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Giveaway: $50 credit to Snapfish!

I started using Snapfish in college. Back then, I would package up my rolls of film in the pre-paid Snapfish mailer and ship them off. They’d develop them into lovely prints but the kicker was that they’d ALSO post them online and I could send them to my friends. In the pre-Facebook, pre-scanner days, this was a VERY BIG DEAL!

Snapfish is still going strong, and they’ve got a lot of products that would make great gifts for the holidays. They’ll put pictures on just about anything – from coffee mugs to neckties to boxer shorts! You could probably do all your holiday shopping right from their site. And, of course, they’ve got holiday cards.

Snapfish allowed me to try out their card making software, and it was fun! Here’s what I came up with.

Such cuties!

And here’s where it started to go downhill… I started to get a little punchy with the captions.

As cute as those are, none of the above is what I picked for our actual Christmas card. I didn’t want to give it away! But believe me, it is adorable.

Snapfish has holiday cards for every budget, and now through November 30 they’re offering free shipping on two or more orders of cards. That saved me $8.99! Just use coupon code 2CARDSFS. They also have several other specials going on – make sure to click on their “special offers” page!

Want to win a $50 credit to try it out for yourself? Here’s how to enter!

Required entry: Leave a comment on this post and tell us about your Christmas card plans.

Extra entries:
— Tweet about this contest & leave a comment with a link to your tweet. Here’s an example: “Win a $50 credit to @snapfishbyhp from @momminitup & @jennyitup!”
— “Like” us on Facebook and leave a comment telling us you did.

This contest will end at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 30. Good luck!

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Small Business Love

Thanks to American Express for sponsoring my writing today about small businesses. American Express is presenting Small Business Saturday, a way to honor the local merchants who are the backbone of the economy, this Saturday, November 27. They’re offering statement credits to people who shop at small businesses, advertising for small-business owners, and donations to Girls Inc. for “Likes” of the Small Business Saturday page on Facebook. Join the celebration by clicking the “Like” button and then visiting the Facebook page to learn more about the program and read the terms and conditions that apply.

OBVIOUSLY, my dears, Christmas is coming.  For us, it’s Christmas, for you, maybe it’s Hannukah or another seasonal or religious excuse to buy presents.  Whatever your reason for the season, ’tis undeniably the season to GIVE.

This year when you are thinking about where to shop and what to shop for, American Express wants you to consider patronizing one of the thousands of small businesses that offer amazing goods and services all year round. To support this Saturday, November 27th as “Small Business Saturday”, American Express asked me to highlight some of my favorite small businesses.  I thought it was a great idea! So here are three of my favorite small shops that do big things!

For yummy treats: Lulee’s Lollies!  I posted just last week about how much I looooove these cake-on-a-stick treats!  Seriously they are the tastiest thing EVAH.  If you’ve got a local friend or relative to send goodies to, these are what you want to send!  Whether you want an assorted bunch of pretty treats or you want your Lollies to look like Christmas Trees or stars, Lulee can do it.  She could probably even make a Baby Jesus lolly, but I am hoping you do not have anyone on your gift list who wants to bite off the Christ child’s head. 🙂

Carabella’s – I have a thing for personalized gifts, and I can’t wait to order a couple of things with Jonah’s name on it for him!  Of course he already has just about everything he needs, but with all the great gift selection on Carabella’s site, I am *sure* I can find *something* he MUST HAVE.   Actually I am thinking my kids really need these sibling shirts.  So THAT is what we might go with!!

From onesies, blankets, travel mugs, booties, boxers, diaper covers, dresses, diaper bags, totes, aprons…Carabella’s has EVERYTHING.  Go check out their selection!

Finally, there’s Usborne Books.  Now I know Usborne Books as a whole is not a small business, but Usborne consultants DO run their own small businesses.  I just had an Usborne party a few weeks ago and friend and helped friend and reader Jen support her small business.  I LOVE Usborne books and got a ton of books for the kids for Christmas.  Books are some of the most VALUABLE gifts you can give a child, so support Jen or your favorite Usborne consultant in their small business and give a child a great gift. You can order online and have your books shipped to you or to the lucky recipient!

So do yourself and your local and online small businesses a favor this weekend!  Click below & go “Like” Small Business Saturday on Facebook and get ready to make a difference with your dollars!

Small Business Saturday

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I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.

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This is a new one.

So we’re all used to Jenny’s middle-of-the-night ramblings, but tonight (this morning?) I thought I’d treat you to some of mine.

It’s 3:00 a.m. I woke up about an hour ago, thanks to some serious wind and rain, which I was sure was a tornado. According to our local tv station, though, it was only a severe thunderstorm warning. What does that even mean? I’m pretty sure that if it’s a thunderstorm, we’ll know. And it doesn’t seem very action-oriented. I mean, should we have found shelter from the… thunder?

Anyway, since then I haven’t been able to go to sleep, which is quasi-unusual for me. I am generally a pretty good sleeper. In fact, I consider it one of my primary talents. It’s failing me tonight, though.

Want to know what is keeping me up? This BLOG.

When I woke up, I had been dreaming about a giveaway for the new movie “Tangled” that I’m supposed to do. Yes, you read that right. I can’t sleep because I’m supposed to blog about movie clips and associated t-shirts and silly bandz (stayed tuned tomorrow! Or maybe the next day…) I have about 10 more reviews/giveaways that I need to get up, like, yesterday and it is stressing me out.

Over-committed much?

Unfortunately, while the thought of blog posts yet to do is keeping me awake, I don’t really have the mental fortitude to actually do any of them right now.

So instead, you get a stream-of-consciousness blog post. Yay!

I also don’t feel well. I’ve been thinking for a few days that I’m coming down with something. But I really don’t have time to be sick. And with the recent decision to start bringing Sam to the daycare near my work (which btw, this almost-illness was surely caused by the soup I ate last week that was prepared by the children at said daycare. I should have totally turned around and left immediately when I noticed that I was the ONLY PARENT THERE. Hello new daycare mom, you are a sucker!) , there is really no point in taking a sick day, because I’d either have to a) drive 40 minutes to drop him off and then drive 40 minutes home and then do it all again at 5:00 or b) keep him home with me. And we all know how restful that would be. So off to work I will go.

Anyway.

The weather has calmed down now, and the sounds from outside have gone from alarming to relaxing. Perhaps I will be able to sleep now. You know, if my husband isn’t snoring and I can actually hear the rain on the roof.

Before I sign off this completely pointless post, I would like to point out one thing. When I awoke earlier, in the midst of dreaming about my to-do list, and heard the storm going on outside – despite my I-just-woke-up disorientation – I was immediately so thankful for having a warm, dry, safe home for my children.

Isn’t that just about all we can ask?

And on that note, I’m going to sleep.

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