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.
that packaging is beautiful! Hardcover book here!
My husband would love the wood calendar. I like the photo block.
My husband will flip for the hardcover book. He loves picture books, and wants one of our son’s first year.
The hardcover photo book featuring pics of our firstborn, her first year, second year, and the arrival of her little sis.
I think my husband would like the wood calendar!
My husband would love the hardcover photo book!
My husband would love a hardcover photo book of our children!
My husband would love the signature wall calendar for his classroom!
My fiance would love the hardcover book. We have a hardcover book of photos from our daughter’s first 6 months of life. She will be one on the 18th and I know he’d be happy to have another book of the second 6 months!
My husband would like the wood block and prints for his desk.
I will get my dad the calendar!
My husband would love the hardcover book. He would love showing It off!
My dad would love the woodblock!!
My husband would love the gorgeous wood blocks!
My husband would love the hardcover book. I’m two years behind on my daughter’s photobooks, and plan to start working on it soon.
My dad would love the hardcover photo album. He travels and that would hold up nicely in his duffle bag.
My husband and my dad would both like a hard cover photo book for Father’s Day!!
My dad would like a hardcover book of my kids & my husband would like a wooden calendar with family pictures. Beautiful items!
He would love the print + wood cleat! A few on the same wall together would look amazing!!
My husband would probably like the wood block and prints best. But you never really know – every time I’m convinced I know what he likes he picks something different from what I expected. After being married for 16 years you’d think I could figure him out, but not so much as it turns out. Keeps things interesting, anyway.
My husband would love
The wood block and prints. They would look amazing on his desk after he passes the bar. 🙂
Wood block print for his desk
WE LOVE ALL THE THINGS BEETLE KILL! As Colorado people, we are always trying to incorporate beetle kill into our stuff. We have the most beautiful beetle kill dining table that my Husband made! Anyway, I digress. I think he’d like the wooden block with prints. That way, he can change out the print. Plus, it looks so simple and modern, which is totally his thing. I hope we win!!!!
Hardcover photo book! We’re posted abroad in Afghanistan so he’d love physical images of all the people and places we miss most!
I think my hubby would like a hardcover photo book best. Something that he can flip through without going through my Instagram. 🙂
the wood calender.
My dad would love the hardback photo book, not only for pictures of me and my sister, but of his only grand child-my daughter Ava Grace ☺❤
The Hardcover photo book will finally be the answer to all of his favorite pictures he loves that are just sitting on our phones!!!
My husband would love the woodblock and prints. We actually already love Artifact Uprising and have (and have given) many gifts from them. Most recently, we gave a wood block and prints to my niece who is heading away to college. Such a great way to keep your photo display fresh.
I would definitely order the hard cover photo book because I’m exactly like you! All of my pictures are on my phone and I’m at my max as well. I have no more storage left on my iPhone but almost have a heart attack trying ro figure out which photos to delete.
The Instagram Friendly small book. My dad would love one filled with my daughter @addiesedso 🙂
A Wood block print would be perfect for my husband’s desk at work. He’s always asking me to print out recent pictures of our daughters so he can display them on his desk. A wood block print is just way classier than a push pinned home print.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book.
Definitely the hardcover book!
The hardcover photo book!
He would love the hard cover book. Our little one loves to sit on his lap and point to everyone in the pictures we take. It would be nice for the two of them to be able to do that with actual pictures in a book and not on his iPhone.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book or the soft cover photobook. He keeps saying I need to get the pictures into a book. But thats a lot easier said than done. Our computer, phones and camera all are full of pictures that we don’t even look at because there are so many. I would love to give him the chance to always remember those moments. Artifact uprising makes it seem pretty easy to keep these memories together 🙂
Definitely he’d want the wood block and prints, so he could switch them out as the mood fit.
PICK ME.
My husband would absolutely want the hardcover photo book! I did one for him a few years ago and he’s been asking for another one ever since.
Hardcover Photo Book
The wooden box and hardcover photo book would be perfect!
my hubs would love a photo album! I’m so far behind!
Hardcover photo book for us. He and our daughter love looking at the few photos we have in books from her first year. We’ve fallen off the horse since then.
My husband would like the hardcover book the most. We keep them in our living room and sometimes I catch him looking at the kids when they were babies. So much nicer than looking at them on a tiny phone screen!
My husband would like photos that include both the baby and his older children
The dad in my life (my kiddos dad and step-dad) would LOVE a hardcover book filled with images I’ve taken of him with the kids!
The hardcover books are just stunning, and I know hubs would love one. They’re so rustic-feeling!
My dad would most like the hardcover photo book of his grandkids.
He’d LOVE a hardcover book!! This is such a great idea!!
I love AU!!! I haven’t tried any of their products except the hardcover books and I’m obsessed! I would love to try out the wood calendar!
Hard cover photo book all the way!
My husband would love the wood block print. I can just see it sitting on his desk to remind him of his family.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book…..would be nice to finally print a book for him of the tons of kid photos we have taken! Thanks for the chance!
So wait….we have to pick ONE item that he’d like? Oh jeeze….he’d like ALL of them but I think the wooden box would be champ in our house.
My husband would love the hardcover photo book, he is a classic kinda guy. To have something like that would make him the happiest!
Woodblock + Prints. it’s minimalistic and something I can actually see him keeping on his desk at work (unlike the wedding picture and baby pictures which are now on MY desk at work)
My dad would love the Hardcover Photo Book – it can be placed on his desk and he can view pictures of his grandsons whenever he needs to take a breather from his work! Plus this book would look aesthetically pleasing!
The hardcover photo book definitely! We have four kids and only have a handful of photos printed out…of our first child. So having a photo album with ALL of our children and of us would be wonderful. It’s on my to-do list, but it’s something I need to actually do.
My dad would want a hard cover book.
My husband would love both the wood block + prints and the hardcover photo book!
The hardcover book would be my husband’s favorite 🙂 I love all the gifts!
My husband would probably like the calendar (since he could use it at work) or the softcover photo book, since we’re always looking for ways to actual display our photos.
My dad would love the hardcover photo book because he was adopted and therefore doesn’t have many pictures from his own childhood, so I know he’d love having pictures in hand of his grandson’s childhood.
My husband would enjoy the hardcover photo book. We haven’t done a photo book in ages and keep meaning to do it but haven’t yet taken the time to actually complete one. It’s such a daunting task when I think about trying to complete one. Although using instagram would be a good way to start with some pictures that we enjoy.
The wooden box for sure!
My husband wants a beer and a ticket to sit alone in our apartment and watch other dudes throw or kick or shoot balls
My dad doesn’t use social media. Therefore, he doesn’t see all of the pictures I post.
He is an outdoorsy type man and showing him my love is hard.
I think he would enjoy either the wood calendar or the hard cover photo book.
If I won this, it would be the perfect Father’s Day ever!
OMG OMG OMG!!!!! I neeeeeeeeeeeddd this!!! My photo taking is waaay out of control and I desperately need a way to show off all those beautiful pictures! I think my husband would most like the Hardcover book because it can display the most pictures. But I think he would also like the print in a woodblock stand to take to work. Mmmmmmm classy photo displays… I drool!
I think he would love the signature wall calendar
My husband would definitely love the calendar
My husband would enjoy the wood block with prints.
The wood block and print!
My husband would love a hardcover photo book! He is so proud of our little baby girl. 🙂
My husband would love a hardcover book! I may consider the wood calendars for the grandpas!
The hard covet photo book is gorgeous perfect gift for dad and gramps!
I don’t think I can pick just one! This stuff is awesome. Love the wood block with photo and the calendar. And of course the photo books. I’m a sucker for photo books.
Book for sure!!!
The wood blocks are beautiful!
My late husband would have loved tje wood calendar but I think my dad would like a photobook best.
The hardcover photo book would be my husband’s pick!
My husband would love a photo book of our family. Life moves fast when the littles come I got and we love to slow it down by sitting and looking back at pictures together.
Definitely the hardcover photo book!
My husband always bothers me to make these books and I haven’t for over a year now so he’d love a book. Would love to try out this new website.
My father would love the signature print plus the wood cleat!
I know the father of my children would absolutely love a picture book of all his favorite moments being a Dad, to our two amazing children! The hard cover photo album would be what he would enjoy, cherish, and love most!
My husband (a very loving father) would love a hardcover photobook. He doesn’t like to click pictures (more like forgets to capture), and rather believes in just enjoying the moment… However he loves and enjoys revisiting all the pictures that I capture of the family 🙂
I think the wood calendar would be great for my hubby and my dad!
The photo books would be perfect
Their Dad would love a wooden box for each one. He is very old fashion and loves photos and keepsakes. This is what I would give him if I could.
My husband loves photo books and we are so very behind in physically documenting our lives. He would love the hardcover photo book.
The photobook!
My dad is the father in mine and my daughters life. He would really like a hardback photo book.
Any of the wood block items would be amazing for my husband to enjoy at his desk. But also, for my own dad, I would love to give him a book of images of his grandsons. In this digital world, I think he really misses having tangible pictures to hold.
My dad would love to have all his Grandkids on the calendar in his office! 🙂
would love to get my Dad a HARDCOVER PHOTO BOOK!! How gorgeous!!
He would love the hardbound photo book and I’m sure the grandpas would love love love the wood calendar. It is beautiful with the simple wood details.
My husband would love the hard cover book (full of pictures from a family cruise…just dreaming, haha)
Photo book! I’ve made him a few & every time he gets choked up!
The wood calendar for sure! I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Would be a great addition to dad’s office.
my husband would really like the signature print plus wood clear.