Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?

Cutlines & Captions on the Back of Photo Frames? Genius.

Okay, maybe just genius to me.

Whenever my daughter and I attend a birthday party, I like to take photos of the birthday child and present them to mom & dad as a “thank you” for inviting us. Often, I frame one photo for them.

As I was doing this ritual tonight, I had difficulty getting the price tag and “made in…” sticker cleanly off the back. I wanted a way to hide the messy sticky film left behind from the stickers and realized I could print a caption for the back of the frame and attach it with double-sided tape.

As I was working on this project, I realized how much I would love it if I had done this for all my framed photos from ten years ago. There are so many for which I cannot remember the dates, location or all the people present. I WILL be doing this from now on. Just remember the journalistic rule for a caption – the 5 Ws and H – who, what, when, where, why and how.