Shutterfly Photobook Giveaway

It's the time of year when everyone is thinking of their family and planning special occasions to spend time together. You know what's a real stinker?? When half of your family lives on the other side of the country. I grew up in a family of 4 kids, and currently two of my siblings live in California while the other half of us live in Maine. So, they are LITERALLY on the other side of the United States. 

So I've been trying to think of a special gift those nieces and nephews of mine.....

and I came up with it. 

Photobooks!!!

My nieces and nephews are still young enough to not remember family living in other states very well. The best way to fix that situation is to have a photobook of all of us who live in another state, so that we don't seem that far away in person. I think it's the perfect gift for young kids.....and I plan on making it fun. Lots of goofy pictures, funny subtitles, and pets included too. I think it will help make us all feel a little closer, even though we're thousands of miles away. 

Shutterfly has a video called Shutterfly Photo Books: The Best Gift Ever and it's about the reverse of what I've been talking about.....in their story, it's a child who gives a photobook to his Grandmother. This gift can work in so many ways. 

I'm hosting a giveaway for an 8x8 Hardcover photobook (20 Pages long) and I will be picking TWO WINNERS!!! Wooooohooooo!!!!!!!!

This Giveaway ends Friday, December 14th at 11:59 EST

Photobook codes will expire on December 31st

Here are the rules *leave a comment for each type of entry*:

1. Watch the video and tell me which scene reminds you of something from your own life (mandatory).

2. Go to Shutterfly here: http://bit.ly/TknolQ and pick your favorite photobook style (optional).

2. Tweet (once) about the giveaway using the hashtag #SFLYPhotobook (optional). 

A Marvelous Mess and Features!!!!!!!!

Sorry I missed you all last week.....I can honestly tell you that I've been so busy recently that I didn't even realize I hadn't posted a new party until halfway through the week!!! I was part of an Art Show on Friday night and it was my first Art Show and I wanted everything to be just right. 

But, enough about me.....what have you all been up to??? I can't wait to see what the Holidays have inspired in your creative lives!!!

Here is the post I'll be featuring on my sidebar for a week:

Wool Roses and Holly Wreath from Creative Passage!!! Gorgeous, right????

This button is for those that were featured:

<br /><center> <a href="http://marvelouslymessy.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="A Marvelous Mess" src="http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad256/MarvelouslyMs/buttonbackground1-2.jpg" /></a></center> Now, on to the par-tay!!!

It's Giving Tuesday!!!!

After all the rush and wildness of Black Friday and Cyber monday, we've made it to Giving Tuesday!!!

What are you going to do to Give Back to the world around you today?

I started out the day with donating some winter jackets to my Munchkins school.

A good day for it too... it was 21 degrees outside this morning.

I'll be hosting craft time at the library this morning (something that started out, years ago, as a volunteer job and then morphed into a real job). We're doing Salt Dough Ornaments. That would be a fun way to give me ( I can attest to it)... volunteer at your local library to host a craft time. It's so much fun and it can be really inspiring too!!!

How about donating some food/clothes/needed items to a shelter?

Make some food for an elderly neighbor?

Sign up at the animal shelter to volunteer?

Lets all try to make a difference today, in any small or big way that we can.

Happy Giving Tuesday!!!