In case you needed a little more motivation to get started on that blog book…
Pictures!
Here’s a spread of my recent book. It covers a year and a half and is 123 pages long! It includes, chronologically, the birth of both of my boys. I LOVE this book!
The front cover.
The back cover.
This is the first time I opted for the 12×12 size. Granted, it’s more expensive, but I was also hesitant because 12×12 books don’t fit quite the same as 8×11 books in a bookshelf. (And someday I plan to have a whole slew of these blog books lined up on a shelf!)
In the end, I’m pleased as punch that I took the leap. When designing the page layouts, it is much easier to fit big, beautiful photographs on 12×12 sheets, and the book itself has such a substantial feel (kind of like a professional wedding album). If I had a coffee table (and if I had bought an extra copy that I didn’t mind getting handled frequently by toddlers!), this would be the perfect book for it.
I’d say it was well worth the hours I spent laying out the pages!
I've been really wanting to get our family blog into a book however, each time a start I feel very overwhelmed and quit. Yours turned out so cute! Love it.
I started on the other night, but I got a lot of errors on my photos (resolution). I don't want them to print TINY, but I don't want them to be grainy and blurry either. Any tips on that?
Hi Erica! I make a 12×12 Shutterfly book every year with all of our family pictures – and they are my TREASURE!!! Hoping to finish last year's this week!
Hi Erica – just thought I'd drop you another line and let you know that I made a book last night of our first year of full time RVing. I should have my book by March 19th! You were so right – it was so simple to do and my new book will be 165 pages long! Will be sure to share it with a post on my blog after it comes in. Thanks for letting us know we can do this with our blog (and for dropping by my little corner of the "blog land" – hope you'll come back often!).
These books are lovely! Great keepsake!
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Carol, that is fantastic! I'm so glad you will have that piece of history now in book form! And man, you were quick! Congrats! I do hope you'll post pictures once you have it in hand!
Blog2print might be a great option for you, then, because it automatically lays out each blog post to look just like your actual posts. Either way, it is so worth it! Stick with it!
your book looks great!! i'd like to print my blog posts sometime as well… your boys are so cute!!
Thanks, Lori! You definitely will have to!
I wanted to give a heads up to those printing their blog. I have been a blogger since 2010 and have used Blog2Print for 4 books. The first two books were great, but the ones I received in December were unacceptable–the pictures were extremely saturated, some so dark they were nearly black. My blog is a garden blog, with many pictures of irises, that I was going to use as a pictorial encyclopedia. The $200 I spent was wasted; I will have to reprint them again, but rest assured, not with Blog2Print. Their refusal to reprint them, or even work with me I fund very unprofessional. They did, however, offer me a 20% off coupon to got more printing done, which is laughable–why would I risk wasting 200 more dollars with no guarantees of satisfaction? Be aware of their poor customer service.