Day: November 7, 2012

  • Holiday Cards with Modern Greetings {Review + Free Photo Book}

    Holiday Cards with Modern Greetings {Review + Free Photo Book}

    Is it too early to send out Christmas Cards?  Not if I call them Holiday Cards!!!

    In the past Mark and I are usually late getting our Christmas cards/letter out, or we just all together skip it. There is so much that seems to go on between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that the cards usually get put on the backburner here.

    Not this year!

    We took our family photo in early October (like the 1st weekend of October!). Let me tell you, getting a good picture of all of us was extremely difficult…..

    Thanks to Modern Greetings, I now have holiday cards in hand, with envelopes ready to send out!  I really enjoyed making our cards this year.  Modern Greetings had hundreds of designs to choose from.
    What I loved the most though, was that after choosing a design, we could then edit, add to, take away, change fonts and colors to really make it our own.

    A few Pluses for Modern Greetings

    • Nice web design. Easy to navigate to create the perfect card
    • Many options to choose from.
    • Reasonably priced
    • Will address and mail your cards for you!!!

    What I didn’t like

    • I couldn’t use some of our pictures in certain designs because of low resolution. Not exactly their fault, but I’m no techy. Having a tutorial to teach someone like me how to make it work, would be great! Having an FAQ or some tutorials for other issues people may encounter would add great value!

    Modern Greetings offers more than just Holiday Cards too!  There’s announcements, stationary, invitations, and photo books!  As a special to my readers, Modern Greetings is offering you a Free Photo Book!

    How to get your Free Photo Book
    Go to This Page, and enter your email.
    Modern Greetings will email you instructions to redeem your photo book
     
    *I received products at a discount to assist in this review. All opinions are 100% my own honest feelings.
    
  • Chase Danger Super Spy: Pirates of Pineapple Island {Book Review}

    Chase Danger Super Spy: Pirates of Pineapple Island {Book Review}

    Chase Danger Super Spy
    Pirates of Pineapple Island
    By Chad and Lisa Olivera
     
    About the Book: Join 7-year-old super-spies Chase Danger and Princess Ali Bali in their 2nd
    adventure. This time, the two heroes have to rescue magical pineapples and Ali’s
    brother, Aiden, from the dreaded pirate Captain Looney.  2nd in a series of Chase
    Danger, Super Spy books. Full color illustrations by Adam Goodman. 

    About the Authors: Lisa and Chad Olivera are an Author and
    publishing team from California. Published works include the Chase Danger, Super
    Spy Series: Book #1 Mystery of the special Sauce and book #2 Pirates of
    Pineapple Island. Lisa works with young children as a Special Circumstance Aide and
    Chad is a musician, composer and children’s theater director. They live and work
    in Santa Clarita California. As a family they enjoy writing books, going to the
    beach, watching movies and going on Geocaching adventures. Please visit them at
    http://www.chasedanger.com/ and “LIKE”
    them on facebook for exciting updates.

    My thoughts: Or more accurately, my kids thoughts. They loved this even more than the first book. Now when I ask them if they want to read Chase Danger, it has to be the Pirate Princess one! I’m sure it has something to do with having 3 Princesses in the house. As much as we loved The Mystery of the Special Sauce, adding in a Princess, Pirates and Pineapples, took my kids to another level of joy in reading. Again, I just love the reading theater that comes along with the book.  The voice of the characters, and sound effects brings the adventure to life.
    As a parent, I like the family aspect this book teaches. Our families are important, and even if we don’t always get along, we still love them.