Flowers and candy are lovely, but photographer and Polaroid enthusiast Jen Altman and her little girl Adevah, found a more creative and lasting way to express their feelings.

My daughter and I love to be creative together - we seem to feed off of each other in a way that is wholly productive and incredibly inspiring. To facilitate the ease of such future endeavors, I thought a fun project for Valentine's Day would be to create "books of love" for each other. Adevah chose the Kolo Riva photo album while I chose the larger Kolo Hudson photo album.

My book to Adie, shown here, is more of a mother-daughter project; from my opening note to her, "We will work together to create a space full of your love of drawing, your precious polas, and thoughts - loving, sweet thoughts that only you could conjure. We will create together, we will draw together, we will photograph together, we will write together and yes my love, we will laugh and sing together."

For Koloists familiar with the curved-spine Kolo Hudson photo album, the scrapbook-style pages of Jen's project will elicit double-takes, since the Kolo Hudson comes with sewn photo sleeves...

I loved the look and feel of that book so much, but really wanted a large open canvas to work with, so I just slipped an exacto knife under the plastic to undo the stitching, and removed the pocket sleeves.

Circle back to Koloist later today see Adie's project.

Jenifer Altman is one of the many legions of Polaroid fans suffering the loss of Polaroid technology, mentioned in an earlier post on Koloist. Her recent book, For the Love of Light, is an homage to this soon-to-be bygone art form.

Jen's images, many of which appear in her book, have a captivating, ethereal quality. Treat yourself to a look at her beautiful web site and Polaroid blog here.