In those first few days after coming home from Bali, struggling a bit to get my sleep back on track, I spent one late night working on my photos from the trip. I knew I wanted to make a photo book with them, something I could hold and flip through and look at with the kids. Especially in the depths of winter - oh, opening up that color and all those memories will feel so good! The book arrived just the other day and I'm so pleased. Opening it up does take me right back there.
I made the book using Blurb (and this isn't an ad, I should mention. I'm just a happy longtime customer), which works so nicely with Adobe Lightroom (the photo library software I use). It's so much easier than it used to be to make these books now that those two things are connected. I simply create a collection of photos and pull them into the book tab in Lightroom, and then play with the layout on each page. It exports to Blurb when all of that is done. Easy peasy. I know there are other photo book companies, but I've always been so happy with the quality of paper and printing with Blurb. In the past, we've used these to document a trip, or each child's homeschool year.
I don't think I ever showed you this one that I made for the kids a couple of years ago now. It's such a favorite (as you can tell by the dirty cover!). The Soule Family Alphabet, with our photos. This was such a fun book to put together and share, and so often I find one of them flipping through it. But would you look at that little baby up there napping at the shore? She'll be four in just a month - hmm, maybe it's time for a new book for her birthday. A Bali Alphabet for Ani? I could work with that....
