I have visions of creating gorgeous albums, every year, for my children to pour over when they are older. I imagine well-planned books filled with pages of our memories. I can’t tell you how much I value printing your pictures. Having tangible images either in book form, or hanging on your walls is so important. Guess how many books I have printed. Go on, I’ll wait. Did you take a guess? The answer is 2. In the twelve years since we became parents, I have managed to make TWO photo albums. Now guess why. I have no time. Making albums can be time consuming, and sometimes, the thought of the task at hand, is enough for me to the brakes on that idea.
quick and easy photo album
I have found the solution to my problem (it’s also the reason I now have 2 albums as opposed to the one I previously had!)– Shutterfly’s Make my Book service!! Within a matter of 10 minutes, I had a complete album set up and sent to Shutterfly. I added pictures, and set some simple preferences like my basic style preference, the title of the book, and how many embellishments I like, and sent that right on over to Shutterfly’s Make my Book Boom! That was it! They put the book together, chose the embellishments, wrote some little quotes on a couple of pages, and sent me a draft. So, yeah, I was totally impressed with how easy the service was. Especially since I was able to make adjustments to it once Shutterfly’s Make my Book service sent the draft to me. I added a few personal touches to it, and hit the accept button.
If you have been putting off printing your family’s albums, you absolutely have to check this out. I couldn’t be happier with ours. Maybe now I can finally get caught up!!
Are you up to date with your family’s photo albums? Or are you as far behind as we are?
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lorrin
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Leah Elwood says
Oh my gosh this sounds amazing. I have pictures of my son printed and I have a photo album ready… But that’s been the status since his first birthday. Like 9 months ago I need this!
Jeanette says
Really nice for memories 🙂
Gloryanna says
I LOVE Shutterfly’s photo books! As someone who prints photos all the time and actually has current big photo albums in my home, their photo books have been a life (and space!) saver!
Esther says
beautiful book! So many photos get lost on our phones, but it doesn’t take long to make these beautiful photo albums and preserve memories.
Berniedette says
I used to scrapbook – both me and my sister. But that took too much time (and not to mention money). It was actually my mom who introduced us to these Shutterfly Photo books. She has a bunch from all her vacations. I can’t wait to make my first one!
lorrin sell | photographer of wild things says
berniedette, i feel like realizing we can’t get everything done has taken so much pressure off of me. even in terms of digital photo books, i tend to be a bit of a control freak. that just means i end up putting it off. i love this book! you will love yours too, i’m sure!
lorrin sell | photographer of wild things says
absolutely, esther!! if we don’t print them, they really do get lost.
lorrin sell | photographer of wild things says
gloryanna, isn’t it such a special thing to be able to look through albums filled with your memories??