A little while back Amanda had shown me that Blurb now had an option to do journal-style books with your photos. I was really excited about this, but it was the holidays and I never got around to making one. Well, wasn’t I surprised when one arrived on my door step this week!
Amanda made me one with some of my favorite photos for a birthday present. I just love it! And I am really surprised by the quality of the photo prints on the paper used. It says the paper is 60-pound uncoated, but it feels more like a 28-pound (at most) to me.
I especially love that she did a mix of solid and graph pages. I love having graph paper when I’m working on quilt block ideas. I’m not sure what I’m going to use this book for, but I love having journals to keep track of ideas and thoughts.
My only wish for the Blurb books is that they offered a version with thicker pages. Since I tend to write in inky pens, those would easily bleed through this thin paper, but if it were a thicker, sketchbook style paper I wouldn’t have to worry about that. Plus it might be fun to add some watercolor with out the worry of bleeding through.
I’m so excited for this book and hope I can bring myself to write in it. I can’t wait to begin a new journal project with it!
Thank you so much, Amanda!
There is an update to my last post on the PoGo printer. I figured out another way to print to it thanks to Kaye’s help! Scroll down to the bottom of yesterdays post to read more.
10 comments:
Exciting post! This Blurb book is super cool and I am anxious to scroll down and see Kaye's advice. My family is not going to let me jailbreak my iPhone to get bluetooth capability. The iPhone4 with upgrade can do bluetooth, but only to phone devices, apparently.
I am so happy you love it. I had a lot of fun trying to make it perfect for you.
I love blurb. What a beautiful and thoughtful gift!!
That's so fun! Amanda is awesome. I'm sure you'll find just the right concept for your new journal.
Such a great book and gift!
Ooh, I love that style of book. I just put together a photo book of my mum's dad (he died when she was a few months old) and I typed in as much info as we know about him, but I was thinking that I would have liked to just hand write it in in note form, allowing me to add more if we find out more (most inconveniently his brother moved to Australia and lost touch with my nan)
PS. How about writing in pencil - that won't bleed
Cool Book and gift
Wow, thank you for posting about this and including all those photos. I'm glad you're happy with it. I'll pass along your feedback about the paper.
best
Kent
What a cool idea! I see some birthday presents going out in my future...
I wish I had a friend like that...the book is gorgeous...especially love the back!
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