minted.

Can you believe that Christmas is less than 8 weeks away?

I've already started my shopping

& have been trying to decide on Christmas cards.

I know that if I don't start now, they may not get done.

In my opinion, seeing Christmas cards in the mailbox brings extra joy to the season.

I always love getting cards & letters in the mail

so why wouldn't everyone else, right?

Really though, a card beats junk mail any day! (;

I don't know if you've ever checked out minted.com,

but they have some super cute holiday photo cards right now
in addition to the other stationary, art, fabric & other things on the site!

I love that everything they sell is from independent designers & artists from around the world.

Like I said, super cute!

Here's my problem...

I never know what to do with all of the cards at the end of the season.

I hate throwing them away,

especially if they're photo cards.
So I end up holding on to them.
I'm determined to find a better solution someday.

Anywho...

I was checking out Minted & came across these ornament cards:

Adorable right?

This totally solves my problem!

I can keep the cards & hang them on my tree every year!

I love the idea (:

But really though,
what do you do with cards when you get them?

xoxo

This is a sponsored post for those of you that care to know,

but all thoughts are my own.

Promise.

Family Valentine's Night

Monday evening we finally had our family Valentine's Lady & the Tramp dinner...

We had wanted to do it last week, but we were swamped with something every single night!
We would have had Spaghetti & Meatballs like they do in the movie, but since Hubby isn't a fan of meatballs we ate Heart Shaped Chicken Parmesan & Spaghetti served with garlic bread, tropical fusion jello, & had Apple Pomegranate Martinelli's to drink.

It was delicious & we were so stuffed that we had no room for dessert!

Normally we use our red tablecloth & eat by candlelight, but I slacked off a bit this year...
Forgot the candles but at least we remembered the tablecloth!

After dinner we all cuddled up on the couch and watched Lady & the Tramp together to end the evening...

Tony's Town Square Restaurant at Disneyworld - April 2009

This year instead of exchanging cards, we made a family card... It was actually the craft at story time last week at the library, but we jazzed it up a bit after we got home by putting scrapbook stickers on it. The kids 'wrote' in it, then Hubby & I wrote things we love about our family inside! We each got a side, but covered it up when we were done writing so we didn't know what the other person had written & then we read it together...


Our family LOVE card
I'm thinking that we are gonna have to make it a tradition!