Love These | Memory Keepers
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Last week I put in an order for two Memory Keepers from Paper Coterie.
I loved the idea of them - a personalized box to store special keepsakes, papers, artwork, etc. I loved the full-photo option. I was hoping that they would be as cool as I imagined...I think they just might be cooler.
The process of choosing a design, uploading, and adjusting the elements to make it my own was simple and easy. I received great customer service via chat their online chat when I had a question about the cropping of one of my photos.
Here's what they looked like on my screen after I put in my order. One for Anna...
And one for Simon...
And here's what they look like in "real" life:
I removed the background pattern from the initial design and chose a plain background (I started with the Diagonal Stripe design). They have a really nice selection of fonts to choose from, including one of my favorites Avenir. I really like that you can place a title/text on the spine - great for storing them standing up.
The black linen inside:
Here's one where you can see the sizing (love the size):
They are 9.75 inches wide x 13 inches tall x about 2 inches deep.
I chose to write the kids names and 2011-2012 with the intent of putting things in there for this upcoming school year. Not sure I really want an annual collection of boxes but it's a good place to begin.
I could definitely imagine doing more of these. Maybe one with a collage of heritage photos to hold special family keepsakes or a collage of baby images and storing some of those baby things that haven't yet made it into a scrapbook (or are really just too bulky to go in an album).
Super excited about these and can't wait to start putting special things inside.
I looked around on their site and see that they are currently offering everyone$40 to spend during their ‘Begin Anywhere’ event this month by entering the code:beginanywhere.Shipping is not included. Code is valid August 1 – 31.
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Very cool! Love these.
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Great find!!! Ordering today...for our new baby to be, I used her ultrasound profile picture. Now I have easy storage for our son's growing artwork "portfolio" and a place to keep all of baby's goodies like her hospital bracelet and hat!
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Thanks for showing the spines of these! I really wanted to get one or two but I didn't want to invest in them, get them shipped all the way to New Zealand only to find out that the spine didn't appeal to me!
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Ali, as always, they are beautiful! what a great idea.
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Hi Ali,
I love paper coterie! I ordered the polaroid heart and it came out beautiful! I framed it is clear glass and was a wonderful gift. I also ordered the ten things I like about
you for a birthday gift and likewise was totally awesome! Thanks to the sponsor.
blessings and hugs,
Sharon Dryjanski
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I love these! I think I have to order a couple for my 2 kids. Thanks for sharing another great idea.
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L*O*V*E...
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I am so going to order up a few of these. What I would really love them for is to house all the things we collect on our travels. We travel a lot and I have taken to just printing a photo book. But I have a bag/box of stuff I just can't part with. These will be perfect. And maybe even one for each of the kiddos each year. Hmmm...
Thanks so much for sharing these :)
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just ordered one. :) thank you for sharing!!
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Thanks so much! I just ordered one box for my son's kindergarten memorabilia (he's about to start 1st grade & his kindergarten stuff has been sitting in a folder on the floor of my office all summer) and one for the family vacation we took this summer. What a great deal with the coupon code! I can see ordering one every year for the kids' school year.
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I saw these and wondered how they'd be in real life. Love them.
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l~o~v~e, l~o~v~e, l~o~v~e!!!
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I just ordered two of these earlier this week as well - one as a gift and one for me. I am excited for mine to arrive any day now. It was fun to see different pictures of yours, especially the one where you were holding it up to be able to imagine the size even better.
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Super cool! I'm thinking this would make a great baby gift.
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Would be a good Grandparent gift too. For retiring artwork from the fridge and whatnot. Selfish me never thought of giving them away!!
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These are awesome!!
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Thank you SO much for showing these! I ordered my first one last night, but I really liked seeing the size of of it. I was having trouble picturing how big it was going to be. Yours look great! I can't wait to see mine. I've already started designing several others.
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Those are awesome! I am going to check those out right now!!! Thanks for sharing.
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Those are great! Definately a great thing to have, and a useful gift to those who have everything and need somewhere to store stuff
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Wonderful ideas
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