Make a photo album

I have in my possession the Vaughans, from 2005 to 2007. I am so happy about this. The kids and I went over it and over it. They were so excited. There were so many memories. I can’t believe how cool it is. Blurb really delivered. I will definitely use them again. Some comments (they are pretty common sense though, and I do a fair amount of printing of images and it didn’t even dawn on me)
1. The images print darker than the screen. They clearly try to match the images to the screen as best they can, but all of the pictures that were a little dark on the screen are darker in print. You will want to increase the colour/brightness of these images before sending.
2. The book is a little smaller than I imagined. They have the dimensions on the site, so you can quickly check before ordering. It is a good sized book, but for some reason I thought it would be bigger (mind you, I could have ordered the one that is one size larger…)

I ordered the book with premium paper, which limited the size of it to 160 pages. I have no idea what the non-premium paper is, but the premium paper is great. The book looks like a real book. Thank you Blurb!!!

PS. They ship UPS to Canada, and I had no shortage of problems with them as usual, so if you are getting your books shipped to Canada, I would request a different method of shipping.

2005 until 2007 is in the bag. Done. 160 pages of familial goodness. Great trips, fantastic memories, holidays and birthdays… It was so much fun doing it. So awesome to relive the memories. As I worked on it, I made myself a mental promise to take more and more photos. I hated looking for things that I remembered us doing, like Thanksgiving 2006 in Oregon, and not finding any photos. That said, there were a million things that I forgot that I rediscovered going through my digital photos, and reliving them was a pleasure without value. I will be ordering copies of this book for both of the grandparents for Christmas, as well as myself and maybe 1 of each extra to put away for the kids when they grow up.
I will try to pick up 2000 to 2004 in a book (shouldn’t be that hard) by scanning all of the photos I need from our photo collection. After 2007, I will do each year as its own. 2008 should be 60 or 70 pages.
I won’t put this one in the done list until I have 2000 to 2004 complete.

My eldest is 8 and my youngest 6. This means I am at least 8 years behind schedule. I have been working on this with all of my digital photos for the last few years. I have 2006 pretty much complete, 2005 and 2007 are well underway and I can do 2008 with the photos I have in my computer. That means I will have to go through our actual, non digital photos to find everything up to 2004. 2004 is a bit of an enigma though, I am not sure if I was digital or not or if I was even taking photos that year…. Oh well, I need to get the photo books made and then we will have another form or well formatted back up to our family photos, and my kids will have their past forever!