Be Here Now
I have often talked about my admiration for Stacy Julian, one of scrapbooking’s biggest names and creative geniuses. I have gotten to know Stacy personally and can say that in addition to her talent, she is one of the most genuinely kind people I have ever met. So, when she sent out a blast email to be a part of the scrapbooking world’s first blog blitz, I was in. Chances are, if you go to a variety of scrapbooking blogs today, you are going to read a lot about these cute scrapbooks and the importance of being here now.
Scrapbooking has changed my life. It has caused me to look at life so different. I want to take in the little things and chronicle the stories of my life – the big stuff and the ordinary, every day. It has helped me realize the importance of paying attention to now and not letting life just rush by.
You have everything you need right now to be vibrant and fully engaged in the creative process. It doesn’t matter if you don’t consider yourself “creative” or a “scrapbooker.” You have a story to tell, and chances are you have a camera. So, join me and hundreds of other scrapbookers in a challenge to “Give Yourself a Present”
o Snap ten photos of your life right now.
o Compile these photos in a really small mini-album
o Keep or carry this album with you (in your desk drawer or purse) for one year.
o Promise to glance through the album every time you stumble upon it or pull it from your purse.
o On October 1st, 2009, create a scrapbook page about your experience. Don’t worry, I’ll blog and help you remember!
Here is what my simple album looks like
I let the pictures speak for themselves, but adding words would be great too! I carry this sweet album in my purse and pull it out every chance I get – both to look at and to show it to people. I love it so much that I think I am going to make one for every month of Elias’s life (this was chronicles his second month). It truly is like a little present to me.
Stacy has generously provided me with 25 albums to give away, so leave a comment for a chance to win one! I will randomly select 25 people to send them to. If you don’t win, you can purchase the albums here.
Hello from NC, isn’t motherhood wonderful?
Jessica,
I love this challenge. Definately doable! Sometimes we forget to soak in all the pleasures of the moment and not worry about the future! TOday is the day I will pull out that camera!
Please, I’d like an album! I get so busy that I forget to think about the here-and-now.
Hi! The album is great. What a nice way to keep yourself grounded and remember what is important. I am now 16 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child, and would love one of the albums to make as a gift to unborn child about what life was like for me here and now.
I am so not a scrapbooker, but I think I could do a mini-album. I’m doing a blog that I never thought I could do so ….
I love this idea! It’s been almost a year since I’ve scrapbooked. My mojo just up and left me! But lately, I have felt it coming back. This mini album will a perfect start back into the scrappy world!! 🙂
Great idea! I would love to participate. I love your bolg–thanks for sharing.
I found your blog through Angie’s. I have followed ever since the birth of your sweet son. And just watching how he is growing up makes me relize that I really really and did I mention really should be doing something with the millions (I kid you not) of pictures of my son Aiden. I think that a mini album is a great way for me to start into scrapbooking!!
And keep posting pictures of Elias he is just soooo cute!!!!!
Brandi
Birmingham, AL
That little album is too cute! I love the little faces you chose out of Elias. That would be interesting to document life right now. I’m trying to take an interesting picture daily, so this would be a big help in my creative process 🙂
Love the idea. I’m going to try it!
I love this idea, it makes us nonscrapbookers think that maybe we can start with the baby steps!!
Very cute! I love the idea and would love to do it.
I love this idea! Thanks!
Cute album! As I am sitting here with my 16 month old who has been up since 3:15am, I am reminded to enjoy her sweet baby snuggles. Not that I wouldn’t love a sleeping baby, too!
Oh I would love to make one of these! How simple and cute 🙂
I’m one of those who thinks scrapbooking is a daunting task. I bought a beautiful album a year and a half ago to chronicle my daughter’s high school years. It still sits in the box it came in with all the supplies.
I think a small album would be more attainable for me and might jump start my scrapbooking project for my daughter. (My middle son graduates from high school in May. Don’t even mention a book for him yet!)
Renee
I am an avid scrapbooker as well and thank you for the reminder that we ALL have creativity around us….even if we don’t think WE are creative! The little album idea sounds SOOOO great! I would love to win one 🙂 Blessings!
-Amy Starnes
I love this idea.
You are very creative.
Susan
Your album is so great! Elias is so photogenic.
Love the project and LOVE your book! What a simple way to document where you are right at this moment in time.
Something I can do…I hope. 🙂
Melissa
love this sweet little idea. thanks for sharing! 🙂
This is SO sweet. I love the little book and your pictures DO speak for themselves. I love how expressive your son is! He is such a handsome boy.
I have been at a creative scrapbooking loss and this is such a great idea.
I’d LOVE an album. Scrap booking is my favorite thing to do!
I have two in high school this year, the only year that will happen, so yeah, I need to be keeping up with what is going on in our lives!
I have a terrific memory and even though I can remember so much of when they were babies, my hubs can’t so scrapbooking would be a way to get him involved!
Thanks for the chance to start!
Pamela in TX
Yes, please! I am a new Gramma of a 7 week old…
Thanks for your answer to my question, Jessica. I appreciate you taking the time to do that.
I would love an album. Mini albums seem to fit my crazy schedule the best and remembering the here and now is something I tend to forget. I love your blog and it truly inspires me!
So very cute!!! Great idea too! Maybe I can be lucky enough to win one!?
such a great idea! I look forward to starting one myself!
I love this idea!! It’s great. And I’d love to win a mini-album! 🙂 And btw…Elias is adorable!
Jessie in Maryland
Love the little album. Elias is so cute.
I’d love to win an album. I love scrapbooking, I am just so far behind. I am trying to do better and getting all my stuff organized in one work area.
Christy
Virginia
As hectic as my life is I know I could accomplish this challenge and it would be fun doing it! God Bless from Fort Worth Texas.
I would love an album to get me started – I’ve got ideas about what I want to do but never see them as doable! I am in the UK, however, so realise it may not be sendable!
Rach
This is such a wonderful project! I love how you used black and white in yours — beautiful.
I LOVE your blog! I also scrapbook, and I love to see your stuff! I would LOVE to win the mini album.
I have been scarpbooking for years but after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year the Lord used that to show me what really mattered “right now”. I have enjoyed reading your blog and everything you have to say is right on. It doesn’t matter all of the details and fancy products (although they are fun) what matters are the memories. I would love to know how this little album was made. I have 3 little ones and I would love leave them around our house for all to enjoy.
Thank you for all that you do on this blog! You are a blessing.
Love your blog…and would love to win the album too!
What a great idea. I would love the opportunity to do this as I have so much scrapbooking to do, but I know how quick time flies by us as well. My kids are growing so fast and this would be a nice thing to reflect on.
Thanks.
Heather
melody806@yahoo.com
I think these little albums are a great way to take a snapshot of life as it is right now. Gotta put in some shots of my 19-mo-old – she just started walking! 🙂
Great challenge-I love it! I love the idea of living in the moment and trying to soak up the smallest, simpliest details in life. Esp. with my kiddos!
Found you from your sister, Melissa. Long story … her boyfriend, Dan, went to college with me (and my hubby, Travis). Anyways … 🙂
Elias is adorable!
I love this idea!
Fingers crossed!
What a great album. I’m doing this challenge.
Heidi in Canada
This is a great idea, and cute pictures!
Love this challenge – count me in! Love your album. Have a wonderful day! KristinTX
Wow! Great idea!
Those albums are so neat! I love the one you made. Thanks!
What a fun challenge. Your 2 month album is precious. I’m going to start my one month old’s today! Thanks for sharing and reminding us of the importance of documentation and memory making!
Lynn in OK
I have started a book to many times to count….and none of them are finsished! This one is super cute, and all I have to do is add some pics! I would love it!
Destiny
I am not much of a scrapbooker, but I love the tiny album idea. His expressions just crack me up!! Love it!
I love this idea… Just yesterday I was thinking to myself that it was time to slow down and enjoy the here and now. I was cleaning and trying to rush, rush, rush to get it done and all of a sudden it was just like…Why? I realized right then and there that I am really bad at wishing my life away, wishing that work would hurry and be over, wishing that the week was over, and wishing for this to happen, and on and on…and this is a time in my life that I need to just slow it down. You see I am also losing my grandmother to cancer and we don’t know how long she really has left, something that should really make someone slow down and enjoy every day if not every minute of the little things in life that we take for granted… So this is such a great tool to give someone, and I am actually excited to make my pictures now… I want to thank you now for this, it is truly a blessing.
That is such a cool thing! Thanks for sharing it with others and changing lives 🙂
I haven’t scrapbooked since my little one was born, she’s now two 🙁 Would love a mini album to jumpstart me.
I’d love an album! I love your blog, you have really helped me realize I need a creative outlet, so thanks a ton from Greensboro, NC! My husband and I are in our second year of marriage, and I forget that its important to remember our life now before the kids and during the career questions and home purchase questions. What a great idea.
Love this idea!
Thank you for the challenge and inspiration Jessica! I love to scrapbook, but have become so overwhelmed with my process (I do a huge annual album, that I used to update monthly), that I am now more than a year behind! This is a great, manageable way to capture my boy’s lives right now (they are 4 and 2), and I am going to do this today!
I love the idea of this book….great way to carry your kids with you always. Thanks for sharing!
I’d love one!
What a cute idea! I’d love to win one!
That is such an adorable album!
Love the challenge. I did something similar using these little albums, but used photos of my family. It was really nice to have a mini album to pull out of my purse when away from home and a little homesick.
Alisa
This is an AWESOME idea! I will do it! I would love to win an album!
Great challenge & love your mini-album! Scrapbooking is in my blood too. :o) Have a great day!
Leigh Anne from GA
Oh how sweet! Both the baby and the little project. I can tell you from experience, if you don’t take the time to organize and preserve as you go, it’s a big mess! Add to that your five kids asking who’s who in all the baby pictures! Yes, albums are the way to go!! I love your creativity!
ADORaBLE!!! I’m a huge fan of Stacy’s too 🙂
What an awesome idea!! This is definately a doable thing, one that doesn’t need a bagillion embellishments and such!! Love it! (and your blog!!)
tbmroberts@gmail.com
I’d really like an album!!:)
BLessings from Norway
Hi Jessica! I have done a few of these albums! How fun! Loved getting to meet Elias…he is so precious! Glad your back home!
I have been wanting to make a mini album since I got back into scrapbooking about 3 months ago. But I’ve had trouble finding good mini albums to use at my local craft stores. These little ones look so perfect to slip into a purse. Count me in on the giveaway! I love the little everyday moments and am working on capturing them with my little boy.
I would love to win a scrapbook. You continually inspire me to keep documenting our lives before I soon forget. My kids are growing like crazy and changes are taking place before I can even blink some days. If it weren’t for my baby books and scrapbooks, I would not have those changes documented to look at later. 🙂
This is an awesome idea! I know I always tend to take pictures of special occassions or when the family is on an outing but usually not the everyday mundane. Thanks for enlightening me
Hey Jess…just wanted to say that I love your blog..always checking it. I love scrapbooking although mine looks nothing close to yours 🙂 Have a great week/weekend!!!
Hi Jessica,
I have been reading your blog for a little while and love it! My husband and I have just started to try and have a baby and we laugh so hard at your video blogs! That is so going to be us someday!
I am also a huge scrapbooker and I love your work! I also love this idea of “Life Right Now”. So much fun!
Hi fom MN! I have a 7 month old- and being that she is our 4th child- I tend to not whip out the camera as much as I should- let alone have the time to scrapbook. So to have the opportunity to do a small album like you did of your gorgeous Elias would be FANTASTIC! YOUR ALBUM and PHOTOS are wonderful. What a GOD given talent you have!!!
Thank you!!!
I love you chronicle of Elias! So cute. I was wondering if you will have another great video blog soon? I just love those!!!
Take Care.
Cindy
Elias is adorable and I love your little mini book. I love to scrapbook when I can find the time. I stamped my kids feet and hand print every month for their first year of life and then yearly. It adds a nice touch to their scrapbook and they can look back at how big their hands and feet where.
Denise
What a great idea! I don’t do too much scrapbooking because it is time consuming, and well I don’t have a lot of time, but that I could do and maybe it would help me slow down a bit! I love taking pictures of the everyday stuff, I just then have a hard time printing them off and finding something to do with them. This would be a fun project!
Okay, I just replid but forgot to say my name, Emily, from Iowa 🙂
Jessica,
Love your blog and I love to Scrapbook. I think this challange is a great idea. I don’t have any children, so I guess it would be filled with pictures of my husband and my dogs.
I’d love to be entered to win! Thanks for the chance!!! Your book is beautiful by the way!
Aw, how nice of Stacy~! Thanks for sharing your mini-album with us.
Thanks for the chance to win! I’d love an album. Yours is adorable.
Great challenge and i’m loving your black and white photos very precious.
~ Leauriy P.
Jessica – I love the album, you did a great job – I actually like it just being pictures with no words – Amy
I love your album! I’m loving this idea … can’t wait to play along.
what a great idea! My little one is almost 4 months and I’d love to do that! 🙂 Thanks!
Love the little book! I didn’t realize how little it was until I looked at the pictures a second time! I could definitely do this!
Jen
I absolutely love your mini album! The fact that you let the pictures speak for themselves, makes it so easy for everyone to make one!!
Thanks for always sharing your pages with us!
Hyatts1@sbcglobal.net
what a great idea! mini albums are my favorite because they’re not so overwhelming! 😀
Love following your precious family and your blog! Thanks for the reminder to be thankful for the “everyday blessings”-its easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle and forget! 🙂
Elias is adorable! 🙂
Anne Marie in TN
Oh, what cute pictures. And what a great idea to just take some current photos of the little things!! Sometimes, it’s easy to forget to take photos of the day-to-day things, the things that really matter most.
What a great reminder throughout the year of what matters most!!!
I love the idea of this little album…as a BRAND NEW Mommy myself…I would love to win one!!! Thanks!
Love the challenge! Beautiful book – yes, the pics speak for themselves.
~LisaW
I forgot to leave my real name! 🙂
Korryn from Nebraska
I have already started taking my photos, I just need a place to put them. My fingers are crossed. I am happy that I found your blog from Stacy’s. I will be a regular reader.
Shaun
http://www.roomswithaview.typepad.com
25… that’s super generous!
love those albums!
I LOVE THE ALBUM!! YOU ARE SO TALENTED! I LOVE TO SCRAPBOOK BUT IM JUST NOT THAT DOOD AT IT!!!! 🙂 MAYBE SOMEDAY MY TIME WILL COME!!!!!
I love this!! With 2 children, I can get overwhelmed with taking care of them and the house and they seem to get older in a blink of an eye. It would be nice to revisit them every once in awhile!! The album is beautiful!!
I took Stacy’s HAve More FUN class at BPS with the 30 days Hath September “present moment scrapbooking” album and this mini album will be the perfect wind-up to this class.
TracyBzz
Oooh, fun!
I love your blog and this is a great idea! I also love your mini album and pictures; Elias is adorable! I have a four year old and I am just getting into scrapbooking-I would love an album!
Cute, cute. I don’t have kids yet but I think my two dogs would look awfully cute in this little album.
This is such a great idea! Definitely makes me want to jump in and do it. I would love to win one of these albums but I live in Canada so I’m not sure if you want to ship to me here:) Love your blog – Elias is such a cutie!
I would love a little album. Thanks!
Hi Jessica! This is a great idea-I’d love to do a mini album. I read the book by Stacy Julian that you recommended a few months back. It, too, changed my view and way of scrapbooking. I am so much more relaxed about it now. So, thank you!
What a cool idea
I have done anything like this
Sher
Crud !! Can’t do anything right today !!
I have NEVER done anything like this before.
Have a good day !
Sher
just leaving a comment – pick me!
Hi Jessica,
I love you mini book and I am going to start my today, I think that I am going to have my older daughters do this too, they are my scrap buddies!!! Wonderful idea to keep it in my purse. I am glad that you had a safe trip.
Thanks,
De Anne
I would love one of these!
I’m leaving my comment in the hopes that I win that cute little album!
BTW, what type of camera do you use?
In Unison,
Melissa
I love this idea! And I love that you’re expounding on it for beautiful little Elias too!
I love your album and would love to own one of those albums. You are truly one gifted scrapbooker. I have scrapbooked for quite sometime, but not remotely close to your talent. I enjoy all your scrapbooking posts.
Your album is beautiful, Jessica!! Thanks for the chance! 🙂
You are so right! The moments of our lives, they just often sneek by us. So often I am reminding myself in the moment to take it in~whatever it might be, trying to consciously make myself aware that this moment in time will never come again, so as you say I try very hard to “Be here now”. Jen P. http://www.journeytomialynn.blogspot.com
Love this project. Yours is so adorable. Those little faces are too cute.
I love your blog…and Elias is TOO CUTE
I love this idea! I think this may have to be a monthly challenge for me to do with my kids!
Hello!
I would love a chance to win a mini-album.. Maybe it would get me motivated to start scrapbooking. I have the supplies, but need to get started. I think the mini-album would be a great way to start. How do you find the time? 🙂 I love your blog.
This looks so elegant, yet very easy, to do! Can’t wait to try it myself!
I love that little album. It looks easy and quick, just what I need with 3 little ones.
I have to say your little Elias is seriously one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.:)
What a great idea! I’d love an album…
I was actually thinking last week that I miss doing the “month at a glance” pages that I was doing for my youngest. Each month, I’d take a variety of every-day pics, and journal what he was doing during each of those months. I arbitrarily stopped at one year, but it’s a nice reminder that the information these days is just as important! Life with little ones goes by so fast…I love your point about being part of each day instead of just overcoming it.
-Simone
This challenge sounds great 🙂 Elias’ little album is precious.
I have tons of scrapbooking supplies, but 0 motivation. I think this would be a perfect simple start. Thanks for the chance!
Tara
What a great idea! I can’t wait to create my album!!
I love this idea! I’ll be taking my pics today…. hope I win one of the albums – so cute!
Kendra
Love the mini album…but if I make one you may have to help me take some good pics. Yours are always so great!
Audra
I’d love an album. I LOVE little things too. How encouraging your post is to make note of the little things.
Meredith
What a great idea! I have been a major scrapbook slacker for to long! I enjoy your blog!
I would love to have a reason to carry a larger purse, in order to share pictures of my daughter 🙂
I found your blog from Angie Smith’s. I’ve read for a few months and not posted anything, but know you are very inspirational.
Dear Jessica,
I love your album. I make lots and lots of scrapbooks, but they are rather large to carry around, so this looks perfect for a mother and grandmother who is more than glad to share photos with everyone. Thanks. Carol
I’d love to try this! count me in!
HI! I have never done a mini-album but really want to! Thanks for this opportunity. And if I don’t win I might just have to buy me one. 🙂 You are the best! 🙂
~Dani
I would love to get an album! It’s important to have these memories because with kids, you don’t get these moments back! Thanks so much for your blog!
What a beautiful baby! You can tell what your busy with these days. Where do you get these albums? Great idea!
What a beautiful album and great idea!
Your baby is SO cute! Love your album.
I’d love to make an album (and one for my kids) that highlights their life right now!
What a cute little guy! Thanks for sharing! Fun project and give-away. Thanks:)
Great idea! I love enjoying every day for what it is and thanking God for every part of what I have. Thanks for the idea!!!
Jessica– Like you, I have a passion for scrapbooking (plainly just being creative) thanks so much for letting us all get a glimpse into your families life. You inspire me to truly recognize the little happenings each day!
Jess-
You know how “non creative” I am- but this looks like a neat thing!
Amy Thornton
What a great idea! My four kids love looking at their scrapbooks. I’ve never done a mini-album before but I’d like to.
Tessa
I enjoy scrapbooking so much! I have albums dating back to when I was 12, now I am 37. I have never completed a pocket size one, what a great idea!
I believe this is the first comment I have left…I am a daily reader of your blog. I found it by the way of Bring the Rain…Angie and Todd’s video was played at our church some months ago.
I have yet to actually start my own blog, but have plans to in the future. By the way, Elias is so very cute.
I have been trying really hard not to get started…scrapbooking that is…but you make it look very easy and I have to agree it is a great way to write “our story”.
Mareesa
huntmh@wku.edu
Wonderful challenge. And about time I made a mini album for myself! 🙂
I love it! Thankfully, I just printed out some pictures, so I have no excuse not to participate!
Love your blog and the album!
WOW…I would totally love an album! Ever since I had my 2nd daughter almost 3 years ago the pictures and scrapbooking have practically stopped! I would love this to help encourage me to pick it back up again!
Thanks….
Kim in San Angelo, Texas
After reading your blog-I have jumped back on the scrapbooking wagon…. I have taken your advice and NOT used every photo-because I tried to do that with my first child and ended up driving myself nuts over it!! Elias is getting so big and cuter by the minute!
Christine in Cali
So cute. I love this idea. My daughter is now almost eight months old. I just may need to go back and do one of these mini albums for each month like you are doing for Elias.
Hi Jessica –
I love, love this challenge! I am two weeks into motherhood with my little man, Eli. I would love to document this first month of our “new life”. I am new to scrapbooking…thinking this may be the perfect start! 🙂
Pick me, pick me!
Love your little album!
I LOVE that book!! Elias is SO adorable!!!
Neat idea, and I can speak for the mothers who have been at this a long time – (oldest of four almost 20, youngest 11) – the time really flies. It is so important to savor the moments and record the stories.
BTW, Elias just gets more adorable every day.
Love the idea of the blog-blitz and “be here now” is something I try to remind me again and again.
Well that is just the cutest album with the cutest baby everrrrrr..hope I win..love your blog.
Hey, I think this is great. I scrapbook, but only the big things like vacations and big family parties. I am five months pregnant with my sixth pregnancy and I don’t think I have taken more than 2 pictures of me the whole time. I am so doing this today. The life of me and all of my men…. Right NOW! Thank you for the inspiration. Getting a free mini albulm would just make it easier…D
Littlemsmommy@yahoo.com
what a fabulous idea!
i love that album, what a great idea! i used to scrapbook all the time but have been slacking off. i’d love to make one of those little albums!!
Jess
Beautiful album! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Jessica – Love your precious baby and your blog. I really would like an album. I have three kids that are growing so fast and things they like change on a regular basis. Also, my last is turning a year in a week and time flew. I would like to tell her what life is like with two big brothers and a crazy house:) Thanks for the inspiration you give.
what a great idea. would love one of the albums.
I would LOVE to win a mini-book. What a great start to me trying to learn the ins and outs of scrapping. LOVE your blog, BTW!
love your craftiness. wish i could scrap! thanks for this chance to win a great lil’ keepsake album. definitely a great way to keep a brag book close by.
Great challenge! I’ve been wanting to get into scrapbooking, and this is a great way to do that!
Thanks!
emmarleed[at]hotmail[dot]com
2boysWhat an adorable baby! You look like you are enjoying the Here and Now! I’m hoping to win one of these cute little albums : ) Erin Glee
This mini album is great! I would love one!
love your little picture album! so cute.
Love your album and love this challenge. Seems like I’m always at a loss for time so its nice to see projects that are simple but meaninful!
Hi there!
I too found your blog through Angie’s and have enjoyed it so much! Your scrapbooks are so beautiful and ispirational but with Elias as your subject how could they not be. He is such an adorable baby. You are so blessed!
Your album is so beautiful. I recently began scrapbooking again after a hiatus of several years. You inspire me!
What a wonderful idea! Thanks for the opportunity for an album 🙂
Love this idea and as usual Elias is adorable. He is the cutest thing!
What a cute and creative idea. I just love it.
What a great challenge! I do not know how you find the time- I am 6 months pregnant and I can only imagine how my time will change come December! I would love this album though to show off her little pictures once she arrives!
Thanks! Elizabeth
Jessica, I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your blog. I think I stumbled on it from a scrapbook message board, but I’m also in the mid TN area! I would love to do one of these albums…I haven’t scrapbooked as much lately as I would like, and I think this would be a great way to get back into it!
Andrea
I love this idea and the simplicity of just photos in yours. So many times I worry about having the perfect “stuff” on a page before I feel like I can finish it. Most of the time this results in little to no scrapbooking because of the time demand. Super cute! Thanks for sharing!
What great pictures that truly captivate personalities 🙂
I’m inspired to scrapbook by your creativity.
Hi Mrs. Jessica,
I like this idea…..I would love to get one of these albums. Thanks,
Taylor from Pensacola, FL
Totally in for the give-away! Awesome idea – I so often feel like life is too mundane to chronicle or remember. But days like these are so important to remember on the crazy days, and with the album you have a really easy way to think back on them.
hello from WI! Elias is a cutie
Hi Jessica….your family is beautiful! I would love to win and album!
Love that idea! So many times we scrapbook past pictures and forget about the most recent ones.
Melissa in NC
What a special idea! Sacred moments are the everyday moments that slip by. Thanks for sharing!
I’d love an album. Thanks for your blog.
This is exactly what I need.
Liz in Texas
What a great idea .. BTW .. I’m going to do a “week of our life” thing .. that’s about the neatest idea. 🙂
I would love to be entered in the drawing!!
Jessica,
How adorable your album is! Now I know why you choose to handwrite in your books instead of using the computer….your handwriting is beautiful! I have never tried my hand at scrapbooking before, but this idea is totally doable.
Thank you and God Bless!
what a way to get some comments! thanks for the inspiration!
Oh my goodness, I am in love with this idea! I’ve been feeling guilty about being so unmotivated to journal much lately, and I feel like I’ve been letting a lot of important stuff slip by me unremembered. This is perfect.
What a GREAT idea! My little one just turned 3 and how I would LOVE to have little books like that of when she was tiny :)…I guess we will start them now! Love your blog!
I would love to have a sweet little album.
Rebecca from Big Island
What a great idea! I can’t wait to get started on my own!
Hi Jess!! I would love to be one of your 25 winners 🙂 Thx for doing this!!
Hi Jess!! I would love to be one of your 25 winners 🙂 Thx for doing this!!
Great little project.
I love the way the ribbon wraps around to close the book.
Too cute!
What a lovely idea. I used to scrapbook, but I’ve let it fall by the wayside. It calls to me occasionally, but I haven’t made the time for it. I love this little project–it just might be the catalyst to get me started!
i love the simplicity of this.
what a great idea!! i really need to live in the here and know. this is a great start!
blessings ~
I love being creative.
I love scrap booking.
& I'd love this album.
=)
Love to win one of Bazzill Mini to make album similar to yours for myself. Hope I win.
SUPER cute!!
I hope I win! I’d love an album – I’m a poor law student whose money is diverted from scrappin’ supplies to law books! 🙂 It’s worth it, though!
I’ve got my 10 photos ready. Just need a cute little album to put them in:)
LOVE your pictures 🙂 what a great album.
Hey Jessica,
Loving the pics of Elias.
Thanks so far on the tips you have given on scrapbooking. I am new to the world of scrapbooking, and find your stuff great to look towards for inspiration.
Thanks!
Pick me, pick me!
I love the idea!
I’m in. Nice little album.
225 comments already… looks like i may have to purchase one of those albums… but one can still hope right? i just made my daughter her first scrapbook on shutterfly ( kinda cheating right?) but now that means that my son needs one too!
great idea…posted it to my blog too. thanks!
I’d love one of these albums, to make for my mother-in-law, who is in a nursing home, and has parkinson’s and little short term memory . She would love more family and grandkid pics.
Great simple little book! Love it!:)
What a great idea, easy enough to get done very quickly which is a must for me right now. Thanks for the chance to win the album. 🙂