When I was notified that I’d been accepted to write about Shutterfly’s huge selection of Christmas and holiday selection of cards, calendars, invitations and other related media, I was thrilled.  I’ve always loved sending and receiving holiday cards.  A big part of the fun comes from picking out JUST the right card to send to a pretty wide variety of people.  I send some to family, of course, some to friends, both near and far, and some to clients.   Sometimes, I buy different ones, bit I prefer to use the same one for as many as I can.

Shutterfly makes that easy!

Clicking on Shutterfly’s folded greeting cards button brings me 199 options!  Of course, being a photographer, I LOVE the idea of including my photographs on a holiday card, and Shutterfly makes that super simple.

First, of course, is picking out your photographs.  I can’t help you with that – of course, having tens of thousands of photos on my harddrives makes this step nearly impossible!

Second, choose the layout or card design that you like best, that will show off your photos.  Like I said, they have 199 different options. SURELY, you can pick one, right?  (ok, I know – it’s hard to choose just one!)

Third, select those photos you’ve picked out of your collection – OR you can even log into your Shutterfly account and use any that you’ve got on there.

Upload the photos to their site (or transfer them) – it only takes a few minutes.

Fourth,  just drag your photos into the right places on the card that you’d like them to appear.

Once you’re happy with your photos, you just click on the caption box, sign your cards with your own greeting and you’re done.  It’s so simple and easy.

For me, personally, I never knew Shutterfly had so many choices.  They’ve made the process quick and painless and very affordable too!   They start at just $1.19 each, and are full-sized cards.  They can ship them to you OR they’ll stamp and mail your cards FOR YOU (for a small fee)!  How cool is THAT?

here’s my sample that I prepared to show you.  It’s not the ones I’ve ordered, mainly because I didn’t have the right photos on this computer LOLhttp://www.dawniemom.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

I’m kind of sad today. Sad because I just finished the last bowl of Kellogg’s FiberPlus™ Antioxidants Cereals in Berry Yogurt Crunch. 

Back in “the day”, fiber cereals were for old people.  Fiber cereals tasted like hay. Fiber cereals certainly weren’t sought after by people under… 50.

Now, though, it’s different.  Kellogg’s new FiberPlus Antioxidants cereals have helped change that. 

I’ll admit I haven’t been a big fiber seeker. But I agreed to take a look at the new cereals and ummm. Wow.  Seriously!  My favorite is, as I mentioned, the Berry Yogurt Crunch variety.  The flakes were great – they didn’t sog out in the milk.  The yogurt covered berries were delicious – probably why my KIDS wouldn’t leave the cereal alone.  I suppose my selfishness comes from the fact that there aren’t too many cereals I actually like.  I like the old standards I grew up on.  However, they’re not necessarily the most healthy of choices, so I don’t buy them for the 3 other cereal eaters in the family. 

However, now that Kellogg’s FiberPlus™ Antioxidants Cereals has come along, I can now buy something *I* will covet hide like that I know my kids will love without caring that it’s a H E A L T H Y choice.

Libby & I were reading a Junie B. Jones book recently in which Junie B. is preparing for the monumental event of LOSING A TOOTH.  Libby, as well, is getting ready to lose a tooth as well.  In the book, it’s her first one, but in our house, this will be her 3rd, so she’s a veteran of the whole thing.  I, as the resident Tooth Fairy, am also a veteran when it comes to the inevitable search for the tooth as it hides and evades beneath the pillow.  More than once, I’ve come close to waking up the child in question, but I’ve been lucky so far.  But with a whole mouth full of teeth from Libby AND Zachary to contend with in the future, I was THRILLED to learn about the Sorrisi Tooth Fairy pillow. 

What IS the Sorrisi Tooth Fairy Pillow, you ask?

The Sorrisi Tooth Fairy pillow is a pillow created and developed by an ingenious mom with the same problem.  She designed these tooth fairy pillows with a pocket perfect for holding that newly freed tooth – or lots of other fun treasures!  It also has a little draw string pouch attached for the resulting reward from said Tooth Fairy – or of course, any other rewards that happen to work for you!

The pillow itself is beautiful.  We received the Tropical Fish design and the colors and fabric are just beautiful, decorative, high quality and did I mention beautiful?

To be honest, this photo doesn’t do the workmanship and colors justice. The pillow measures 14” square, and the cover even zippers in the back of the pillow for easy cleaning.

There’s more behind this than just a company making tooth fairy pillows, though.

Sorrisi Décor has partnered with Medical Teams International, a Christian global health organization, to identify the regions with the greatest degree of need with the fewest resources, and we will be giving a full 50% of the Sorrisi profits to seeing teams of dental professionals sent to these areas to address their current most desperate needs.

The pillows come in a variety of designs – 14 of them, in fact! They sell for $39.95-$44.95, but as I said – 50% of that goes to help people in desperate need of dental help.

They’ve also added personalization, so you can add that soon to be “toothless wonder’s” name to their beautiful new pillow!

Visit the http://www.sorrisidecor.com to see all the fun options for your new Tooth Fairy pillow.