Every year I underestimate how much work I need to allocate to create my photobook. It's my fault, really. I am such a type A (okay, I'm finally admitting to this behavior) that I can't just go with filling in the pictures anywhere. No, I have to have them in the correct order AND there has to be sentimental quotes/ saying / cute embellishments etc. Really what I want is a scrapbook but without the work of scrapbooking. Is that too much to ask for? I have found that Shutterfly is actually going more towards the digital scrapbook movement and has added all these awesome stickers, ribbons, sayings, backgrounds, layouts, idea layouts... Add a couple more hours to my creation time now :-)
This year, I really am cutting it to the wire getting my book done in time - especially when you consider that I have to mail 1 book to Arizona and another to Nevada. And of course I don't start until ... say about 8 pm?
I finally finish and I go to preview the book. Only, I can't figure out how to get out of the preview. So I press the back button. DON'T PRESS THE BACK BUTTON!!! Leave it sit, be patient, JUST WAIT A MOMENT because even though the website auto saves, it did not auto save before the preview and I lost about 2 hours worth of work!!!!!!
So I redo half the book and some how end up with 4 extra pages instead of 2 but I'm not going to try and figure it out. Nope, blaze ahead!!
Long story short - here is a link to my Christmas card and then photobook. Which, after all the work I put into it, I *think* is pretty good. By the way - the picture on the Christmas card was done by The Salty Peanut Photography http://www.thesaltypeanutphotography.com/ She was an awesome photographer to work with and we are very pleased with the results!!
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I LOVE it! :-)
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