Me: (with all seriousness and such) Okay, let’s try to get through this box in less than an hour. (looking through photos…sidetracked!) Oh, look at this…it’s you and Pink Dolly when you were a year old!
Catz: (smiling and looking at photo) Yeah, I remember her. I took her everywhere.
Me: You were so cute! (fawning over picture)
Catz: Hello, I’m still cute. (still smiling but cocking an eyebrow)
Me: Yes, you are! (still looking at first photo with a dreamy look)
Catz: (picking up the next two pictures and opening the scanner) Okay, how ’bout I put the pictures in the scanner and you type in the notes…
Me: (laughing while gently taking photos from her hand) Wait, I just want to look at them for a minute.
Catz: (reaching to get photos back and laughing as I hold them out of reach) Uh, Mommy? Your version of “minute” is waay longer than mine. And didn’t you say we could watch “Emma” if we finished this box by 2:00? It’s the BBC version, y’know.
Me: Oh, right! Okay, here. (handing her the photos)
Catz: (about to place photos in scanner…sidetracked!) Oh my goodness, I remember that dress! But where was this taken? And who is that standing over there? And…
And that, my friends, is how it goes around here. I get distracted, Catz gets distracted, and before you know it we’ve touched almost every photo in the box. But few have been scanned. And we are so exhausted from our trip down memory lane that it’s all we can do to collapse in front of the tv with a Jane Austen dvd. BBC version, thankyouverymuch.
So the welcome addition years ago of a digital camera and an external hard drive {TechDaddy is a genius} has made for fast photo saving and using. I may never make time for elaborate scrapbooking because, let’s face it, I’m too easily squirreled by shiny things. But I have discovered how to share my family’s photos in a beautiful, fun, and super-easy way through photobooks.
Shutterfly was my first foray into photobooks when I made two different books last Christmas, one each for my mom and my mom-in-love. The process could not have been simpler with easy uploading of pictures and tons of page backgrounds and layouts. I loved it, and more importantly, both moms loved their photobooks!
And there are sooo many different ways to use photobooks. Catz recently made one all about our visits to Disney World last year. Do you see it in the photo up top? It’s gorgeous! She and I are going to make a baking photobook for Christmas and I’ll be making a recipe book for her hope chest. And as soon as I get more photos of our Compassion kids, I’ll be putting together a photobook of them.
Right now Shutterfly is offering 20% off their photobooks. But I have an even sweeter deal…
Shutterfly is letting me offer five, 8 x 8, hard cover photobooks to friends…for FREE! That’s a $29.99 value for FREE! Would you like one? A few restrictions apply, so let me tell you the scoop. To be eligible for this giveaway you need to be a new photobook user with Shutterfly. {If you’re brand new OR if you’ve already used Shutterfly for other products that’s fine.} The winners will also be responsible for taxes and shipping on their photobooks.
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If you make all three entries be sure to leave three separate comments. Deadline to enter is March 22nd, 2011 at 11:59pm EST {that’s Florida-time, folks}. The winners will be announced Wednesday, March 23rd. Hope you win!
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Hey there, it's me Susan. I'm a follower of Jesus, amateur photographer, pretty good baker, stumbling learner, gigantic dreamer, adoring mom, and lovestruck wife. Want to know more? Check out my 
A photo book with pictures from our Compassion kids is a fabulous idea! I had never thought about that before!