Sharing Your Story : New Book Giveaway

I am currently working on a "Sweet Summer" mini book with all our summer traditions. I am just waiting for our labour day BBQ to finish the book off.

I have only just found a love of mini's, I always had a fear of them because I just didn't have enough stories to make into a mini, but once I made one... well now I have quite a few! The last one I made I loved making, it was a fave food book about what my family enjoy to eat and it included a recipe card for each person.

One of my favorite mini albums that I have made is really a tag album that has a picture of each knitting project my 13 year old daughter has completed over the last year and a half. Each tag has one project on it, I think there are well over 30 tags so far and she is still knitting up a storm. I have to purchase another ring, so that you can flip through each tag.

I am about to start a mini album about my last vacation!

Can't wait to see the book! I am mainly a digiscrapper but would love to start doing minibooks! Thanks for the giveaway!

I am planning a mini book about pieces of our home.
I can't wait to read your new book!

I love your Christmas mini album. I saw it at CKU Provo, it has one page for every days of December till the 25 December, simply fabulous.

i'm doing a mini book for each member of my daughters softball team.. each book will have a page dedicated to each member of the team.. and the first and second page will be dedicated to the person who is getting the book.. so every book is a little bit different.. but at least i can do some "assembly line" type work for the pages that are in common..
i'm also "planning" on doing a book similar to the one that i didn't quite finish last year, "30 days of summer".. not sure if i'm going to finish last years first, or just start this years book.. ;)
can't wait to see your new book.. :)

my favorite mini was one i created when i got engaged. it tells the story of how my husband and i met, our first date, etc up until the time we got engaged...i thought it would be a fun way to pass the story to our kids one day.
renee l.

When I went to Disneyworld in April I got a 4x6 album that I plan to alter a little bit but still use the 4x6 slots for the picures.

My family have just returned home to Canada after a trip to my native land, England. My 6 year old son was captivated by all of the castles we visited. So my next mini book will be a castle shaped record of our many trips to English castles.

My soon to be favorite mini album is a work in progress (as I am going to be school for my student teaching this semester). It's a 7gypsies chibpoard book which I covered with some really beautiful Basic Grey paper (which I can't remember the name of). I want to make it a very special one with important lessons I want to pass on to my young daughter...maybe also some words of wisdom her grandma would like to pass on to her as well. I'd love to win a copy of your new book for some great insight to creating this special album for my daughter. {Fingers are crossed!}

I love mini-books! I am planning on doing a mini-book about my Converse shoes-starting with my lime green ones from my wedding!!

Looking forward to your new book! I want to do a project with the pictures from my holiday with my sister her family, and my brother and a friend of mine. Me and my sister took a zillion pictures and we will make a book with them. We also did it with the last holiday we had together and it turned out great. I love the joint effort. Take care big hug Eef

Ali, I love checking your website in the evenings as there is always something new going on, something to get me thinking and set my creative juices flowing.
I am very fond of mini-books which I pair with photography - often events such as wedding anniversaries, recently creating a mini-album for my oldest a book entitled, "College to Work".
And, this summer, I went up the mountain to our elderly neighbors second home. They are quite infirmed and aren't able to make the trip from Florida anymore. They are currently staying with their daughter in Atlanta. Anyway, I sent them a fold out album of 8 photos showing the hydrangea and other flowers in bloom, their million dollar view of the Great Smokies and other things going on in the "Paw Paw Patch". I mailed this to their daughter's house and received a teary phone call from her. It gave me such pleasure to give back in this small way. It shows how our love of this craft has such great value.

I am working on two chipboard mini books - one for my friend's #3 baby boy and one for my son's summer journal with pictures of our camping adventures.
I started on these because I was inspired by the mini books that I've been seeing on your website, in Simple Scrapbooks and Scrapbooks Etc magazines.
I am loving the process of reminiscing the summer moments we had.
Can't wait to see your new book!

My new favorite minibook is an ongoing project of my 3 month old daughter called 'Grow'. The first page is a photo from the day she was born, the next page has a photo when she was a week old and the subsequent pages will have pictures and little stories from every month until she turns 1. I hope she'll love looking at pictures that show how much she's grown physically and that the words tell how much she's grown in her personality/development. It's also my first acrylic album which your column inspired me to try...I love it! Thanks for the inspiration!

I am super in love with clear mini albums right now! I love how the possiblities are endless :) Anne

I'm creating a mini-book about my fitness journey over the past two years. I have transformed my body and my mind and I want to have a permanent record of my trials and tribulations. I can't wait to see Ali's new book!

I have many minis I like and many I am planning, but my favorite mini book has to be the one that documents the growth during my son's first year. It features a page for each month. Each picture shows him sitting on the same chair with the same teddy bear (for scale) and a little sign that says "X months old." The changes and growth in that first year are incredible. It's very small - business card size. I love it! I plan on making one of my daughter too.