As a little girl, I can vividly remember sitting on the brown and orange shag carpet in my grandma’s living room. She had a wooden coffee table that had two sliding doors, with bronze handles on them. Those cabinets held the most interesting things in the world to me: old photo albums and shoeboxes of random pictures. Some of these photos were of my mother and her sisters growing up. Some of my grandmother when she was young. Some - I had no clue who the people were. Typically when we were at my grandma’s it was for family gatherings, so it wasn’t the best time for me to pull Grandma away from the kitchen and ask her to tell me the stories… again. But on nights where it was just me, spending the night with Grandma - the stories came out.

When my own children were born, it was essential for me to create scrapbooks of their lives - their births, all the little milestones, the sweet little memories. I have amassed quite the collection over the years and cherish every bit of it.

I initially started my personal memory management business as a Creative Memories Consultant in 2001. The business focused on traditional scrapbooking and organizing printed photos. Over the years, the business, and the industry in general, adapted to the up and coming digital market. While I would custom design scrapbooks for my clients and help them to get their printed photos organized, the digital introduction opened new doors.

Today, we are all taking more photos than ever! We have old media that has become outdated and is deteriorating rapidly. These memories are trapped because they are in formats we can no longer view.

My goal with For Always is to keep your story from becoming a mystery to the future by telling your story through your photos, videos and memorabilia. You are the author of your story and I want to help you tell it.

The name of my company, For Always, comes from a children’s book that I read so many times to my babies as I was rocking them (and oftentimes, myself) to sleep. The line goes “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” (cue the tears). And so, it is For Always, that I want your story to be remembered. For your story to live well beyond your years.

After years of observing FOREVER when they hit the scene, using other platforms to help my clients with their photo management needs and becoming frustrated, it became clear to me that FOREVER got it right. At For Always, we choose FOREVER Storage as our preferred platform and recommend it 100% to clients. FOREVER offers fabulous services and products to compliment For Always’ management of our client’s memory keeping needs - from the FOREVER Box digitization service (for items that we do not digitize in-house); FOREVER Streaming to provide you a personal streaming service for family movies; top-quality books, gifts, cards and more through FOREVER’s Create & Print; to a well-planned suite of software to manage your digital life and create fully customized digital albums.

Your photos and memories are a message to the future. We hope you will choose For Always to help you deliver it.