Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I'm working on a hybrid album about our 2008 Stay{cation}. Terrie, San Diego

My favorite mini is the one I made 3 years ago for my husband for our 10th anniversary. I wrote our love story from a 3rd person's POV and it is so great. It starts with a page of us growing up (without each other) and says something like "once there was a girl and a boy" and moves to dating, engagment, wedding, babies etc. onl one page per event and it is great with all kids of mini books within. I will always love that book the most!

I forgot to tell you my favorite mini-book project ... or one I'm about to create. I'm in the middle of a 9x9 travel album, but I'm very excited about a mini book/journal I'm in preparation for. I've taken up running and I want to put the photos of me at every race I've been in along with my goals, time, thoughts and feelings. I plan to do the past three years and then keep adding on to it every year. I'm going to use a 7gypsies chipboard album and just keep it simple - photos + words. I can't wait to start!

I hope to finish a mini book I started about my flowers and garden. I'd love to do more...
Vacation would be an easy place to start.
Sherry

I think my favorite mini books are the acrylic ones...I am excited for my first try with that. I used the travel KOTM that I loved and using different size pages...love that look!

I am planning a mini-book for my husband. Our 10th anniversary is in November and though I'm not the first one with this idea, I'm very excited about the project. This will be my first mini-book and have bought a couple of different ones to consider. Thanks for all the great inspiration!
Jennifer
Jacksonville, FL

i love mini acrylic albums. i just started making them. i made one for my mother and my mother-in-law. both books had great photos of all their grandchildren respectively. i was so proud of myself. heck, even when i go over, i look at the mini-albums again and love it all over again! (what a way to toot my own horn, eh?) thanks for the great opportunity to win your new book. i would love to get one :)

After a recent article in CK I am planning a mini book with pictures and notes about our home. I think it will be super cool, years from now, for our son to see the house he lived in and what it was like. Thanks for the fun giveaway and thanks for all your time and great answers on all the Q&A posts.

I can't wait to get a copy of your new book! I am someone who has a ton of ideas, and I have trouble getting them down in larger layouts, so I think I am going to start with mini-books to ease my way in and gain some momentum to move onto larger projects.

planning to create a project on my newborn baby girl!

Hi Ali - my first comment and I want to say love the blog. I also can't wait to see the new book. I recently completed a mini acrylic album of my oldest son becoming a Big Brother in Feb of 08 when my youngest was born. I did an "interview" with him and asked him questions about his interpretation of being a big brother. It was cute - given at the time he was just 6 but I will treasure it for a long time! Good luck with your pregnancy!

My favorite mini book project is a book of Encouragement scripture. It is an ongoing project that I started to help me cope with my health problems. I use favorite wildlife photos with the scriptures.

I'm working on a mini book of a trip to taiwan. I've got lots of little papers I've saved to put in it. Love to have an idea book. . .

I can't wait to get my hands on your latest book Ali! I'd love to do a mini about our summer vacation.

My favorite album that i have made so far is one actually inspired by you (surprise surprise). I made a shaped letter book out of HAPPY and i absolutely loved it. Cutting the pictures and clear acetate sheets into the letter shapes was time-consuming and I loved every minute of it. Thanks for all of your endless inspiration!

I am putting together an album of all that I love about the city we livein. The parks are amazing. I have come to appreciate how much they planned for people to enjoy living here and it has really helped me deal with the everyday stress.
-Michelle B.

I have a couple of mini books going right now. One is about our move from Arizona to Kentucky this summer, and the other is an album I call my 'blog album.' It has all the stories, photos and entrires from my blog in a smaller kolo album. It's fun to keep it up to date and my kids actually look through it instead of looking on the computer. They like that they can sit down with it.
congrats on the new book!

I am in the process of making a mini album of my trip to Astoria last Fall. Love, love, love that area!
Jeanne

I love mini books my favorites are holiday ones. I am making one of our Christmas ornaments and another favorite is a Halloween one.

I'm working on ideas for my Pregnancy mini-book. Where I will put my pictures of my ever growing belly, my first maternity clothing, a copy of my ultrasound, and anything else that I come up with over the next 5 months. Hopefully I'll get it put together before the baby gets here because I seriously doubt I'll have time for that afterwards... :)