Everyone Loves Photobooks!

A few months ago, I turned a friend on to photobooks.  She just had another baby after 14 years and was going to be faced with another baby book.  Her oldest daughter's book was all traditional scrapping.  She was less busy then.  She didn't like the idea of having to try to keep up with her new baby's first year and all the other family photos.  

So, I sat down with her one day and introduced her to PhotoBooks{etc}.  After watching me do it and discussing how she could find digital scrapbook kits, she tried making a free photobook from my site about a trip to the coast her family took.  

Well, her computer kept crashing all through the process and she was REALLY frustrated over it.  She's not very tech-savvy.  But, I talked her through it and she finally got the book ordered.  When it came, she was OVER THE MOON about it.  It was more beautiful than she could imagine.

She made a couple more smaller soft-cover books for Christmas before embarking on THE BIG ONE!  

Last week she received her 2010 Family album.  It was a hard-cover 12x12 with nearly 100 pages in it.  I wish I could have recorded her phone call to me.  She was GUSHING over how beautiful it was.  She kept saying how much easier it was to not have to have the photos printed first and that she was able to work on it literally with one hand while she held her baby. I haven't seen it but I will definitely ask to see it next time I go to her house.  When I saw her at church on Sunday, she said, "I called all my sisters and told them that they needed to switch from regular scrapping to photobooks!"

Last October, my folks celebrated their 50th Anniversary and I made a photobook of that day for them for Christmas with all the family photos in it.  They were, of course, THRILLED with it.  When my mom's cousin had a special milestone birthday, instead of sending him a card, my mom had me make a softcover photobook for him.  Again, I received a GUSHING phone call about how wonderful the photobook was.

If you have never tried making a photobook, it's time!  And PhotoBooks{etc} is one of the easiest ways to try it.