Parents Books in a Hurry

Parents Books in a Hurry

November 21st, 2008 @ 4:11 pm by Mrs. Penguin

I’m the ultimate procrastinator. I wouldn’t say time is running out quite yet to make parents albums for Christmas, but before you know it, it’ll be December 25th and that album you promised to design and make for your parents or grandparents is nonexistent. For me, the dilemma was different: I really wanted to make a Blurb or Mpix album, but I swore if I had to stare at a computer screen any more than the 12 hours a day I already do so, I was going to go insane.

After seeing Mrs. Cherry Pie assemble her b-pics album with a Kolo and photo corners, I thought about doing the same for my parents albums. After considering photo cornering and gluing the pictures into the albums, Mrs. Lemon turned me on to the Kolo “Riva” album.

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All you do is slip 4″x6″ photos into the Kolo “Riva”, and you’ve got an instant parent album. It has pretty matted borders, and the openings are square 3¾” x 3¾” boxes.

My only dilemma is that the albums hold a maximum of 30 pictures. I tried to pick out my favorite 30 for each of Mr. Peng’s sets of parents, and found that it was really hard to get down to that number. I can do 40, but 30 is a no-go.

Dick Blick sells them cheap online ($24), or you can print out Aaron Brother’s 40% off coupon to get one in store.

All images from Kolo.com

How are you delivering your wedding pictures to your parents?

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7 Responses to “Parents Books in a Hurry”

Bee

Mrs. Green Tea (message) 705 posts, Busy bee

awesome!

11/21/08 @ 4:13 pm (reply)

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Laura

Yeaaaaahhhh about those photos for the parents. DH and I decided we (which of course means ME) would make Blurb books for the parents so they would have all the pictures. The wedding was 4 months ago and I have it all done I just haven’t bothered to send it all off to print. I will now, even though this new Riva book is mighty spiffy. I don’t know if I could cut down to 30 either.

Thanks for the reminder about the photo books though. You’re cracking the whip Mrs. Penguin and didn’t even know it.

11/21/08 @ 4:18 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Onion (message) 657 posts, Busy bee

dude — i’m totally conflicted too. i went through the same process but time is a’runnin’ out! i didn’t know kolo made matted albums. i’ll have to look into that. i’m not sure about the square photos though — where could you get square prints made?

if not, i think i just need to bit the bullet, upload the photos to get them printed from mpix, buy an album and some corners and get crackin’. maybe over thanksgiving week!

11/21/08 @ 4:29 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Emerald (message) 901 posts, Busy bee

Oohhh, that KOLO looks awfully pretty! But I could never cut it down to 30 pics!! For my own MyPublisher album, I could barely trim it down to 400, and for the parent albums, I think I narrowed it down to about 250. It was tough…

11/21/08 @ 4:46 pm (reply)

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Emily

Thanks for posting this! I was hoping for some inspiration for what to do with all the photos from our wedding. At this rate, our parents will probably get them next Christmas. Our wedding wasn’t even 2 months ago!

11/21/08 @ 4:57 pm (reply)

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Sarah

I used to be a Creative Memories person, so I have a whole basement of it, and I used one of their kits to throw something together for the mother of the groom. It blew her mind, and took me about 45 minutes.

11/21/08 @ 5:20 pm (reply)

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