What is a Storybook? 
  Quite simply it's a picture book that tells a story.  A Wedding story, the birth of a Child story, our Summer Vacation story, an adventure in search of wildflowers on a country side story.... anything that you would want to record in a beautiful format for today to remember an event and for future generations. 

Remember those old photo albums bound with string? The kind that had the pasted-in photo-mounts, one for each corner of every picture? Those treasured family albums often wind up in the hands of the family historian. With luck, the photos they contain are not yet physically deteriorating. If not, we can help you Restore them also.  If we're very lucky, someone took the time to provide names and dates for each photograph. It's odd that we call such mementos of past lives "scrapbooks". They're more like "treasure books" or "Story Books" - the "scraps" which they hold are precious gems to the family.

Looking for a little story and a little history of 'Story Books' or 'Scrapbooks'? 

From one of our Adventure 'Story Books'  "Hiking in Red Rock Canyon"

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  'Wedding Story Book'      'Adventure Story Book'    'A Baby Story Book'

INFORMATION 20 pages total included These large, 11.5 x 9.5 inch, high-quality keepsake books.    Display the photographic highlights of your year, vacation, wedding, adventure,  -- or a lifetime.  Each digital art picture page measures 8.5x6.5 Includes 20 to 100 glossy pages of photos handsomely sewn-bound with your choice of cover materials Balmoral™ cloth or a smooth gloss-finish cover Optional Text description included free of charge for each page. First page is applied to front cover of book.

No. of Photos 1-5 photos per page are used to create. Each additional 2-page sheet up to 100 pages.

PRICE EACH $300 ea. book of 20 pages. (That's only $15 each page of digital art) $40 each  sheet. (That's 2 pages of pics each sheet)

ADDTIONAL BOOKS Multiple books of same order are $50 ea after first book. Why not order extras for xmas gifts? Multiple different books are discounted 20% after first book ordered at same time or within 3 months of first order. Shipping is included.

First the Story

I like to call them 'Story Books' because that's what they are to me.  I use photos of an event and arrange them in a graphic format and add dates, names, a little story of the happenings.  My children have oogled over these books for hours and I can only forsee the future generations doing the same. I have found myself in awe of my past ancestors picture books only too sad to learn that no one had recorded all the names, places, times and the story with the pictures.  At first I would create pages of photos and then print them and put them into hard bound scrapbooks and write up a little story behind them... I still do this, but now I make sure to also include important names and dates within the photo page.  We also will add report cards to School Story Books, tickets to a special concert or event pages, the ribbon won or the dried pressed flower as additional little momentos stuck between plastic so as to not harm the photos. 
  I have also learned quit by accident that this was a wonderful way to get my children to journal.  Not only do they record the event for future viewing, but it gave them a fun way to learn to do some creative writing, learn to print, create layouts, and express themselves.  We put our photos together in pages that tell a story and make sure to write the story and tuck behind the pictures so our children's children will now what kind of spirit we were.

But Why Stop There?
  We love some of these photos so much and our little 'Stories' and 'Adventures' that I wanted to create ART and hang on a wall or put in a picture frame so we can enjoy all the time.  So the special ones are created with that in mind and become true Digital Art that we can print poster size.  It has now become a family affair from the photography taking to the digital graphics of arranging our pictures and words and stories.  Everyone get's involved and what is produced is a true product of our love of not only what we did together as a family, but a love of creating a memory that will last forever.

Electronic or Digital Graphics is the art of taking all of the pieces of our life event and arranging them, enhancing them, adding elements and captions and stories all in one digital format and  producing a complete piece of art...  a montage of sorts... not just for the sake of art, but for record, for memories, for the love of the family and friends to have for many many generations yet to be born.     This is my quest.  

And now a little history

Art & Preservation

Pictures being worth a thousand words, scrapbooks help breath vitality into the telling of a family's history. Those members of the family whose eyes glaze over when the family genealogist recites the dry list of names and dates of common ancestors are often spurred to interest when the scrapbook gets shown around. A scrapbook's connection to family history is self-evident. In the scrapbook are the pictures, birth announcements, newspaper clippings, child's artwork, event tickets, commencement programs, and the wedding invitations which provide insight into a family's past. Scrapbooks are an excellent answer to the family historian's life-long question "What do I do with the results of my research?". Genealogical information included in a scrapbook can maximize the likelihood that family members will preserve and cherish the hard-won information gathered and analyzed by the family historian. A pile of carefully compiled genealogical research is much too easy to "recycle" once the family historian has passed on. An artistically crafted scrapbook stands a better chance of being kept by the next generation because if it's eye-appeal. The family scrapbook might just be the stimulus for exciting the next generation to study the history of the family.

An Electronic Frame Around A Picture Of The Past