When my girls were little, I got into the whole scrapbooking craze and chronicled every life event in a scrapbook! I loved capturing those moments and it made me take more pictures and take pictures with purpose, thinking what I could journal and how to get the right shot for the journal entry. I even loved working on the scrapbooks and reliving the moments. And to this day, my whole family loves looking at the scrapbooks!
But I didn't like the mess, all the bits of papers strewn all over. After a while my back would hurt. I never knew which embellishments to buy and ended up always buying waaaaay more than I needed...and then not knowing what to do with them! lol. Sometimes the embellishments I loved in the store made a page bubble and bunch under it's page protector--they all look so good without the page protectors! But throw them under plastic and it ripples and bunches and looks messy! Sometimes I cut a picture in the wrong spot or too small. I would mess up on little things when I was almost done....
Last year, a friend gave us a photo book as a gift and I was awestruck by how beautiful it was! I loved the simple design and the beautiful layouts! I literally "scrapped" my "Year in Review" album and instead, made a photo book. My family was blown away by the quality. I have used both snapfish and shutterfly. I thout shutterfly's quality was better.
Now that we got a Mac, I am very excited to use iphoto to make a photo book. I love how intuitive the program is and how wonderful all the editing software is...I can't stop playing with it!
