…oh no, not my thoughts – or rather it is like this; Usually I am careful about sharing what is going on in the message boards at Big Picture Scrapbooking, but when Ali Edwards share her thoughts from the shower…
Often it is hard to see where you are going when you start out in a new class, and teaching in a big online class for the first time must be a challenge. You don`t see your students, and even if you have online communication you can`t see if your message is getting across. Now – there is nothing wrong with Ali`s message! But it was okay to get her clarification about how to work with her ideas and teaching. I believe I said something about this a few days ago: Me – I am not ready to make one more album about myself already. But, I am learning how to tell a story and how to present that story with photos and words. And Ali E is an inspiration for both.
An album with 12 stories would be a thin album or what? What she is giving us is an idea of how to tell our story. I like that.
Even if I am not making a special album for this class I had to make the intro page. Because it is cute. So am I – @ 4.
Since I don`t know how to get 12 x 12 printed in Norway I also made a paper version:
After posting this in the gallery I got a mail from a nice person telling me that we could order photo books from Shutterfly without paying taxes because it was considered books. I had not thought about that possibility. Before printing a photo book I would need a lot of layouts and stories ready. So that may not happen any time soon. In the meantime I will keep getting my stories together, and patently waiting for the next tutorial from Ali.
I am out of food and coffee, and I can`t live without coffee so it is time to go shopping.
3 responses so far ↓
Jean // October 9, 2009 at 3:18 pm |
Both versions are fabulous!
Barb // October 9, 2009 at 5:18 pm |
Oh wow, both your digital and paper pages are beautiful! I wish I could have made the time to participate in this class with Ali!
Petra from NL // October 12, 2009 at 5:46 pm |
Hey Elin,
I am planning on having a photobook printed as well. We did use Shutterfly a few years ago for our wedding album, and I don’t think we paid additional taxes for it when it entered the Netherlands.
I like their quality very much, better than Blurb. Blurbs printing was fine but the binding of the book was horrible…
Good luck on your stories…