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7 Great Ideas For Spending Quality Time At Home With Your Family

On April 17, 2020

There’s no better time than the present to learn fun ways to spend quality time with your family. Keeping things fresh and exciting is the best way to bond during difficult periods and keep everyone entertained.

Here are seven great ideas for spending quality time at home with your family.

Schedule a Games Night

Set a standing date for an at-home game night. Do a weekly rotation that allows everyone to choose a game. If your options are limited, reach out to community members and do a temporary swap so that everyone gets a chance to play something new.

Instead of defaulting to the same old board games, shake things up with an RPG. Grab a D&D dice set online and start a campaign that spans over a few evenings. Alternatively, look at interactive multimedia games like JackBox, so that the whole family can play from their devices.

Have an Ultimate Movie Bucketlist

Set a timer and have everyone sit down and write their favorite movies. This is an opportunity for the parents to shine. Write down a bunch of movies from your childhood that you want to share with your children. With streaming services and online portals, it’s easier than ever to revisit your old favorites.

If you’re at a loss for what movies to include, there are plenty of lists online that outline the best family movies of all time. You can even schedule themes or marathons for extended periods of downtime.

Schedule Tech-Free Hours

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. Schedule tech-free hours in your household in which everyone leaves their phones and tablets in a common area. Use this time to come together and talk about your day or share some snacks and conversation.

Pick up a few conversation prompt cards to discover new things about the people you live with or play a rousing game of “Would You Rather?”

Get Cooking Together

Cooking is an essential life skill that children can start to learn at a young age. Empower your kids to choose a recipe each week that they’d like to make for supper. Grab the supplies and have them in the kitchen helping.

Young children can help with measuring, stirring, and collecting items. Older kids can learn how to cut food safely and cook it with supervision and help. Cooking together is a great bonding experience, and also takes the pressure off the parents for meal planning.

Schedule a Porch Project Photoshoot

The Porch Project is a family photo shoot project in which a photographer snaps a couple of pictures of your family sitting on your doorstep. The idea is that it promotes the #stayathome movement. You can create your own Porch Project photo with a smartphone.

Schedule your photo shoot as you would a regular appointment. Give everyone time to pick out a fancy outfit that they love and put themselves together. This is an excellent way to feel human, especially if you’ve been in the house for a while. Print those photos out or have them commissioned into a custom piece of art using one of these Instapainting packages.

Take an Online Course

Learn new things together by taking an online course. You can do a child-centric program like The CEO Kid or something broader that you can learn together as a family. Keep an open mind when choosing an online course and give everyone a chance to pick something that appeals to them.

Some ideas for online courses include:

learning a new language
learning how to code
taking dance lessons
personal development courses
fitness training (yoga, for example)
acting classes

Pursue your passions and learn some neat things together as a family.

Get Gardening

Gardening offers a lot of benefits to families looking to spend quality time together at home. For example:

It’s versatile. You can grow a garden in your kitchen window, on your balcony, or in your yard.
It benefits the environment.
You can grow healthy food to eat later.
You can offer seedlings as gifts.
It’s a science lesson.
It teaches responsibility.

Choose some things to grow and have your kids be responsible for various tasks. You can also create a log of your experience, with the kids adding their observations each day.

With these seven fun family activities, you have fun together while being safe at home.

Wendy Dessler

Wendy Dessler is a super-connector who helps businesses find their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. She frequently writes about the latest advancements in digital marketing and focuses her efforts on developing customized blogger outreach plans depending on the industry and competition.

Meet A Photo Organizer: Lisa Winningkoff of Photos | Stories | Legacies

By Lisa Winningkoff

On December 12, 2019

In Customer Testimonials

I’m Lisa Winningkoff, a wife, mother of two young adults, CPA, and professional photo organizer based in New Orleans. After working in a corporate role for more than 25 years, my position was eliminated as the result of a merger. Rather than mourn that loss, I looked at the experience as a gift that allowed me to design the next chapter of my life.

I knew I wanted to do something fun and creative that will delight others while making the most of my skills and background. I have been organized since childhood, and I really enjoyed creating photo albums of family vacations. It didn’t take long for me to realize that helping others preserve, share, and enjoy their photos was a dream come true. My next chapter had arrived.

As a professional photo organizer, I create libraries of memories to share and enjoy by managing lifetime collections of photos and stories. Most clients I work with have two main goals: (1) to know that their photos and memories are safe; and (2) to be able to enjoy and share them in a variety of ways. That might mean beautiful photo albums, lovely framed prints, or a digital display of their favorite moments. It’s so rewarding to see a client’s anxiety transform into relief and joy when they get the chance to see and appreciate their photos. It’s the best feeling in the world.

Since photo organizing as a career and an industry is relatively new, I had a lot to learn. I turned to trusted advisors Sherra Humphreys and Rita Norton from PPO Studio to help me hit the ground running. In addition to being trainers and business coaches, they are active professional photo organizers with VIP clients, making them an excellent resource of information. Their training proved to be invaluable in enhancing my business and technical skills.

What’s your favorite holiday photo? Can you tell us the story behind it?

One of my favorite holiday photos is of my sister and me on Christmas Eve in 1972. Christmas is such a magical time of the year, especially when you’re a child. At the time, I was five and my sister was three. There we were, standing in front of the tree in matching dresses and jumpers (and matching shoes and socks!) that our mother made for us. New Orleans weather in December is famously unpredictable—some years it’s freezing, and other years you need air conditioning to survive. It must have been on the warm side in 1972, because we were wearing short sleeves, above-the-knee dresses, and no tights.

What I like most about this vintage photo is the innocence and anticipation on our faces. If you look closely, you can see that there are few gifts under the tree. This indicates our eagerness to get on with Christmas Eve and go to sleep so that Santa could visit our home in the middle of the night to deliver our gifts. As soon as we’d wake up the next day, we’d jump out of bed, wake up our parents far too early, and rush to the tree to see what was under it.

Much has changed since 1972, but seeing this photo makes me pause, reminisce, and appreciate how sweet it is to hold on to that magical feeling.

That’s such a lovely story! We hope you’ve been able to share it on your Nixplay Frames.

Yes, and I absolutely love my Nixplay frames! I have one on my office desk and another in our living room. Sometimes when I’m working, a fun photo of my children will pop up on the frame and catch my eye. I’ll stop what I’m doing and take a little break to smile and enjoy the memories. Sometimes, if it’s a particularly silly photo, I’ll even laugh out loud.

What I love about the Nixplay frames is how the transition from one photo to the next grabs your attention in a way that a static framed photo does not. If I see a favorite photo when I walk through the living room, five or ten minutes can easily pass while I stand there just watching the show.

As a pro photo organizer, I really appreciate that I can manage the Nixplay frames remotely for my clients. I would create customized playlists for different family gatherings and occasions, and they would always attract a small crowd. One client experienced a death in her family, and she was planning a gathering at her home following the funeral. She called me to gather some photos of her loved one, but she was clearly distraught with grief and overwhelmed with everything else going on. So I told her I would handle this for her.

She was concerned it would take too long or be too much trouble, but in less than 30 minutes I was able to search her organized photo collection, select the best photos of her loved one, create a playlist, and publish it to her frame. I texted her to check if the photos were displaying, and she cried tears of joy. She was so happy to have a loving display that the rest of her family could enjoy, and I was happy to have helped her at such a difficult time.

Inevitably, people are drawn to the frames to see photos that they might not otherwise have an opportunity to view. It really is such a fun and flexible way to enjoy your photos!

Elevating Photo Organization With Nixplay

By Sherra Humphreys Rita Norton

On December 4, 2019

In Customer Testimonials

We (Sherra Humphreys and Rita Norton) are co-founders of PPO Studio, where we provide training for professional photo organizers. In addition to online courses and forms for photo organizers, we host an annual invitation-only Platinum Training event for professional photo organizers.

We started in Destin, FL and then hosted our second, third, and fourth years in Nashville, TN. This is our fifth year, and we’re back in Destin for a mastermind training, wherein we take a deep dive into photo organizing as a profitable business.

It’s a unique combination of smart businesswomen who want to connect with like-minded colleagues and bring their business to the next level. We focus on doing what it takes to build a profitable photo organizing business. Our small group training gives us the opportunity to dive deep with 1:1 conversations that uncover all sorts of business challenges that we can help them work through. We work closely with the ladies to elevate their businesses and provide them with tangible changes to implement, resulting in more profitability and increased passion for a business they already love.

As professional photo organizers, we’re always looking for ways to thrill our clients with their family photos. One of our favorite ways is through a digital frame. Once we have organized the best of the best of the client’s digital photos, loading those photos to the Nixplay website and creating a playlist for them is a beautiful way for them to enjoy their photos. Keeping a copy of digital photos on a family’s Nixplay website (cloud) is a great way to keep your photos safe. Plus, the Nixplay frame’s elegant design always impresses!

For the past two years, we have been thrilled to introduce Nixplay as our featured Premium sponsor. Nixplay gave a welcome reception, a live demonstration of their frames, and delivered a presentation of marketing ideas that taught the attendees how to “wow” their VIP clients with the Nixplay frame. We also love surprising our attendees with Nixplay Smart photo frames that they get to take home with them. The frames get better and better each year, and the HD screen quality of the frame we gave away this 2019 was no exception. Simply stunning!

With the holidays upon us, sorting through your family’s photo collection with the help of a professional photo organizer can really be magical. Those special holiday photos can all be put on one playlist in your Nixplay account and played throughout the holidays. It’s really fun to see photos in a theme and that’s how we often use the playlists for our clients. The frame sparks conversations and memories that help us all remember the stories that go with our photos. Remembering those we’ve lost and those we love…from babies to grandparents, our photos help us share stories for generations to come!

Introducing Shared Playlists: The Easiest Way To Share Moments With Your Loved Ones

By Mars Salazar

On November 14, 2019

In Customer Testimonials

We’re sure you took dozens of photos at your loved ones’ most meaningful milestones, whether it’s your child’s graduation, your best friend’s birthday party, or your sister’s wedding. The question is, how can you easily and safely share your photos with them?

Nixplay’s new Shared Playlists feature might just be the perfect solution.

With just a few taps on the Nixplay App, you can share a playlist filled with photos and videos with up to 10 friends. When you update your shared playlist with new photos and videos, the people you shared it with will instantly see them on their frame. They can also upload photos on the shared playlist you made, allowing you to stay updated on each other’s lives.

Here’s how you can share a playlist:

Open the Nixplay App, go to ‘Photos’, and select a playlist.
Tap on the share icon (beside the three dots icon) at the upper right of the playlist.
Select the Nixplay user whom you’d like to share the playlist with and tap ‘Share’. You can also invite a friend by entering their email address or Nixplay Username.

Share your playlists today, stay connected forever. Download the Nixplay Mobile App from Google Play or the App Store to start sharing your favorite moments.

Visit the Nixplay Knowledge Base to learn more about Shared Playlists:

Mars Salazar

Marianne is Nixplay’s Web Content Editor. Her hobbies include exploring new places, playing table tennis, and cuddling puppies. Send her a message at marianne.salazar@nixplay.com.

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Oktoberfest

By Mars Salazar

On September 23, 2019

In Customer Testimonials

Attending Oktoberfest in Munich should be on everyone’s bucket list. It’s two weeks of beer, food, and loads of fun. If you’re planning to attend this event, here are some fun trivia you should know beforehand.

It wasn’t originally a beer festival.

You read that right: Oktoberfest wasn’t always all about beer. In fact, not a single drop was served during the very first Oktoberfest! Held in 1810, the event originally commemorated the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and his wife, Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. In fact, the open space where Oktoberfest celebrations are held is called Theresienwiese, or Theresa’s fields.

You have to wait for the go signal to drink.

You can’t just enter a tent and request for a beer stein immediately. First, there’s an official gun salute, followed by the mayor announcing ‘O’zapft is!’, then the first mug of beer is offered to the Bavarian minister-president. When this ceremony is done, only then can the drinking commence.

The beer served here is special.

Each year, 7.5 million liters of beer are specially brewed within Munich for Oktoberfest by just six breweries: Augustiner-Bräu, Löwenbräu, Spatenbräu, Hacker-Pschorr-Bräu, and Paulaner-Bräu, and Staatliches Hofbräu-München. Oktoberfestbier, as the special brew is called, is usually darker and stronger than most beers, with up to six percent alcohol due to a higher hop content.

You should dress for the occasion.

If you really want to get into the Oktoberfest spirit, you should deck yourself out in traditional Bavarian garb. For girls, it’s a dirndl, and for guys, it’s lederhosen. But if that’s not your style, you can deck yourself out in Adidas’ Oktoberfest sneakers, which have a waterproof leather upper and a Bavarian flag-emblazoned insole.

There’s also a wine tent.

Not in the mood for beer? There’s a tent that serves 15 different types of wine, as well as champagne and sparkling wines. Oh, and there’s around 140 food stands and eateries too–perfect for filling up before drinking!

Get into the Oktoberfest spirit with Nixplay! We’re marking the occasion by giving you up to 25 percent off selected Nixplay Frames, only until October 9. Prost!

Mars Salazar

Marianne is Nixplay’s Web Content Editor. Her hobbies include exploring new places, playing table tennis, and cuddling puppies. Send her a message at marianne.salazar@nixplay.com.