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.

Some of my spare time is spent crocheting. It’s one of my many hobbies that has actually stuck. I’ve made a couple of these yarn monkeys as well as a few other animals.

I’m glad that my nephew has been enjoying his monkey. It has become his lovie at the moment. My daughter never really had much interest in hers, but maybe the next baby will like his.

We recently finished my daughter’s big girl room. It turned out great, but in the beginning we were confronted with a big problem, wallpaper. There was a horrible IU Hoosiers border going around the room. This wouldn’t be so bad, but we have textured walls and from our experience in other rooms, we knew this would be no easy task. What were we to do?

The answer was to just simply cover it up. We went to Lowes and bought what was supposed to be base board and made a big ol’ chair rail. It came out beautifully. And to think that if we hadn’t been so lazy, we may have never come up with this idea in the first place.

A few months ago I was able to put my last finishing touch on my half bath that we just remodeled. I came across Blik’s site and just had to use one of their vinyl decals in a room. I was a little worried since we have a textured wall, but it seems to be holding up just fine.