Comments on: Finding time to make family photo albums

By: Play Library » Welcome to the Carnival of Family Life #48!

Play Library » Welcome to the Carnival of Family Life #48! — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:22:37 +0000

[...] moms, Elizabeth shares her frustrations challenges as to how to keep up with the family photos in Finding Time to Make Family Photos Albums at Career and Kids. Be sure to also join her in the discussion as she asks What Do You Do When Your [...]

By: Kerri

Kerri — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:55:17 +0000

Well, darn those lazy photos, just sitting around in boxes acting all unappreciative of the accessories you were guilted into buying for them! Ungrateful little… ahem…anyway, no ideas. I used to be good about scrapbooking. The oldest child’s book looks great (and I’m only 4 years behind on it!). I’ve belonged to a scrapbooking club for almost 2 years with swaps and such each month. In those 2 years I’ve scrapped, count ‘em, zero pages. No kidding. But when I get to it, I’ll have tons of pages to throw the photos on! (And yes, I did tell them this is my last year for the club until I actually use something I’ve worked on!)

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By: Vol Abroad

Vol Abroad — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:09:21 +0000

Here’s a nice easy one – use the Qoop photobook which can print directly from your Flickr set. Sure, it’s not as nifty as a real scrapbook with different sizes and used ticket stubs to the first roller coaster ride, etc. But it’s nice and easy and cheaper than printing prints and buying photo albums. http://www.qoop.com I made a photo book called “A Year in the Garden 2006″ and gave to my parents for Christmas – basically a collection of all my floral photos – and the quality of printing was pretty darn good. Of course, this doesn’t help with all your pre-digital, pre-Flickr photos.

Something not as easy – but a lot cooler – is the http://www.blurb.com – using images which you can also pull directly from your Flickr sets – but also from your hard drive. And you can choose lots of different layouts, etc. – include text, etc. But it takes a fair amount of fiddling with. But if you wanted to fiddle around with photos – you’d have already done it.