Unique ideas for displaying pictures

Do you take pictures?  Do you take too many pictures?

I do.  But that's ok.  I love to take pictures of my kids, my house, my garden, our pets, etc.
As evidenced here and in the labels on the sidebar.

Sometimes I don't know what to do with all of them.
I do scrapbook, though.  I also frame A LOT of them.
However, I like to be a little "unique" with my framing...
For example...All the old windows I have throughout the house have pictures in them.

Brent has brought home windows from job sites, and I've found some at garage sales and one of my favorite consignment shops.

I just use clear adhesive dots on the pictures, and hang them on the back of the glass.  They are easily changed out and removed, and no damage is done to the picture.
I've even went as far as using an old door my friend found along the road for me.

When the kids were small, I saw this idea in some magazine and tried it out myself.
Memory jars.  When we went to Florida for my sister-in-law's wedding, the kids were very small and we went to the beach everyday.   I brought home some sand and shells and added a picture and placed it all in a jar.

When Brent was kind enough to bring me home some old windows from a job site, I turned one into a "bulletin board" for all of Grace's pictures of her friends, posters, etc.

you can find the project here

I just gave her a jar of little clothespins (from the craft aisle at Walmart) to hang up her favorite things with.

Then I found this idea and realized that I would also like to try it.  I have a ton of mason jars in clear and aqua.

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I also want to try this.  It sounds very inexpensive to make.

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What do you do with all your photos?  Write back and share with me, and give me some NEW ideas!

Eureka with a window

Remember these windows?

Brent, ah, my adoring husband Brent (he says I never say nice things about him...) brought about 10 of these home for me from a job site one day. (Gotta love other people's trash!)

I framed some pictures with some, and hung some maps behind others.(Check out my projects label)

This past weekend, I decided Grace needed another one in her room.

You see, before when we did her whole room redo (Paris theme) I made her this window collage.

I loved it so much, I thought she needed a bulletin board/picture holder thingy. (Yep, thingy is the appropriate word.)

I got my inspiration from one of my favorite blogs....farmgirlpaints. She posted (and I can't find her exact post about this)about this wonderful frame/picture collage she made.

She mounted chicken wire to the back and hung the pictures with adorable little clothespins.

I couldn't find the right frame (believe me, I've looked) and I knew I had some windows in the basement, so I put two and two together and came up with my own version.

First I went to the basement with a hammer, fully intending to bust out all the panes in the window. This both exhilerated me and freaked me out at the same time. Since we have cement floors in the basement, I knew I could clean it up, but wailing away at the glass with my tiny hammer just scared me to death. I was sure I was gonna walk upstairs with a million glass fragments in my face or something. (nothing this major happened by the way.)

Once all the panes were out, and the glass was cleared from the frame, it looked like this...

and was way lighter!

I added the galvanized wire to the back by just tacking some small nails in, wrapping the wire around them, and bending the nail over to secure the wire. Not very scientific I know, but it worked.

Then I attached some dark brown ribbon to the top to hang and started adding some of Grace's favorite things, attaching with little wooden clothespins I found in the craft section at Walmart.
She liked it, and you know it's all about what she likes, and what I can live with! At least this way, she can change it up whenever she likes.

I'm linking up to the craftskeepmesane linky party for Monday to share my project. Just try it, anyone can do it!

and dittle dattle amaze me Monday.