Organizing your Materials Time for those boxes of old photos and memorabilia stashed in the closet to see the light of day! We’ll come to your home for an informal session or consult via phone or e-mail to help you get organized with minimum overwhelm. This process will make your personal archives easier to access and use on beyond the completion of the life story movie! At your request, we can provide acid-free archival storage supplies, such as photo sleeves and envelopes. Scanning & Retouching Photos We’ll scan your family photos and memorabilia, such as letters, greeting cards, certificates and diplomas, recipes and report cards. We bring new life to faded or damaged images by cropping and state-of-the-art digital retouching.
 
 
The response to our own story, as well as to the stories of others, is Yes. Yes, I have a story. Yes, I exist. - Deena Metzger My father was a scrap dealer, commonly called a junk dealer. I remember during the race riots in Tulsa, 1921, Daddy hid several Black people underneath some of the buildings he had on his property. They were warehouses, and they’d build them about this far off the ground. And he allowed them to hide out in there. The riots were a terrible thing. I remember as a little boy--I was about 5, I think--we would stand on the roof of a little garage and see the flames of Greenwood burning. I use traditional quilt patterns—double wedding ring, log cabin—but I really like to make up my own. I’ll take any old thing for a pattern. One time I was washing my hands in a friend’s bathroom and just started staring at the tiles on the floor. I liked the pattern, so I copied it with pencil and paper, then made a quilt out of that too. You wouldn’t believe this to see us now, but my sister absolutely tortured me! She said she was jealous of me; I’m sure she was, because it just happened that she was a painfully skinny little thing and had to wear glasses and braces on her teeth. And I was kind of sassy, and I was a little dancer. She was constantly putting me in my place. But we outgrew all that. Everybody marvels at how close we are now.
I feel as if I have a whole new set of pictures. Now my grandkids get to see them as they were  meant to be seen. It was worth doing for that alone.
Frances G., Los Angeles
Digitizing Home Movies & Video We can use home movie footage in your Life Story Video if it has already been transferred to VHS or a digital video format. Bread & Butter can transfer moderate amounts of VHS or other analog video formats to digital or refer you to a service for large scale transfers.
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You’ll be amazed at how clear and detailed your digitized images will appear on your TV screen.
The digital copies will also be archived on CD-ROM or DVD, creating a vivid digital album that can be viewed and enjoyed on its own and serve as an invaluable family heritage resource.
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