.{europe album}.

So I finally got around to putting together an album for our adventures in Europe this summer. I had purchased a groupon a little while ago for a company called Blurb. My friend Stacey had used it to publish her blog. I bought two. :)
Me being the "lost-her-mind-recently" type forgot about the expiration date. I swore it was in November~but alas, it was in September. November, September... easy to mix up right? I mean hello, they both end in -ber. :) kidding. But really I completely spaced it.
I immediately got on their site and requested to have an extension seeing as I missed it by two days or so. To my surprise they extended all the groupons and coupon codes for another week. GOLDEN! Ha, I can put together an entire album of 14 days of events in Europe in a week while working full time and having family in town. PSHHH... no problem. Ha, yeah right!
I did manage to get it somewhat complete. I did my best to proof read it at 11:30 at night the night of the deadline. I managed to get about 140-something pages in and a spread that sorta made sense.  It wasn't what I had pictured in my head, but hey that's ok.  It's my own fault. Oh and I ran out of time that I didn't get to create a different inside cover that doesn't thank my parents for the trip {one of the books was for them...shhh they don't know yet and I don't think they read this}.
So here she is. the finished works. Yes, there are a few typos. Again, 11:30 at night. I didn't catch them all. Nor did I give myself enough time to.
I can't wait to make the next album. I took a lot of pictures of the unique doors, hardware, and entries throughout the trip {well... Paris and on...} at the suggestion of my sister and bryan {I think}. So we will have a small coffee table book of those along with landscapes and such. I already have a MooLaLa coupon set up for that and christmas cards!
Enjoy.

.{album}.

p.s. Didn't love the design of the blurb album. took too long to manipulate and their layouts were kind of generic. Again, I didn't leave myself enough time. I've tried Shutterfly and mPix too. So far my favorite has been mPix. I'm going to be trying MixBooks next and MyPublish {recommended by my friend Annie}. Oh and I updated the paper, so we'll see how it turns out.  It should be here in a day or two!

p.p.s. I don't know why but when you view the book you can have the option to buy it. Just ignore that :).