Laura Vegas

so i got an email last week from scrap-a-faire that i had won one of the grand prizes from their event a few weeks ago. a big prize package from shutterfly. a 8×8 20-page photo book, a 12×12 20-page photo book, 2 8×8 digital scrapbook pages, and 2 12×12 digital scrapbook pages. how cool is that my friends?!?!

now of course it required me to spend a few days uploading a gob of pictures to their site. i used them about 2 years ago for printing … but all my pics now are on winkflash. but i have to admit … the uploading was so super easy … much easier then it used to be. and i have been frustrated with winkflash lately … always kicking me out and losing whatever it was doing. i only had problems once … and it still saved what pictures had been uploaded and just had me retry the ones that didn’t make it. so nice!

when i sat down to do the books, i thought at first it was almost as if it was too much thought … figuring out what pics you wanted on what pages and all. i will always love my actual pictures and paper the best … but i did have fun with it tonight. the 8×8 book i am going to do of alyssa and sarah. but the 12×12 book i decided to do with all our favorite pictures of the daycare kids from the past year. each of the kids has a 2-page spread that has 8 pictures total … and then there are some pages at the end with just a bunch of random, everyday photos. i did have to combine nikolas and matthew … because i just didn’t have enough photos of each of them. i literally need 1 more picture of each of them … which i will take tomorrow since they’re both here.

i think it’ll be neat. i have tons of scrapbook layouts of the daycare kids from just this past year. i actually have about 7 albums (5-12×12 and 2-8×8) stuffed full from the past 6 years. but i like the idea of having them collected in a nice book to look at all at once.

in fact … i could do it as a yearbook?!?!? do you think the parents would order them? lol! actually, i think that would be kind of cool for the kids to look back on and remember all the other kids they used to play with. i give copies of all my photos to the parents. the kids always want to hold them and look at them … i keep saying i should order extras so that they can tote the picture around and mom and dad still have the good wrinkle-free copy. lol! anways … going to have to show this to my parent tomorrow!