Some of you may remember that we decided to incorporate handmade gifts into our Christmas giving last year. Well, just like anything else we start, this is fast becoming tradition. And I'm already thinking that maybe I wish it wasn't.
Because the creative bug has eluded me this season. Until yesterday.
I thought I would try to make some refridgerator magnets for everyone this year, along with their knitted stocking caps (you know, in case I can't get all the caps finished because I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME).
Anyway, the magnets were less than dull. Boring. Plain. Blaze. Until yesterday when I thought, "Hey! Use your MyMemories software." So I did. And I made these:
Remember when we went to the wedding and ShutterBooth was there?
I used a lot of those photos...
you know, to humor everyone.
I'm putting this one and the next on in with the wedding gift for the newlyweds.
Breezy and her BFF...
Breezy and BestSonInLawEVER!
Us. Again.
Deanie and NickleAss at the Disco in Buffalo...
and then I tried a different background and decorations.
My oldest younger brother and my SIL.
My brothers, my dad and me; our first Christmas as brothers and sister.
My dad's parents.
How silly to have that software and forget to use it! I'm having such fun with these things! At this point, I don't even care if they like them or not! (I'm kidding...sort of).
If you don't have MyMemories but want it, you can get a discount- just click the button on my sidebar and use the code! And then, have a blast!!!
ANYWAY--
The blogger for The 25 Days of Christmas Blogshare is:
The Christmas season can be stressful if we feel that we have to spend lots of money on gifts for friends and relatives. My family has decided to eliminate some of that stress by including hand made gifts this year. I will show you how to use the items below to make a gift that any grandparent, parent, aunt or uncle will cherish more than all the electronics that money can buy.
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The last few weeks I have entered a couple of giveaways that I really wanted to win. I was truly bummed when I didn't win either of them because I really wanted to try the software for digital scrapbooking the bloggers were giving away.
The good news? I was offered an opportunity to review the product AND offer a free copy as a giveaway on my blog!
WHAT?!
That’s exactly right! One of you will win a copy of the software for your very own! Whoop! Whoop!
It's called MyMemories and I really, really like it! Yes, they gave me the software for FREE. But, if I’m nothing else in this world, I am honest. And I have truly been having a total BLAST with this software for digital scrapbooking!
I've been playing around with it for two weeks now (ok, a little more but I ran into that redecorating issue and then Thanksgiving came around...) and I'm nearly finished with two scrapbooks.
Here are the things I enjoyed about the MyMemories Suite:
it's easy! There are plenty of options from which to choose, but not so many that I became overwhelmed.
they offer FREE extras nearly every day!
it's easy! Nothing complicated about how to use MyMemories Suite 2 at all which means instant success!
they are always available to answer any questions!
it's easy! Wait, did I already mention that?
you can be creative!
you can print your pages or have them print a book!
they offer discounts on upgrades!
you can chose from instant pages or make your own!
I don't have a mess all over the dining table with my scrapbooking materials!
if something ever happens to my scrapbooks, I'll have these digital ones! All will not be lost!
I am working on a family album now. I think this is a great way to preserve photos! Yes, it's taking time, but it's so easy and I love playing around with the different options!
This page shows my mother's grandfather, my mother's parents, my mother and her sister and their family.
This will have all the old family photos I have of my mother's family, my dad's family and both sides of Hubs' family!
This page is of my grandparents. I'm pretty sure that they hung the moon AND the stars!
I haven't added any music of played with videos yet. But the options are there!
That's my Granddaddy! I adored him! That's me showing him a doll I got for Christmas.
I'm also working on an album of the lovelies (big surprise, right?)! Again, the pages are NOT complete, I still have to add embellishments. But here's what I have so far on their individual pages--
Then I have Breezy's wedding photos and Hubs' and my childhood photos and the wedding we just went to this weekend and....
I'm going to busy for quite a while!
A word of warning! This software brings with it trips down memory lane that will have you laughing, crying, daydreaming and, sometimes, all three at the same time!
Will I never create scapbooks the 'old' way? YES. I'm not giving that up at all! This is just another option that I am enjoying! Plus, as I mentioned earlier, if something ever happens to my printed scrapbooks, I have these on my computer!
OK, if you simply can’t wait for the giveaway to end, just go on over to the MyMemories site and enter the code: STMMMS73032 for $10 OFF!
If you can wait, it's easy to enter to win!
I'm trying Rafflecopter for the first time. I think it takes a second or two to pop up but it should make this easier for you!
Being a transplant to the low-country of SC for 31 years is still not long enough to be called a ‘benyeh.’ If I stay until I’m dead I’ll probably go a ‘comeyeh’ since I am, originally, ‘from off’ (which is the upstate but, rules you know). By day I take care of my sweet little granddaughter, Baby M and do all those things I did when I was a SAHM raising four daughters which has translated to, ‘by day, I am exhausted.’ By night I blog, blog, blog, and blog some more or I sleep, depending on my level of exhaustion (do they still make Geritol?). I have a very unhealthy addiction to sweets (nearly any kind will do) and all comfort foods not covered under the ‘sweets’ category. I’m known for speaking my mind so, if you don’t want to know, don’t ask me. I love to find the humor in my empty nest life. I live life hard and smack into that brick wall almost daily because I’ve always had to learn the hard way. Why change now? I’m so glad you’ve come to laugh with me as I do this middle age, empty nest thing like a BOSS!
