Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I'm working on a beach album right now. It's the one that spells out "beach" and i'm really excited to work on it after our first trip to the outer banks.

I am planning on working on a "cousins" mini-book to display on a shelf I recently altered for my kitchen. The four cousins (my 2 kids and my brother's 2) have all been born within the last 3 years, so we have lots of fun memories already to document!

If I had to pic one mini book I guess it would be the last one I did. It is a acrylic book. Probly the most challenging one to date also. It is with pictures of my cocker spaniel puppy.

My favorite mini-book was one I created for my Mom several years ago as a thank you for all the love she put into Christmas for our family. I went around her house and took photos of all her Christmas decorations, then put them in a little book so that she would have a record of her handiwork, and remember where she put everything for next year. She loved it and kept it in her purse for months to show all of her friends.

I have a couple of mini books in the works...baby's first year (for both my boys)...courage & hope album for my son (which is your KOTM from last yr)...year in review 2008....our first family vacay at Disneyland. I really hope I can finish them by the end of the year!
Can't wait to see the new book!

I'm currently working on a mini book about vacations my husband, daughter and I have taken together. Sorting out the photographs I wanted to use was like reliving all those wonderful times again-- so many fabulous moments captured, and the memories came flooding back. A walk on the beach as the sun dipped below the horizon, being surrounded by hundreds of tiny, jewel-coloured butterflies in a tropical rainforest, miles and miles of road being swallowed beneath the wheels of our car, an ever-changing view through the windows outside. I love the thought that I can have all of that at my fingertips in a book I can pick up and look through at any time. :)
Thanks for the chance to win your newest book. I have all your others, and they are an amazing resource and constant inspiration. :)

I looking forward to reading your new book as I have just gotten out of the hospital and are looking for ideas to scrap all the things I collected to tell the story of my illness.

my favorite mini is a 7 gypsies rubber band book that I altered with favorite photos of the ones I love... I call it my v.i.p book :)
I looooove mini albums

I will be doing a mini album documenting this summer!

Planning a mini-book documenting the past year with my sons hockey team and our "journey" to 3rd in the state this last year. Big plans, just little time right now. LOL

i am getting ready to create a Disney Autograph book- it's my first mini book ever!!! i would love to have this book- it looks perfect !

the first mini book i would like to create is one about ME, here and now. I want to document the things i like, dislike, what i am wearing, hoping, planning, etc.

i have so many favorite mini books (i {heart} them) but my current favorites are my pregnancy albums, my travel journals and a mini book i made of a trip to see the sandcastles.
congrats on your pregnancy - hopefully you'll be feeling a bit more energetic soon. i'm 7 months along now.... when i went in for my 7 week "confirmation" appt, we found out that i was actually 12 weeks along.... so my first trimester was over before i knew it! :)

I'm hoping to get some ideas for a mini book that I can display in my apartment, showing photos from my trip to Boston...

i love all the mini books i have created with old photos of my mom who has passed away...then i can remember all the stories she told me about growing up...

I so want this book! I have Life Artist and reading it now and it is so inspiring, I can't even imagine what this one will be like! My favorite mini-book is the latest one I made about my oldest son's recent birthday. I am sure my next 'favorite' will be my second son's upcoming birthday ... lol!

My favorite mini book I made for my mother several years ago, about the "soulmate" relationship she has with my son (now 14). I live near London now, but my mother is still in California (where I grew up), so we don't get to see her as often as we would like. My mini book is really more of a story book about a grandmother and her grandson, I suppose. It begins..... "Although I live in England (which is very far away), I love you and I think about you every single day!"
Sadly, my mother, who is only 79, is slowly losing her sight, so I might have to rejig this into a "maxi" book, so she will still be able to see it.
Ali, thanks for being so generous with your time with your Q's & A's!

My favorite mini book was definitely my "Christmas Memories 2006". Christmas is my favorite holiday and I like to get started the day after Thanksgiving. I captured some of our usual traditions like baking cookies as well as new Christmas events we went to that year.

I'm looking at making two mini-books in the near future--one about my daughter's obsession with the Olympic mascots and another to commemorate a nice getting-to-know-you car ride with some folks on a the way to a memorial (that sounds weird, I know, but the startling fragility of life really made an impact as I got to know these folks).

I'm looking forward to reading your new book!
When my son was in kindegarten, the teacher asked us to write a love letter for our child and share it with the class for the Valentine's Day party. I wrote a poem for him. My favorite mini-book has the lines of the poem on different pages along with favorite pictures of him. He loved it and keeps it in his room.