Good morning everyone! It’s Carly here today to share more from my Letters to my Daughters book project. Last year I used a Smash book and shared some pictures here of the book, but this year I thought I’d change things up a bit.
First, I wanted to keep the book very simple. I loved last year’s Smash book, but by the end of the year I found that it was too hard to keep closed with all the embellishments I had added. I did add an elastic band around the book to help keep it together, but felt this year I’d go with a less is more approach.
The book’s purpose is still the same. It’s where I share all my favourite photos of my girls, write monthly letters to them and share personal stories about them, our family and our life together. It’s also a place for me to share special quotes and words of wisdom that might be interesting to them as they get older.
The book has been such a rewarding project and one that I feel will be such a wonderful gift to give to my girls when they are old enough to appreciate it.
This year my approach is all about clean and simple. First, I decided to go with a simple white paged book instead of the Smash book. I am also using larger photos this year, definitely flat embellishments (if any) and a lot more journaling. I actually have a number of pages already that just hold full letters that I wrote to my girls over the Christmas holidays.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved my Smash book and the finished book turned out really pretty, but this year I felt I needed a bit of a change and keeping my approach clean and simple fit the bill!
I really hope that my share today has inspire you to start your own “Letters to” book and even if a book seems a little too daunting the project could be as simple as a box of letters to your children, husband, parents, or anyone you want to share with. What a wonderful gift your words will be!
If you have any questions about this project, or how to get started, please leave me a comment, I’d love to help!
(products used: press cards no. 28, the magic hour kit, penned no. 1, photobooth kit and i am thankful no. 2)
-Carly
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I love what your doing and I was in love with your book last year too. I am thinking of trying to do a letters to my daughters this year.
Would you mind sharing what type of book your using this year? I am having a difficult time finishing something simple like this so i can add my own embellishments etc. I also want something simple and clean to start with.
Hi Nani, I bought my book from Kikki.K. They are out of AU, but ship worldwide. Here’s the link to the book I got: http://www.kikki-k.com/memories/photo-albums/diy-album. I think the Smash book is also a good option, but for me this year I just wanted to change things up a bit and keep it a little more simple. Good luck with your book!! All the effort will be so worth it! Carly
This is perfect! thank you so much I am excited to get started
You are so inspiring. Love the clean look of these albums.
I love, love, LOVE this idea. I have five kids and this does sound daunting but so wonderful. What types of things you write about in your letters to them? I just need a starting point of some kind. Thank you for your inspiration.