Picaboo - how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

I have been genetically altered. I now have a creative gene. And that creative gene is called the chromosome Picaboo.

My practice Picaboo book came in the mail yesterday. Remember how I told you I wanted to see how it would work so I would know for Carrie's sons graduation book? I figured I'd practice on a trip from days of yore. So I went back in the archives & dug up our Vegas pics.

The pic on the front cover is one I actually took of the 'Welcome to Vegas' sign. I could've put any web background on it OR I could've used the pic or the background AND added more pics on top of it. Be still my heart...I was also able to write whatever the heck I wanted on it. I could choose lotsa different fonts & colors. I could've even put something on the spine, but I didn't. I wish now I had...tear...This book is 6" x 8". I sat it on a piece of regular size paper for you to see the size. Brad was a little surprised at how small it was. He just imagined it would be bigger (don't all men?! :)I like how it has an inside cover - kinda like a real book. I just put a pic the resort took of us when we got there & put a little note about our friendship underneath with our names. For Carrie's book, I gave her homework after I left Sunday to write Tyler a note from his mamma. The inside cover of his book is a pic of them together when he was 4 years old on the left & then one from his 18th birthday a month ago on the right. It's gonna be epic! My favorite few pages are the ones from the Hoover Dam & Grand Canyon. On the left, I used a pic I took overlooking the dam. Then I added the words & more pics on the top & bottom. Same concept on the other side. I used a pic I took at the Grand Canyon as the background & added words & more pics. Voila!

On the left is a pic the helicopter place took before we went over the Canyon in that very helicopter. I just made it one whole page all by itself. This time I added no words & no other pics.

For the back cover, I used another pic I took from one of the cross walks looking down the strip.

Then I added the words for a personal touch. And of course, to give myself credit for all prosperity.

All in all, I'm pretty proud of this little book. It was really easy once I got my bearings. One problem I have that most of you won't is that it takes a helluva long time to look at the backgrounds on the web because of our slow internet connection. Plus there was NO way I could send the book to the site after it was done at home. I had to take it to mom's & mooch off her hi-speed wi-fi. (You download the software to your computer & you don't have to be on the internet to work on it. UNLESS you wanna look at backgrounds...) They are VERY customizable. There IS a small element of creativity involved, but not so much I felt an anxiety attack coming on like I did with the scrapbooking stuff. This is much cleaner & neater too because I had piles of little papers & such all over the place after working on the scrapbook. In my opinion - these are the new wave of the future. DIGITAL scrapbooks!!! And you may be wondering on the price? They have like 3 styles to choose from that aren't too expensive (there are some that are hundreds of dollars! gulp!) The book I chose was a classic custom hardback. It is size medium. It was $29.99 for up to 20 pages (mine was 15...). Each additional page is $.99. You can also get softback for $15.99. I paid a total of $39.98 after tax & shipping.

You can see the entire book here. You know you wanna... http://preview.picaboo.com/Webview/CoverPage.aspx?album=000000000007274799&user=0000000000072269BE