(Jenn)1. First of all, http://www.blurb.com/. I had heard of Blurb from several other bloggers but have not yet seen anyone's finished product. It is basically a program that lets you convert your blog into a printed book! I thought this was the perfect idea because it makes me feel justified with the time I spend blogging. I'm not only keeping in touch with others and making my voice heard, but now I'm also keeping a family journal and scrapbook as well! So we got our printed book a couple of weeks ago, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. We printed just the posts from our 2 years in New Jersey, and it came out to be 112 pages.
The quality is great, and I'm just so happy to have a hard copy for our kids to look at for years to come! That said, I wouldn't say it was really easy to do. The program is pretty good, but it still has some kinks, and the process took a bit longer than I had hoped! Still, it automatically "slurped" all of my pictures and posts directly from Blogger, so that saved me a lot of time. We're definitely planning on keeping up with our Blurb books as long as we're blogging.2. Secondly, if you didn't take my recommendation last year, you MUST try Brach's Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn. Yes, I'm getting enough happiness from them this year that I just felt compelled to recommend them yet again. They have the most incredible flavor and are much more delicious than regular candy corn, in my opinion. I think we're on bag #10 for this season (I'm sure it's mostly Ben that's eating them!). We have recently become addicted to eating them with popcorn. So get them quick before they disappear from the store shelves (perhaps they already ha
ve). Yum!3. Two movies we enjoyed recently: Be Kind, Rewind, and The Visitor. These are two very different flicks, but I liked both of them a lot. So maybe I was just in a silly mood, or maybe it was the Passaic, NJ setting that hit home for me, but I really got a kick out of Be Kind, Rewind. I never thought I'd recommend a Jack Black movie because he sometimes bugs me, but this one really had me laughing! The Visitor was also a fun one for us because it was about a boring old economics professor (what we sometimes imagine Ben becoming) that livens up when he discovers two immigrants living in his seldom-used New York apartment. This show was funny, but sad at the same time, and full of lots of heart.
Take 'em or leave 'em, but there they are, folks!
3 comments:
I love the Blurb books - my mil made one of our Europe trip and I love it. Chris and I are working on one for our blog. We tried the caramel candy corn this year, which we liked but I think we're still old-fashioned candy corn people. Lastly, we really liked the Visitor too! I'll have to look into the Jack Black one now.
Have you tried Brach's Caramel Apple Candy Corn? Very good too.
Wow, I had no idea there was such a thing as caramel candy corn - caramel is pretty much my favorite thing in the whole world (food wise, at least) and I also really like candy corn, so this is going to be a must.
I also really like the Blurb book I made last year, but I agree it took quite a bit longer than I thought it would to get all the formatting right - but that's largely because I was importing entries from 2 different blogs.
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