This past Mother's Day came and went much like most Mother's Days do.
The girls gave me adorable cards. Miss Priss, in particular, is getting good at manipulating my heartstrings with her adorably misspelled missives. (I can't ever imagine where she got THAT from!)
Hubster cooked up a delectable breakfast and even ran out to Dunkin' Donuts to procure my favorite chocolate creme-filled treat.
I'm not the type to expect lavish gifts on my Mother's Days, I just enjoy my family lavishing love on me all day long!
Well, and food. Cause, you know, calories don't count on Mother's Day!
So what a wonderful surprise it was that afternoon, when I finally got around to checking my email and found this buried in all the promotions....
What's that? Twenty bucks?? There must be a catch.
I scanned all the fine print.... coupon could not be used on photo books, calendars, one brand of planner, shipping or taxes. But there was no minimum, which meant I could get twenty dollars worth of free (just about) anything!
Delightfully, I headed over to Tiny Prints, already knowing exactly what I had in mind.
Now, I have been a customer of Tiny Prints since that time, many years ago, when I won a giveaway on a fellow bloggers site and received a $50 gift card, just in time for ordering Christmas cards. I've been ordering my holiday cards from them ever since. And with their new Treat line, I've also been sending photo cards directly to grandmas and grandpas for birthdays, Easters and, actually, this past Mother's Day, too!
On the Tiny Prints website, I clicked over to the photo mugs. Hubster hates (HATES!) my mug collection, but he couldn't complain about this one. It is a Mother's Day gift, after all. And it's FREE!!!
I wanted a mug to represent our time here in Honduras, and I already knew which photo I wanted to use. Unfortunately, Tiny Prints does not have a completely blank template for mugs (at least not one that I could find) but I found something very close. I was able to put my single photo across the entire mug, with just some text to one side.
My order came to a grand total of $5 for the shipping. I was ecstatic!
It took two looong, sloooow weeks for my mug to finally arrive (and that's not too bad, considering how far it had to go!) but it finally showed up (despite what looked to be a perilous journey, judging by the box) last week.
And here it is!
This photo was taken in a little town just outside Tegucigalpa called Valle de Angeles. We are sitting on the outside window sill of a shop that had this bright, beautiful mural painted all along the wall. The Honduran flag is hanging inside the store behind us, and that white t-shirt in the mural to the right of the window says "I heart Honduras."
I love it!!!! And what did I choose for that little bit of text I had to include?
JenEverAfter! My online alter-ego, and possible super hero name if I ever contract amazing super-human powers or give-in to the urge to wear underwear outside my leggings, whichever comes first.
(And everybody say 'hi' to Eddie! He decided to photo bomb my pic, and he was too cute to crop out.)
So thank you, Tiny Prints, for my free personalized mug! Not only did you make this girl feel marvelous on Mother's Day, you delightfully tortured my husband in the process!!!!
(This might sound crazy, but I did not receive any sort of compensation for this post. I don't even think Tiny Prints knows I have a blog! I wrote this of my own volition as a special Thank You to Tiny Prints and to needle my husband just a wee bit more!)
