craft : the book

thank you for the nice comments about the corsage i made, everyone! next week, i'll share a craft project that didn't go so well and it's a real doozy. but, until then, one last post about our first blurb book, which arrived on our anniversary - sweet. i'm really happy with it and have already started on the next one. if you've exhausted everything else on the web, you can see every single page here ;). i organized it by season with a separate chapter for home, but will combine them from now on. i hope i don't get bored halfway through the year, though. it would be weird to have two seasons in full technicolor and the others blank.



during the process, i learned a few things -

1. there are those who take more photos than me, but i post a lot of them here and on flickr. too many. i'll edit more.
   
2. i photograph a lot of flowers. again, too many. my goal is to find more grit and combine it with the pretty. love the contrast.
3. we must do some new things.
   
4. i love diptychs, especially when they play off one another.
   
5. the higher the image quality the better. don't skimp on this and take the extra effort to meet the suggested requirements. you won't be sorry.

there's a very good article in the october issue of martha stewart living that summarizes the different services you can use to make a book with an abbreviated version online here. i really think everyone should do it. who needs a book deal to be published, anyway?



and, if that's not enough for you, pj mentioned a service called blog2print that will print your blog, including the comments. she is also having a fantastic giveaway this week for a $75 amazon e-gift certificate, so please visit her to enter.

xo, cindy

ps green tea mix in milk makes me so HAPPY and matches the cover of our book! tastes just like a starbucks green tea latte. the tea, not the book.