Shutterfly, how do I love thee?

Let me count the ways....

1) If you could see the top of my desk right now you'd see about 8 orange Shutterfly envelopes stacked high, filled with pictures for me to scrapbook.  I'm so behind!!  But one of the many great things about Shutterfly is their photo books.  When I get really behind in scrapbooking I can easily put together a really nice "scrapbook," including pictures and captions, in a fraction of the time it takes me to scrapbook.  Rachel gave one to Daddy for his birthday this past year, I made one for Rachel's first birthday, and we have one from our first family vacation to the Outer Banks, among several other trips.  She loves looking at them and remembering, and I love that our history is documented, no matter how far behind I am in our regular scrapbooks!

2) I love their photo cards.  I've given them for birthday cards for several family birthdays in the past few years, as well as Mother's Day.  I love adding pictures of the girls and personalizing what I want it to say on the inside.  I'm excited that this year they're offering bloggers 50 free photo cards for writing about them on their blog!  If you're a blogger, you can do it, too! Click here to see the details.

I can't wait to choose which Christmas card to order this year.  There are SO many options this year, and I love the collage cards where you can choose more than one picture for your card.  Since we now have two little ones, I'd love to be able to have a close up of both of them, along with a family picture.

3) One of my very favorite products from Shutterfly is their photo calendars.  For the past several Christmases I've made one for ourselves and given several as gifts to our families.  In fact, I've already started making this year's calendar (thankfully they let you start and save it, coming back multiple times to finish up, because there's no way with little ones that I can finish it in one sitting!).

4) I've actually never tried making one, but I've received one of their Christmas ornaments as a gift.  It's beautiful, and I love Christmas ornaments with pictures on them.  I may try making one with the girls' pictures this year.


If you've never tried Shutterfly, you don't know what you're missing!  Of all of the photo printing sites out there, it is by far my favorite.  They offer the best sales throughout the year, and if you know me at all, you know I'm all about finding a good deal!  Go take a look!