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12 ways to decorate your home with prints

22 March 2024

12 ways to decorate your home with prints

Pimp your wall with some printed photos. Here are 12 ways you can display your favorite memories on your wall and make your home even more homey.

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At home with Sarah Jane Gottschalk

21 March 2024 / 3 min read

At home with Sarah Jane Gottschalk

In the cozy Kreuzberg district in Berlin we met up with Sarah Gottschalk in her cozy apartment to chat about how to make your personality shine through in your home, memories on printed photos, vacations that never happen and as they say in German - Dekofimmel.

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Strengthen relationships with photo prints

21 March 2024

Strengthen relationships with photo prints

When we look at photos of the memories we’ve shared together, we strengthen our relationship with one another. It’s not really about the photos themselves – it’s about the stories they tell and the emotions they stir.

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Make your photo book bit by bit

31 January 2022

Make your photo book bit by bit

Even though it is very easy, and honestly, pretty fun to make photo books in our app (if we may say so ourselves), it still takes time. Simply because there’s typically not just ten photos to look through. More like ten thousand. But you know what? You can get around this way easier than you think – by making your photo books bit by bit.

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Turn your kid's art to a photo book

24 September 2021

Turn your kid's art to a photo book

Who actually keeps all 762398 drawings that your kids make? Anyone? Well, here’s how you make your kid’s artwork into a coffee table book:

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Four ways to make a year book

12 January 2024 / 3 min read

Four ways to make a year book

There’s not a lot of things that we buy that last a lifetime. We have a tendency to get bored with most things, but memories, on the other hand, become more and more precious as time goes on. So help yourself remember to remember by creating your very own collection of memories.

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Five reasons why you should make a year book

9 January 2024 / 1 min read

Five reasons why you should make a year book

2023 is coming to an end and it’s time to take a moment and think about your year. Maybe all your dreams came true this year, or maybe they didn’t at all...

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How to make a year book

5 January 2024 / 2 min read

How to make a year book

There’s something special about collecting your favorite moments in a yearly photo book. Because just like that, all your photos come to life and the memories they hold will live on in that book. Forever. Pretty awesome, right? So, it’s about time to start your very own collection of memories with these five tips on how to get started.

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10 photo book gift ideas

6 November 2023 / 2 min read

10 photo book gift ideas

Scroll down for ten photo books that'll win you every gift-giving award this year.

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Prints as Christmas cards

9 November 2023 / 1 min read

Prints as Christmas cards

Looking for an alternative to the traditional Christmas card? Say hello to our photo prints. The perfect way to get a little more personal this holiday season and create something that your loved ones will want to keep forever.

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Make, copy, paste, repeat

6 November 2022

Make, copy, paste, repeat

We’ve said it before – and you’ll hear us say it again – there’s no gift like a photo book. So why not give it to the whole fam or the entire friend group? It can honestly be as easy as make-copy-paste-repeat. Here's how!

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5 useful tips for the perfect Father’s Day gift

12 October 2021 / 3 min read

5 useful tips for the perfect Father’s Day gift

...and let me tell you, this is gonna go straight to the dad-heart. Because that’s the type of gift a photo book is. Though we might be a teeny-tiny bit biased, there’s honestly no better way to tell your dad or partner how much you and your kids love them (and appreciate all those little things they do) than by showing it in a book you made with love.

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Three Mother’s Day book ideas

13 March 2024

Three Mother’s Day book ideas

All moms out there deserve the best. And they do deserve it all year round, of course. But on Mother’s Day you get a little reminder to recognize all the little (and giganormous) things they do. So, whether this makes you think about your own mom, your partner, sister, friend or grandma, here are some Mother's Day photo book tips you can use.

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Three ways to make a recipe book

13 October 2022 / 1 min read

Three ways to make a recipe book

There are plenty of ways to make a recipe book. And we mean plenty. You probably have recipes saved on print screens on your phone, jotted down on a notepad somewhere, recipes saved on your computer or ripped out from a magazine? Here’s three easy ways to make your own cookbook from all those scattered recipes.

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Make a personalized travel book

16 May 2022

Make a personalized travel book

When we found @lou__lundberg on Instagram we instantly loved her techy tips, tutorials and lifehacks. Louise is a digital designer who runs her own business and when we realized she’d made a Once Upon book, we asked her right away if she would share some of her tips with our Once Uponers.

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Three ways to “my baby’s first year” book

26 June 2022 / 1 min read

Three ways to “my baby’s first year” book

Obviously there are a lot of ways to make your baby’s first year-book. It all depends on the amount of time you have.

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Baby book questions

22 June 2020

Baby book questions

Sometimes getting started is the hardest part. But making a “my first year book” for your baby can actually be quite fun. To help you out a little we’ve created this list of things to write about and photo tips to make it a little easier.

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Sweet summer memories

6 September 2022

Sweet summer memories

Beach days, barbecues, flowers, freckles and ice creams and much, much more that all deserve more than being forgotten on your phone or in your camera. Time to get cracking on your Summer of 22' photo books to make sure all your sweet summer memories aren’t forgotten.

Create balance in your photography

19 June 2023 / 3 min read

Create balance in your photography

A lot of us want to capture memories from when life is at its best. Imagine your camera roll after a wedding, graduation or vacay. Pretty much to choose from, eh? Exactly as it should be!

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Ylva's Story

25 October 2022 / 3 min read

Ylva's Story

It was February, freezing cold and dark outside the first time Ylva felt that little lump in her right breast. She was only 43 years old and could never have imagined that the tiny lump a few months later would turn her life upside down. Read Ylva’s story about her cancer and how it helped her to share it with others.

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Personalized gifts for everyone

1 November 2022

Personalized gifts for everyone

We might be a teeny tiny bit biased, but let’s be clear, there’s no gift like a photo book when you want to give away all the feels. So, here’s how you turn your photos to perfect gifts for all your loved ones.

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A football book for the ages

22 May 2022

A football book for the ages

Say hello to ten year old football lovers Tuva and Alice. Their photo book passion project completely knocked our socks off.

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Que saves her food art forever...

11 February 2021 / 1 min read

Que saves her food art forever...

...in a Once Upon book, of course! Que Phuong Tran is a food art expert from Vietnam who has made a Once Upon book showing her favourite art pieces.

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Anna's very own cookbook

11 April 2021

Anna's very own cookbook

Anna grew up with her mom as her big inspiration and together with her interests for healthy living, communication and sustainability – she started sharing her recipes on Instagram (@consciouskitchenstories) and, of course, made her very own Once Upon cookbook.

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The journey behind our image caption

5 November 2021

The journey behind our image caption

You can now choose to say a little something about each memory in your photo book. We have talked to our Product Designer, David Resoluth, to deep dive in the journey behind the scenes on our image caption feature.

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Remember all your kid’s funny sayings

11 September 2022 / 2 min read

Remember all your kid’s funny sayings

All little kids are just straight up comedians, aren’t they? Some of the things they say, ask or just contemplate about makes you bite your lip numb not to burst out laughing. Because you can’t really laugh at them, not then and there, but what if – in a couple of years – you could laugh together about their un-knowling hilarious sayings? Here’s how you remember those funny comments with close-to-zero effort

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The journey behind our image uploader

18 January 2022

The journey behind our image uploader

We’ve had a little chat with our Product Designer, Helena Melender, to take a little peek behind the scenes on how our image uploader feature has been developed.

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Make your photo book on different screens

5 September 2022 / 1 min read

Make your photo book on different screens

Now when you can make your photo books on your computer too, it means you can seamlessly make your books on your phone, your tablet and your computer.

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The journey behind our new brand identity

28 February 2022

The journey behind our new brand identity

Some things never change…But sometimes a little change is just what’s needed. The same Once Upon you know and love. We had a chat with our CEO, Lina Andersson, and our Product Designer, Evelina Örn, to better understand the in’s and out’s to why and how we’re introducing a new, more once uponier, us.

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