Share Your Story with Photobucket Stories

Photobucket launched an awesome new way to share your life stories digitally through their new Photobucket Stories. From everyday events to epic milestones, turn these events into a digital storybook to share with family and friends. 

I absolutely love this idea. Having friends and family spread out in different cities and states, I found this to be the perfect solution to sharing. And since I'm not a traditional "scrapbooker", I found this to be an easy solution to preserve our family's memories! You can share your story on Facebook, Twitter or even email your story. 

I recently created a story of our trip to Paris, complete with text narrative, photos and even a few videos. Want to see it? Click below to check it out... 



It was so easy to create a story and I entered mine in Photobucket's Life's an Adventure Story Contest for a chance to win a $25,000 grand prize or be one of five $500 prizes. You can too. It's simple and easy. 




1. Create a Photobucket account
2. Upload your photos to Photobucket from your computer
3. Choose which photos you want to include in your Story
4. Add captions
5. Photobucket Stories allows you to customize by: resizing images, adding text, changing themes, etc.

Hurry up and get started! No story is too ordinary and you can enter as many stories as you want for a chance to win! 
The contest runs through December 9, 2012. Be sure to vote for your favorites too!!  For official rules, click here. 

Oh ... and if you haven't already, be sure to become a fan of their Facebook page. And if your story happens to be chosen as a winner, be sure to stop back in and let me know!! 

*I was asked to share on behalf of Photobucket.  All opinions are 100% my own. 

New Look!

As you can see, I am going for a new look! :D  I have always liked the way photographs look against a black background, but truth be told, I was feeling like it was pretty dark and drab for a blog. Maybe its me ... in the throes of winter. We haven't seen the sun much as of late which probably doesn't help matters. Regardless, I needed a change. So, I did a switch-a-roo, from black to white. Its taking me a few days to get everything switched around, but I'm liking the way its looking.

I "discovered" a way to enlarge my photos or really, what I should say is ... an extremely helpful photographer/blogger "friend" tipped me off. Instead of uploading my photos straight to blogger, I am now uploading to Photobucket. There I can size them to fit my blog. Thank you Alicia for all your help this week!!! You can check her out here at Project Alicia. Her site is great, she shares many helpful tutorials and has awesome freebies. As well, her photos are amazing!

You also might have noticed my cute, little social media buttons on the right-hand side of my blog. I really, really wish I could take credit for designing and making them, but I cannot. While I have only scratched the surface of how to utilize layers and photoshop-type tools, I don't have much more than a clue as to what I'm doing. Instead, I went to Etsy and found Moxietonic. Natalie is incredible to work with and so friendly! She has several options for buttons already, but will work with you and customize your order. I sent her my color combo, placed my order and the buttons were ready the next day, attached to an email with a tutorial on how to install them. She is available for questions and responds very quickly. I would certainly recommend Moxietonic if you are looking to customize your blog or newsletter.

While its been a week filled with much blogging frustration, in the end I feel a sense of satisfaction. I've revamped my site, learned a few important tools and tricks of editing and can now size my photos to fit my site.  I do not yet have a photo banner at the top of this new design as I am having difficulty uploading one to fit the entire width of my blog. (More frustration.) Oh well ... it's all part of the journey! 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a great week! January is almost over, then on to February! We're one day closer to spring!


- tish   xoxo