I love creating photo books. My husband started me off with a photo book he created for me as a gift. He took many of the photos from my first press trip to LA when I met Sir Elton John and turned it into a cool photo book so that I’ll be able to look back on that amazing trip with fond memories.
Since that first book I have gone on to create other books including a book filled with photos of my husband with our children (Father’s Day gift) as well as book with various photos from the course of the year.
I just finished creating a photo book for 2012. I’ve taken photos from the start of the year until now and turned them into a book. I plan on using photos from this point on until the end of 2012 and put them in another book. I had so many wonderful photos that I wanted to not only preserve, but also share with others, that there is no way I could fit a whole year into one book.
Check out some images from the book I just make including the front cover (I covered up our family name for safety reasons), a couple of interior pages and the back cover. The back cover features a smiley face that was made in a bowl using ketchup at a restaurant called Johnny Rockets. My husband and I were on one of our rare “dates” and the waiter made the smiley face with the ketchup. I thought it was cute and took a photo of it. I thought it would make a great ending to this book.
I included photos from our condo. Our condo is on the market in hope that we can sell it and buy a house upstate closer to family and friends. Since taking photos around our home is not something we’d normally do I thought it would be nice to take some photos for the photo book so if we are blessed and lucky enough to move and buy a house we’ll also have photos of our first home to look back upon and reminice about.
Of course I had to include photos of my children and my four-legged children too. 🙂
I used SnapFish to make my photo book. I love the quality of the books so they are always my “go to” source to make photobooks. I love the variety of sizes, pages (colors/designs) and other features that they offer. Not only that the prices are great.
SnapFish has a new lay flat book. That is the kids of book style I used for my most recent creation. I love the idea of being able to open up to a specific page and lie it on the table to look at rather than hold the book open with my hands.
The lie flat book can have from 20-90 pages and include up to 15 photos per page. It’s SnapFish’s largest book and features premium quality binding. This is the perfect book to hold family memories or perhaps showcase photos from a special occasion like a wedding, birth of a child or a once in a life time vacation.
The book starts off at $49.99 for 20 pages. For each additional page there is an extra nominal charge.
The quality of photo books from SnapFish is amazing. These are books that will last for many years to come and can be passed down from generation to generation. One day I want to find pictures of my grandparents and great-grandparents and create a special photo book about them that I can pass on to my children so that they have photos of the relatives they were never fortunate enough to meet. I also want to make photo books for each of my children that contains precious photos from their childhood.
From now on I’m going to use the lie flat book option. I think it’s a great way to view the pages of the book.
If you would like to check out SnapFish and see what other great photo products they offer visit www.SnapFish.com. You can also check them out on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/SnapFish) and on Twitter (@SnapFishbyHP).
When my photo book arrives I’ll be sure to share images of it here on my blog. 🙂
Kimberly
*I received a free photo book sample in order to do this post/review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own and are not ifluenced in any way.