Blurb.com

If you are like me, this site that I am about to introduce to you will make you so, so happy!

Before I tell you about it, let me tell you this . . . .

I started blogging because my friend, Jocelyn, had a blog and I thought it was cool. A little uneasy about my writing skills, I didn't post very much. But then I realized that this blog could put all of my guilty scrapbooking feelings to rest.

Everyone around me scrapbooked. My best friend is God's gift to the scrapbooking aisle at Target. Everyone gave me scrapbooking stuff. I have all the gear, tools, and stuff to create scrapbooks. Too bad I had zero interest in making scrapbooks mostly due to my distaste for crafts and inferiority complex when it comes to creativity. So blogging not only became my way of letting friends and family into our lives, but it became my way of documenting our lives, and I was totally okay to do so without the cute stickers and stamps.

I have always thought that I should just start printing out my blog so that my kids could have a copy of it for their keepsake boxes, but I never actually did it. I wondered how I was going to print out so many posts and how I would exactly go about doing that.

Until today:)

I ran across this site called Blurb.com. This site allows people to make books. Now you can make a book from virtually any piece of data--word doc, pdf, and EVEN BLOGS! Yay! First you have to download their FREE (did I say free?) software that allows you to import your blog (pictures and all) into a book. You can design your book and have it sent to you in a few weeks. Of course, you have to pay for the book, but the prices are very reasonable.

I am not sure how I am going to do this yet, but I think I may create a book for every year and have it to document our lives. If this excites you at all, go to blurb.com and download your free software and check it out!

Yay for blurb.com!