Do you currently use an online company to host your photos?  Do you love to take photos and share them with others?  Are you a blogger that searches the internet for photos for your blog only to run across something you…er…weren’t quite expecting? Yeah, I’m sure you know what I mean.

What would you say if I shared with you that there is a brand new Family Friendly Photo Community that is preparing to launch their website and you can enter a giveaway for an Advanced FREE Membership?

Would you be interested? I was very interested, because I have tons of photos in another community and it feels so degrading to go on the site, so much that I hadn’t been there in over 6 months.  I am so excited about this so, I applied to be a beta tester!  This is a company that I am very excited about. You can visit The HomeSpun Life website to hear more about this neat company that will host your photos, allow you to share photos with the blogoshere or even apply to sell some of your photos as stock photography and it’s all moderated to keep this site family friendly and safe for all eyes.

If you want to enter the giveaway, visit here.  If you are curious about the company but not in the giveaway, you can join them on Facebook or Twitter or simply visit the Pix-O-Sphere website and enter your email address to be notified when the site launches, which will be soon!

So…don’t you think this is a great place to have your photos and protect your family from some of the filthy pictures on other sites?

I’ve been wanting to do this for quite some time and finally took the plunge since I read the “rules” a little better and I have 365 days to “pay” this blessing forward! I’m also thrilled that this is a HANDMADE gift Pay it Forward. Handmade is especially touching with the time and love that is put into each gift. I will also commit to praying specifically for the special readers that join me.

I had recently read the post again at The Fruits of the Spirit and signed up. I know that by giving, I’ve always been especially blessed. I find it much easier to give than to receive.

Here’s how it works:

How does it work?

• First, announce this in a post on my blog!
• Commit to making 3 handmade items and ship to 3 special readers.
• There is NO $ amount–It’s the personal time and love that make the difference!
• The 1st 3 commentators who agree to also “Pay it Forward” will receive a Handmade gift in the mail from me.
• I have 365 days to make/ship my handmade goodie! (Although I promise it will be most likely much sooner!)
• The 3 commentators then post this challenge on their blog and we keep the “Pay it Forward” blessing going and going and going!

Be Blessed!

This is the center of the book that I altered.

The is the left section of the book

This is the right section of the book.

This project was fun to do, messy at times but still fun.  This is not a project to be done ‘the night before’ because it takes a while to paint all the pages with glue.  This book had over 230 pages so it took about an hour of just gluing the pages together.  I decided to section it out after I had an idea of what I wanted to put into the book.  I don’t really have a name for it but it needs one.  Here’s my solution to that….anyone that can give my book a name will win a year’s subscription to Family Fun magazine.  I will warn you that it will probably take until the first of the year to get the subscription in the mail.  I’m not doing the whole Mr. Linky thing so just leave a comment with ‘my books’ name’ in it and on December 6th I will announce a winner!

Thanks!