This is what my shelf looks like with some of my "annual" albums lined up:
My "annual" albums are my standard, chronological albums with all of the events in our lives. I started labeling them "annual" because I began them after graduating college, when I was starting out on my own (as a single woman... without a job...) and it wasn't yet appropriate to call them my "family" albums.
Since I married Scott in 2008, I decided that maybe it would be nice to transition from simply calling each album "Annual" to calling them "Walters Family Annual" instead. This album is the Plumberry coverset that I used for our 2010 album.
Even though I use different colors for each year, I tie them all together by choosing the same design when I order personalization from Persona Imprinting: it's called "Seasons" and has an icon for each of the four seasons. I think it's appropriate for a year-round, annual family album!
Finally, I do the same thing on the spine of each album. This is even more important to me than the cover, because I like to know what I'm looking at when my albums are lined up on the shelf. I have the same "Seasons" image at the top, and this time I stuck with "Annual" and the year at the bottom of the spine, so it would match the rest of the albums on the shelf (and because it's shorter).
The above album is the one that I just started, which will chronicle each year that I teach at my current middle school. I posted about this album earlier this week, and I'm so happy with how the imprinting looks on the Picfolio albums!
If this is something you think you'd like to start doing, contact me at Marianne241@gmail.com and I'll help you get started!
This is such a lovely idea, and your albums look simply gorgeous in the shelf. :-)
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