We Love Lucy: Celebrating a Child’s First Year

Lucy’s First Year

To conclude our week-long tribute to all things kid-related, we’re featuring a book called Lucy’s First Year. “The Lucy book,” as we like to call it around here, was created by Betsy Braun. Betsy was one of our first customers, and her book has had an interesting history.

Betsy created the book way back in early summer as a surprise for her sister and brother-in-law. It chronicles the first year of her niece’s life plus a little bit from the pre-Lucy era (Betsy included a some ultrasound pictures and photos from her sister’s baby shower). Betsy collected stories and thoughts from other family members to add some narrative interest to the book. Because the book was a surprise, she collected the stories manually rather than using the Invite Friends feature. Betsy said, “I wanted to keep as much of the book as possible a surprise and was worried that a few people might sneak or allow my sister and brother-in-law…to take a look…. I plan to use the built-in invitation feature in the future to allow more sharing.”

Betsy received her book and was very happy with it, but a few months later she had an opportunity to go back and make a few revisions using the updated version of Inkubook. She found the improvements we’d made to be quite helpful. “It was much easier the second time around to format the text exactly how I wanted it,” Betsy said. “Also, the many different background options made the book much more colorful. My most favorite part of the updated book was the matte cover–it looked amazing. I liked the cover before, but as soon as I saw the new book I LOVED the cover! The matte cover really put the final professional touches on the book that I wanted.”

We’re thrilled that Betsy enjoyed her book-making experience so much, and we’re especially pleased that she found our improvements and enhancements helpful. If you’re new to Inkubook, you’re lucky to get to try us out for the first time after we’ve already worked out some of those early kinks. We’re constantly working on improvements, so things will get even more slick and fancy over time.