Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I love mini albums, and would love the new book for some inspiration! I love to create mini albums for gifts for grandparents...current pictures of the grandkids.

Congrats on your new book, Ali! My fave mini-book is one that details my relationship with my husband leading up to our one year anniversary!

Very cool! I have a lot of favs, but one I am looking forward to making is of my fav pics from a trip to France I took in HS (using the Paris add-on kit from Studio Calico's July kit). The pics are rather old and I'm excited to look at them again and see what memories they conjure up.
Thanks for your amazing blog Ali!

I love minibooks and could really use some inspiration with you new book, Ali! The one I am planning on doing is a "watch me grow" album of my daughter's first year. Thanks for the chance to win!!

I'm currently working on a mini book that is just pictures of me and my husband, and all the places we've gone together or things we've done together since we first started dating. I plan to continually add pictures of us to the minibook, so that it chronicles us and our relationship through photos and journaling from beginning to present. I'm all done with the pages, and just have to work on completing the cover (it's "naked" right now).

I love mini books... I am planning on creating a mini book to record and honor all of my Mom's favorite sayings.

I'm planning to make a mini album after our vacation to the Texas coast. I'm so excited to see this book even if I don't win a copy from you!

My favorite one I completed was a "baby" book for my Mom, featuring her dog. It was quick to do - just one evening - and she loved it. She even took it to work to show it off! I want to make one highlighting the San Francisco Bay Area, where I used to live. Thanks for all your great ideas that inspire me!

Fav. mini album is the one I made for my father -- including an assortment of old & recent photos. Capturing our relationship as a whole. The journalling was about why I love him, or what makes him unique. He loved it. Used lots of clear but decorated
pages.
Amy

I actually have 3 mini books in the works right now. I have one almost done waiting on my son's honeymoon cruise photos to finish it; another for some fall photos, and one about me. I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE mini books. I love being able to finish something fairly quickly and move on to the next one. I have gotten so many ideas from you and your books so far. I am so excited about the new book and can't wait to get one. I have not been able to find it here in my area yet and would love to be able to win one! You rock Ali! Keep the great inspiration coming. Congrats on the new addition and blessings to you on the journey. Your family is just precious! Thanks again for all you do to make this lifestyle craft so much fun!

I'm looking forward to your new book. I love to work in anything minature. Some of my favorites have been mini books that fit inside a matchbox. I also love Kolo's little mini albums that are 2 1/2 by 2 1/2. I've used them for special x-mas albums/cards that we send every year to my daughter's godparents who live far away. When she was 10, she was into haikus - and wrote one for every season that we scrapbooked. Another year, she took photos of all the wonderful trees and decorations at Longwood Gardens, near our home and we made a holiday minibook together.

My favorite one is always the one I'm working on. Right now I'm making one titled "Seven Generations of Strong Intelligent Women". It is about the women in my family from my Great-great grandmothers to my granddaughters. My granddaughters aren't women, but they are strong and intelligent so they count, too!
It is an acrylic album and has pictures and stories of each woman and I'm real happy with the way it is coming. My cousin thinks she has pics and info about two generations before the ones I've documented so soon it may be 9 generations. Fun!

Can't wait to see the new book Ali. I LOVE mini albums. Right know I would say the one I am most anxious to do is my "I Love_________" mini album using the "I Love______________" stamp from Purple Onion that a friend gave me.

Thank you for introducing me to the concept of mini-books.. As a new empty-nester, I am making individual books on each of my now grown children and my growing family and plan to present their books to them in the near future - Thanks so much, Ali! and best wishes and Congratulations to growing Edwards family! Much love, Maria

I love my Halloween mini book. The kids love looking at all their photos and I left plenty of room to add this year's photos too.

Usually my current mini book is my favorite. Right now, I took about 100 pictures from 4th of July and busted out a full Scenic Route 4th of July pack - morning til fireworks, my daughter's day.

I do a mini book of my daughter's Halloween costumes throughout the years. Also, every major vacation we take as a family.

Right now I'm working on my travel mini album that you designed for Cocoa Daisy. Red is my favorite color and the book will be about our trip to Cabo last year - my birthday present from my DH. Just finished a MM passport mini album on an extended weekend fishing trip with my 15 yr old son. I love doing mini books and displaying them in baskets on my coffee table and in our guest room. I can't wait to get my hands on your new book!
Karen in TX
karenfryar@yahoo.com

I have made A LOT of mini albums. ONe of my faves is probably the craziest one I've done, which was about all of my favorite things.... my favorite fabric softner, magazines, foods.... It was a crazy idea, but fun! I want my kids, kids to know who I was and what I loved!

Looks like a great book. Love how you really focus on the story, not the products.