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Every year, my friend Tonia creates small, 8 x 8 albums as Christmas gifts for her family. She uses ideas that are fairly simple and easy to replicate. Her family loves them, and I think these pages are perfect examples of how a simple design can be just as beautiful, if not more so, as a complicated one. We met at an area Archiver’s store over Labor Day weekend and she worked on some of her pages. Here are pictures of a few: