All about that Blurb...

I don't know about all of you but I have taken a gazillion photos since becoming a mom but I rarely print them. I have made a few photo albums with other companies but was never truly happy with them. When Morgan was about 6 months old I started looking around Pinterest for ideas on new companies. I knew I was going to need a book that can hold a lot of pages because I wanted to add all of Morgan's weekly and monthly pictures along with all her letters. Most books only hold about 100-150 pages and that just wasn't going to work. Then I found Blurb. 

First I ordered a few little books of Morgan's hospital pictures, newborn pictures, six months, nine months, and fall pictures. Once I received them I was so happy with how they turned out I knew I wanted to use them to make Morgan's First Year book. This post is in no way sponsored by Blurb, I just really love my books and wanted to share with all of you. If your like me and have tons of photos but don't have them printed I recommend at least making these books so your pictures aren't just sitting on your computer.  

Once, I got started on her First Year book I knew it was going to be big. I never thought it was going to be 404 pages big. I wanted all the pictures to be big and beautiful so I chose the large landscape 13x11. And it is big and beautiful, just the way I wanted it. 

The layout I did was based off of all her weekly pictures/letters and then her monthly update. After her monthly update there are pages of all her pictures from that month. 

Here are a few pages...

The great part about Blurb is you design your whole book offline and then upload it once you are done. This gave me the chance to work on it off and on. Once I started her second year book I worked on it every month so I wouldn't get so behind. It really does make it easier. And now that I have made a few and have the hang of it I actually just take about 20 minutes at the end of every week to work on Quinn's. 

Morgan loves the book. She wants to look at all the time. 

This should give you an idea of how big it is. 

Since Morgan wants to always look at the books I have to put it up somewhere where she can't touch it but I also want it where I can see it. So this is where I display some of my photo books. 

If you decide to make a book with Blurb you will receive a coupon for your first one. Once you are on their mailing list they send out coupons quite often. Especially around the holidays they will offer up to 30% off!

I can't wait to add the final touches to Morgan's Second Year book and share with all of you. 

Well, if you made this far than thanks for listening to my rambling. :)

Have a great rest of your week. 

xoxo