Hullabaloo Stories Design Blog

Welcome to our the new home of our design blog, we want to celebrate with a giveaway…

Are you a member of the military, or know a military dad who is away from his children for Father’s Day? If so, in the spirit of charity and an effort to give back to those who serve and sacrifice so much for our country, we want to create a book just for you. This giveaway includes two matching 5×5 books (a $64 value); one for the family at home and one for the dad/mom who is deployed.

To enter, send us the story of the deployed person and their child/children (Who knows? Could be twins or triplets or even more out there) and their special bond to hullabaloo@dc-hulls.com including a picture of the child/children and the deployed parent, by May 14, 2011. The state-side family that is selected, will then work with Hullabaloo Stories to create their own unique and personal custom story, together. We will choose a winner, at random, by May 17^th. Hullabaloo Stories will then notify the winner by e-mail and let those who follow Hullabaloo Stories know via Facebook and the Hullabaloo Stories Design blog.

To enter this giveaway opportunity, you must be a military family that will be separated on Father’s Day: Click to Enlarge. We will select from stories e-mailed to us by May 14th, 2011 and announce the winner by May 17th on our design blog. By submitting your story you are authorizing Hullabaloo Stories to publish your story in a blog post, Facebook status update, and other marketing materials exclusively for use by Hullabaloo Stories and to edit your submission for grammar and content for the purpose of each intended audience. Further, by submitting your story you are providing implicit consent for Hullabaloo Stories to share your photo submissions with the Hullabaloo Stories audience and that all subjects in each photo have provided their consent for distribution of those images by Hullabaloo Stories. For all those under legal age of consent, a parent or guardian must keep record of consent of that person within each photo and provide such record of consent if it is requested by Hullabaloo Stories. Any published image supplied with your submission will be credited with the caption “Source: [Your Name]” in the image metadata. As a regular practice, Hullabaloo Stories will not publish any last names unless you indicate that you prefer your last name accompany your story submission upon publishing any materials.

Update: As a point of clarification, this giveaway is not limited to only men who are deployed. Deployed women and/or their families are encouraged to submit entries for the giveaway as well.

Good luck.

A great gift for any new mommy or even a seasoned mommy…how about a grandmommy? If you would like to order a Hullabaloo Story for Mother’s Day. To guarantee delivery your order and pictures must be to us by Thursday, April 14th, 2011.

Just before I mailed out some of our holiday orders, I snapped a couple of pictures. We had a great holiday season and enjoyed making so many books for little hands to open up on Christmas morning… including my own nephew who got a custom set of family flash cards. Each card had a photo of him with a family member and their name on the card, each was laminated. We also made him a magnet of him with our daughter last summer reading together. They both love the magnet and the flash cards. The holiday ordering season was hectic but fun, we look forward to making a lot more books this year for more little readers.

Recently, we have made a couple of adoption books and while we would love to share the photos, due to the sensitive nature of the adoption process we are unable to share the actual pages of the books. Each of the families were able to create a small piece of what their family and home was like to share with their new addition. Creating a bond for the new child in their families was very important and we are so happy to have been able to share that with them.

For more information on adoption books please contact us and we would be happy to work with you to create a family story book for your new child.

I think these might be some of my favorite types of books to do…we have done several of these…matching books for two little buddies. Each book the wording is switched around so the child’s name is first, but the pictures and other wording is the same. A great gift for your child’s best friend.

This book is going to a baby shower present, and since the baby isn’t here yet, the last page has a spot that we inserted some mirrored paper on it…so not only can the little girl learn her colors, fruits but she can also see herself every time she reads the book….love it!

This book was a gift from one toddler to another…their families are great friends and now they are growing up together. Reminds me of my best friend growing up!

This little boy couldn’t be more photogenic….it was pretty easy to make a super cute book for him just in time for Christmas.