5 Years and Going Strong

I just got my 2010 blog book and I am so excited!! Every year when it comes I am reminded why I do this. I now have 4 years of a photo/journal/family history (the blog books are the white books in the picture)! For me the blog is more of a journal. I love that I can write as much as I want and either post it for everyone to see or keep it private. It's wonderful!

Since this is more of a journal I don't post nearly as many pictures as I actually take. Which is why I started doing digital scrapbooks about 3 years ago. Right now I use Shutterfly, but if anyone has a company they like better I would love to know.

One last thing. I have had a lot of people asking me about how to turn their blog into a book. So to answer those of you who asked I use http://www.blurb.com/

It can be a little tricky at times so feel free to call or e-mail if you have questions.

And to answer the other questions I've been getting asked...yes I am still putting together blog books and scrapbooks for people. I have been doing this for quit a few years now and if you are interested or have questions please e-mail me I'd love to get one started for you! mrsamyhbrown@gmail.com

One more reason to blog and scrapbook

Here it is, my 2008 blog book. People, I'm telling you if you're on the fence about blogging, keep doing it!!! I did one for all of my 2007 blog posts, which I posted a few months ago, and I was happy with that one, but this one is even better. I think it's because I am more familiar with the blurb site and knew what to do. Now I have a hard back book that serves as my journal/scrapbook and the best part was it was only $35 plus shipping. Here are just a few reasons why I love it & think you will to:

The price
You can add and take out whatever you want. I have a lot of personal posts that I never put for everyone to read, but when I made the book I added them. I also had posts that I decided not to include in the book.
You can add and take out pictures as well


Also, while I'm bragging about my family's history I've also finished our family 2008 scrapbook. Now the only reason I have finished this, and let me reiterate the ONLY reason I have finished it is because it was all done digitally. I'm a huge fan of scrapbooks done the real way with paper, stickers and all that. But, I seriously was falling behind and I would never have caught up if I hadn't done this. I really liked the way it turned out. I also liked that I started last January and every time I had pictures just uploaded them and spent less than a half hour and I was done. No big mess to clean up and no going to the scrapbook store and spending tons of money. (That's my own fault because I go in there and can't help it). Of course there were months where I got behind, but it still only took a few hours on the computer and I was caught up. Now here we are two weeks into January and I have both my journal and scrapbook back with everything from 2008.
A few people have asked me what the difference is between a blog book and a scrapbook. There is a huge difference. I tried to make a short little demo video showing the difference, but for some reason I couldn't upload the thing. (Sorry Jen). If you have questions just call me. (Jessica we'll get you through this, I promise).

It's Here! It's Here!

Hooray! My blog book came. (sorry the picture is a little blury)
What is that you might ask? Well, I'm all to happy to tell you about it. I heard about this company that will print and bind all of your blog entries and make them into a hard bound book. I tried it out with all of my 2007 entries and I have to say I am so Happy!!!! It was fast, cheap, and easy. Three words I love. Now I have a record of the things we do as a family as well as my dumb little rants. My kids can read all about my crazy thoughts and ideas, even though they may not care.

Thank you Lindsey & Paige for answering my e-mails and telling me about this in the first place. Hang in there Jessica, I'll help you!

If you're at all interested, I promise you won't be disappointed.

2 down 1 to go!

I'm so excited to be caught up on all my family scrapbooking. Bella's book as well as our family book are right where they need to be. So hopefully by the time the baby is here I can start his or hers and not worry about playing catch up. The only draw back to being caught up is that the pages aren't that great. But I'm ok with that. I've seen yours Kelli and Lindsey E and they put mine to shame, but I had to face facts. And if I wanted to continue and not get behind, the books had to suffer. Hopefully my children won't judge me and just be grateful they have some books. But sadly, Woods Cross alumni, the scrapbook I worked so hard on 9 years ago has had some major damage done to it. In June I decided to go back and check it out to see if it needed any touching up before next years reunion, and it's a good thing I did. The poor book looks horrible. So now, maybe, that I'm caught up on my own stuff I can work on that one. Of course I realize that no one in the world loves that book as much as I do, (yes, Andrew and Marissa I remember being made fun of because I was the only one who actually looked at the other books to critique them) so I'm willing to put forth the effort to make it better. So if anyone has pictures from 97-98 or knows people who do please e-mail them my way. Especially if you have some of drill team, soccer, etc.. Actually anything will do. amyhed2002@yahoo.com