My purpose in starting Scary Mommy was to create a baby book of sorts for my kids. I am not the type of mother who jots down first words, steps or foods, and my memory cannot be counted on to remember anything. I have to force myself to print pictures, and despite loving crafts I’ve never jumped on the scrapbooking bandwagon. A blog seemed like a fun way to track our days together, the good the bad and the ugly. And it has been.
As 2008 drew to a close, I began working feverishly to transform my blog from the past year into book form. It was an enormous pain in the ass, as the site I picked (blurb.com) wasn’t compatible with blogger at the time. It took forever, as I had to manually import every single picture and entry. But for 50 bucks, I have a copy of my blog in hardcover. I hand designed each page– some have only text, some only photos and most a mix of both. You can use any fonts available on your computer and totally customize everything. I can’t give them a totally glowing review; there is no way to ever speak to an actual person, the binding on my first book was defective and needed to be replaced, and the system crashes pretty frequently. But, it was worth it, and I love it. And it’s giving me renewed reason to keep writing in 2009.
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That is awesome, I heard of another site where you can put your blog in a book, that will be a good way of keeping them indexed by year. Thanks, Happy SITS Saturday!
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It’s so easy to get cuaght up in wanting followers, seeing how many hits your site gets, etc. Since I am new-er to blogging and what my blog to expand, it’s something I worry about and think of. But you are right. Why did I even start a blog? I knew nothing about page ranks or hits when I started. It was all for fun. Thanks for the reminder.
By the way, that was an awesome idea to turnyour blog into a book. I may look into that myself….what a greatg way to remember the year.
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I’ve recently used Blurb.com and was pleased with the results, so maybe they’ve worked out some of the kinks. I started my blog just as a way to keep in touch with my family and fell in love. Until just a couple of months ago, it was simply communication with family and friends, but now my followers have expanded and my blog has changed slightly.
I just spent last night going through my past posts and enjoying the memories each one brought up. I never thought to have it bound as a book, but what a great idea! I have fallen off of the scrapbooking bandwagon; I still have three or four unfinished scrapbooks, that I will eventually finish, but my husband and I did an electronic scrapbook for our wedding that we had bound and I’ll never go back to the old way of scrapbooking. Not when it’s ten times easier and costs the same to have a hard-bound scrapbook!
Stopped by from SITS and glad I found your site :)
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Wow, I need to do this. I have some non-techie family members who always say that wish they could read my blog in a book form. I’ll keep this in mind for sure.
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this is a great idea! i have some mommy friends who blog that would absolutely love this.
i love the abe pic comparison, so cute!
happy sits saturday sharefest!
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I LOVE this idea. I have often considered writing a blog purely about my kidlets and this idea has sold me. I would love to compile all my entries into a book (as I too have blank baby books that have never been filled in!)
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Help! Started my blog hoping to make a little book as well and STILL can’t find an easy way to import so it’s not all manual. Any ideas?
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February 8th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I know there are sites that allow that, but I don’t think Blurb does easily. Have you tried searching for “making a blog into a book?” There are lots of choices out there!
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Wow. That is beautiful and amazing!
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I arrived here via the NYT article and congratulate you. I hope you are having as much fun writing as I had reading. My kids are grown and on their own but I still have boxes full of momentoes, writings and pix waiting to be scapbooked (so 20th century), which I will eventually get to – HA! HA! However, you’ve now inspired me to update and create a blog book for each of them. Very cool! Thanks!
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