Yard sale junkie #3

This weekend’s pursuit for good deals was a small one. I only found 2 items that I liked and George didn’t find any thing. I did add two dresses to my wardrobe. This weekend we changed our route, we wanted to see if the sales we find at the end of the day had even better stuff in the beginning of the morning. We did have nice weather and we did find a lot of yards with sales, but it just seemed that we would find the same things over and over. It was not until the last two sales that I found something. 

What my husband found for me....

This dress is something that is out of my normal. I love dresses like this to show my curves and what made it even better was that my Husband found it. He said would like to see me in it even if we are just at home. I think he wanted me to have it because it is an Ecko Red dress. If you have seen any of the last posts you would know how much he loves the Ecko brand. This dress is something I would wear during the summer time for sure. I am not too sure where or when I will put it on, but if I keep loosing inches I will look good in it.

What is something that you bought at a sale that was out of your comfort zone? 

Picaboo Review

Review 

When I first opened the Picaboo webpage I was very impressed. It feels like I just opened an expensive program in my computer, but lucky for everyone it is on the web for everyone to use.  Write down the discount code that pops up once you open the website, you will not want to forget it.   

First things first, I needed to set up an account. The process was very easy and only took a few minutes. It was a breeze to put in your information and get started. I decided that I need to get started on my first photo book. I have never done one before and I think books that are made with pictures you take yourself is a good way to show your love to some one and are pretty cool and very unique. I have friends that don’t think they could do it, but once they see how easy it was for me to make, they may want to try too.


Books start out at  $9.99 for a classic book and run up to $ 399.00 depending on how many pages and other options you want for your book. If you start right now, by the time you finish you may use this code to get half off  of your book.  Please follow this link this deal starts on 3/28/13. Plenty of time to get your pictures together and figure out what you want to say with the pictures.

 If you are in the market for just prints they offer them too, for 4x6, you can get them for .15 ¢ per print. If you want them in different sizes a 8x10 is 3.99 and a 5x7 is .99 ¢. 

They offer several themes to guide you in your project.  One that caught my eye was the cookbook theme. That looks like a great gift idea. If you are a parent or grandparent  you can make a book of all the favorite family dishes over the years and give to them away in a book.That is going to my next project. Any way lets get started..

This is what your home screen will look like when you are logged into your account.  Here you can keep track of how many projects you have going on It looks like it can hold a lot, and I love how it looks like a shelf.

When you are looking for pictures for your project you can link your Facebook account to this program and it will find all the pictures you have in your account that you may want to use in your project. I know that I have tons of pictures on my Facebook account that I don’t have saved on my computer so this came in very handy. 




I made sure to make a temporary folder and named it Picaboo on my desktop. I just put the pictures I wanted in this folder. It made it so much easier to make my book when all the pictures where together in one folder. I picked out 44 of some of my favorite pictures over the last four years. 

Here is a lay out of what your project lay out may look like as you insert your photos and text. All the pictures you chose are at the bottom of the page and once you use them anywhere in your book, a little green check mark shows up in the corner of the photo so you don’t use them twice. I like that too. Here you can choose the amount of pictures you want on each page and add text to go with your photos. All the options are under the blue cart button.

Take your time when you are doing your project, you never know what kind of mistakes you may make, but just in case you did make any mistakes, one of the last steps will ask you if you want to to a spell check. I would go back and just double check that your masterpiece is just the way you want it to look. 

Don’t forget the coupon code. 
They offer great deals for any thing that you may want to make.  

A Few days later..

My package came to me in the mail.  It arrived in a book box and was wrapped in plastic. None of the corners where bent, that tells me it was packed with care. 

This is the cover, just the way I pictured it. I am so happy with this project and I have not even opened it yet. 

I open my book and find that the first page has that nice dividing paper.  I am so pleased with the way the actual paper feels, the best way I can describe the paper in this book is that it feels like the paper you would find in a yearbook. Glossy and thick. This book is very much worth the price. 

 None of the pages stuck together and they all turned with ease.  As you can see, the binding is very strong and is put together professionally it will last last for decades.  I can’t take my eyes off how magnificent everything looks. I am so pleased with this company and my first book. 

If you wanted to start a photo project of any kind, I would start with Picaboo first. I think you will enjoy using is as much as I do. I am going to make another photo book for my mother and this is the place I will be doing it. 

What is a project you wanted to start with your photos? 

**I was contacted by Picaboo affiliate to review this website and the book.