Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I have a set of photos from my dd's princess tea party birthday that I am planning to put into a minibook. I am excited to have it made for her to flip through whenever she wants.
Love the idea of minibooks and can't wait to see your book.

For my mom's 72nd birthday, I threw a party complete with decorations, table setting, presents, flowers, etc., and invited six of her close friends. I took lots of pictures, had each lady create a mini-book page, and interspersed those with pages for the pictures, and sentiments about my mom. I made it very frilly and feminine, and the last page is a "Thank you" from me. She LOVES the book and shows it to everyone!

I am currently collecting my little guy's favorites at nearly three. The small mini album features his loves for right now. Uploading pictures and pulling supplies to make during his nap this week while big brother is at Kindergarten!

Our family was baptized all together Aug 10 and I want to make a mini book for each of my daughters to have of the event. I don't have a ton of pictures because I was getting baptized, too, but I do have some good ones from friends. A mini album would be a perfect thing for my daughters!

I'm about to do a minibook for a very good friend of mine to put some wedding photos in. I have a pile of them and she has a pile of nice ones too, so i'll fill in some of them and leave the others for her to fill in along with some journaling spaces for her to record her memories and thoughts. It's going to be a suprise for her and I hope she likes it!

My FAVORITE mini book I've made so far has been a book I created for the whole month of October-had so many fun, memorable events that happened, and it is my favorite month and time of the year. Here's some pictures of it:
http://erinsaeger.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=50

Hi, Ali!
My father was recently diagnosed with a very advanced form of cancer. He probably won't live to Fall, so I am creating him little photo cards and sending one every day or two so that he'll have little surprises in the mail in between Hospice visits. I plan on creating a little mini album about him for each of my children; something that they can "get to know him" through, over and over again, since 1 of my 3 is so young that she won't remember him and another 1 has never met him. He lives very, very far away from us so the little photo gifts to him are a way of helping him to feel like he is in touch with my children on a regular basis... 'wish I'd started it sooner...

I'm really excited for your new book, Ali!
I'm planning on creating a minibook about my recent relocation to NC. I've lived in VT my whole life, and I want to capture the adventure!

My favorite mini book is an acrylic one that I made earlier this year. I took my favorite pictures of my kids from the previous year, one line of paper and a few embellishments and took them with me on a business trip. I finished the album in a couple of evenings and it is my favorite!

I'm looking forward to buy it!!! I love making minis for my family as presents :-)
I've recently made two special ones, for my mom and my sister {heart}
Now I'm planning one with the pics I've taken while on vacation to my boyfriend's hometown down South Spain. I can't wait to make my first mini of us together!!!

Hi Ali,
thanx for your books & for your Q&A this weekend!! ok, my favorite minibook was of our holiday in France 2006. I did visual journaling & scrapping in the same booklet. Still very dear to me.
Hedwig

i made my first mini-book this year for my Mama's 50th birthday! it was filled with family photos, plus baby photos of her, as well as letters and emails from friends and family from all over. she was SO surprised and cries every single time she looks at it. :)
so i'm definitely a little proud of that one ;)

I would like to put together a mini book for our son and his birth Mom.....we adopted almost a year ago, and I think it would be a nice gift for the Birth Mom....like a year in the life, type of mini book. I haven't attempted one yet, so I am a little nervous....

I did a mini book for my husband documenting his trip to Idaho last spring, he journeyed with his brother to go see his best friend. He loved it!

Ali, I am really looking forward to this book! I am actually working on a mini right now! It's a board book with wonderful pics of my husband and I with our dogs. I used the Love, Elsie fabric to cover the front and back covers and lots of fun coordinating papers on the inside. Now I am ready to embellish and come up with a fun closure for my album! It's a fun one!

Making a mini book about one day in the life of my 10 month old daughter was nice!!! Great book, oh! and congratulations for the baby!!! Emeline

Making a mini book about one day in the life of my 10 month old daughter was nice!!! Great book, oh! and congratulations for the baby!!! Emeline

Oh could I be a lucky winner of this awesome giveaway. I want to do a mini ablum for my sister whose wedding was last weekend. Also, one of the kids for each of the grandma's for christmas.
Thanks for the opportunity, Ali!
Kate

I love making mini-books when I travel, as I travel. My favorite is my honeymoon mini-book. I brought a polaroid camera and included those pictures each day. I would use items from each day, scraps from a brochure of the places we went, tickets, receipts and napkins and write things we did, our feelings and such on hotel stationary at the end of the day. It was nice to have a finished product at the end of the honeymoon.

My favorite mini book is one I made using the highlights of our family trip to Disney over Christmas. I love Christmas, and this was my first Christmas themed mini-book.
I am dying for a copy of your new book!! Thanks!

My favorite mini book is one that I made on a business trip. I packed an acrylic album (1st time making one) and a kit with a few essentials. I finished it in a couple of evenings and it has my favorite pictures from 2007 in it. Love it!

That's so generous!
I can't wait for this book to come out.
Last night I made a mini called "So Happy You Are Here" about meeting all of my friends babies for the first time. Each page has a photo of the baby and me along. The journaling talks about when I found out about them, when they were born, and meeting them for the first time.

Hey, Ali!
First of all, congrats on your new book...thought I'd see if I can win one :0)
My favorite mini books are the CB/Acrylic shaped minis that I get from LaserLine ;0) Shamelss plug, I know but I truly love shaped minis!
Thanks for offering such a great giveaway! Hope you and the baby are doing well!

I'm looking forward to starting a mini-book that tells the story of our "summer of growth." This summer was full of change and milestones and I want to remember all of it!
Blessings~

I LOVE MINI BOOKS! I have made lots of them, and have ideas in my head for many many more. I just recently made a book about my grandma (who died about 20 years ago), using pictures of her that my grandpa has and quotes from her personal history. I would love to make a whole series of books about my grandparents and great grandparents, as far back as I could go.