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This wall-mount easel frame holds everything from a photo to a book. Your picture is held in place with two decorative metal clamps. On sale now at pottery barn for $69.

New from five and a half are these photojournals ($22) which would make for great stocking stuffers. These journals are handmade, and filled with recollected papers such as vellum, archival drawing paper, Chinese rice paper, and newsprint. The front and back covers are made from black and white silver gelatin prints, with an envelope-style pocket inside the back cover.

Cute felt stockings from Plum Party with a little photo frame to hold your snapshot. Pictured above: white felt and brown felt circle design. (Other designs available, too.)

Etsy shop photoglassworks has some nice little hand-crafted photo necklaces.

I want one!
Another old favorite is back again! Based on the royal red and gold colors of traditional Chinese royalty, the Limited Edition 4A-105 is simply one of the most stunning mechanical cameras ever produced! And this guy isn’t just another pretty face – there’s a glowing 4-element Haiou lens, an auto-advance crank, a multi-exposure override button, and a host of other awesome features to behold. Like its Seagull brethren, it uses medium format film for superior color, resolution, and enlargements.

Seagull TLR camera, $285 from the lomographic society.

A favorite photo in a lovely frame makes for a great gift. I’m liking this drawing room frame in flocked velvet from Anthropologie.

Coasters are not just for us semi-‘Type A’ folk – they really are useful. Really! And when designed with your favorite photos, they are a great way to liven up your next drink with friends. Plus they’re a fun and easy gift to make for the holidays.

1. Buy some plain cork coasters (available at craft stores – I used the Duga coasters from IKEA) or cut your own coaster-sized cork pieces from a cork roll or cork tile. Four by four inches is a nice size if you’re cuttin’ your own.
2. For super water-proofness, cut out some peel-and-stick laminate sheets to fit over images you want to use and stick them on.
3. Using the cork coaster as a template, cut out your laminated images.
4. Glue image back to the coaster and let dry under the weight of a book or two. (I used Zip Dry paper glue.)
5. Wrap ‘em up with the recipient’s libation of choice.

[This is a piece I wrote up for the latest JPG magazine. Interested to see more? Subscribe here and get a discount while you're at it.]

If sending family photos out at the holidays is not your thing. Insert Family Here card from Knock Knock.

Multiple choice option greeting inside: “My family isn’t photogenic. / I didn’t have a photo of “your family.” / I forgot to have a family. / Maybe next year.”

There’s something oddly appealing about this – a fuzzy velvety flocked frame. Furame.

Don’t forget to enter your guess in the comments – the first person to correctly identify the state where the picture in the diy book frame was taken will win the book frame and a pack of fotoclips!

Update: Joshua guessed the state – it’s Kansas! Thanks to everyone who guessed and have a happy weekend.

Cute, cute, cute. Deery Lou digital camera, also from Urban Outfitters.

Urban outfitters always has some fun photo stuff to check out. The bell jar photo clip has a black base detailed with 3 black roses and a curved metal clip to hold a photo. Also cool – the old school photo album.

Enameled wheel and lattice frames from Shanghai Tang.

Ivan from ATYPYK sent over a picture (above) of a cool DIY book frame. (Thanks Ivan!) I made one myself and it was a lot of fun. Here’s how:

1. Find an old book with a cool cover – check out the dollar/free bins of books at used bookstores. You want to find an old book with a sturdy cover that will look good with a frame cut out of it.
2. On the inside of the front cover, trace around the photo you want to frame.
3. Use a strong knife (I used a box-cutter) to carefully cut along the lines down to the book cloth, but not through it.
4. Peel away the bookboard, leaving the book cloth still attached to the book. Cut a smaller opening in the book cloth, leaving a one-inch border of book cloth around the frame opening. Cut the cloth diagonally in each corner and fold the book cloth over the edge and tape or glue to the inside cover. (This gives the frame opening a cleaner look).
5. For a white border like the frame above, cut out a smaller opening from the first page in the book and tape your photo to the back of this page.

That’s it. You can skip step four and five and instead cut straight through the cover and cloth for the frame, if you don’t want to bother with the whole wrapping the book cloth around the edges part.

Here’s the one I made. Be the first person to correctly identify the state where the picture in the frame was taken and you’ll win this book frame and a pack of fotoclips! Please enter your guesses in the comments.

Update: Joshua was the first to guess the correct state – it’s Kansas! Thanks to everyone who guessed and have a happy weekend.

Cool and creative use of photography with this photo-forested bedroom by Jane and Darko (as seen in the latest issue of O at Home). View a slide show of their home here.

Jane and Darko disguised a row of freestanding Ikea closets with a photomural they custom ordered from gallerystreet.com. The couple chose a photograph they took while hiking near New Paltz, New York. “We sent the company an eight-by-ten-inch print,” Jane says. “You give them the dimensions of your wall, and they send the mural back to you in rolls just like wallpaper.” Find similar products at environmentalgraphics.com or muralsyourway.com.

The bed is made up with forest-print pillows from gallerystreet.com (using photographs taken by the couple).

Cute little woodgrain frame for your photo on this holiday card from froy & olo design.

Sugar paper has a selection of letterpressed holiday cards that will hold a 3.5 x 5 photo. Comes in boxed sets of 10 for $18.

Issue 7 of JPG Magazine is out now AND you can now order subscriptions!

Plus, they are offering fototiller readers a special gift: A $5-off subscription coupon. Just use code FOTOTILLER or subscribe here and the discount will be automatically be included.

A great gift idea for the holidays, especially if you order the gift box subscription which comes with the JPG ultrapod and JPG stickers.

(And check out the article I wrote on DIY holiday photo gifts!)

Snow & graham make beautiful letterpressed cards. I especially love the design on their cherry blossom photocards. They also make these cardinals holiday photocards, which are quite nice. The cards come in boxed sets of six – just slip a 4×6 photo right into the die-cut curved opening.

And another lovely photo card from Elum, the spiral snowflake photo card.

I love this very Victorian letterpressed photoframe card from Elum. Holds a 4×6 photo with the greeting ‘Happy Holidays.’

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting some great holiday photo cards as well as some DIY ideas to use your photos to make your own holiday cards.

First off, some lovely letterpress photo cards from Night Owl Paper Goods. They carry two styles – the see-thru photo mailer (stick on your photo and mail in the see-thru envelope) and the photo easel card (opens up to become a little easel frame for your photo). See some of the detail in the pictures below.

And for more holiday card fun, check out all the wonderful finds over at poppytalk. They are all fabulous!

I’d seen Umbra’s floor-standing fotofalls before, however at 5 feet tall, it just seemed like it would always be in the way. The fotofalls desktop, on the other hand, looks like the perfect size.

Create a unique desktop display with this unusual photo holder. Use the 18 clips to hold photos, cards, keepsakes and artwork. It’s very easy to assemble and allows you to change the display quickly and easily for your very own personal art gallery. Size: 14″ x 17″ so it’s sized just right for a mantle, shelf, desktop or tabletop.

Grab your cameras on your way to vote tomorrow and you can prticipate in the AIGA Polling Place Photo Project. Organizers of the project are hoping to collect photos of all the polling places in America.

The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action. By documenting their local voting experience on November 7, voters can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.

via kottke.org

Love the vintage-inspired fabric on this photo clutch from urban outfitters (also comes in an iridescent mock-croc). Holds 16 4×6 photos.

Fun little stocking stuffers for your favorite shutterbug – the click! camera pin from Fred Flare.

Super fly meets super spy with a cute and quirky mini plastic camera pin! No one can resist smiling when you sport this neato piece! Button on top makes the perfect flash! Pin is 2.5”x1.5”x.5” This item offered in assorted colors.

Cool mailable photo frame from the photojojo store.

It’s fun to get a little fancy for the holidays, and these picture frame napkin rings will do the trick. They make cool little placecard holders for your holiday dinners, especially if you use childhood photos of your guests. And they also would make a nice hostess gift.