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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Our family photo we took in Fiji this summer. On the back, we will feature our three kids ages 14, 12 and 7 each up on a surfboard. And a small pic of us celebrating 20 years of marriage.
We took some photos at a nearby brewery (sounds strange, but they have the most lovely grounds in the country, it’s like a park).
i love good earth tea! the sweet & spicy flavor is my favorite :)
we are using a picture we took in a local park this fall with all the leaves orange and yellow (me, my husband, and toddler). i would have loved to have our dog in it too, but i took the pictures with a tripod/self timer and it was hard enough to get a shot with a toddler looking/not freaking out :p
Using a vacation picture of our sailboat off Anegada, BVI with hubby walking down the beach… Super excited about this one! Your family pics are gorgeous.
I always love seeing your cards! I think the one with Haggis framed for the dinner theft was my favorite favorite! We still need to take one!
We’re getting back on the card wagon after skipping last year. The breather was well needed. I’m actually excited about them this year!
We had some fall pictures taken, so we will use one of those for our Christmas cards.
I hope to get a picture of all 8 of us at Thanksgiving. Coordinating schedules with older kids is difficult.
It’s never *too* difficult to choose a photo to share with loved ones for the holidays, since we actually take very few of ourselves! Probably a hiking snap from a CO trip, or maybe just one of the cats…
I adore Minted. My family and I just did a mini session with our photographer and I can’t wait to get our proofs so we can get those holiday cards out!
We’re using a family photo of our miniature schnauzer and dorky for our holiday card this year.
I recently got photos taken of my son and I! They’re the first time that he and I got professional ones taken, and he’s almost two! So I’m really excited to finally do our first card!
We had pictures done on the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday in October.
It has to be a collage as the four of us were never all together since last Christmas! I actually just realized that because of your question! :( Both my kids are on the east coast and we’re on the west coast (and they’ll be with their grandparents in Michigan for Thanksgiving)! Minted looks like make top quality cards!
We usually get family photos done, but used our photo budget for newborn photos when our youngest arrived last December. So we will be using a family selfie we took on vacation as the sun was setting over Lake Michigan. Thanks for hosting.
We are using a cute fall picture of the girls. The friend who took the pictures really caught their personalities!
We’ll try to take a family photo over Thanksgiving to use!
I will be using our photo taken in Hawaii
Our kids, the dog and the cats in front of the Christmas tree!
I will be using a new family photo we had taken this year on our beach trip!
We just got a new puppy so she’ll probably be featured.
We had a family photo done this summer at the beach. I’ll use that one.
Definitely one with Maggie our black lab. We have several pics to choose from. She’s a lot of fun.
We will be using a picture that was taken at our 50th Anniversary.
Just doggies on this years card.