Shutterfly

One question I get asked a lot is....what printing company do you prefer. I can honestly say the company I use most is Shutterfly. Shutterfly is user friendly, offer many great deals, and most importantly store all your photos online free of charge!

My family loves all the great things I make with Shutterfly! Every year I make a 12x12 photo book to tell of all the fun adventures that year held. The best part is my kids love to look at pictures of themselves and carry it all over the house and I don't need to worry about it like I did with my scrapbooks. If it gets spilled on or ruined, it is saved on my Shutterfly account and I can always replace it! These books are a center piece in our living room. Guests are drawn to them and love getting a chance to see how the kids have grown over the years.

Shutterfly often has great offers. During one of their promotions on free cards, I gave them a try. I made a Father's Day card that was more beautiful than any card I could have found in a store. Daddy and the Grandfathers loved it.

Because I loved our Father's Day Cards so much, when my son's birthday came around I chose to make his Thank You cards through Shutterfly. This time I took advantage of their option to mail them to my family for me. Wow what a huge relief that was! I had no worries on addressing and mailing all the thank you cards! Plus it saves all my family's addresses so I am not scrambling for my address book. I was so excited to get the phone calls from all our friends and family saying their card arrived and how much they loved it.

This year I am excited to use Shutterfly for our family Christmas Cards and Thank you cards. We haven't decided which Christmas Card we will be using this year, but I am excited to say I have already made our Thank you cards. I use the beautiful blank card options through Shutterfly and add our family photos to them. We then can use them as thank you cards or for anything that life brings about. They are great to have on hand.

Since Christmas is right around the corner, it is time to be thinking about all those on your list. My favorite gifts to give are photo gifts! Last year my sister and I made our Grandfather a calendar with all three of his Great Grandson's photos in it. He was so proud that he brought it everywhere with him to show everyone! He is so cute! Last night I ordered my 2011 calendar from Shutterfly. I am looking forward to it arriving soon!

I can't stress enough how important it is to back up your photos. Back them up on an external hard drive but also back them up on Shutterfly. I lost all my photos from 2009 on my hard drive and all I have left are the ones that I uploaded to Shutterfly. You can even share all your photos with friends and family with Shutterfly's share sites. I created a share site for our T-ball teams two years in a row. The parents were able to share team photos with everyone and it even reminded us when game times were and who was bringing snack! From that share site I used the photos to create a photo book for the coach (my husband) and presented it to him at the end of the season.

I hope this review was helpful! Now onto creating my family Christmas Card!