I recently ordered my personal blog to print through Blurb. It was so nice to have a copy of my blog on paper and something that can be saved for years to come.

The overall quality was nice, although it wasn’t quite as nice as the shutterfly photo books that I’ve ordered. The cover has a satin feel and I used premium paper to print the inside pages. The thickness of the pages seemed great, but the images seemed a little dull and dark. Overall I’m pleased and will probably order another book.

The program Blurb provides you to build the book is also very nice, although it’s no InDesign. On a mac, it links up with iphoto and I was able to access my whole library. I was also able to create a style sheet to keep consistency. Although I wish it was a bit intuitive when it comes to that style sheet and apply all changes throughout the book. It was a bit of a pain to go page by page when I changed the text style.

Off to create my 2008 book and get everything up to date.

I’ve discovered Shutterfly’s photo books recently. I had a free photo book code and finally decided to use it. What a great way to organize my photos and actually get it on paper. I’ve got countless photos on my computer and probably haven’t printed any in about a year. I think these photobooks just might be my answer.

How cool is this? Take a child’s doodle and make it into a stuffed version. I love it! Now if I just had $250 to spare. But hey, if you have the money, check it out

Nic got me this wonderful charm of Belle for Christmas. I happened to find it on one of my trips to the Cool Mom Picks website. You can get the likeness of your own child or loved one on a charm at Julian Co.