Saying Thanks + Giving You Goodies: Shutterfly Photos, Books, Calendars & Gifts

DIY Memory Box Display

We just returned from one of our summer vacations and oh how much we will miss the good times together. To capture our memories, one of the things we do is a bedtime ritual called, “Review the Holiday,” where we recount the highlights of our vacation. A hands-on way to cement our happy memories is with […]

Easy Homemade Play Town

Glitter, upcycling, and independent play: these are a few of my favorite things. When we received a box brimming with Glitter Glue, Painters Markers, School Glue and Glue Sticks from Elmer’s last weekend, I knew EXACTLY what we would do - get our craft on and create a homemade play town with items straight from […]

Top Ten Tips For Disneyland With Preschoolers

After our maiden voyage to Disneyland was such a magical success, we can’t wait to visit again. Short and sweet, here are our Top Ten Tips for Disneyland With Preschoolers. Don’t forget to check out our detailed post on Planning for Disneyland with Preschoolers, with tips on when to visit the park, what attractions not to […]

Planning for Disneyland with Preschoolers

Disneyland is truly the happiest place on Earth. I hadn’t visited the park since 1987, so I was excited to take the kids (4 and 5 years old) on their maiden voyage, but I had no idea how absolutely magical the experience would be. Watching the children’s hearts nearly explode with joy was the best part […]

Easy Kitchen Math: Counting By Tens

Keeping the kids occupied (meaning, not putting them in front of the TV and making sure they’re safe and not killing one another) while we prep dinner is sometimes challenging for us. A fun way to turn what can be a difficult time into an opportunity for learning is this simple Counting by Tens math […]

5 Creative Ways To Upgrade Your Home Style

We’ve been in our new house for about half a year now, but after unpacking our boxes and getting our 1950’s Rancher fixed up, we haven’t really begun to make the house our home. Part of the reason is that we will be remodeling eventually, so making a big investment on statement pieces or committing […]

Summer Learning Activities for Kids: Top Ten Ways To Keep Kids Thinking

I’m thrilled to be participating in the Second Annual School’s Out! Top 10 Summer Learning Activities series and sharing our Top Ten Ways to Keep Kids Thinking over Summer Break with you. If you’re like me, you want your children to enjoy the beautiful summer weather, play in the dirt, swim in the pool and just […]

{Homemade Valentines} Magic Heart Wands

If you’re like us, you’re scrambling to make one hundred homemade Valentines for your children’s classroom Valentine’s Day Exchange and need something quick, cheap, and fun. Lucky for all you last-minute crafters, we’re sharing our simple Magic Heart Wands that will help your child spread some love this Valentine’s Day. All you need is: A […]

November 5, 2012 in All Posts, Giveaways, Sponsored Posts

A BIG BIG welcome to all you new readers that have fabulously shown up to share a little slice of our lives here at The Outlaw Mom Blog and BIG BIG hugs to you all who have been faithfully following along all this time. It’s November and a month when we’re conscious of and celebrating what we’re thankful for and it would be downright rude of me not to acknowledge how thankful I am for YOU. I love being able to share our stories and journeys with you and am so grateful to be part of the larger blogosphere, which has - as cheesy as it sounds - completely changed my life for the better.

So, I’m kicking off a month of Saying Thanks + Giving Goodies to you, my friends and lovelies!

First up - a giveaway from one of my FAVORITE companies, Shutterfly.

To enter for a chance to win a $75 gift card towards your purchase at Shutterfly, all you need to do is

(1) Enter Shutterfly’s Howl-O-Ween Photo Contest and leave a comment below telling me you’ve entered; and

(2) Tweet out this post and tell your friends at least once! (Don’t forget to come back and let me know or tag me @TheOutlawMom, so I know you’ve done this).

About Shutterfly’s Howl-O-Ween Photo Contest

Just submit a sweet or spooky photo of your munchkins for a chance to win one of these fabulous prizes if you’re selected out of the top 25 most “voted” entries:

Grand Prize: A free 2-night stay for a family of 4 at any Great Wolf Lodge ($500 value) + $200 Shutterfly Gift Certificate
First Place: One $250 Shutterfly Gift Certificate
Second Place: One $150 Shutterfly Gift Certificate
Third Place: One $100 Shutterfly Gift Certificate.

I put all the good stuff up front so you could see how awesomely amazing the giveaway and contest are, just assuming that you, too, like me, love Shutterfly, but maybe I jumped the gun? Let’s see, why does Shutterfly rock? Let me break it down:

If you sign up for an account, they send you incredible discounts and deals…like the FREE 101 prints I just scored last Friday, not for being an affiliate or blogger, but just a regular old customer.
They have supercool photobook layouts that range from cool, sleek, hip, and modern to cutesy or colorful. I just missed the 50% photobook deal they had going on this weekend, which I’ve been kicking myself over. I love this one that I want to use for the photos I’ve collected for my sister-in-law from her wedding:

And this one is supercute for a holiday gift for the grandparents:

Their calendars are super easy to put together - we order a dozen every year as gifts for family members. You just upload the photos and plop them in place in one of the very stylish templates and you’re good to go! It’s easy to customize or you can be lazy and let them do the work for you. Either way, it turns out stunning.
And I have literally spend a large chunk of my disposable income on business cards, mommy cards, and holiday cards at Shutterfly or TinyPrints.

How cute are these?!

Customer service is awesome. This is a total make or break for me. I have about zero patience for problems with orders or slowness, and they’ve always been fast and accurate or quick to solve any issue.

Why are you still here? Enter Shutterfly’s Howl-O-Ween Photo Contest, tweet this post, and hurry back here to let me know! (Or don’t, and up my chances of winning that Grand Prize! Pretty please.)

And btw, I know you only have two days to enter this giveaway and if you’re not part of the Twittersphere you can’t enter, but don’t fret, I’ll give you more time for the next one and it’s open to everyone … even those of you not on Facebook or Twitter - promise! Let the month of Saying Thanks + Giving Goodies begin!!

***UPDATE***

Lorie is the winner of this giveaway, so it is CLOSED!

***UPDATE***

Disclaimer: I am part of the Mom It Forward blogger network. Mom It Forward and Shutterfly partnered in support of this campaign. Shutterfly compensated me for participation in this campaign. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. (And I am being totally serious when I say that Shutterfly is one of my FAVORITE companies!)

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Chrissy – who has written 422 posts on The Outlaw Mom® Blog - Creative Living in a Conventional World.