Among the New Years Resolutions that you made this year perhaps one of them was to organize or "do something with" your photos. There are dozens of ways to do this and here is one to get you thinking.
Photo books are available on nearly every photo site from Shutterfly to York Photo to your local Costco. Photo books take a bit of time to put together but are wonderful memories to have. They usually start around $20.00 for roughly 30 pages (it depends upon the site) and then you can add pages if you need to.
I made some of these for Christmas just to recap the year and my family loved them. I turned them into short stories about the family from their points of view. I think they turned out great but I am a little biased. Everyone likes to flip through a book and be reminded of the fun times they had that year.
So as you are either organizing photos from last year or looking to the coming year for some new ideas think about these and see what you can come up with that works for you.
- Basic Photo Book-Simply arrange your photos as you'd like for a given period of time. Year, month, season, etc.
- Story Book- Turn a year of photos into a story. Make one for each of your children and tell the story of their year from either their perspective of the perspective of a narrator. They will love this keepsake now and when they are older.
- Vacation Photo Books- Put together a book of either each vacation separately of all vacations from the year into one book.
- Favorites- Make sure through the year you take pictures of your or your families favorite things. Foods, restaurants, activities, places, etc. At the end of the year put together a favorite book.
- Quotes- This would be fun for little kids because they tend to say some very interesting things.
- Then and Now-See if you can find pictures from your childhood and recreate them with your siblings. This would make a great Anniversary present for your parents.
- Art work-Take pictures of children's artwork and turn it into a book so you can save the pieces of art with out actually saving each piece of art.
LilblueBoo.com offers her detailed ideas on how to get started and what you may want to include in your photo book. You can read her post here:
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