My grandfather, grandmother and aunt are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier California. I always enjoy going there. They are buried right under a large tree at the top of a hill so sitting is very peaceful,the wind comes up the hill and is very cool. The highlight of the trip there is of course the rose gardens, they are so beautiful. I really enjoy going there, the best time to go is in april when everything is in bloom. I have also visted the beautiful Mausoleum of Christian Heritage at Forest Lawn Memorial in Covina Hills, which if you are familiar with this area of southern california it is not to far from Rose Hills. They also have some of the world's greatest religious art and the Mausoleum of Christian Heritage to view mosaic recreations of the greatest scenes from Michelangelo's immortal Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings and beautifully crafted stained glass windows. The front of the mausoleum has a beautiful mosaic it is the world's largest religious mosaic, the Life of Christ Mosaic, so visiting cemeteries is not a morbid thing at all, I think. Carrie

How big is the booth? Black & white is good but to add "POP' have another color as accent such as lemon yellow antique roses to place around. Does it have shelves? If everything is flat on a wall you need some cutouts with some color such as sm.Victorian. Maybe cut pics of covers of magazines from thrift shop. Hot cars, saiboat in bay,Paris St. etc. but something to break up the bk/wh look. People have to envision the frames in their homes. Having pics in some will help but are they all bl/wh photos? Say a wall 5 ft tall 8 ft long would need about 5 -7 bits of color. Attach cutouts. Would be better to have some shelves as some folks do not have much wall space so few pics could grace a shelf or small table with cloth that is very "in" color. A lamp in keeping with style you choose puts light on pics & is nice if allowed. Tablecloth can be fabric sq. that is folded under at bottom & pinned on in back so looks like a draped cloth. GF & I had booth 5 ft high x 8 ft wide & 8 ft deep. You have to "grab" people's attention so need a little bling. We were selling antiques & her handmade things. We did quite well but then they sold the building. If you have couple of shelves (could be store bought) add cloth, doily, small vase with high quality silk flower ,something that spells home, on another wall maybe more formal look,small book, couple of keys with decorative look. Look at magazines, other booths etc. Just frames on flat walls won't get you the sales that you'll get if the booth has personality & don't forget the floor, is it tile, carpet etc. It needs to look good with the rest. After all this is done you must keep everything clean & sparkling, dust & blurry glass in frames says things arn't going well or sloppy space sloppy work on frames. You want your booth to be a "knockout" Don't know what area of country you are in but if most folks are into country add country touches, European look ,pipe on book etc. Check out your competition & see what the other booths have & write down what & how many of each type booth & make your's different. I would use the letter ones on back wall as when folks look in they would see the letters straight on & would be good selling point. If walls are a mess cover them with fabric or repaint if allowed don't go dark on that as would make booth seem tiny. Lots to think of but study booths you like & note what they did. Incorperate some of that in your's. Good Luck! Jan

I love old B&W's--thanks for sharing these! Photographing old documents the way you did with the marriage license is a good way to preserve them. Boy, cars sure have changed! :-)

Hi Sandra, I own an Epson 4490 Photo scanner and just place my photo on the bed and when my warm up light stops blinking, I push the button, it then opens my program. Then I choose Photogragh and click on preview to scan so my picture appears so I can do my cropping (see the dotted frame around pic) and what other adjustments if needed. Then I click on Scan for my final. I pick Printer so it scans LARGE for easier editing and print outs and I can make it smaller after, if I choose to send in e-mail or post on a forum. I shall upload a screen shot with further descriptions hoping it makes sense to help in any way. By choosing Printer, the cropped picture went from 2550x3509 pixels to 900x1183 cause you do NOT want to scan the bed along with your photo making the photo tiny and all in all a humongous file. If I chose screen/web, the picture would be 297x373 pixels which is WAY TOO small to be of value. Urlee