Santa Claus is Coming to Town ***Censored (for Children)

Santa was WHERE?

If your children are at the age where they are beginning to question the magic of Christmas and, like me, as a parent you want to hold on to that innocence for just one more year, you may want to try these sites.

(Click the hyperlinks below to go to the sites.)

Insert Santa into a picture of your decorated living room.

This site allows you to upload a picture of your decorated living room. You then choose a Santa to superimpose in your pic. It's extremely easy and has a cost of three pictures at $9.95.

Insert a 'live' Santa into a picture of your decorated home to create a video.

This site has an excellent tutorial on how to upload a photo, choose a Santa, add music, and edit. The digital video will be sent to your email quickly so that you can view & share it. The cost for the service is $14.95.

My personal favorite: DIY

Due to budget constraints, there is no hyperlink for this choice. lol! I plan to take a picture of my decorated living room. It will be later this month because I like to have a real tree, but I hate the plethora of needles that don the floor by the 'big day'. Again, I digress...Next, I will find the perfect picture of Santa, cut it out, and scan it on the picture of my living room. I can print the picture here at home for only the cost of ink and photo paper, send the photo to Walgreens/CVS and pick it up for $2...or my personal favorite, I'll upload the final pic to my iPhotoStream for FREE. I can just show the boys the picture directly from my phone.

Making Time to Blog...

So many ideas, so little time. Wow! Isn't that the truth?!?

Have you ever had so much to say, but there is one pressing inconsequential thought that you want to share? All the other details fall to the background because, well, you've already lived them, chalked them up to experience. You know you won't forget them, but this thought might just leave your brain like hot butter. This is, indeed, one of those moments... So, before I forget...I want to share a great idea that I saw online a few months ago. Pinterest reminded me of it just now!

Those of you who use iPhones and are regular photography hounds, listen up! Stickygram is an amazing site to make magnets from your iPhotos. You just upload 9 photos, pay your $14.99 (free s/h), and Stickygram sends you your masterpieces.

                                                                       pic from Stickygram.com

I'll be posting a DIY for similar photo magnets for those of you who are crafty. 

Whenever I write/say the word crafty, why, oh why, must I always follow it with the riff from the Beastie Boys? ♫♪♪♫ She's crafty. She's just my type! ♪♫♪♪♫