Souvenir photos

Ok.  I've been searching high and low but have found absolutely no solutions for my newest problem.

A VERY small selection of my problem photos.
Like, just the few I could scrap together from
the kitchen counter.  I love them but I have
absolutely NO idea what to do with them!!

You know how when you're on vacation you lose all common sense and you spend a small fortune on those souvenir photographs?  Yeah, I know about that a little too well.  I've been dropping serious dough on these clever mementos pretty much professionally for quite some time now.

My issue is...  Then what?  You buy the overpriced pictures and you bring them home with you in their cute little where-ever-you-went-themed folders, and then, if you're like me, you stick them in a safe place where you're likely to forget they ever existed.

I hate that.  I don't want to do it any more.  I want to be able to enjoy these pictures, but let's face it:  framing them all doesn't make a lot of sense, and I'd hardly have enough wall space for them anyways.  I can't find an answer on Pinterest or even on Google.  I know I can't possibly be the only person with this problem.  How do you preserve your vacation souvenir photographs?  If anybody has a good idea, I'll pay you a dollar.  Until then, I'm going to have to put some serious thought into this.  Sorting through all of my things, I just can't believe how much money we've put into photos we hardly ever get to look at.  It doesn't seem right.

The pretty wall

This week, M is home on leave.  We're staying busy together and doing projects around the house.

First on our to-do list was the girls' play room.  This is our house's number one hot-spot, as I'm sure is the case in most homes.  It was in need of a major overhaul.

Before

The room used to be A's bedroom, but we bought the girls big girl loft beds and moved them both into C's bedroom...  Which left A's bedroom to be the designated play zone.

After

My favorite part of the "new" room is the paper wall, which I found here.  Super cool!  It cost me a little more than $13, since I had to buy my supplies at the overpriced PX (or else order them online and pay shipping) but I still really like it and think it was worth the trouble.

The paper wall...  in all it's glory.