***Look­ing to down­load the book and not read the whole post–

Click here to down­load this iBook from the iBookstore

If you don’t own an apple prod­uct, no wor­ries, I have a pdf ver­sion of it too.

Down­load this FREE eBook here (in a high res­o­lu­tion pdf format)

Now resum­ing my reg­u­lar blogging***

You all know that I finally caved in and  bought my first ever Stu­dio Cal­ico kit last month right? It was their Sto­ry­hour kit and it was SO much fun to work with. I am actu­ally con­sid­er­ing sub­bing from this month onwards, it is just been so amaz­ing hang­ing out at SC!

What does this have to do with the image above? Well, I am glad you asked! Get­ting my SC kit in the mail was so excit­ing, it made me go back and start scrap­book­ing more. Even before the kit arrived home, I had pho­tos printed and lay­outs sketched out– and before I knew I had four lay­outs all done and ready.

I shared three of them ear­lier this month in this post here, but the last one, my hus­band dar­ling wanted to show­case a lit­tle bit more. As in, he wanted to try his hand at mak­ing an iBook (he loves new and tech­ni­cal), and asked me very sweetly if I wanted to write one for him.

I was like yeah, I will add that to my crazy-no time to sit down and breathe till 10pm at night, 7 days a week– busy life with the never end­ing to-do list.

(I actu­ally have two TO DO lists nowa­days, one a gen­eral one, and one that I write every morn­ing– the absolutely MUST do even if I lose sleep today list! Iron­i­cally, this blog post was not on today’ list. No it was not. I was sup­posed to fin­ish prep­ping my receipts so that we could fin­ish fil­ing our taxes soon. Guess which was more appealing?)

That said, I was work­ing on this lay­out a cou­ple of weeks ago, and had all these thoughts pop­ping up in my head, and I sud­denly real­ized that, that right there was that book that I could write. That he wanted me to write. I could lit­er­ally hear myself typ­ing it up. Who said a book had to be all words? I am only read­ing pic­ture books to our girls right now and that was my first thought– A pic­ture book. Or to be more pro­fes­sional, a photo book.

So this is my very first ven­ture at a book.

I might write more, I might not. You never know.

But this one right here — it will be my first book– and will be mine forever.

Click here to down­load this iBook from the iBookstore

If you don’t own an apple prod­uct, no wor­ries, I have a pdf ver­sion of it too.

Down­load this FREE eBook here (in a high res­o­lu­tion pdf for­mat) 

(the book is not a small sized file, and might take a few min­utes to down­load com­pletely. You will also need an Adobe reader, which if you dont already have on your com­puter you can down­load for free here)

I am not a writer.

I am a blogger ♥

And this book is just an exten­sion of my blog.

And I truly hope you will take the time to down­load it and hope­fully enjoy it!

Thanks so much for hang­ing out with me and stop­ping by my blog so very often. Inter­act­ing with all of you and your sweet com­ments– these are the small things that brighten up my every­day

PS: If you actu­ally read through this entire post, you will real­ize that I said iBook but this is a pdf. Well, it took us two week­end to get this book done and finally pub­lished, and we are still wait­ing for it to appear in the iTunes store. Evi­dently, after some research, we have found that once pub­lished, an iBook can take any­where between 24 hours to 3 months to appear in the store. Yup, I said three months. And I am not a patient per­son. After refresh­ing my account, atleast 10 times a day for the past week, I have finally decided, that I want to share this with every­one– not have it sit on my com­puter. Also, I might have been dri­ving myself stir crazy refresh­ing my browser all day long.

When even­tu­ally the iBook appears on the itunes store, I will update it here and let all of you know!

ETA: The text para­graph for idea #8 was incor­rect, (Thank you Kelly for let­ting me know!) and I have changed that. You can now down­load the edited pdf by click­ing the same link above. It will down­load a file 10FRESHscrapbookingideas_SmithaKatti_ver2.pdf. Thanks!

ETA: March 30th: The book has hit the iBookstore!