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Giveaway Results: Blurb Book Giveaway

By Amy ⋅ February 17, 2009 ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

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Thank you to everyone who entered our contest. Our ten winners (drawn at random) are… Commenters #36, 19, 50, 59, 45, 43, 26, 29, 66, & 68. All of these winners have been contacted and will be receiving a coupon code shortly to put towards their books. Thank you again for entering and check back each Tuesday for a new giveaway!

I am so thoroughly excited about this giveaway for you, my lucky readers, because I think this is something that every family would love having in their home. Today I get to host a giveaway with Blurb and give away TEN Blurb books to our lucky readers.

How does Blurb work? Here is a little background on Blurb:

  1. Blurb is a creative book publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality books.
  2. To get started on your book, download Blurb’s free BookSmart software. It works on a Mac or PC.
  3. Import photos, text, artwork, even your blog. BookSmart has photo and blog slurpers that will automatically “slurp” your content from many of the major photo-sharing and blog platforms into your book.
  4. You have complete creative control. Select from among BookSmart’s hundreds of professionally-designed layouts, or upload your own page designs.
  5. Order, and within 7-10 days, your masterpiece will arrive.
  6. Blurb books are available in four sizes: 7×7″, 10×8″, 8×10″ and 13×11″. Blurb also offers the option to publish a text book (for novels, manuscripts, etc) starting at $4.95.
  7. If you’re interested in selling your book, you can make it public in Blurb’s Bookstore (www.blurb.com/bookstore) and set your own price. You keep 100% of the mark-up over the original cost.

To enter this contest, please visit Blurb today and flip through the site for a little inspiration. Come back to our site and tell me what kind of book you would create if you won. Please leave us a comment by Tuesday (11/24) at 8PM EST. Our winners will be chosen at random. Good luck to each of you!

Discussion

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  1. I would create a large format photo book for my children, full of reminders of our special times together, our many blessings.

    Posted by Lisa | February 17, 2009, 8:08 am

  2. I would love to create one for my husband, with pictures since our beginning & captioning it with the poem he wrote & read to me when he proposed! He would love it.

    Posted by Ashley | February 17, 2009, 8:22 am

  3. I’d make a journal for myself filled with plenty of inspirational quotes and memories and lots of room to write new ones.

    Awesome giveaway and LOVE Blurb!

    Posted by Christy | February 17, 2009, 8:57 am

  4. Very cool:) Thank you for entering me! I’d love to make a blog book!

    Posted by Lizzie | February 17, 2009, 9:03 am

  5. we made a “photo album” for 2007 that described everything that happened that year while having our digital photos there – which was a major blessing after we lost all of our photo files…

    so i really need to get on making a 2008 book, and this would be very helpful!

    Posted by lifeasamama | February 17, 2009, 9:19 am

  6. I would definitely be making a wedding book, since we never had one done! THanks, Amy!

    Posted by carole | February 17, 2009, 9:21 am

  7. I would create a book chronicling our newborn son’s life in the NICU… something we could look back at later, reminding us just how far he has come.

    Posted by Aimee | February 17, 2009, 9:32 am

  8. I would create a guest book for my May wedding and the all the bridal showers in the coming months! Then it would be something personal to my fiance and I that we would love to display around our house!

    Posted by Lauren Calvert | February 17, 2009, 9:37 am

  9. I would create a book of our family stories, humor, and photos for my Meme’s 85th birthday!

    Posted by Michelle | February 17, 2009, 9:41 am

  10. i made a blurb book last summer. it turned out awesome! this time i’ll make a memory book of our first married year together.

    Posted by Abi | February 17, 2009, 9:45 am

  11. I have always wanted to put my blog in a book! However, I would love a photo book as well!

    Posted by Marissa | February 17, 2009, 10:08 am

  12. I would create a photo album for my son for his high school graduation.

    Posted by Vanessa | February 17, 2009, 10:11 am

  13. I would create a blog book. I currently blog about my three children and worry that I won’t be able to save the entries into a format they can read. The blurb book seems like a really great idea.

    Posted by Anjanette | February 17, 2009, 10:20 am

  14. oh, wow. i’ve been coveting one of these for a long while now. i would love to make a standard portrait book. i have taken a photo of my daughter everyday for the first year of her life. i think her portraits would make a lovely book. to see the progression of growth on paper would be amazing.

    Posted by liz | February 17, 2009, 10:25 am

  15. I would tap into my kid’s creativity and write a children’s book/memory book.

    Posted by Kristen M. | February 17, 2009, 10:25 am

  16. I would love to make a photo book for 2008 to showcase my family’s life. What a wonderful treasure it would be for my kids to enjoy as they get older! Thanks for the chance to win!

    Posted by Michelle C | February 17, 2009, 10:26 am

  17. Wow – I love those books – I can’t decide if I’d make a ‘wedding’ book or a ‘baby’ book…

    Posted by Teresa | February 17, 2009, 10:32 am

  18. I would turn my blog of our adoption process to Russia into a book for my son to have when he is older as a reminder of everything we went through more than willingly to bring him home! Thanks for the chance to win!

    Posted by Rachel W | February 17, 2009, 10:54 am

  19. Wow.. that is so cool… I think I would make a book for my kids that would show all there relitives near and far, or I would make a childrens book about moving.

    Posted by Angela | February 17, 2009, 11:06 am

  20. I love the idea of a blog book; I want my son to be able to read our blog long after we’ve moved on to whatever’s next … hover-blog, anyone? I also love the photo books and have made a few of them on other sites. Great giveaway!

    Posted by Kati | February 17, 2009, 11:10 am

  21. I would make a book for my husband for our anniversary this summer. It would be about our years together.

    Posted by Dana | February 17, 2009, 11:11 am

  22. I think Blurb books are so great. I think I’d make one for my upcoming anniversary. 5 years seems like a good milestone to mark with a book.

    Posted by Emily | February 17, 2009, 11:16 am

  23. I would make a wedding album for my brother and SIL

    Posted by Kim Deal | February 17, 2009, 11:28 am

  24. I would make a baby scrapbook!

    Posted by eve | February 17, 2009, 11:31 am

  25. I would love to make a picture album with captions of the events of last year. It would be a great keepsake, and would help my toddler remember people and events. Thanks!

    Posted by Janice | February 17, 2009, 11:45 am

  26. I love the idea of a published cookbook. How fun would that be?!

    Posted by Jessica | February 17, 2009, 11:49 am

  27. I love these!! I also have an anniversary (6 years) coming up this summer, and I’d love to have a creative project to do for it. Awesome give away!

    Posted by Angela | February 17, 2009, 11:52 am

  28. I love blurb. I would do a blog book! :)

    Posted by Brandy | February 17, 2009, 12:03 pm

  29. Wow, I have no idea! I would love to get all creative and make some kind of a children’s story book…but I would likely just end up making a picture book of old family shots from our geneology research mixed with pics of the new generations.

    Posted by chrystal | February 17, 2009, 12:14 pm

  30. I would love to make a blog book. I have friends who have done this and it looks incredable! (plus it saves me from journaling!)

    Posted by gina | February 17, 2009, 12:43 pm

  31. I would make a “My family” photo book for a new baby.

    Posted by barbara | February 17, 2009, 12:51 pm

  32. I can never have enough books of my kids and all of the wonderful things they do, especially school-related things.

    Posted by Stephanie Gattman | February 17, 2009, 12:56 pm

  33. I’m going to propose to my girlfriend of almost 3.5 years on her birthday during a surprise birthday trip to Chicago in 2 months so I would probably make a book with the photos that we take from that trip. Thanks for the chance to win!

    Posted by Courtenay | February 17, 2009, 1:14 pm

  34. OMyGoodness! Win or not… I must make an adventure story for the kiddos w/ pictures by and of them!

    Posted by jdp | February 17, 2009, 1:44 pm

  35. I’d love to make a baby book with all my son’s firsts in it! These are cool! Thanks for the giveaway.

    Posted by Sarah | February 17, 2009, 1:44 pm

  36. I have been so excited about Blurb since hearing that they do Blog Books! I would love to have a book made from my blog of all the special days that have gone by!
    sblilly14(@)yahoo(.)com

    Posted by sara l. | February 17, 2009, 2:08 pm

  37. I think I’ll be making a book about the story of my life. Just a general collection of my pictures since I was still a little kid up until now.

    Posted by CF | February 17, 2009, 2:14 pm

  38. I would make a book filled with pictures of my kid, of course, doing the things she loves to do, so when she’s a teen I can remind her that yes she DID have a happy childhood!

    Posted by renee | February 17, 2009, 2:17 pm

  39. Blurb books are great! I would love to make a family photo book.

    Posted by Amy N | February 17, 2009, 2:35 pm

  40. Oh, I have been dying to do this! I’ve been blogging since my college days, and would LOVE a book made of all my blog posts through college, marriage, and now my 2 kids!

    Posted by Stacy | February 17, 2009, 3:12 pm

  41. I would love to make a cookbook for myself.

    Posted by Naomi | February 17, 2009, 4:02 pm

  42. I have SO many ideas. I am planning on doing a book for my dad of his naval career, I want to do a family cookbook for my mother in law, I want to do a book club book with all of our online discussions…etc etc etc. I love it.

    Posted by Cheryl | February 17, 2009, 4:45 pm

  43. not twenty minutes ago, i responded to an email from my mother who said, “you really should be printing out your blog somehow.” perfect timing, amy.

    xo.

    Posted by molly | February 17, 2009, 4:49 pm

  44. I have so many projects…but I still haven’t made my twins’ baby books, they are 21 months old, so I’d have to put something together for our family to enjoy. Thanks for the giveaway!

    Posted by Melissa | February 17, 2009, 4:54 pm

  45. I’d love to put together a book from my Project 366 (it was a leap year) – I took one photo every day for a year. It was really neat!

    Posted by Amber | February 17, 2009, 5:09 pm

  46. I would love to make a photo book of all my son’s little art projects his years in preschool and the photo’s that go along with them..

    Posted by DeeAnna | February 17, 2009, 5:26 pm

  47. I would make a book about the reasons why we love our girls (two separate ones), so if ever they needed to feel loved when we’re away or in the future… they could look and read it (complete with cute pictures of course).

    Posted by gilda | February 17, 2009, 5:33 pm

  48. I actually have quite a few I would like to do. One would be a book of my life (0-25 years) before I met my husband. Kind of a family history type of book.

    Posted by Tawni Groneman | February 17, 2009, 6:04 pm

  49. Though I would LOVE a blog book, my first inclination would be a large photo book to make a beautiful bound copy of Jim’s grandfather’s family scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs.

    Posted by adrienne | February 17, 2009, 6:50 pm

  50. This is totally cool! My husband is an awesome cook and he has always wanted to write a cookbook! I could help him out if I won!

    Posted by Jen | February 17, 2009, 7:15 pm

  51. I would create a book of my daughters short stories. She’s quite a budding little writer. Has imagination coming out of her ears. What an amazing gift it would be.

    Posted by Paula | February 17, 2009, 7:16 pm

  52. I’d create a Standard Landscape book with my wedding photos!

    Posted by bunny | February 17, 2009, 9:28 pm

  53. I never got around to making a wedding album, so I would so do a book of our wedding photos!

    Posted by Lisa | February 17, 2009, 11:46 pm

  54. Oh my goodness, I am so excited…I would totally slurp up my blog and make a book from it. How awesome for my kids to read about their childhood as they were living it! Thanks so much!

    Posted by Andrea Linder | February 18, 2009, 9:20 am

  55. The idea of a blog book looks cool but I also would love to do one of my all my children’s first year of life! Cute ideas!

    Posted by Annie Luidhardt | February 18, 2009, 9:32 am

  56. I would love to create photo book for my family. It would be great to get some pictures off the computer and into a book where we could enjoy them!

    Posted by Maria | February 18, 2009, 10:46 am

  57. Wow! This would be a great gift to give to my daughter one day:)

    Posted by Sabrina | February 18, 2009, 1:20 pm

  58. These are cool. I’d make a book for my granddaughter – I keep meaning to put her birth and then up to her first birthday into a book and haven’t done it yet. :)
    Thanks for the giveaway!
    Robin
    cokelush at gmail

    Posted by robin | February 18, 2009, 2:43 pm

  59. If I won this giveaway I would make either a book about our Adoption journey with our 3 children OR make a lifebook for one of them (the older adopted child’s version of a baby book).

    Holly

    Posted by Holly | February 18, 2009, 5:42 pm

  60. I’d make a book of photos about our family.

    Posted by holly | February 18, 2009, 8:54 pm

  61. I would create my winter snow book! We had snow for the first time and would like to keep the memory!
    Carla
    cpullum(at)yahoo(dot)com

    Posted by Carla Pullum | February 19, 2009, 1:16 am

  62. I would create a “2006 – year in the life” of my daughter. I finished 2008 and am working on 2007.

    Posted by Christine | February 19, 2009, 8:55 am

  63. I would love to create a hard cover dust jacket book of my blog. That would be so cool. If it won’t work with blogspot, then I would love to make a text/picture poetry book. This is the coolest give-a-way ever!

    Posted by Preston | February 19, 2009, 1:44 pm

  64. Oh I would love to make a book of my blog- a jornal type thing! I LOVE blurb! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!

    Posted by Josie | February 19, 2009, 2:34 pm

  65. I’d love to make one for a gift to my sister by compiling all her honeymoon photos in London. They’re gorgeous!

    Posted by sena | February 19, 2009, 7:39 pm

  66. I would do a wedding blurb. we don’t even have photos in an album. I think it would be good for us and fun for our kids to see.

    haleyj99@yahoo.com

    Posted by haley | February 19, 2009, 10:03 pm

  67. This must be a sign. My one year blogoversary is coming up and I’ve wanted to make a blog book. Hopefully they will work on compatability with Blogger.

    Posted by MelADramatic Mommy | February 20, 2009, 4:12 am

  68. I would make a cookbook of my grandmother and her sister’s recipes from their handwritten recipe books. My grandmother was the head baker at The Eat Shop in Montana in the 1930’s. It would be full of their vintage photos.

    Posted by Mary Beth Salo | February 20, 2009, 2:35 pm

  69. I’d make a book full of memories in pictures for a girl friend of mine as a gift in celebration of a big accomplishment of hers.

    Posted by Victoria | February 20, 2009, 5:00 pm

  70. Either I’d let my hubby publish one of his screenplays, or make a book of fave pics of my daughter. Fun!

    Posted by 10fifteen | February 20, 2009, 6:40 pm

  71. I’d publish a cookbook with old family recipes and recipies I’ve gathered from folks during my travels.

    Posted by Deborah Rose | February 20, 2009, 6:45 pm

  72. I would make a book for my kids and family that includes the pictures and information that my grandfather left behind from several generations

    Posted by Roxanne | February 20, 2009, 7:16 pm

  73. I would create a family tree book with photos and info on all the family members.

    Posted by Lisa | February 21, 2009, 12:49 am

  74. I would make a book for my husband for our 20th anniversary this year. I would put pictures in from the beginning to now.

    Posted by Wendy | February 21, 2009, 12:56 am

  75. I’d make an alphabet book, but with pictures of our family holding or standing by objects that start with the letters!!

    Posted by Estela S | February 21, 2009, 1:33 am

  76. Photo Book for the kids I watch of them grewing up on the farm

    Posted by Kathy D | February 21, 2009, 11:37 am

  77. I would (finally) make my daughter a baby book.

    Posted by TopazTook | February 21, 2009, 10:24 pm

  78. a picture book (i.e., my favorite things or places) with captions) would be so much fun!

    Posted by Kirsten Russell | February 22, 2009, 11:03 am

  79. What an awesome website! I would have to say that I would definitely create a book for my 3 beautiful daughters, all about the joys and woes of being Sisters for life.. then maybe one day, they’d see that it is a blessing rather than a curse!

    Posted by Monica Garber | February 22, 2009, 11:41 am

  80. I’d love to make a children’s book of my first year with my son, or maybe even a blog book, which is a great idea.

    Posted by Kathleen | February 22, 2009, 1:09 pm

  81. I’m torn between wanting to make a book filled with my terrible poetry from middle and high school (I still love to read it, it reminds me that there’s not much worse in life than teen angst) or making a twirling album for my daughter. She gets so discouraged sometimes that I’d love for her to have a record of her achievements to look at for inspiration. I’d probably sacrifice my poetry for my daughter…!

    Posted by Julie | February 22, 2009, 1:13 pm

  82. I would love to make a blog book!

    Posted by Willo | February 22, 2009, 2:25 pm

  83. I would love to make a book about our family pet, Bella.

    Posted by Nichole Schmidt | February 23, 2009, 10:18 am

  84. i want to make a blog/photo book! like i want to incorporate a few of my blog post with my little toddler’s milestones photo!

    Posted by Charlotte (Life's a Charm) | February 23, 2009, 5:49 pm

  85. I really want to make a book of my blog from 2008. We’ve kept it like a journal for me and my husband and it would be great to have a hard copy. Blurb is one place I’ve found that has that capability. Hooray!

    Thanks for this giveaway.

    Posted by Callie B. | February 24, 2009, 12:42 pm

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