I wanted to share the photo book that the Toddler Art Group presented me a couple of weeks ago. The image above, of the children's paintings is one of the pages from the book. It records the year and a half that we've been meeting, beginning with photos of the kiddos when they were just a year old and going all the way up to the Big Brother Party we had for Henry just before Christmas. It was such a touching gift, and made all the more so by the comments that each of the moms included at the end. Thank you! Here are a couple of my favorite pages.
I love photo books. I never got into scrapbooking, but enjoy putting together photo books on the computer with a combination of text and images. We create one every time we take a big trip (not too often), to celebrate each year of Maia's life (two so far), and for special occasions (I made one to celebrate my first 30 years of life, Harry made me one for Valentine's Day last year). One of these days I might put together a photo book of Maia's artwork...
We use KodakGallery to create our books since that's the site we use to share our digital photos, but many other photo-sharing sites allow you to create photo books as well. The book above was made through Macintosh. Ali Edwards is an artist with a cool blog called {A}. Check out her post about photo books that she is creating for Shutterfly. She also has an article about Making a Successful Everyday Life Book on Shutterfly's site.
