It’s that day of the year when marketing departments have a field day with flowers, meals and gifts all of which cost a bomb.

I wondered what to do for my wife this year, and about 2 weeks ago was exploring the Samsung Story Album app. The concept is simple. Using your photos you can create a story book. There are many themes to choose from when designing your book and even more to download from Samsung Apps store.

So I started collating and editing the cutest photos of our 2 cats and 3 dogs and created a little book. Then I discovered as part of the app, there was the ability to pay and get your book printed. So I spent some more time editing to ensure I had the layout as I wanted and connected to the service called Blurb.

After you pay for the size of book and whether you want hardback or softback, it then uploads the entire book in the background. It can take up or 3 weeks for delivery, but in my case it was about 2 weeks.

What was slick was having the entire option built in to the Samsung Story Album app. For your information it is possible to use Blurb services independently too on a computer or via an iOS app.