Bringing It Down to Size

Now that Mom no longer feels she can travel with us, she's been looking at the photobooks we've made for her since 2008.

Up until 2013 I had photo pages printed at Office Max, placed them in plastic sleeves and stuck them in a binder.

It worked best for us.

Blog visitor Hank Chapin kept suggesting for at least a couple of years that I should have a photo book made at Costco. I didn't think it was possible because we had so many photos and captions, not to mention Mom's recollections in Japanese.

Sigh...

It took too long for us to figure out that I could take each of the pages I made and upload them onto the Costco page as one jpg photo per page.

I was looking back at one of the binders of our trip to the National Parks (Bryce, Grand, Antelope, Zion, etc.). Mom had really loved that trip.

I'd made that binder album horizontally so I figured I could transfer them easily to the Costco book.

Not so easy.

The Costco books have a limit of 100 pages. I had 116 in the binder.

Sigh...

Well...

We did it! We went through the photos and were amazed at how many photos were really unnecessary or redundant.

I took out a bunch and enlarged a goodly number of them.

When we brought the book home, Mom looked through it and said, "This book is so much better. You put more photos in it."

When we told her we did the opposite, she said she liked the fact that photos were bigger and that it somehow made it seem like there were more photos in the book.

Thank goodness our trip to Seattle and Vancouver last year was already in a Costco photo book because I KNOW she looks at it constantly and it brings the trip back for her every time she looks at it.

In fact, because of the book, she remembers more about the trip than we do.