Wednesday, December 21, 2005
To Remember
I'm making this book of rememberance/photo book for my grandma and my daddy this Christmas. I got the idea almost a year ago when I went up to see my grandma in SLC. Out of her whole life she only has one bread box of photos of her and her family. It seems so odd to me because I've had so many photos taken of me I could probably have filled that box during the first year of my life! Anyway, we spent an entire afternoon looking at the photos and hearing stories of my family. "This is when your grandpa was in Wyoming and we didn't have enough money for him to buy me a card so he made one." Is one of my favorites because the card is funny. Another one is the quote, "I'm pregnant and I didn't even want to do it!" Anyway, I wanted to compile some of the best stories with some of the best photos and make a little book out of them to give to my dad, grandma, and really all of her children. I told myself I will do it for Christmas. The only thing is that in my head it is beautiful and perfect and will make my daddy cry. In real life I've just been frustrated about how to start the whole thing. Some of the photos are REALLY old and crackly. I don't own a scanner and I have little to no skills in this area. I was going to rely on my mom to help me, but now she can't because she's not home from her business trip and they're probably leaving tomorrow and I'm just worried that it will come out crap when I try it on my own. I hope not. I hope it is great. Well here goes, me trying it on my own.
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You can always take it to kinkos or somewhere like that. Just ask someone for help and they'll usually ben over backwards to help you get it done. Wish I could help; we should've worked on it some last year.
Heather is right, just take the photos to kinkos and make color copies. You don't really need to scan them in unless you wanted to do the whole thing electronically. Don't worry, it will all turn out OK.
I would ben over backwards for you
Or try Wal-Mart or Target using their Kodak Picture Maker - might be cheaper than Kinko's.
You can type each story on pretty paper for one side of the album and place the photo on the other side. Or if the photo and story fit on one piece of paper, just align the type so you can glue a picture in.
No matter what it looks like - your family is going to absolutely love it! Make sure you let yourself have fun making it!
Thanks for all the suggestions! I put everything together and then took it to Office Depot and got the whole thing photo copied. It turned out pretty good and when Mom came home and helped I enjoyed myself. They turned out pretty good, now I just hope that my family thinks they're neat.
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