21 Holiday Gift Ideas for Family and Friends
Hello December! We can’t believe there are only 24 days left until Christmas. We love everything about the holiday season. Gingerbread house decorating, hot cocoa with marshmallows, putting up decorations, holiday parties with friends and wrapping up presents. What we don’t always love is trying to find the perfect gift for friends and family. Enter our ultimate holiday gift guide! We have 21 gift ideas for your bestie, mom, dad, husband, kids and a few gifts that are perfect for almost anyone and under $15!
Favorite Things Giveaway
Toddler Styling Tips for Family Photos
Tis the season for the last minute family portrait scramble. Now is the time to get organized so that you don’t miss out on all the great Christmas card sales happening. Who wants to pay rush shipping on those suckers?! Not us! Summer, our Innovation Strategist & Project Manager put together some tips for styling your little ones for portraits. We hop this makes the task of selecting wTohat to wear a little easier.
8 Tips & Tricks to Pinterest
Social media can be overwhelming. Trying to manage each platform takes almost as much time as it does to write a blog post! We’ve made a list of 8 things you can do to best utilize Pinterest. For many of our Pollinate bloggers Pinterest is one of their top referral sites! Give yourself a few hours over the next few weeks to implement these tips and see what happens!
5 Photo Apps to Download Today
1. Afterlight: We’ve shared our love for Afterlight before, you can read more about it here. This photo editing app is a go-to for much of our team as well as many of our bloggers, including She’s Kinda Crafty, Let’s Eat Grandpa, Snap Creativity, Lauren McBride, The Samantha Show, and Nellie Bellie. {available for both iphone and android}
Thankful Turkey Craft + Free Printable
Today our Innovation Strategist & Project Manager, Summer is sharing a Thanksgiving craft that is perfect to help talk to your kids about being thankful!
World Adoption Day
Families are made in many ways, and AdoptTogether.org wants to celebrate just one of the beautiful ways a family can come together. They have created the first World Adoption Day. November 9, 2014, a day designated to bring awareness and acknowledge the journey many have taken part in. In the first 1,000 days, AdoptTogether.org has helped serve 982 families and raised $4,000,000.
A Website Refresh
Earlier this year we celebrated 2 amazing years since we launched Pollinate Media Group. Two years, pinch us! We felt that after over two years, working with amazing brands and bloggers, it was a great time to do a complete website re-brand! When we say excited I don’t even truly believe that word describes how we’re feeling about the new Pollinate website!!
5 Guilt-Free Holiday Recipes
5 Quick Fixes For Your Sweet Tooth Emergencies – All can be made in 5 minutes or less!
5 tips to help you start utilizing your Google+ page
