Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

Yea! New book. A must have in my house. A mini book I would love to complete is one for my boys. It is a "I Hope" book for them. It will be filled with all the "I Hopes" for them for their future.
Thank you for another wonderful book
Doreen

Gosh. I adore making min-books. It would be hard for me to pick just one favorite, but I am really excited about the one I am getting ready to create to document all aspects of our annual Halloween party this year. Halloween is my absolute favorite crafting holiday!

My favorite mini-book (although it's more medium than mini) is the book I did about last summer. It brings back happy memories of a really great summer, and we all love looking at it over and over.

One of my favorite mini books was actually a tag book that went around the world. Another fun mini book was a paper bag book of my son's first year of volleyball.
I'm sure your book is going to be great!

I can't just pick one book that is my fav. I love my mini travel boks that I have made. But then I guess if I HAVE to pick just one it would be me mini books from the frist year of each of my children's lives.

These are ones I'm working on at the mo...A series of mini books featuring each of my family members..they each have serious, funny, most memorable, worst/best lists and interview type Q & As in them. They are for my house and for when family & friends come to visit.
These are non stress too:) I just add TO IT monthly...
I think the best mini books are the ones that don't M A K E you do something,
rather E N J O Y doing it!

My favorite mini book so far that I've created is a {Star Girl} mini book for my daughter with quotes and scriptures encouraging her to be exactly who she is and not to allow others to determine who she will be. I'm excited about one that I'm about to create though. I'm going to create a {daily gratitude} mini book with thoughts and pics depicting what I'm grateful for each day. So need to get focused back on the positive of every day. Can't wait to see your new book!! Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with all of us.

There are 2 mini books I always wanted to do and never made the time. My kids are 19 & 21 and I always took a picture of them together on the first day of school and on Halloween in their costumes. It would be so cool to have them in a mini book format to see how much they change each year. Now to just find the time!

My favorite mini-book is the one I sent to camp with my 8 year old this summer. Each page had a different person of our family and a note from each to help her transition to a week without Mom and Dad. She loved it and I will use it each year with a change of letters from each family member!!

Holy mackeral! Look at all these entries! I almost didnt leave a comment, but I am really excited about your book!
I just made my first minibook from scratch (made the pages, bound it, etc.) It was a collection of pictures from our families summer. I am giving it to my father.
Thanks for the contest!

I'm so excited to see the new book! I have quite the list of mini books to make and am confident I'll get great inspiration for your book. Next on the project list are a mini book of snapshots from our Italy trip and one to record my first Portland to Coast walk this past weekend.

I just checked and there is space on my shelf for your new book next to the other three. The next minibook I plan to do will be based on lyrics that connect to my life.

Ali- I just admire your work ! I have been wanting to start working on a mini-book with my 8 year old daughter on 5 ways I can help the earth. I want to document her changing to effeciant light bulbs, planting flowers, etc.. I think this would be the perfect way !

I just made a mini book for my daughter's 21st birthday. The cover included a skeleton key that she found at an antique store years ago.
My friend was lucky enough to score one of your preview books at CHA. She let me see it upon her return. It is another great book you have created.

I've made various mini-albums and the ones I'm most proud of are the ones I made for expectant mothers. I've also made some teeny tiny ones that were cute. They are a lot of fun. Can't wait to get my hands on your book, Ali!
Debbie L.

i love doing mini's because i feel such a sense of accomplishment. i am currently doing a a year long mini, one 6x6 page for each month of 2008 and am going to do a mini christmas album & mini summer time album. thanks for all your inspirtaion.

I am working on my beloved puppy's first two years. She is the first dog that I have and also a puppy who help me through home sick ever since I moved to the US.
I love my dog so much and I want to create her a mini album that I can remember when she is gone. :)
Ali, I love your book.

I have a 4 year old non-verbal special needs son and learning for him has been a big struggle. I am planning to create a mini-book "Little Victories" to document all the little things that he learns during the course of this year - to keep our focus on the progress that he makes, and all the things that he can do rather than all the things that he cannot.

congrats on your new book Ali! It looks delicious if i may say so! :)
I took my two sons aged 3 and 4 for a big beautiful bush walk yesterday + let them use the point + shoot camera along the way. We are printing off photos, laminating them + using some simple labels to make a mini of their fave things from nature. we saw waterfalls, birds, moss + caves + they were still talking about it this morning at breakfast. It's definitely mini-worthy to us!
Lusi x

I'll have to be honest, I'm new to the Mini Book craze. LOL I never thought I was interested in them until I made one. I just finished one that I made on my lunch hour (Using your advice about lunch time,that I read somewhere.)and I love it. My son who just turned 20 yesterday and some friends played the game Rock Band in our living room after they got off work everyday for a week. I snapped some pics of them singing, playing the guitar and drums. I took some large index cards and used cloth hockey tape to hold it together. I mostly used paint dabbers for the back round and some Rock Star rubons I picked up one time and wondered why I bought them. It came together really cute and the kids loved it. Or should I say young adults. I can't wait to see all of your ideas in your new book.

My favorite mini album was one I did with the BoBunny Chipboard Word album (Friend), for my friend Kris about a girl's night we had. It was so much fun to put together. I can't wait to do another. :)
I love your blog, Ali! Thanks for all your hard work!

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! I have been waiting and waiting for it to come out! I have two acrylic mini albums waiting for me to scrapbook in. I just can't decide what to put in them! I had my favorite cousins here from Denmark this summer and I would like to make a mini-book about them.

I saw such an awesome idea for a mini-book today on 2peas. It was called "Random acts of cuteness". A great idea for all of those cute photos that don't really have a place in any of your scrapbooks. Love your blog and I would be thrilled to win a copy of your book!!

My favorite mini album was the love one you did for Simon http://174.121.80/wp-content/typepad_archives/photos/thanksgiving_album/love1.html. I made one for my son and one for my daughter. I think they are just so beautiful.

I love to see mini books, but for some reason I have a terrible mental/creative block when it comes to creating one. I would love to see how you use them to record your life stories so I can try to start using this form of scrapbooking.