him to be included.
My dad would love a hard cover photo book (so would my kids’ dad). 🙂
My husband would love the wooden calendar!
My Dad would love a hardcover photo book; we used to have lots of photo albums when I was a kid, but we haven’t put one together in years. When it comes to material photos, it looks like our lives ended in about 2008.
My husband would love anything to hang on the wall. We moved and our walls are empty because I’m paralyzed with options! Drives him crazy!!
My husband would love a photo book of family pictures. He’s deploying to Korea early next year, so it would great to have a book he could take with him. I’m seriously tempted to order a softcover Daddy Book for our 4 boys with pictures of them with him. I made a handmade one for his last deployment several years ago, but these look much, much nicer!
My husband would like the wood calendar!
Hardcover photo book 🙂
A traditional hardcover photobook! They look gorgeous.
Hubby would love the wood block and prints.
My husband would love the wooden block and prints!
Mine would love a soft cover book.
My husband is always bugging me to order prints and picture frames for his office. He’s resorted to using the digitals as his screen saver On his laptop to keep new pictures of our girl in the office. I think the prints with the wood block would be a perfect solution.
My husband would love the wood block prints! He was just saying he needed a new print for his desk!
Ohh I’d have to say the Hardcover Photo Book!
I want them all, he would want the hardcover book. 🙂
The hardcover book would be the winner here for my husband or my fathers. The kids love nothing more than to sit for hours seeing pictures of them as babies.
Hard cover photo book! It’s fun for the whole family to flip through photos.
He’d like a hard cover photo book best. He’s traditional like that.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book, we have been talking forever about how we need to get better at printing family photos.
My husband would love the softcover photo book. The softcover is probably one that I would continue to get over and over, chronicling new seasons or years. It would be great start for us! I love the simple, classic display of the photos.
My dad would love the calendar!
My husband would LOVE the hardcover book and the calendar!