Avoiding Holiday Stress: $200 Minted Giveaway
Avoid Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, and New Year’s stress by ordering your holiday cards now with this $200 Minted Giveaway! Contest closed: winner has been chosen.
Friends, it’s time to start prepping for the holiday season, with Thanksgiving here soon, Hanukah, Christmas, and New Year’s right around the corner.
What better way to celebrate, than a $200 giveaway from Minted to help you get your holiday cards prepared NOW! Also, if you are looking for an easy dessert to make this week for breakfast, brunch, or dinner, don’t forget this delicous Pear Upside Down Cake Recipe!
Making the card
Before Abby went off to college, we took advantage of the beautiful central Oregon weather, and headed out to one of the meadows near our house.
Of course Haggis came with us.
What I love about Minted is all the designs, how you can add pictures to the back with your personalized message. Plus, did you know that you can get your own personalized postage stamps? You can also plan your own parties, with very festive decor!
Love the printed return address, on the envelopes, the recycled paper that you can choose, your choice or corners (rounded, squared, scalloped) …
Minted makes it all super, super easy!
Avoiding holiday stress
I’m not stressed about this holiday season, but that’s partly because I’m focusing on these simple steps, and the art of slowing down:
1. Keep it simple. I’ve always written about letting go of traditions that do not work anymore for your family. This year, living in a new home, in a new area, with smaller space, we will simplify. Fewer commitments, less sugar, less holiday decor and clutter. More gatherings, more healthy meals, more memories, and a real tree. More slowing down …
2. Home is the most important. Whether we’re out partying, getting a tree, going to events, movies, concerts, church … most of our memories are made in our home. Make it what you want it to be, but what I’ve learned is to not drag the family into my expectations (usually revolving around old family traditions). Keep a fresh attitude, decorate simply, make good food, invite people over to make real memories.
3. Order holiday cards early. There’s nothing like waiting until the last minute for holiday cards. Not a good idea. It adds stress on you, your family, and to be honest … I really like to take my time when addressing the envelopes, and thinking about the people we are sending them to. Maybe while sipping a cup of tea, Haggis by my side, my hubby helping me … make it enjoyable!
$200 Minted Giveaway
And I’m glad I can start on my cards today (with my Good Earth cup of tea) … because they have arrived!
Get your cards ordered now, and comment to enter to win $200!
What family photo will you be using for your holiday card this year?
Contest closed: winner has been chosen by random drawing: KEverett
Contest ends 11/25/16 at midnight. Winner will be contacted by email.
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This post is sponsored by Minted, but as always, all opinions are my own.
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Love the encouragement to keep it simple!
Just me and my dogs on my Xmas card this year.
Just got our family photos taken, with a new baby this year! Now all we need to do is order our cards!
I love everything Minted! Thanks for the tips.
My sister’s children will be on my cards.
We’ve always done a family Christmas card with a picture of the family on the beach.
We are using our selfie from Sevilla this year! Thanks for posting about Minted, great reminder.
We are a retired couple with a small dog. We have a photo session scheduled for Wednesday morning. Have used Minted before and love their designs and service.
we’d probably use one from my youngest daughters senior photo session, but we’ll have to take another one also since our son-in-law (so weird to say still) couldn’t make it for the senior one.
Every year on Black Friday, we avoid the shopping centers and head west to our favorite Christmas Tree Farm. We take family photos and one of them will be used for our annual Christmas card. The kids (26, 25 and 20) are already looking forward to Thanksgiving and all of our family traditions. Can’t wait!
I” hoping to get a good photo of my girls while we’re at my families farm for Thanksgiving…otherwise, I don’5 know what we’all do! ?
We are a family of 15 that will be in Sunriver over thanksgiving and hope to get a picture of us all or at least our seven grandchildren with us. Looking forward to our time over there to relax and fingers crossed for some snow. Last year was beautiful with the 15+ inches of snow
A pic of my sons and me taken will hiking near the Wisconsin dells.
We have some great photos from a recent Disney race and plan to use one of them. I will never outgrow Goofy!
I will use a photo of my kids in front of the Christmas tree.
We will be using a picture from last thanksgiving.
After a rather hard year for both my husband and I, due to health annoyances, we are doing a restart and have a photo shoot scheduled. It is wonderful to not be working so I can take time to enjoy doing cards this year.
Really like the simple designs! I had not heard of Minted before and after seeing their website I can’t wait to use them for several things I have been wanting to do. :)
We haven’t made the choice yet. Waiting to be with Emily to choose. Tradition!!
We will probably try to get a photo at Thanksgiving of our entire family or just include a picture of our two kids.
We are using a summer photo of the family; thanks for the chance.
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I love Minted!! My husband isn’t a big photo fan, so I keep trying to sneak pictures of us so I have a variety to choose from. Not an easy task! Lol! Love your card choice!!
Ours is always a picture of the kids and our dog in front of the tree.
We hope to take a photo on Thanksgiving at my grandfather’s farm in Va. Fingers crossed the weather cooperates!
Love the picture of your family! We will all be together at Thanksgiving. We should probably take a before meal picture, it maybe difficult to get everyone out of their comfortable chairs after eating turkey! Wishing you a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
We are using a photo of the twins at the beach at sunset. Just too darned cute!