Thursday, August 28, 2008
A musing...
So we recently rearranged our living room furniture. I guess in so doing we drew attention to all of mommy's scrapbooks that were in one of the bookcases we moved. The boys have had a lot of fun going through the photo albums, but I realized something this morning. Most of my photo albums are full of pictures of David. I don't have a single scrapbook for Isaac or Sammy!!! I haven't actually sat down and scrapbooked pictures in probably two or three years! I think part of this has to do with the fact that most of my pictures are digital. Our printer can print pictures just find, it just uses a ton of ink. And I've discovered the joy of blogging, so I usually just post images here. Problem with that though is that the kids can't sit and go through pages like they can a book. So, I have decided I need to just burn a bunch of my pictures to CD and go print them somewhere, or maybe print them on flickr or something... any suggestions? Snapfish? I just really think I need to make some tangible books of them so they don't feel like Mommy never takes pictures of them, even though I've got almost 2700 pictures on my iPhoto...
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I'd suggest making a digital scrapbook on Shutterfly. Creative Memories and other photo sites have the same thing but I always have like Shutterfly the best.
You can send pictures into Wal-Mart via online and have them printed. Wal-Greens has the same type of thing too.
I'd love to see you open a Flickr account though. You can protect it so that only people you label as friends and family can see it.
I do digital scrapbooks now. I use www.picaboo.com or www.snapfish.com and make books with my digital prints. And then pay like $25 and they print the actual book and send it. I love it!!
I like Snapfish or Shutterfly, but most online site are mostly same, if you pay for prints in advance they are a little cheaper. You have to pay for shipping and handling so that stinks, but they do come right to your door; you don't have to go the store and get them. They also have other things besides pictures, almost anything you can put a picture on you can get from an online store. Costco has cheap digital prints too but I have never used them.
I like snapfish...Just make the books online and they print them out bound and everything, it's nice. Of corse, I like to do slideshows on the TV with music, they boys LOVE IT!
I'm going to paste in something from Laurel's blog: Last night at Enrichment we talked about family history. I was asked to give a mini-lesson on blogging and how it relates to keeping family records. I am completely in love with the Blog Book that I recently made and was happy to share it with everyone.
I am so excited about this! You can go to Blurb.com and download their software for free. It automatically uploads your entire blog so you can then arrange it all into a book. For a 160-page soft cover book it cost $42 including shipping!
Make one for yourself!
That's all I know. :)
These are all incredible ideas! I may do one of each! Thanks!
I like scrapbookpictures.com for printing photos. Flat rate shipping is always a plus.
You can also turn your blog (or parts of your blog) into a book at blurb.com. I did this with my 2007 blog and plan on doing it every year.
I think they need a hard copy they can hold. Just think you could have ben scrapbooking with me the whole time I lived there.
I am in california and Spenc is in Korea. We are having a blast. My internet is slow so it's hard to get pics. to load.
Sara just thought I would let you know that both Snapfish and Shutterfly are having great sales but they end today(9/3) (sorry just found out myself). Go to www.babycheapskate.com to see the deals that they have, then log on to one of the sites and have a blast.
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