HERE'S SOMETHING I MADE EARLIER...

I'm just zooming in quickly to show you a few pages of the blurb book I made to say thank you to our kind and generous hosts in France earlier this year. I think a book like this is the answer to "what the hell do you give people who live in a place like that because they lack for nothing?" It also helps that their place is so beautiful you can't help but walk around snapping photos 24 hours a day.

I had to take some pictures of the book as I only ordered one copy, believing that there was sure to be some kind of ridiculous rookie layout error that I would have to go back and correct, then order another. But it turned out perfectly - even more amazing since I did it pre-Mac on my ancient dinosaur PC. I had a good time making it and liked using blurb. Apple has a similar doodad for making photo books with text (anyone used it?) but I'm not sure if the quality's as good as blurb - the pages of this are glossy, high quality - I think I could get addicted to making books like this. This one is going off today to be given to its recipients - I'm fully hoping for a bit of grateful weeping, wonderment, that kind of thing...

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