Tiny Tiles - a great round up for a vacay

There are just some moments that can never be captured with words. And what better way to capture memories than to take a snap shot of that special moment?

 

I wanted to look back on the years we had together so I embarked on this mini project to pick one picture of us for each year that we've been together. It can be of an overseas trip, or used in our old Planet Fitness gym card, or a special couple photoshoot that we won. I did a compilation and this is what I got: 

 



These are not all there is. Once I started, I thought of making tiles for my family members as well as my in-laws. Afterall, we don't stay with them and I thought it would be a nice gesture to have momentos they can stick on their fridge to remind them of us.

And once I got started, I realized that I should also keep one photo of each trip to Japan that we did. So the tiles just grew. In the end, I ordered close to 40 over tiles and the combined order (with 2 other colleague) came up to about 3.8kg (gasp!).

Tiny tiles are reasonably sized - 4.5cm by 4.5cm. You can print almost anything on them. My colleague printed inspirational quotes and they looked quite spiffy, I must say. Even group shots can be fitted into these tiles quite decently.

Katheryn does a lovely job cropping photos and getting back to you on stuff that requires your input (instead of going ahead to impose her own preferences on say border colour). The service is prompt and bulk discounts are available. This makes for a good gift for friends as well - I made some to celebrate 3 years of work together with some of my best colleagues who came in together at the same time.

For fresh gift ideas, do check out Tiny tiles (webpage) and their Facebook page. For my next project, I may think of doing a small feature wall of a mosaic of these tiny tiles to show case our vacay adventures. As for now, these are just inhabiting the fridge door and also plastered around my office cabinet as a timely reminder of the good times we shared and of the most important people in my life.