{"id":2793,"date":"2010-11-26T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2010-11-26T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:11:55","slug":"making-the-holidays-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2010\/11\/26\/making-the-holidays-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Holidays Easier!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re like me, and I sincerely hope for your sake, you&#8217;re not, you have good intentions, but have trouble following through. Take my yearly Christmas cards, I always have big plans and some years I manage to pull off the photo shoot and then choose the photo that I hate the least, get a bunch of photos made up and then slide them in the cards and finally mail them out days before Christmas. Every year I swear it&#8217;s going to be different.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to send out cards at all last year I decided that I was going to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterfly.com\/\">Shutterfly<\/a>. A few of the Christmas cards we received were from Shutterfly and they were some of my favorite cards. But what really convinced me was a birth announcement we received. It came in a plastic envelope from the post office with a note stating that this particular piece of mail had been in a mail truck fire and had been exposed to heat, flame, smoke and water damage. I opened it up and except for some slight warping and a smoky aroma, this card looked fabulous. Right then and there I decided we were using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterfly.com\/\">Shutterfly!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23007-1619-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v126584531000050016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2801  aligncenter\" title=\"STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23007-1619-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v126584531000050016\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23007-1619-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v126584531000050016-216x300.jpg?resize=216%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are so many choices for holiday cards<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2798  aligncenter\" title=\"PHOTOCARD-103-4310-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v1288740916000104291\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PHOTOCARD-103-4310-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v1288740916000104291-300x216.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23046-2550-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128874102600086619.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2799  aligncenter\" title=\"STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23046-2550-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128874102600086619\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_5x7-23046-2550-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128874102600086619-300x216.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_FOLDED_5x7-27137-2464-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128096275700096875.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2800  aligncenter\" title=\"STATIONERYCARD_FOLDED_5x7-27137-2464-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128096275700096875\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/STATIONERYCARD_FOLDED_5x7-27137-2464-MERCHLARGE_FRONT-v128096275700096875-300x216.jpg?resize=300%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterfly.com\/\">Shutterfly&#8217;s<\/a> calendars also\u00a0make a fabulous gift for grandparents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2027_l-v128441211600035846.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2802\" title=\"2027_l-v128441211600035846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2027_l-v128441211600035846-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why don&#8217;t you take a little of the stress out of your holiday and give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterfly.com\/\">Shutterfly<\/a> a try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Disclaimer: This is a sponsered post for Shutterfly. 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