So here is our 'Family Yearbook'. I am so happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to make more year after year! The cover is Padded and Printed on the cover...you had the option of a book cover or printed on the book...I hate book covers, so I chose to do it this way....I love it! I thought maybe it was kinda cheesy for me to put the pictures I did on the front and back...but I thought it was a cute idea...and those who have seen it said it wasn't cheesy...so if you think it is cheesy...too bad! Anyway...I did it at
blurb.com and you download the blurb
booksmart. It is very easy from there...it will ask you where to get the
picts from, you choose blogger, or whatever, and then I like to place the pictures in myself, but it can feed it all in for you...but it messes it up for me, so I do it myself. It is time consuming, but so worth all the time I spent on it. I wish you could see in person how great it is! Also, a fun little part that I did...I had my own handwriting made into a font, and that is what I used for the font in the book. So it turned out very 'journal-like'. Anyway, I highly
recommend people doing this. You can make any kind of books you want...they don't have to be from your blog. Very cool! The book is 10x8 size. (I kinda wish I would have done the bigger size, but this is great anyway) And it is almost 80 pages long, and the whole thing to ship and stuff (with the promo code I found) was right around $40...not bad for your family memories put on hard copy instead of just in
cyber-space!!!
(back of cover)
Here are a couple pages from the inside.
So here is our 'Family Yearbook'. I am so happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to make more year after year! The cover is Padded and Printed on the cover...you had the option of a book cover or printed on the book...I hate book covers, so I chose to do it this way....I love it! I thought maybe it was kinda cheesy for me to put the pictures I did on the front and back...but I thought it was a cute idea...and those who have seen it said it wasn't cheesy...so if you think it is cheesy...too bad! Anyway...I did it at blurb.com and you download the blurb booksmart. It is very easy from there...it will ask you where to get the picts from, you choose blogger, or whatever, and then I like to place the pictures in myself, but it can feed it all in for you...but it messes it up for me, so I do it myself. It is time consuming, but so worth all the time I spent on it. I wish you could see in person how great it is! Also, a fun little part that I did...I had my own handwriting made into a font, and that is what I used for the font in the book. So it turned out very 'journal-like'. Anyway, I highly recommend people doing this. You can make any kind of books you want...they don't have to be from your blog. Very cool! The book is 10x8 size. (I kinda wish I would have done the bigger size, but this is great anyway) And it is almost 80 pages long, and the whole thing to ship and stuff (with the promo code I found) was right around $40...not bad for your family memories put on hard copy instead of just in cyber-space!!!
(back of cover)
Here are a couple pages from the inside.
17 comments:
Ahhh, that turned out so perfect. I can't wait to do one. Did you copy everything from your blog then... kind of like a diary? Love IT!
so cute! what a great idea i'm so doing that for gifts and weddings i love your blogs!
Thank you thank you for posting this! I've been wanting to get a book made (planning to do it every year) and I wasn't sure where to get it done or how it turned out. Now I know!! You rock Kim!
I really think it turned out great and it has gotten me motivated to do mine.
Will you please stop saying stuff about the cover pictures being cheesy. Seriously they aren't. I think it is an awesome idea.
Kim, you silly girl. Why would it be cheesy to use pictures that you'd taken yourself? You are a photographer! Why would you want to use another photographer's pictures? That would be betrayal to yourself. I want to do one of these books so bad, but I'm going to wait until the year is over to do mine. It looks great. I wish that I could see it in person.
The pictures are sooo cute. I love the front and back poses. I need to get someone to do a book for me. If I do it myself I will hate it. I am funny that way. I pick things apart that I do myself.
That is so cute! I should start one of those and do it every year! I should probably start working on it now though if it's time consuming. Great Work!!!
That is SO awesome! I am totally going to do that! Thanx for sharing! You should bring it when you visit next, I am curious to see your font! How do you make your own hand writing a font? Maddi(my niece) has awesome handwriting and I think that would be cool! I LOVE the front cover and back cover picks! I would totally do something like that!
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i love it! that is so cute & such a great way to preserve memories.
That is so cheesy...just kidding...I love it. And all that for only $40? I spent over $100 for 100 pages on shutterfly. It's time to change sponsors!
So cute! I can't wait until I have my own!
I totally want to do that, but I am computer dumb. I really need to find out exactly how you did that. Maybe I will have to come over, when the kids start school, and you can show me a little. You are so creative!
It looks so cute!!! I want to see it in person! I think the pictures on the front and back are a great idea. We love having our book and can't wait to do another one for 2008!
Thanks for showing that! That is EXACTLY why I am blogging! I am hoping to do that very same thing, so I am glad to see that it turned out so good and it really does work, and the price is great! Way to go! So is it about a year's worth of pictures/blogging to make a book?
Kim...This is Nicole Flink. I visited your blog from Rachel B's. Hope you remember me, you used to visit teach me before we moved. Anyway. Hope you are well...I saw this book...so awesome. Now this gives me more and more hope to blog (I am a blog slacker, though I have one.) But I wanted to know how you did your OWN handwriting? I downloaded that blurb thing but I didnt' see how to do the handwriting? Do you mind letting me know. You can e-mail me if you want. or I can just check back or whatever on here. nicole_flink@hotmail.com
so cute! I just ordered mine about 1 week ago. I'm exited now to see it!
I was going to ask you how you made your handwriting into a font.
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