Photo Books

I took a blog break in early December and told you all I was working on some photo books for gifts.
Several of you contacted me and asked that I share a little about them after Christmas, so I'm doing that today.
I do a book for each of our granddaughters every year.  I do the book for a year of their lives, and since their birthdays are in Oct, Nov, and Dec, it works well to finish them and give them at Christmas.
I use the photos I take all year and my daughters are good at sharing their pictures with me too.  I'm also not above stealing pictures from their facebook pages!

Here's Cassie's book.

Here's Ruby and Alaina's.  Their books are always similar because of the same events, but they each have their own things in them too.

Here's a page from Alaina's book.  This is the page I did about my Dad after he passed, with lots of pictures of Great Grandpa and her. Ruby's book has a similar page, but with more pictures of her with my Dad.

This is from Cassie's book with pictures I took of her on the 4th of July.

My goal is always to work on these as events happen, so when it gets close to December, I'm not in a mad rush.  Somehow, I always seem to be in a rush though, and this year was especially bad because I'd been so busy with my Dad's estate.  I had some late nights but got them done on time.

I also do a book for Bob and I with events from our year, and I'm working on getting that done now.  It's so fun to look back at those photos!

I've tried several different companies for this, but I now always use Mixbook. I'm not getting any money for this, just telling you who I like. Their books always look professional, print up looking just like it looks on the computer and are user friendly.  There's lots of options for fonts, backgrounds, layouts and stickers.
This is a great way to preserve memories and I enjoy doing it!