Blog to book and works of art...

Artwork of our 21 month old. No circles in this one because it is paint, but he can draw circles and spirals now, which started at about 19 months.

Okay, as Fender's second birthday draws near, it reminds me that it is almost time to make another book. I don't think I mentioned his first book before. It was just sort of an experiment the first time, but as it turned out much better than I expected, I am looking forward to doing the next one. I also thought a couple of you other moms keeping blogs might be interested as well.

I found a site last year called blurb.com (last year it was the only one in existence that did this sort of thing, but it may not be now). There is a free software download and then in a matter of seconds (maybe a couple of minutes) you can download all your blog posts from blogger.com into a book format. You have to tell it if you want to start from the first post or last post and a couple of other "set-up" type things, and then you are done. You can tweak anything you want and spell check everything. Once you are happy with it, you upload it back to the website (free) and then you order your book ($$$). :) Ours was actually $50 because of the number of pages (132 I think). But if you want more after that, they are cheaper and you can also be entrepreneurial and set your own price and sell your book online to anyone and everyone.

Anyway, in case any of you are interested in what the product looks like...here are some pictures of some layout choices for Fender's Journey: Year ONE. I designed the cover, inside layouts, colors, wording, and all the content, is mine of course, directly from the blog. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Enjoy. :)