A book full of memories

While looking on One Kings Lane, I came across an offer for half off photo books. I purchased a couple, and have now designed, completed and received two of them in the classic style, and I just received my third one, our last trip to Disney World, in a deluxe version, last week. What a great way to showcase all my digital photos without having to print and spend the time putting them in an album. You download free, user-friendly software from My Publisher, choose your photos and design your book. The end product is a hard bound photo book that you can enjoy for years to come :)

Here's mine, I'm working on putting all my photos from the past five years into books, I can cover about 5-6 months in  a book, if I don't use every photo :)

I ordered mine with glossy hardbound front and back, and decided I would put a family picture on the front of all of them, and my adorable kiddos on the back at each, I love how they turned out!

There are sooo many options, for our Disneyworld Halloween trip book, I chose to color all of the page backgrounds in orange..... 

Instead of coffee table books, why not personal photo books?

Or side table.... 

Other great ideas from My Publisher... calendars, cards, and My Bookshelf, a great way to share your photo books with friend and family out of town, check it out!

Candle Making (Attempt)

I always love trying out new projects, and as much of a soy-wax candle kick as I've been on lately, I thought I'd try and make them. I have loads of the pottery containers from my Swan Creek Candle Co. candles, that I hung on to for this project. I got a metal canister, soy-wax flakes, vanilla scent, and Regular and wooden wicks from Hobby Lobby.

I heated the canister on the stove and poured in the wax flakes a little at a time stirring them to melt, added a whole bottle of scent (i like really strong scents), and the after setting the wicks at the bottom of each canister with a little glue, I filled each canister. I sprinkled a little ground cinnamon at the top of each for looks and scent, and let them cool.

The finished product.... nice smelling candles, but when they burned, they tended to just a burn a small amount of wax in the middle, not evenly through the entire candle.....next time I think I'll do three wicks in each canister, still a pretty finished piece though :)