The Year in Pictures

For the last couple years, I've been compiling pictures...THOUSANDS of pictures. I didn't really know what to do with them. Printing individual pics is expensive and ends with massive amounts of picture albums. Scrapbooking takes too much time. So, I knew I wanted to do an album that I put together online, and I'd heard about this great site from a friend and saw her amazing book, and I knew I wanted to make one from the same site - Blurb.

It's taken me awhile to actually finish the albums, but I AM DONE! And I must say, they turned out amazing! There are several great things I loved about it...My album is nearly 400 pages! It fit the entire year into one album...and allowed me to put TONS of pics in. It also links up to my blog and imported all of my blog posts and pictures into my book. I didn't have to manually type it in...GREAT! It also allows a lot of custom formatting and playing around with layouts, which the former high school Yearbook editor in me loves! However, it also has tons of pre-made layouts to make it easy to put your book together.

Check it out - it's an amazing site with great software to put together your album.

My nice thick 400 pages albums...I LOVE it!

One thing that I added into the pages was both Jonathan

and my Twitters from throughout the year. It added a fun

element "into our thoughts" of that day,

and it brings back some great memories!

The back cover of the 2009 book:

The back cover of our 2010 book:

Pinterest...my new favorite place!

I had never heard of Pinterest until Ashley from Under the Sycamore shared all about it. It's a website that you can "pin" (super easy) favorite sites, blogposts, or pictures that you find online on your very own "boards." It's much like adding a bookmark or saving a picture, but it's amazing because you post your favorite things in categories and the original link is always there so you can source it whenever needed. It's a great catalog to reference my favorite posts. I have different categories like party ideas, stuff for my home, things to make, kid stuff, and so much more.

My "boards" on Pinterest

Some of my "pins"

Request and invite to join Pinterest here

Find my boards on Pinterest here

Have fun! (It's addicting!)

I WON!!!

I love it when I win! I was super excited to find out I won a giveaway from Bee in Our Bonnet blog. I got a lot of sweet cookie making goodies from cookie cutters to squeeze bottles to sprinkles and more! Thanks for the awesome prize, Ashleigh & Kathryn!!!

Check out Bee in Our Bonnet

It's FULL of awesome project ideas,

recipes, party ideas, and so much more!