But, I’m still designing for Zoe Pearn, who sells at the Sweet Shoppe, so I’m not completely gone!

Here are my most recent pages:

(You can find credits in my gallery here.)

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Okay, so I numbered you all (in order) as follows since I replied to a couple of comments:

1-Amy D., 2-Melissa, 3-Morgan, 4-Emily, 5-Teresa, 6-Amy C., 7-Chris, 8-Juli, 9-Ashley, 10-Trina, 11-Tracy, 12-Lena, 13-Jennifer, 14-Kelley, 15-Lacey

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So, our winner is Melissa!!! Congrats, hun! Hope you create some cute things! (Shutterfly will email you soon with the code!)

Thank you all so much for playing along! I’ve never done a giveaway before, and it was a lot of fun!!

Enjoy!

Also – have you entered the $50 SHUTTERFLY GIVEAWAY yet? No? Well, why not???

This really is ridiculous because I’m sure none of our family or friends would lose a wink of sleep if they happened to not receive one from us this year. But it’s something I do every year. And I enjoy both sending them out and receiving them from our friends and family. It’s so fun to see how everyone’s children have grown and how families change, etc.

As I did last year, I’m leaning toward Shutterfly Christmas Cards. They have some great deals – you can check out their Special Offers page, as I’m sure they’ll continue to run deals throughout the holiday season.

They have really beautiful cards, but I’m just telling you, my preference in card style is really all over the place! LOL! I love bright, fun cards, but then I also love the traditional ones. Hmm….here are some of the ones I’m considering:

I guess it will really depend on what photo I want to use. Should I *try* to get one of the whole family to use or just use one I already have of when the kiddos were decorating the tree?

Decisions! Decisions!!

Okay, for a little legal mumbo jumbo…I’m supposed to tell you that this is a sponsored post, meaning that I am being compensated (or will be) by Shutterfly for posting about their products. However, I used Shutterfly long before I was compensated for doing so and would never lie on this blog about things I like just because I was being compensated.

And, since you made it through all that……

I’m doing a GIVEAWAY!!!! What am I giving away????

Well, for all of you last-minute card-makers like myself (or really anyone who wants to save some money at Shutterfly), I am giving away $50 off order of $50 or more (excluding tax and shipping & cannot be combined with any other promos (expire 12/14/2012 – no extensions).

If you’d like to enter, just leave a comment on this post, BY MONDAY, 12/3/12 at 11:59 p.m. (central time). On Tuesday morning, after I’ve had a cup or two of coffee, I’ll use a random generator to choose a winner!! Easy as pie! Mmm, Key Lime is my favorite, but I digress!

So, what are you still doing reading about my pie preferences???? Leave a comment and enter my contest already!!

My son, Wesley, chose to write a 7-chapter book about his animal. Thought I’d share it with you – ENJOY!

(Not sure why it’s not embedding properly. But if you’d like to see the book, you can follow the link to Shutterfly. Make sure to see it full-screen so you can actually read it!)

Click here to view this photo book larger

Another one that I subscribe to, but actually LOVE is Zulily.

I have ordered a number of things from this website, including bathing suits for my children and dresses for me. One stipulation is that they get these items at these prices from the manufacturers for only a limited time and a limited quantity; so the items are not eligible for return (you need to make sure you really want it before ordering an item).

I ordered a dress a few months back that I absolutely loved: I know the picture is super tiny, but they didn’t have a full-size image anymore. You get the idea.

But when it came in, it had a strange seam in the wrong place. I tried to adjust it, when trying it on, to make it unnoticeable, but I just couldn’t make it work.

I just emailed the company yesterday to see about a refund. They responded back within the day saying that I was a valuable customer, they were terribly sorry that the product was damaged or not made correctly, that they would refund the total amount (which was actually originally a credit voucher anyway) and would add $10 more for my inconvenience. WOW! Now THAT is some great customer service!

So, go check out all the cute things over at Zulily! I am certainly not paid to advertise for them, and wasn’t asked to do so. However, when a company does that great of a job with their customers, the customers want to tell their friends!

Summer is here and that means you’ll be taking more photos of your family soon.  Between beach trips and BBQs, photographs are a great way to capture these summer memories.  Shutterfly’s Long Live Summer Photo Contest on Facebook launched on Monday July 9^th and it runs for 5 weeks.

Long Live Summer – Facebook Photo Contest details – 7/9 – 8/12 Multi-week summer themed photo sweepstakes with instant win prizes. http://bit.ly/sweepS

Win a trip for four to The Bahamas and a professional photo shoot so you’ll remember your vacation forever.  All you need to do is upload your favorite photo and caption based on the theme of the week.  Get a gift from Shutterfly just for entering! You can enter at any point during the 5-week sweepstakes period.

PHOTO THEMES

•       Week 1(7/9): Americana

•       Week 2 (7/16): Great Outdoors

•       Week 3 (7/23): Water Fun

•       Week 4 (7/30): Sports & Activities

•       Week 5 (8/6): Parties & Celebrations

PRIZES

•       Instant win prizes just for submitting a photo!

•       Weekly prizes (contestants can enter one time/week)

•       Weekly featured photos: up to 5 weekly entries will be selected from the gallery and featured on the Facebook fan page and awarded a $500 gift card on Shutterfly and a copy of the new Lonely Planet travel photography book.

•       Grand prize: trip for 4 to Bahamas, 4 nights, family photo shoot

Shutterfly Sweepstakes – Official Rules

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

And in case you needed a little more Christmas cheer, here is a Christmas greeting in the form of “songs from the bathtub” from Sadie.  Enjoy!