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This was really a sweet and wonderful book to work on during the holiday - and the cold season. Randi is our client and she contacted us to put together this book as a gift to her husband. They got married in 2007 and recently she collected all of the images from their honeymoon to create a coffee table book as a memento and holiday gift to her new husband.

Randy was highly organized and gave us all 400 of her pictures in order of their honeymoon trip through Maui, Kauai, Napa Valley and San Francisco. It was a perfect book to work on in this chilly weather!

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We recently designed a book for Ellen van Deelen called "The Rat Pack - A Humorous Look at Extraordinary Mice. Ellen entered the book into the Blurb Book Contest and won much applause from candidates and voters alike. The book was nominated as a runner up and we are thrilled for Ellen and the recognition she received on her charming photographs. A special thanks to our dear friend Jerry Gotkin, who helped us write the beautiful introduction to that book, as Ellen was from Holland and did not speak fluent English.

Gifts of Time, Fifty Years Down Memory Lane was such a treat to create for our client. Brenda is a wonderful mother, a great co-worker, terrific friend and fantastic wife. I can say that because I read over 50 tribute letters to her from her friends and family.

This memory book is to be a surprise gift from her friends for her upcoming 50th birthday.Thankfully, one person, (one very organized person) coordinated the many letters and images that people wanted to contribute to the book, and although there were one or two late contributions and additions to the book, we managed to get it to print in time for the event. Happy Birthday Brenda and many more!

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This was an emotional book to work on for our clients. The family of a woman who had recently passed away from cancer wanted to create a memorial or tribute book about Ellen that they could give to Ellen's daughter so she would always know how much her mother was loved and admired.

This is a collection of letters and images from her family and friends that was put together and then gifted to the Ellen's teenage daughter. It is a wonderful gift that Ellen will have as a reminder of her mom for all her life. We wish them all the best during the holidays and the coming years.

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We just finished up a project for our client who wished to put together a voyeuristic book of her images as a gift to her boyfriend who travels extensively. She had professional images of her taken and asked us to design a tasteful, yet engaging book of her images. These were some of the most beautiful photographs we have worked with and although we are very proud of our work....we won't be showing this work to the public. This is a very personal book, which we do quite often for our clients. We respect their privacy, but still appreciated the opportunity to work on something so personal.

We hope he has enjoys the surprise in in suitcase the next time he takes a trip!!

Lucy & Salvatore. What can we say? It's not often anymore we hear of people being married for 50 years, so it definitely deserved a book to celebrate the occasion. Lucy's nephew contacted us to create this book for them, as they wanted to present it to Salvatore in a few weeks, who was going to be celebrating his 75th birthday!

It was a small book, only about 30 pages, but each page is full of memories of their 50th Anniversary and their renewal of vows. We wish them many more happy years together! To view more images from the book, click here.

We did another wonderful wedding album this week for our clients -Melissa and Joseph. They are such a great couple and Melissa was so easy to work with as a client. She new very clearly what she wanted in a design -a romantic, yet editorial look to her book and picked a 12" x 12" square design. She had approximately 1,000 images which we paired down to create a lovely 100 page book.

We wish them the very best in the coming year and hope they treasure their book for years to come!

This was such a fun, fun project! While we enjoy all the books we help our clients create, this one had us laughing and smiling throughout the design process. The Rat Pack, A Humorous Look at Extraordinary Mice is a collection of images by photographer Ellen van Deelen from Holland.

Ellen has lovingly captured her pet rats holding a variety of props, such as stuffed animals and musical instruments. These darling creates with their soulful eyes and adorable poses will be sure to charm and entertain you.

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Last year, Picturia Press created a blog book for our client to celebrate the birth of her first child - Beatrice. We were contacted again this year to create another book for her blog about Beatrice's first year. The book actually ended up being TWO books! We were really happy to work with our client again and to see how much her little one has grown in one year!

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Picturia Press recently designed "A Retrospective of Fine Art Oil Paintings" for a Bay Area artist, Iona Ezaki. The book is a collection of Landscapes, Animals, Still Life and Portraits done by Iona over the last 20 years.

Iona Ezaki was recently named 2009 Cupertino's Distinguished Artist of the Year. Iona has won numerous awards in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Los Gatos Art Association and The Cupertino Fine Arts League. She was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Landscape painting at the Cupertino Fall Fest in 2008 for her painting, "Napa Dreams". For more information about Iona and her artwork, visit: http://www.ionaspaintings.com.

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Think your book has what it takes to win $3,000? The Best Blurb® Books Contest is now accepting submissions! Let Picturia Press help you design the winning entry.

Enter your book by October 22 in one of three categories: family, pets, or travel, for a chance at one of three $3,000 grand prizes or one of three $1,000 runner-up prizes.

On October 23, voting is open to the public – tell your friends, family, neighbors, and Twitter followers to get out the vote. One judge in each category will select a winner and a runner-up from among the best Blurb books as voted on by the community.

So let's get started on your next book.

Live Journal is a well-known online blogging community that has been around since 1999. Recently, Picturia Press was hired to work with the team at Live Journal in compiling a selection of the best journal entries from their virtual online community.

The book was to be 10 year anthology for LiveJournal. It was very challenging to create a 118-page book; assuring that each writer and blog entry had it's own personality, while still complimenting the entire look and feel of the book. We hope the anthology will be a big success for LiveJournal and we congratulate them on their 10 year anniversary.

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We were happy to work with an prior client on creating a wedding book for her son, Matt, who recently got married. Our last project with this client was her Blurb best-selling cookbook.

Last year, her son got married in their home with just family and a few friends present. Although they didn't have a large wedding, they still wanted to have a keepsake of their special day. As a gift to the newlyweds, our client had all the photographs collected and asked us to create the wedding book as a surprise gift to her son and daughter-in-law.

Needless to say, they were completely surprised and delighted, and we were honored and pleased to be part of this special event. Congratulations again to Matt and Julie! To view more of this book, click here.

This was an absolutely amazing project to work on for one of our clients based in London. She is getting married in August and wanted to create a book - one book - to give her fiance as a wedding present. They met four years ago, like to travel and are known for taking a lot of pictures. She had OVER 1000 images for us to review and use for this project. This project originally started out as one book with 100 pages, but by the time we finished the project, we had four books. But, undeniably - four...beautiful books.


We even ended up being invited to the wedding! Unfortunately, we can't make it, but we are confident that there will definitely be a at least one picture taken of him receiving the books, and of course, we hope to work with them again on creating a WEDDING book after they get back from their honeymoon. We want to wish the very best to Hannah and Paul, a wonderful couple and a wonderful client.

We just finished a wonderful book for a Dr. Judith Monteferrante, a fine art photographer based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Judith is a retired cardiologist with a special interest in female heart and cardiac imaging. This book, THE NUDE MATURED, explores the hidden beauty of aging and the soft sophistication of the beautiful older woman, accepting and often celebrating her desirability in this image–driven age of unachievable perfection.

The images were beautiful and mostly consisted of black and white photography. We were honored to work with Judith and her images during the creation of this book. We wish her continued success in her career.

At Picturia Press, we offer our clients a range of services depending upon their needs. While some clients hire us to design and layout their book for them, other clients simply require a book cover designed. We also provide what we call "enhancement consultations". This service is offered to clients who have designed their own books, yet feel they need some design help improving the look and feel. This includes creating unique layouts, photo retouching and color correction, typography, color selection and consistency. Please contact us for more information about these services.

Last week, we had a client in Australia contact us who was creating a book for his father's 60th birthday. He had created most of the book himself and done a great job, but wanted our opinion and assistance on designing the book to make it look more polished.

We were happy to work with him on making the layout more cohesive and consistent, including incorporating new page layouts, color selection and typography. Additionally, we designed the dust jacket for his book. Too bad we can't be in Australia when his father opens his present.

As a preferred vendor at Blurb, we are thrilled to learn about their newest product offering, the 12" x 12" Square Book. This will be a wonderful addition to their current line up of book sizes.