Ah, the day after a holiday. Everything goes back to normal and it is time to get your film developed or your digital photos printed. (Oh and do the laundry from the big weekend, but I won’t bring that up again.)

I thought I might try to find some cool red, white and blue paper - something a bit different than the typical 4th of July themed papers. So I took at peek at PaperMojo.com.

Of course there you can just click on what color paper you want to see and the wide selection of amazing papers is displayed before your very eyes. This is a very cool way to shop for paper. I don’t know about you, but I know what color paper I am looking for when I need paper.

So, good luck with getting back to the normal routine. Remember to get your film developed or print out your digitals and let the laundry sit one more day.

It is officially the countdown to 4th of July - 3…2…1…GO!

Here are some cool layouts for 4th of July:

Simple, great looking and lots of photos

A fun one using red, white and blue wire

A completely unusual one using chalk

My sister (who invited me to my first crop and who now scrapbooks when she has time) has lived in Spain, Mexico and Costa Rica. Then she married a wonderful guy from El Salvador.

So today when I got an email from Julie Swatek at ScrapYourTrip.com announcing supplies from 8 different Latin countries I thought maybe I would be able to find some cool stuff for my sister.

I did! They have stuff for Spain and Mexico, but not yet for Costa Rica or El Salvador.

Here’s where to find the Latin-Oh! products.

Our family goes to a small mountain town each year for the 4th of July. We see a small town parade (kids on bikes, the fire trucks, politicians and the friends of the library with their kazoos), swim, watch fireworks, BBQ - the whole works.

Naturally, we take a ton of pictures and scrapbook them. =:)

One year my mom (you can read more about her here) got each of the kids their own one-use camera. They had a blast taking their own pictures. It was really fun to see what they thought were the most memorable parts of the weekend.

They took photos of their beds, the pool, cars going by on the way home and lots of candid shots of family members. There were no photos of the parade - grabbing the candy being thrown to the kids was way more important to them than getting a good shot of the parade.

We decided to do this every year. And this year I found something else really cool to do when we get home.

PhotoWorks.com has a service that develops your photos directly into a photo book and publishes it. They have a small one that is only $9.95. The kids will have their own book about the holiday. I am so excited to do this.

Photo Books

I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out. Please let me know if you decide to try this too. I’m curious.