From phone to photos: Printing our memories with Sticky 9

In the UK we take more photos now than we ever have before, and photosharing websites like Instagram are surging in popularity. However, I don't know about you but I do miss the days of proper photos that you could put in albums. I love to pore over the albums of my university days, memories of drama productions that we shed actual tears over, joyous nights out, and friends long forgotten. Somewhere along the line I stopped doing that, would upload shots to Facebook or Instagram but not get any prints. 

A recent discovery (to me at least) was a company called Sticky 9: a printing service that turns your online photos onto magnets, phone cases and actual prints. I'm enjoying surrounding myself in colour at the moment so wanted to print some of my brightest and favourite shots of late, but of course also wanted some lovely pictures of Harry, M and I. The result has been, as you can see above an absolute riot of family love and glorious colour which now decorate my new desk. 

As you can see, I also couldn't resist getting a phone cover. Isn't it a gorgeous shot of my darling bubba? It makes me smile every time I see it. Which is all anyone can ask for really. 

Memories, like the corners of my mind...

Misty water-coloured memories
Of the way we were

This is a request, a plea really. Last month, 749 Guides, Brownies, Rangers and their leaders took over PGL Liddington. An amazing weekend was had by all and many many happy memories were formed. Memories that will hopefully stay with the girls long into adulthood.

We would like to preserve those memories, and the plan is to send each unit a memory stick with the photos taken at the weekend on it, so that each girl has the opportunity to keep them. However, we have no money in our budget to pay for them. Being an unfunded, voluntary organisation our coffers are somewhat limited and this is one of those times.

I've been tweeting mercilesslly since our return, begging for unwanted memory sticks any other bloggers, twitter followers or organisations might have. Last week, thanks to some retweets from much bigger bloggers (Helen of Fuss Free Flavours and Jules of Butcher, Baker to name but two) one PR company said that they knew someone who could help, unfortunately they couldn't find the budget to fulfill their intial promise.

So, I'm putting out a call to arms (well, not quite) if ANY bloggers/ readers/ PRs out there can help with memory sticks I would, and 749 girls and young women would be eternally grateful. We only want 56 memory sticks - one per unit that attended. As a County of 3,000 we regularly need promotional materials, and a donation of this sort would definitely put you in our minds for future events and activities.

If you can't help yourself - please could you share this post, on facebook/ Twitter/ Stumbleupon or Pinterest - even to your email address list in case someone out there can and will help us. If you can help us, if you would contact me either here in the comments, or at penelopespantry@googlemail.com that would be amazing.

As a Guide, I believe in thinking of others before myself and would me incredibly thankful if you would help us.

Yours in Guiding

Penelope