Friday, August 12, 2011

This is Why I Blog...

 Yay I finally got all of my blogs published into books by year. Now I can truly say that blogging is not a waste of time at all...it's our family journal!  It took forever to do each one but I love the way they turned out.  Well, the poor 2007-2008 one has a million mistakes that I wish I could redo but that's how firsts always are when you have no clue what you are doing. By the time I got to 2010 I was a pro!

 I made these on Blurb and waited until they had groupon deals to print them. You save a TON of money that way and they've had deals a few times this year. Plus they make it easy because you can just load your whole blog on there and then rearrange the layouts on each page how you want.
Looking through them makes me want to blog more so I can remember everything.  It's amazing how much you really do forget over the years.

8 comments:

C'est La Vie said...

i LOVE the technology we have these days, it's incredible. and so genious! family journals in seconds

Radfords said...

Ok I love the idea! Coleman and I amazed how cool that is! We might be trying out your idea! Nice job Allison!

Maria said...

i love it!!! i love it!!! i love it!!! wanna do mine too??? jk!

Erica+Matson said...

Ok, I really really wanna do this. So how do you find out about the Blurb groupon deals? Because I get daily emails from Groupon but it just has the daily deals for my area....

Jathan and Heather said...

Agh! I want to hire you to make mine!! I've been going to this since I switched to Blogger 3 years ago! I did an attempt once... took too long, so I gave up. Tell me your secrets ;)

mom and dad said...

I love the books...and since they are from blurb I can buy a set too?
They would be a neat gift for the boys when they got older too...cant wait to see you

Allison said...

Erica: I'll let you know if I ever see a deal again :)

Heather: Haha, my secret is to buy a coupon on groupon and then you have an expiration date that you have to finish your book by. If you don't, the money you spent on the coupon was a waste so that motivated me to finish them! I stayed up many late nights trying to get them done!!

Cathy- Yep you can buy a set too if you want but they are kind of expensive full price.

Melissa said...

Let me know when you see another groupon deal too. I've been wanting to do this forever! Yours turned out awesome. I bet your whole family loves looking through them. So cool!