In case you are wondering I was going to make 1 book with months 4-6 but then I kept hitting the page limit. I would reduce and put more pictures on a page but was constantly maxing out then I maxed out on the number of pictures you can include on Shutterfly. These were supposed to be Christmas gifts but I was very behind. By Christmas eve I only had 42 pages complete on the 4 month book. On January 6, I finished the 4 month book. I would continue to add pictures before finalizing older dates so I when I was on page 7 of the 6 month book I still hadn't finished reorganizing the month 5 book. On January 20, I finished the month 5 book. On January 25 I finished the month 6 book. I was more than a month late since shipping takes about 2 weeks!
I take far too many pictures. I didn't have them organized well so I went through and made a new folder for each date with the word favorites at the end of the title. Then I'd upload those to shutterfly one date at a time since some pictures don't have the date information and are put at the end. Then I would go and rearrange and put about 10 per page instead of their 2 or 4 or whatever low number they suggest. What made it even more difficult is that my desktop mouse doesn't seem to work right so I can't click and drag the pictures. So I create my favorites folders then upload on my desktop. Then I use my standing desk in the living room to reorganize. I reorganize while "watching" TV. I would say that on average I spent 2 hours a day working on this from the first week of December until I finished. There were a few days I stayed up until 2 AM just because I was on a roll and able to work without Ella bothering me!
There were days where I only took 300 pictures and I actually rather enjoyed those! 1200 picture days and a lot with my DSLR made it so hard to choose! Dave thinks I put too many pictures in. He thinks I should have 1 book per year not 1 book per month!
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ReplyDeleteDid you notice that month 5 had more text than month 4 and month 6 had the most?
DeleteYes I liked the text. It's nice to be able to remember stuff later on, too.
DeleteI prefer all the wording. But it takes more time and initially I didn't know Id be so late with the gifts
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