Win One of TWO #Snapfish Disney Photo Books! #GiveAway

HOW TO MAKE A DISNEY PHOTO BOOK

AT SNAPFISH.COM (+GIVEAWAY)

Each day, in honor of Disneyland’s upcoming Diamond Celebration next year, we have been revisiting the history of the Happiest Place on Earth.  With summer ending, and school upon us, if you’re like our family, the memory cards in our cameras are overflowing with summer time adventures.  Now the question is, what do you do with all of those memories you’ve made this summer?  

Thanks so our friends at Snapfish.com, the answer is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3- in fact it’s a Snap!  And better yet, if you were lucky enough to have experienced the pixie dust and magic of a Disney vacation first hand, Snapfish is giving you the chance to create your very own Disney themed gifts. Now you an easy way to make your very own personalized items with your favorite Disney characters.  The choices are endless from Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tiana, all of the princesses little girls love, to Disney Cars favorites, like Lightning McQueen and Mater! And what Disney creation would be complete without having Mickey and Minnie there as well. The prices are so reasonable, you’re certainly going to want to order more than one to use as that perfect gift any grandparent would love. Books start at $29.99, 8x11 premium photo book, up to 20 additional pages at no cost, and free shipping! And now not one but two lucky Disney Gal readers will have the chance to win their very own custom created Snapfish product.

This weekend Zack and I sat down and created our first ever Snapfish Disney book and it was beyond easy and user friendly. Now that we know just how simple it truly is, this certainly won’t be our last.  The only hard part-deciding on which pictures to use.  After hours of going through countless Disneyland trip pictures, we settled on our magical trip last April when my family and I attended the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration.  Check out our step by step photos of our very first Snapfish creation:

First pick out a theme for your book.

Once you have your theme decided, simply drag and place your pictures onto the page. One of best parts about creating our photo book at Snapfish was the ease of moving the pictures while on the page, all you had to do was click the photo, drag up down, left right, even resizing the pictures if needed.

Once you have your pictures and theme in place, simply hit the order button and before your know it, your very own personalized book will arrive with memories to last a lifetime. Now you don’t have to leave your memories on the memory card. Thanks to Snapfish, it’s easy to be able to create that personalized keepsake that will last a lifetime. We can’t wait for the album to come.

The generous folks at Snapfish are giving two of our Disney Gal readers a chance to win a code to create your own photo books at Snapfish.  Who wouldn’t love to win that? Please check out the Snapfish site, take a look around then come back here and tell us what else you love from the site. And while you’re there, be sure to join the Snapfish Superfan Consumer Program , it is super easy and free to join.  So now all you have to do is decide, how will you create your own Snapfish book?

 Enter here before September 1 for your own chance to win one of two books!  Two winners will win a code to create your own photo books at Snapfish.

Disclaimer: I received free coupon code from Snapfish for review purposes for this promotion. The opinions expressed here are my own.

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Gearing Up to "Meet the Mouse- It's Magic Band Time

   

While gearing up to meet the MOUSE, make sure you accessorize! Aside from our family MICKEY shirts from the Disney store, we made our own family shirts.   Nothing says "stick together" like  everyone wearing matching Mickey's!  We created tie dye shirts using white t-shirts, elastics, and navy blue tie dye powder.  First you make a large circle and put an elastic on it.  Then create two smaller circles with elastics.   The more Mickey's the better.  After dying the shirts and removing the elastics - presto!  You can even do this with white socks! 
Aside from choosing the colors (um, why no purple?), you can also accessorize your Magic Bands!  We received a pack of Magic Bandits to use on our bands.  Although we have yet to try them, Minnie is waiting to hop on my wrist!  That is until I see an Olaf one!  T-shirt tip: Wait to tell your husband about all the matching clothing until packing day when he sees multiple shirts!  Once he gets to the magical world of Disney he will be so happy, he will wear anything!

                                                                    Ready for the trip!

Gearing Up to "Meet the Mouse"- A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

                                                                       Spare some change?
How do you save for your Disney vacation?  Aside from our special savings account and our Disney Visa we have a family tradition which gets the kids involved, we collect spare change.  Each year we start collecting all the spare change we find or have and put it in large jars (we are big applesauce eaters).  We then designate what we will use the money for when we cash it in.  This year our kids chose to save for character dining (after overhearing Mom and Dad say it is more expensive this year now that our 10 year old is an "adult").  We will put our change towards dinner at Chef Mickey's and our breakfast at  The Crystal Palace.  Our kids get very excited to see a jar get filled and then to start a new one.  They are even more excited to roll the change and make the deposit at the bank.   For our upcoming trip we have $351.00 to pay for dining with our favorite "friends". Tip: encouraging your children to ask their grandparents for change every time they visit will fill the jars faster!

Gearing Up to "Meet the Mouse"- Give Your Luggage that #DisneySide Touch

Of course Disney will send you fancy luggage tags for your trip.  But if your family packs like mine does  you may need additional tags.   A simple activity that we did was to create our own Mickey luggage tags.  We traced Mickey heads with chalk onto black foam.  We punched a hole in the ear and used a metallic sharpie to write the address (on the other side). Get some fancy ribbon and presto!  We attached these homemade tags to the kids backpacks, carry on luggage and camera cases!  Our luggage is ready and waiting!