i have been doing photo books (using creative memories program) saving the pages and uploading to snapfish to print leather bound books. they are less exxy than CM and momento, but still pretty good quality. i will do cheapy big w soft cover ones for DD to have a look at - or will print through artscow when they have freebies or good bargains (we also print these options for gifts)
i have, for the past couple of weeks, been working on DD's 2nd year photo book. i'm having a great time doing all the layouts and journalling. it comes out to about 80 pages (maybe more) - her first year book was 76 pages - plus some photos taken by Sam (raven) in another book, plus her cake smash, plus her actual birthday book... this year i have been a little quieter with the camera lol
the snap fish ones were really great value when they had either a buy one get one free offer or 40% off just before Christmas - i even got around to printing our photos from our wedding!!
Thanks for all the ideas ladies! You got me motivated and last night I started working on and saving a photo book for Izzy's first year! I love that you can work on them and save them! Do you think I should do a separate one for each year of the kids lives? So Iz would have 4 of them and J would have 3? or combine them from when he was born and just do year to year?! I m not sure how to do go about it!
i would do them individually - when they are older, it is easier to give them their own books than to work out who gets what. you could have photos or pages that cross into both books because both kids are in them - and then if you are journalling, you can write the messages more about the child that the book is about (so, when DS was born, you could have the comments about him meeting his big sister - and in hers, about how she reacted, how she helped etc). it might come up a little more exxy to do it that way when it comes to printing, but i would do it so that there are no issues later. if you're doing "events" you could print two copies of the exact same book for them to have later.
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