Hello lovelies!

So what do you do when you have a voucher for eight Moleskine photobooks expiring two days later? I’ll tell you what I did for one eighth of that – I found my all time favourite template, and put together an entire year in 200 pages in a few hours.

I chose my most recent favourite font, opened Photoshop up to a document with the same size as the photobook (8×8″), and made simple headings.

I copy and pasted the journaling about the year that I had my husband do in anticipation of the book at the end of the year (yay, Evernote!).

And then I stayed with the same format as last year with a top ten.

For each top ten item, I assigned it four pages next to each other. One for the title, one for the templated photo, the next for another photo, and then I left a blank page for journaling. The templates resized perfectly to this large size.

Since I was in a rush, instead of typing it out I would hand write directly onto the book, which is another one of my recent favourite things to do. It also gave a lot of breathing room. Although I’m not quite there on the journaling yet.

After they were done I made space for the moments that didn’t get a top ten spot of their own. Loads of white space for this magical journaling that I’ll be doing.

And a full page for the ending. And that’s how I made a photobook of my entire year in a day.

Wish me luck for the journaling!

Products: Pictures + Words no. 6

♥ Caylee

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