Just in case you haven’t been so good about keeping a baby book… photo websites make it super easy to make gorgeous coffee table type albums that will make you look so very together.
When my mom and I took a very special girls trip to Italy to celebrate my 30th birthday (thanks Mom!), I made her a fancy hardback photo book using the iPhoto software. She loves it and it has a place of honor in her living room. Other options:
- Make something gorgeous with your own hands and printer from Rag & Bone
- Shutterfly Photo Book (now on sale) would be oh-so-nice as a year-end book with one pic per page
- Kodak Gallery / Ofoto has a darling mini book that’s great for stuffing in your purse in addition to the bigger hardbound books
- See some other great examples at My Publisher.
Note: At Ragandbone.com, enter the discount code “rookiemoms” at checkout to save 20% on your entire order. Expires one week from Sunday, 08/19/07.
This 40% discount code on Winkflash.com works for photo books: wx82gf47. Supposedly.
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These are really nice. My MIL has gotten us two of these from Ofoto (so far! she’s a bit camera and picture obsessed).
Thanks for the reminder about this idea — I think I’m gonna have to make one of the Little Man as a present for her next visit (Labor Day — woohoo! heh).
My husband and I did this when TJ was first born. We kept notes throughout the pregnancy and interspersed them with photos of me and my growing belly. The last page is a photo of TJ on his first day in the world.
I recently made one at Snapfish and it looks gorgeous! Photo books always a hit!
Have you tried these guys?
http://www.mycustomstory.com/
I haven’t, but I’d really like to make our baby a board book of family around the world. Maybe for Christmas…
i love these photo books. as i upload the albums, i choose the ones that will go in the photo book, the site (shutterfly is what i use) saves my book as long as i want…and then i wait til they are running a sale to buy the book. this is the only way i make photo albums now, and i love it.
plus i feel very safe — if heaven forbid something happened to my photo albums, i could go back to shutterfly and re-purchase them, since they’re saved. a little doomsday of me, but hey…who hasn’t thought about what you would snatch from your house in a fire/flood/emergency…
I received a photo book for a gift and I loved it.
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