To celebrate summer - my favorite season - My Story Lifebooks is offering a 20% off sale on all Lifebook templates, through the entire month of July! Summer can be a great time to work on a lifebook for your child. AND, I am also having a fun giveaway!
The prizes are:
Grand Prize: My Story Lifebooks template and $25 e-Gift certificate for Shutterfly.com
First Prize: $25 e-Gift certificate for Shutterfly.com
Second Prize: Autographed new hardcover copy of "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
Third Prize: new copy "The Dragon Tribe, A Guide for Parenting in a Chinese Adoption" by Beckett Franklin Gray
To enter, visit my website here , then come back & leave a comment telling me what you like best about the template concept.
Extra entries:
1. Become a Facebook fan of My Story Lifebooks here (or if you already are one!) and leave a separate comment telling me
2. Post a link to my contest and/or Facebook page on your blog or your Facebook page, and then leave a separate comment with a link to your post
3. Order a template for FIVE extra entries! If you win the grand prize I will issue a refund via Paypal for the template price, plus send you the Shutterfly Gift Certificate!
4. If you have purchased a template or complete Lifebook completion services from me already, post a comment about it here (for an extra entry!)
5. Referrals- If you have referred a friend who became (or becomes, during the contest period) a customer, post it here - you can email the name to me at contactus@MyStoryLifebooks.com for privacy purposes if you prefer
You must be parent or guardian to a child who you would like to create a lifebook for, to enter.
Keep in mind, the template doesnt include the actual lifebook - I email a link to a template photobook on Shutterfly, partially customized, and you complete the book for your child, then order on your own. My help and support IS included!
This Giveaway ends July 31, 2010 - winners chosen by random drawing from all eligible entries.
Good luck!!
I love your China template! You thought of EVERYTHING! Even a page for the Ayi's (my daughter asks about hers often!) and page for the "one child policy." You thought of many things to include that I would never have thought of! Love, love, love it!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the books! Posted to facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1028199989
ReplyDeleteI'm a FB fan!!!
ReplyDeleteI also LOVE he China template! My daughter is asking questions like crazy right now. It would be the perfect time to put something like this together for her!
ReplyDeleteThis is just awesome. You have taken an overwhelming task and made it so much simpler to handle with the templates. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat I like best is that I can continue to revise and add to the lifebook over the years and order new copies. That way, I can let go of the need for it to be perfect the first time and just get on with creating it.
ReplyDeleteI just became a fan on Facebook!
ReplyDeleteThe template is such an awesome idea. I want a hand in making the book, but don't have the right words. I've procrastinated for 2 years. I'm going to get one ordered tonight. Thanks and I'm a fb fan too!
ReplyDeleteLove the whole concept of having so much of it done, but w/the flexibility to customize!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of making it simpler. So many people get daunted at the idea of making a lifebook. Myself, I'm a perfectionist. I have some very wonderful and special pages made for my daughter's lifebook. But, it isn't done! Templates for the rest might be just the trick. Or, what's that you say about completion service?
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm a new facebook fan as well!
ReplyDeleteAnd my birthday is July 31st, surely that gets me another entry!
Andrea
I am one of those people who just doesn't know where to start in terms of a lifebook. This looks perfect for me to use for both my girls from China.
ReplyDeleteI would really like some guidance in making a life book for my son. He was born in Vietnam and this template looks like it would give me some guidance.
ReplyDeleteI am a FB fan!
ReplyDeleteThe templates are great for me. I've not started a lifebook for my girls and the guidance would be fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteI'm already a FB fan!
ReplyDeleteI just posted a link on my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/lauri.munroehultman
ReplyDeleteJust posted it to my blog: http://afamilyonfiveacres.blogspot.com/2010/07/contest.html.
ReplyDeleteLove the templates! It took me almost 2 years to complete my 1st daughter's lifebook. With your templates, it will be so much easier this time. And I love the fact that you have one for SN adoptions.
ReplyDeleteGlad I found your site...I have been meaning to do our daughter's lifebook (been six years!)..and our new daughter will be coming to Canada this fall (hopefully!)...love that you have a template for SN adoptions.
ReplyDeleteWe will be traveling to China in 4-6 weeks to adopt our 7 year old son. I love your site. I love that you've thought through how to communicate the tough stuff like the "one child policy." I love that you offer a template for older waiting children. I hope I win, but if not, I'm going to order anyway!
ReplyDeleteI became a Facebook Fan!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of templates. When I look at shutterfly books, I don't even know where to begin.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of templates because it is so difficult to know where to begin with a lifebook. Great concept!
ReplyDeleteJust became a Facebook fan!
ReplyDeleteJust "liked" your Facebook page!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI'd love the China Waiting Child program template. :) Well, I need 2 of them done. LOL
ReplyDeletemeant to add that since I've been trying to get this done for 2.5 years now, if I had a template it might actually get done for both daughters this year!
ReplyDeleteChina Waiting China template is great. I really need to get my daughter's life book done before we adopt again.
ReplyDeleteI love the concept of a template b/c the hardest thing with ANYTHING is knowing how to start. Having a template removes that stumbling block.
ReplyDeleteGreat service. You cover every topic to answer our childrens questions.
ReplyDeleteI am a FB fan!
ReplyDeleteLove the China template and the whole idea of templates. I have started my daughter's book and never got past page 6. She frequently asks why my boys both have baby books and she doesn't but lucky for me I can tell her she has a movie and they do not. My daughter would love to have her own book.
ReplyDeleteI have two girls who need lifebooks. I am horribly remiss in making them, but I am just not in the league of the master scrapbookers...I'm actually a little scared of doing it 'wrong'
ReplyDeleteI have three children that I need to make lifebooks for. I've had good intentions, but sitting down to actually do it has been overwhelming. Your template would give me a "leg up" and I could use it for all three kids yet each book would come out differently due to their individual information.
ReplyDeleteI became "a Fan" of MyStoryLifebooks.com (I was a fan from the first time I saw the website, and actually I picked the only option available to me these days on Facebook: "Like") I have been following your posts and enjoying all the writing and referrals that you have shared. I have shared them with others as well. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWhy I like the template concept is how it takes the emotion-laden and complicated task of creating a lifebook and breaks it down into a simple and straightforward steps that are easy to complete. I have the Lifebooks book with its excellent sample pages (the templates) and advice, but it has sat on my bed stand for 3 years because I have yet to commit any of it to paper for the actual lifebook! As wonderful as the book is, it still can't "write itself". I can't seem to get to the part that would actually involve re-writing or printing out on scrapbook paper and assembling it myself. And even with the excellent samples you can copy, I still find myself with severe writer's block, little time and great anxiety over starting this project. The "My Story Lifebooks" template, with its sensitive language and simple narrative, is already awaiting my additions, personalization, & revisions online. It will be ready for me so I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Once I see something in print, I will have gotten over my biggest hurdle, and will be encouraged to continue and even actually complete my daughter's lifebook before she goes to Kindergarten!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, and I just purchased the Lifebook template so I can get started and take advantage of the 20% off special! Thanks again!
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