Gleeful Gifts Christmas Card
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Making My Lists.... Checking them Twice
How does this time of year always sneak up on me? Gee, wait-- I know.... it goes like this: Halloween (costumes, parties, trick or treat), Thanksgiving (20+ folks at our house), twin birthday (a tea party for 18 girls which I created and hosted), Hanukkah (8 crazy nights).....and oh, the rest of the holiday season!
I did create a photo book for Jake’s first birthday recently and it came out just amazing. I did the Simple Path with a selection of photos. It would have been totally fool proof except the book came out a tad too long. I had to edit it down a bit and try to stick to a theme (mainly just Jake photos) and ended up with about 33 gorgeous pages. The full bleed photo pages were my favorite ones.
Some of my friends create a new book for every vacation they take and now have a shelf full of custom-memory books. Perhaps that could be a goal for us as well? I do a good job with our online albums but it would be great to have some more tangible keepsakes. Meanwhile, those books or calendars make amazing photo gifts.
Jake also scored a gorgeous birth announcement from Shutterfly. Back when the girls were born in 2003 getting custom-designed card stock announcements or cards was totally cost prohibitive. Those types of photo cards have gotten considerably more affordable.
So perhaps the new New Year’s resolution will be to keep up with my photo projects? Start a year-in-review book early in the year? I really treasure all our family photos – they deserve to be seen off the screen every now and again!
As usual, I am so far behind on holiday cards it's not even funny. I've selected the outfits, i'm attempting to update my mailing lists. But I have yet to wrangle all three kids in to some decent light and snap a picture that is card worthy.
Thankfully, I know I'll order my cards from Shutterfly. I like to try to find a holiday-neutral design that's not too Christmas-y but still festive enough.
I'm leaning towards some of the modern choices for Christmas Cards and loving the flat stationary choices.
Maybe something like this?
I did create a photo book for Jake’s first birthday recently and it came out just amazing. I did the Simple Path with a selection of photos. It would have been totally fool proof except the book came out a tad too long. I had to edit it down a bit and try to stick to a theme (mainly just Jake photos) and ended up with about 33 gorgeous pages. The full bleed photo pages were my favorite ones.
Some of my friends create a new book for every vacation they take and now have a shelf full of custom-memory books. Perhaps that could be a goal for us as well? I do a good job with our online albums but it would be great to have some more tangible keepsakes. Meanwhile, those books or calendars make amazing photo gifts.
Jake also scored a gorgeous birth announcement from Shutterfly. Back when the girls were born in 2003 getting custom-designed card stock announcements or cards was totally cost prohibitive. Those types of photo cards have gotten considerably more affordable.
So perhaps the new New Year’s resolution will be to keep up with my photo projects? Start a year-in-review book early in the year? I really treasure all our family photos – they deserve to be seen off the screen every now and again!
If I can't get my shopping in order perhaps I should peruse my photos for a few great last minute gift ideas. I certainly have enough content to work with!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Giving thanks....
Brown Orange Band 5x7 folded card
Unique party invitations and announcements by Shutterfly.
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