Digital Book Share

Sorry it's been so quiet around here. We're in that last week before Christmas, and I'm far from being ready. My girls have half days at school this week for finals, before getting a two week break. Which means I have extra kiddos here during the day, with school being out. Last weekend, we started our winter soccer league, which keeps our Saturdays busy. And to top it off, it's CHA time, which means I'm spending a lot of time doing general CHA planning, and will be creating projects as soon as the new product shows up on my doorstep. Yep. Just a little busy around here.

I thought I would quickly share my digital book that I blogged about HERE, as it arrived about a week ago. It took barely a week to come, and I couldn't wait to open it up. I think it turned out great I did second guess myself a bit, wondering if I should have upgraded the paper. I can't even remember how much extra the other two paper options were, but it might be worth checking into next time.

What I love the most about this book, is that at 163 pages, it's so nice and compact. It's not even as thick as a roll of my Bella Blvd designer tape. If you saw the other post, and that huge stack of albums, it'll show you how much shelf space I'm saving my combining all of those layouts into this one digital book.

I won't bore you with photos of every page in the book. Because honestly, all of the layouts are right here on my blog and in my galleries. But I thought I would just share a handful of pages, just to give you an idea of how it all turned out. And excuse the awesome glare on the left side of the photos. I obviously didn't take too much time taking these photos, or I would have ended up with some better ones to share.

So far, I've only handed out one stack of layouts to one previous daycare family. I've been too busy to track people down, and I don't think ahead enough to take them with me if I'm driving by one of their houses. Eventually, I will get them all handed out, so they can enjoy them.

Comments

[Natalie (QSOgirl)]

Laura, I think this is an incredible, amazing idea! [I've had your other post open in a tab in my browser ever since you posted it, and I've been meaning to comment, but you know how time gets :)] I love that you took the time to do this and have such a *beautiful* book as a result. I also love that you're giving the layouts to the families. Oh my goodness, what an amazing treasure for them! I also think that it's so cool that you followed your heart and did what felt best to you, rather than feeling some sort of pressure to do a certain thing or another with your layouts. You are such an inspiration!

And now, someday, I think it would be really cool to have a digital book of my own layouts. Someday!

[Deneen]

Love this project and think it turned out great!

[SandraA]

Love it! Your efforts really paid off.

[Diana Waite]

what an AWESOME idea--creative, and WONDERFUL! Merry Christmas to you!!

[Mendi Yoshikawa]

I'm way behind on my blog following, but I wanted to pop in and tell you how awesome this turned out. This would have been such a hard step for me to take (especially recycling some of the layout you couldn't locate to give away), but it must also feel SOOO good to clear out some much space and have everything in a condensed book. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. I love it! :)

[Teresa]

What a great book. I always scan all my layouts. It will be great to make books like this for my kids and I can keep my albums :)