Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I have started a mini book about my daughter's 4th birthday party. She had a tea party with her little friends.

My favorite minibooks have been my travel ones after your CK article, love them! Easy, eclectic, and they get done fast so that my kids can read/browse through them soon after we get home, just great!

My favorite mini book was one I made for my mother I used the quote "In case you didn't know...and finished it off with something new on every page and a photo of the two of us through the years. The book means a lot to the both of us.

Oh so excited about your new book, been eagerly awaiting it's arrival.
My favorite mini-book is one I made at a class with Allison Tyler Jones based on a James Taylor song - The Secret of Life. We used a gated 7 gypsies album and it is very interactive. Took a while to do but well worth it.

I haven't made any mini-books yet, I'm stumped. But I'd like to start making a mini-book each Christmas, a shot of each of the girls with whoever we visit that Christmas, so they can look back on how they celebrated each and every year.

My favourite mini book I've made was for my husband. I took pictures while he was making pickles and did a book with the recipe and the pictures. It is his Grandmothers recipe and he is carrying on making them now that she has passed on. He was so blown away by it when I gave it to him for Christmas.

Wow Ali...thanks for all the great information!
I'm planning on making a mini book for my Mom! She turned 60 this year and I want to document all the celebration for her.

My fav mini has been one on things I'm grate ful for! Love looking at it! It was done with tabbed index cards as the base. What a wonderful giveaway and I can't wait to see your book!!

I've decided that the mini book is the way to go for me, at least for the moment. And that is the way to live, in the moment.
The mini-book I am working on is a chipboard TRAVEL book with photo's from a recent trip to Sedona, where I fell in love with the red rocks. I took my inspiration from one of your projects and had my photo's enlarged so they cover all the chipboard. So far the photo's are the only elements in the book, just looking for more time to finish it.
thanks for the inspiration.

It would be so hard to choose just one favorite mini album project! I love the red travel album from the Cocoa Daisy kit that I am currently working on and I have been playing with a mixed media mini album for all the days of the month for the twin's birthday month. So far, I have enjoyed all of the projects that have been inspired by your blog and your work. Thank you so much for sharing so many designs and ideas with us!
-Katherine M. Portland, TX

My fav minbook is one I helped my 5-year old son make yesterday. We used a 7 Gypsies Small Square book.
I cut the front/back and interior paper. He took the photos (mostly of his legos and the cat). We printed the photos and out at home, he cut them out.
I glued the paper and pix and viola! His first minibook. He's so proud. He's really cute.

My favorite mini book is my kids in their Halloween costumes since they were born. I add a new photo each year.
I can't wait to read your new book!
~Jackie

My family and I just went on a hiking/camping/canoeing trip to Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. I kept a little journal of memorable quotes and had so much fun turning it into a minibook by adding pictures and paper! My family loves to flip through it and remember our trip, so I'm glad I made it@
It was my first mini book and I'd love to make more---and love to have your book to inspire me!!!!!
Thanks! Sarah

My favorite minibook project was one I made for my friend's daughter Hannah. The cover said, "Once upon a time there was a princess named Hannah ..." and each inside page it said, "She was *quality here*" with a picture displaying that quality. And the last page said, "But most of all, she was my friend." And there was a picture of me and Hannah. So cute! Pics here: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1275325

I can't wait for your new book! my favorite mini-album is one I did for a family trip to France visiting my husband's family. I love looking through the good memories and sharing it with my kids that are too young to remember too much of the trip. I am still working on a pregnancy journal/mini-book for my pregnancy with my youngest - but reflects on how it went with all three... I do love minis! beginnings and ends - what could be better then seeing the entire story!

I'm working on a mini-book about a great trip my husband and I took last year for Christmas. In fact, I'm using a page sketch you did for either Pencil Lines or Page Maps, can't remember which!

My fave is one I just finished a couple of months ago about my pregnancy. It was a kit that I had bought from Kristina C. titled "Happiness is..." I was able to encorporate that theme into 9 months worth of preggo stuff. I really love how it came out and I've gotten so many great compliments on it. Can't wait to get your new book!

My fave mini book I have ever created was about my niece. It was called 10 things I love about you at 10! Since I don't have children of my own, my nieces and nephews often become the subjects of my scrapbooks and mini albums. It was a great way to tell her what I loved about her at such a "transitional" age.

My last project was an acordion album with shunshine pics, and I'm working now in a project by you 'mixed up mini'
Thanks for sharing you gorgeous ideas, love it all! =)

I am currently working on a mini book celebrating my 4-year old daughter and her new baby sister and the adventures they've been on and the relationship that I see them forming already. It is purely a fabric mini-book that I've made out of muslin and some other funky fabrics, papers, stamping with acrylics, and old baby clothes that have been stained and won't be able to be sold or used again. I think of it as my "green" scrapbook!!! I can't wait to get it finished!!! Can't wait to see the new book, you always inspire me!