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Work Smarter, Not Harder- This Service Will Design Photo Books For You!

by Jill April 27, 2017
written by Jill


I have pictures of my mom with my kids, starting from the minute my oldest was born. Well, okay… a few minutes after he was born, as she looked over him in his Isolette.

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The post is sponsored by Shutterfly. Make this Mother’s Day with a personalized gift that says it all.

It is not lost on me how fortunate we are to have her there for so many big and little life events, and I am also super lucky to have so many great pictures of her with the kids. But, despite how much I treasure them, I hardly have any printed.

Getting pictures off of my phone and computer and into the real world in some tangible form is always a struggle. I get so overwhelmed. I don’t know what to do with them! I don’t have the space to put all of them in frames, and photo books? I do NOT have the time these days!

She’s always saying (or commenting on my Facebook) “I want this one printed!” And I’m always making a mental note, “Hey, just print these pictures for her and your Mother’s Day gift is complete!” But then life happens, and I don’t have the time to curate all the pictures and organize them. I have this problem where if I think I can’t do something perfectly, I just don’t do it at all.

What if someone ELSE could do it perfectly for me, though? And what if it wasn’t hard to get the pictures to them, and they did all the organizing and designing? That’s EXACTLY what Shutterfly’s Make My Book Service does, and that’s exactly what they did for me.

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Y’all, look at this lovely photo book of nothing but pictures of my mom with my kids!

It’s a real, paper book with real pages that don’t live on the internet! It’s that one thing I’ve wanted to do for her for so long, and it took me 15 minutes.

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You read that right. FIFTEEN. MINUTES. I uploaded the pictures from Facebook and my computer, then quickly made sure they were in chronological order. I picked a theme for the book and sent a little note that I wanted the pictures to remain in chronological order and events grouped together.

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Then a real person and professional designer took it from there. They chose the layouts and added the pictures, adding design elements throughout, too. Within a couple days, I had a draft ready to approve. I did go in and make a couple quick changes, rearranging a few pictures, but it only took a few minutes until I was 100% happy and clicked the purchase button.

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The Make My Book Service is only $9.99 (plus the cost of the book), and you only pay it if/when you decide to order the book. There isn’t any cost to get started and see what they design for you. And while you’re on Shutterfly, you can check out all the other great, personalized stuff they have for mom.

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I always thought I’d be the scrapbooking kind of mom, but it turns out I’m the Shutterfly Make My Book Service kind of mom. (Have you seen that Pinterest/Amazon Prime mom meme? So funny.)

I love that the end product is exactly what I’d get if I spent hours creating a personalized gift for my mom, just without the hours spent. Of course, my mom never misses a blog post, and it’s not quite Mother’s Day yet, so obviously SPOILER ALERT, MOM. Love you. See you soon. Hope you enjoy your book! (We’ll have more surprises for you.)

Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks it’s about time we can pay someone else to design photo books for us! Work smarter, not harder, friends.

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Pretty, Pretty Picaboo! A Photo Book Giveaway

by Jill May 13, 2011
written by Jill

Thanks to Picaboo for sponsoring this post. To learn more about Picaboo photo books, cards, calendars and other printed products visit http://www.picaboo.com?siteID=B_BR. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.

Wow. Wow. Wow. I’m in love and see a serious addiction in my future- to Picaboo photo books. Good golly, this is the nicest photo book I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing my pictures printed in. Yes, this was/is a sponsored review, but I’m 100% positive I’d feel the very same way if it wasn’t.

Let me break it down for you like this. The picture quality is fantastic. The colors are spot on. The full bleed pages are amazing.

The paper is substantial. The lay-flat pages really do lay flat, a little feature I didn’t even realize I’d like so much until I saw it in person.

From the glistening, gorgeous photo on the front, to the soft leather wrapped around a very thick cover, the book is luxurious. That’s really the only word I can think to describe it.

As I mentioned in my first post, the book came together fairly easily with their software. I am blown away by the finished product and so happy we finally have these pictures living somewhere other than my computer!

I wound up going with The Madison with 20 lay-flat pages, regularly priced $150. I will be the first to say that’s steep (to me) for a photo book. And while the quality totally justifies the cost of the book full price, I would be more likely to buy it with a discount. The good news is Picaboo is always offering great specials. The next time a coupon pops up that applies to this book, I will definitely think of printing another one with Kendall’s newborn pictures. I’m already pricing out and planning on FINALLY printing a book of our wedding pictures from almost 5 years ago.

Now, for the fun part. One of you will win a $50 Picaboo Gift Card! Maybe some of you scrapbookers out there would be interested in applying it toward a new 12×12 Classic Custom Square book?

To enter, all you have to do is comment below telling me what you’d like to print in a photo book.

After you do that, you can get additional entries by doing any or all of the following:

Follow @BabyRabies on Twitter
Follow @PicabooBooks on Twitter
Like BabyRabies on Facebook
Like Picaboo on Facebook

Please leave a separate comment for each one you do, and, because I moderate comments, please allow time for your comment to show up before trying again if you don’t see it right away. I’ll draw the winner next Friday, May 20th with Random.org. Good luck!

This is a sponsored post, but the opinions I’ve expressed here are solely my own and represent my honest viewpoint.

Entries are now closed. Congrats to Krista, comment #21, as chosen by Random.org.

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