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Get an early start by browsing through our roundup of helpful Pinterest boards that feature the very best in gifts -- of both the store-bought and DIY variety. Go on and take a look!

I just got my custom photo book from Blurb and I love it so much that I just had to share a little bit of it with you!

It took many years, but technology killed the printing industry’s traditional business model as dead as fast food chains killed H&H, while at the same time spawning entirely new ones. Cheap, high quality print-on-demand products like the Moo cards and Blurb books on the desk in front of me as I write this are but two examples of what grew from that revolution.

Do you need to showcase your styling work, your designs or your brand? Blurb.com is an easy to use and inexpensive way to do just that.

I have just discovered a wonderful new site called Blurb! Blurb allows you to turn your craft photos into amazing high-quality books and ebooks where in you can personalize your planners, notebooks, magazines, Facebook books and more!

Ever think about writing your own children’s book? I have, for many years, actually. Last year, I finally followed through and produced one called Smart Aleck.

The Stockholm subway is not like the average subway. The sprawling art gallery of stations has been donned the most beautiful subway system in the world.

I have tried a few different self-publishers to accomplish this task, and I have found that the Blog Slurper from Blurb is an easy-to-use interface.

Toronto couple Travis Hines and Rachel Longo-Tosoian's love story has a storybook ending -- literally. Hines told HuffPost Weddings Tuesday that he was trying to think of a creative way to pop the question when he realized that he and Longo-Tosoian had taken about 3,000 photos together since they began dating in 2008. So, using online publishing platform Blurb, he created a coffee table book filled with his favorite photos -- and a marriage proposal.

One of my favorite ideas is still to do something that shows that you really put some thought into, and in particular, I love the idea of making your own photo album. These days, it can be done fairly easily, and electronically. Check out the website blurb.com where you can pick your book size, and it has a great free software tool (desktop and iPad versions available) that allows you to use one of their many pre-formatted templates but also allows for complete customization to move things around, crop, change specific page layouts, add captions, etc.

"It’s a very good system for publishing photographic books. You download the software from the Blurb site, you create the book yourself, using their software on your own computer, and when you’ve finished, you upload it to the website and you can then find an audience with it. People can look at it, they can preview it and if they like they can buy copies of it."

Even with most family photographs in digital form, there's something special about a photo album on the bookshelf.

Blurb has itself seen a huge growth in demand this Christmas from customers wishing to create their own small stocking-filler books, such as those featuring their favourite images from Instagram or Facebook. And Ebooks for the iPad are also proving popular.

Drag and drop your recipes and photos into Blurb’s cookbook layouts and have them printed at a reasonable price. This would be such a cool way to share family recipes.