The most enjoyable holiday parties I’ve attended are the ones that include my digital camera. If you’re asking yourself why I would drag a camera to a party and then start take pictures, let me give you a few good reasons.

If you haven’t already created a Shutterfly share site you’re missing out! Don’t be fooled by the beautiful designs and powerful communication tools, these free, personalized websites are easy to make and allow you to share more than just photos with friends and family. Great tools like journals, calendars, polls, links and attachments make collaborating with groups simple.

Our world stock market drama inspired me to perform Gallery searches on words like “money”, “savings” and “inexpensive”. The results were plentiful. Gallery members have found fantastically original ways to save money by creating photo books. Here are a few of my favorites.

We had my son’s fourth birthday party this weekend and for those who have been following this blog, we indeed managed to find a cake in the shape of a cell phone—much to his delight. I had every intention of capturing all of the iconic moments—playing games, the pile of brightly colored presents, blowing out the candles, eating cake.

Barbara is an avid digital scrapbooker, and grandmother of two. She’s also a member of our Shutterfly Gallery Guru team, dedicated to supporting your photo book and storytelling creativity. In this article, Barbara shares her journey as a digital scrapbooker, and gives us tips on the best getting-started digiscrap classes. Her advice? Learn from the pros.