Hello Readers! So glad to be back blogging and creating for Ella since our big move around the world from the Washington, DC area to Japan.  Along the way I've been taking lots and lots of photos with my DSLR camera, but sometimes that hasn't been the most convenient option for me at all times.  Enter the amazing iPhone app - Instagram. If not for the iPhone camera, many photo ops would have been missed and I'm so thankful to have had it with me.

I decided to make a mini album from several of those photos of our travels to Japan and our first days in our new home country.

I decided to keep the mini rather simple to focus on the photos and the brief journaling I did for each page.  I plan to punch two holes on the top of the pages to secure them. That is, when I can find and unpack my hole punch tool!

So there you have it! Mini albums don't have to be scary, complicated or take days to complete. They can be simple and still meaningful!