I have kept a blog at Livejournal since 2001, when I was pregnant with my son. Although some posts are public, most are friends-only, and some are private. My children’s entire childhoods are in there, along with all the major and minor family occasions and all the family dramas, parenting woes, etc. It’s my life from just before I became a parent to now.
I also have a huge collection of memorabilia for the same time period. Once I stopped scrapbooking and starting blogging, I had nowhere to put the memorabilia. So I have letters, cards, tickets, photos, school reports, certificates, etc.
The plan is to convert the blogs into printed books and add the memorabilia after printing to make it a more tactile/interactive keepsake. The photos will be printed into the book, as most of these are digital anyway.
2001
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Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
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Print book
Add memorabilia
2002
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2003
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2004
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2005
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2006
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2007
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2008
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2009
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2010
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2011
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2012
Create cover image
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2013
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2014
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2015
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2016
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2017
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia
2018
Create cover image
Add missing entries
Transfer blog entries to Blurb
Edit blog entries as necessary
Add photos
Add spaces for memorabilia
Double check Google Drive and Amazon Clouddrive for additional docs
Print book
Add memorabilia