DIY: mini photo book Summer 2013

One of my staycation goals this year was to finish my mini photo book of my vacation of Summer 2013. I succeeded. Most of the book was already done, but I needed to deal with some final details like lettering, buying extra materials and creating a cover.

I re-used a cardboard parcel as a box in which I could lay my mini book. On the front cover I stuck some photos that I didn't use in the mini book and I strengthened the edges of the photos and the box with gold-colored washitape.

The sticky letters and numbers I used on the cover of the box are available in most bookshops or office supply stores.

The mini book fits neatly in the folds of the cardboard box, I didn't have to resize or do anything about it.

I used two silver coloured rings for binding all the pages together. The mini book contains three different colours of card stock: white, red and blue. Red was used for the first part of my vacation, a short to trip to Braunfels, Germany. Read the blogpost about that trip over here.

red section: Braunfels, Germany

The white pages contain train tickets of travel days, photos of outings or social events. The blue pages contain photographs of the assignments of the Miksang Contemplative Photography workshop, level I and II.

theme 1: Colour

theme 2: the sidewalkness of sidewalks

On our day off we would like to go to nearby villages to have a look around and buy some lovely fresh French pastries. 

theme 3: pattern

photographing each other

last page of mini book

All the photos were developed at a local print shop.