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This is a sponsored message from Hobnob With the holidays right around the corner, the free Hobnob app for iOS makes sending invites to your holiday events, and sharing the photos afterwards even easier. Plus, you could win a $200 Target gift card just for...
We actually found some tasteful, well-designed St. Patrick’s Day ecards. Luck?
Should there be someone out there who needs a St. Patrick’s Day wish from you, I’d say a call is generally better than a text. But a cute ecard is somewhere in the middle, striking the perfect balance between thoughtful and I’m kind of busy because...
Windy’s Valentine Delight helps kids feel the love all year
If you’re looking for a way to entertain your kids so that you and your Valentine can have a little alone time today, we’ve got just the thing. The adorable new Windy’s Valentine Delight is a charming interactive story from Loud Crow, makers of the...
How to get $200 worth of smartphone photo editing tools free. Thanks, Aviary!
Well wasn’t I delighted when I went to update all my out-of-date apps (another resolution), and clicked on Aviary in the App store (also in Google Play for Android ) which is one of my very favorite free photo editing apps. It was then that I saw I could get...
3 of the best gift card apps for last minute holiday gifts
While gift cards won’t necessarily elicit tears of joy, they actually can make a lot of sense. Gift cards are a great choice for people you want to recognize, but don’t know well enough to choose a personal gift, or for when you have a limited budget. Here...
Sending holiday ecards: 7 of the best resources for last minute thoughts that still count
I still have some gifts to buy and cards to send, but it’s nice to know that I can take care of some of those greetings to friends and families with a few clicks on my phone or computer. Here are seven of the best websites and apps that let you send pretty...
5 fun Christmas apps that make us feel like kids again
It’s Christmas! Time to sip some cider or egg nog and enjoy the age-old tradition of playing on the iPad with your kids. Ha. Even though the technology is so not what we had as kids, these fun Christmas apps are getting us in a festive mood and making us feel...
6 of the most fun Santa apps for kids that offer proof the big guy is real.
My daughter came home from school last week, begging for a video chat with Santa. How very 21st century. But what was more surprising was that my ever-practical, Elf-on-the-Shelf-mocking, not-believing-in-Santa kid flip-flopped! And I owe it to these creative and fun...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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