giveaway time! blurb

If you like photo books as much as I do then you'll likely love this giveaway. The nice folks at Blurb approached me to give one lucky reader $35 to make their own Blurb book!

There are some pretty cool options to choose from, but the main one that caught my eye is the Instagram Book.

 How cool would it be to make a little coffee table book full of all your cool Instagram photos?

Another option is a cookbook for all you foodies out there:

Or you can do what the cool people of BlogPodium did and make a notebook!

Here's the deal: All you have to do is to visit Blurb and come back here to leave a comment telling me what type of book you'd make. That's it!

If you want extra entries you can also:

• Follow/subscribe to lealou by clicking that nifty blue "Join this site" button on the right
• Like lealou on Facebook 
• Tweet the giveaway using @lealou so I can keep track of your tweets

Be sure to leave separate comments telling me what you did!

The deadline to enter will be next Wednesday, June 27 so you have lots of time to think about what type of book you'd like to make! I'll choose the winner randomly and announce it on June 28.

***This contest is open to Canadian residents only - sorry to all my U.S. friends! **

Good luck!

father's day weekend

Opening home made cards

Leo with his 1940s new hair cut - thanks Dad!

Family bike ride - yes I rode my bike too - very carefully!

Fun in the pool

Horsing around

Playing with Grandpa

Yummy eats

Blackberry ice cream cake - yum!

This felt like a pretty special Father's Day. Mark got to spend lots of one-on-one time with Leo and my Dad happened to come into to town on Sunday so we had lots of fun playing and a bit feast. I'm sorry the weekend is over!

Hope you had a great weekend.

happy friday

Happy Friday! Mark and I managed to make it to the drop-in centre this morning where Leo's daycare goes every day. Today there was a Father's Day Tea. They made a bird feeder. It was so sweet to see the two of them working together. Well Leo didn't last long really - he wanted to run and play, but the five minutes they did work together was cute. I'm so happy that Mark made time to do this - it's these little moments that I love.

On the paint front, I pulled out my nifty Para Paints deck that I got from BlogPodium and whittled it down to two colours I'm going to test for the baby's room.

I decided I'm keeping it simple. I started thinking of a million things I could do to the room (stripes? chevrons?) and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to keep it simple. Who knows I might add something later like a fun decal, but for now it's just going to be plain 'ol paint. I don't have the energy! :)

I'm really loving this really light mint colour or the light beige (although I'm leaning towards the mint). I'll see what I can find this weekend and test it out!

Have a great weekend everyone and Happy Father's Day to all the Daddies out there!