Recently, I was given the opportunity to create my very own photo book, courtesy of the lovely people at Blurb.
What, you haven’t heard of them? They are a creative publishing company that allows ANYONE to create, share and sell their own photo books via one amazing platform. You can either upload your own photos from your PC or choose one of their other options, such as importing photos from Facebook or Instagram!
For my book, I wanted to utilize their Instagram capabilities, as I have a special fondness for my phone photos and wanted to have a hard copy of some of the special memories we’ve captured over the last few months.
I chose to stick with more recent photos, specifically those that have been taken this autumn. From our first day of fall spent at Lake Louisa to our trip back to Pennsylvania to see my family, I had SO many photos to choose from, it was hard to narrow them down.
Luckily, Blurb makes it so easy to manage the photos, lay them out and form the most perfect book.
As most of the photos are of Dexter, he has become infatuated with the book. And impressively, his usual toddler antics have not managed to hurt the book at all! Most of his own books are tattered and torn from constant page turning and rough play, but it is a testament to the book’s durability that he has managed not to hurt it at all. He spends ages just gazing at the pages, hopefully remembering all the happy memories of playing in the leaves, chasing dogs, and spending time with his grandparents.
I am so happy to have had the opportunity to own one of these beautiful books, and I want to make YOU lucky, too! The wonderful folks at Blurb have offered up a $50 gift code to one lucky reader of this blog. And that could be ANYone, anyWHERE!
If you want to create your own book and have a beautiful memento, all you have to do is leave a blog post comment telling me what kind of book you’d love to create. You can get extra entries by following the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below.
Good luck and a big thank you to Blurb for their generosity.
Blurb is a creative publishing platform that allows anyone to create, share and sell a professional quality book. Make a portfolio of your client work, an archive of your blog, a cook book of your favorite recipes, a photo book of your family pictures or a quick book of your instagram photos – the possibilities are limitless. It’s easy and quick to do – with a variety of software options you could complete your dream book in next to no time.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Blurb. The opinions and text are all mine.
I'm a 31 year old stay at home mother, crafter, domestic goddess and blogger from Kissimmee, FL. 
I would like to make a book of my favourite recipes so when I am gone, and my kids are looking for that favourite recipe mom used to make, they will have it in a book to treasure and pass down to their kids.
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I would like to make a book filled with pictures of all the things we’ve done as a family x
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I would love to win a book for my Granddaughter, full of all the things we have done this year
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I love the idea of making an alphabet book of my kids!
I’d make a book of our adventures for Amy’s great nan because she lives so far away from us and has never met Amy…
@caro_mad
I would love to make a book for my daughter
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Blurb is fantastic! I’d make a photo book of Grace from birth til now so I’d have all of her photos in one place!
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First I LOVE your son’s name… LOVE.
and Second, since I got my iPhone (and therefore Instagram) at the beginning of the year (Jan), I too am wanting to create an album to capture some of my favourite 2012 memories.
Fab comp! Blurb books look lovely. I usually make a book for each year of my son’s life and haven’t done one for his 3rd year, so I’d probably do that!!! Or maybe, like you, I’d go down the instagram route.. x
I think your idea of Instagram photos into a book would be awesome and I think I would take it ;)
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My father in law. My husband is 41 and never knew his dad and after years of searching I found him! He lives across the US, so we still haven’t gotten to meet him yet, but my husband talks to him daily. I send pictures of our kids all the time, but I think a Blurb book would be so special! A great Christmas gift! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
This is our first Christmas as a married couple and I’d love to capture all of the special memories of the year we got married.
I’d love to make a book for my parents ruby wedding anniversary. They love photographs, I’d start with pics from their wedding, add holiday pics, pics of me and my brother when we were little, pics of family celebrations over the years, pics from their 25th wedding anniversary trip to America…and ending with pics of their grandchildren and their recent 60th birthdays.
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I´d love to make book for my teenager years :)
I have one blurb book, which has our last holiday to Florida in. I think my next book, would be a memory book formy parents with photos of the girls in.
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