Sunday, April 14, 2013

Labels: blog book / blogging

My purpose for blogging is to journal my children's lives through my perspective as well as share myself with my children so when I pass away they will always know ME. While that's all wonderful and good...how are they REALLY going to cherish these posts someday unless they are printed in books? Making blog books has been something that is a top priority to me. Seriously. I told Zach that if I died randomly I would go to my grave regretting not getting all these posts made into books. Well, I will no longer have that regret b/c I am COMPLETELY caught up on blog books. What!What! I know, be impressed ;) Up until a few months ago I had made one blog book. One lonely little blog book. I used Blurb to create it and I blogged about it here . I was happy with the result but it took me a LONG time to make it and there were a few things I wasn't crazy about with it...one being that the cover of the book was just a plain book and they made a wrap cover to go over it that was...

Blog Book

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Labels: blog book

My blog book arrived!!! I had to share because it is SO awesome!!! It's a hard cover actual book with a sleeve on it that I designed to include the title of the book and some pictures. Here's what the cover looks like: The back looks the same (I used three pictures of my pregnant belly!). Here is an example of how the pages turned out: I knew other bloggers out there would totally want to do this too (especially you Robyn !) so I didn't mind being the guinea pig! Here is what I did to make it...I used Blurb and it was very user friendly. You just download a program (called BlogBook) and it will automatically turn your blog into a book. You type in the web address for your blog and it selects all the posts you've written then you can decide which ones you want to put in your book. I decided to do a blog book for each year. I started writing this blog in August of 2008 so the first book is only covering 4 months (but it was still 102 pages!). I used the blog tutori...

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