Shop Best Buy for Last Minute Canon Gifts

Disclaimer: The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

Christmas is less than a week away, do you still have shopping to do? I confess that I have a few more gifts to buy. Best Buy is your go to place for last minute holiday shopping, and offers many easy gift-giving solutions. If you have a family on your list, I love the idea of a group gift, such as a Canon EOS Rebel T5i, a best selling DLSR camera. Maybe that family is yours. Right now you can save $150 on the Canon EOS Rebel T5i at Best Buy. Visit Best Buy for more information, offer valid 12/7-12/20.

I LOVE my Canon Rebel, because it takes fabulous photographs, even for an amateur like me. I'm still learning about all its functions, but even the auto setting takes better pictures than any other camera I've ever owned.

What makes the Canon EOS Rebel T5i so popular? For starters, it's not as scary as it looks, making advanced photography simple and fun for everyone. The image quality is superb, with a wide array of creativity-enhancing features, including:

• Hollywood caliber full HD video capability for budding videographers
• Continuous autofocus while taking HD video (wow! this is awesome!)
• 18.0-megapixel CMOS sensor and a DIGIC 5 image processor, to ensure ultra clear, vivid images
• 3" vari-angle touch screen makes it incredibly user-friendly (I love this feature!)

Basically, this camera will make you feel like a pro, even if you're the furthest thing from it. What a gift this would make to a special family in your life, or to yourself and your own family. Document life's special moments that you want to remember forever with the Canon EOS Rebel T5i.

Do you have a Canon Rebel? If so please share your favorite function in the comments!

Holiday Shopping: LG OLED Now Available at Best Buy

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Disclaimer: The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

Have you started your holiday shopping yet? I've just barely begun (as in, I have one gift and two stocking stuffers purchased as of this writing), but what I'm looking for this year are gifts that are going to really pack a punch. Instead of a bunch of smaller items that will be mostly forgotten in a few months, I want to give gifts that are going to wow my family, and that they are going to use and enjoy for a long time to come. I love the idea of a big family gift, like the amazing new LG OLED TV, now available at Best Buy.

Photo from Best Buy

I mean, WOW! Right? Imagine how excited your kids would be to have movie night with one of these babies, or to play their favorite video games with this 4 Color Pixel technology that enhances color range and accuracy. What a thrill it would be for the whole family to wake up to a surprise of this magnitude under the tree on Christmas morning!

With a Best Buy everyday price tag of $3499.99 (a savings of $500!), just what makes this television so special?

• Lightweight and only .21" thick at its thinnest point. Check your ruler - that's awfully thin!
• Amazing picture quality, with LG's latest display technology.
• Infinite contrast ratio and stunning color, for more ridiculously realistic viewing.
• 4 Color Pixel technology (adding a white sub-pixel to the regulars - red, green, and blue - for those of you who know about those sorts of things).
• WebOS™ Smart TV interface, which lets you easily access Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and the LG store with the latest movies, TV shows, and apps.
• Unique curved screen, designed to create a natural viewing experience, with your eyes equal distant from all points of the screen. (Honestly, how do they think of this stuff?)
• Comprehensive remote control, which includes LG's Voice Mate with natural voice recognition, and allows you to control your compatible devices with just one remote.

Take a look at the Best Buy website for more information and images of the LG OLED TV. You won't believe your eyes. It's a beautiful viewing experience that your entire family would be able to appreciate and, let's face it, luxuriate in, together.

Do you like to splurge for the holidays? How are you spoiling your family (or yourself) this year?

ENDED Melissa & Doug Terrific Twenty List and Giveaway

Have you started your holiday shopping yet? I've put a bit of a dent in mine, but I have a lot more to go! If you're looking for shopping inspiration for the kids in your life, you can't go wrong with Melissa & Doug! Their toys are quality and they inspire creative imaginative play. To make your shopping even easier, they have put together a Terrific Twenty list of Holiday Gifts for 2012. The list includes great gift ideas for ages 1 and up. Plus, Melissa & Doug is giving away a gift from the Terrific Twenty every day for 20 days! Check out their Facebook page to enter!

I love everything on the Terrific Twenty list, and thanks to Melissa & Doug, one lucky MichiGal reader will win My Own Mailbox! My kids love playing mail, and this Classic Toy looks like tons of fun! It comes with number and letter stickers, so kids can personalize the mailbox with their own name and address, or whatever else they want! Also included: pretend mail that can be used again and again with the wipe-off crayons that come in the set. This is a toy that will grow with your child, and one that all the kids will want to use when they come over to play.

Just use the Rafflecopter form to enter! This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

And if there is something else from the list you'd like to win, several other bloggers are running giveaways right now too!

Visit Metro Detroit Mommy and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Fashion Design Activity Kit.
Visit Great Ideas and More and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Beeposh Elvis Lion Stuffed Animal.
Visit Mom Knows Best and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Trunki Suitcase.
Visit Buzz4Mommies and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Let's Play House! Grocery Basket with Play Food.
Visit Saving U Green and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Big Rig Building Truck Wooden Play Set.
Visit Momma of 4 Cutiez and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Trunki Suitcase.
Visit Leetle Baby and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Animal Rescue Shape-Sorting Truck Wooden Toy.
Visit Written By Mommy and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Trunki Suitcase.
Visit My Rural Mommy and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Bella Butterfly Tea Set.
Visit 10 Years Later and enter to win a Melissa & Doug Whittle World Wooden School Bus Set.
Visit Kathy's Cluttered Mind and enter to win the Melissa & Doug game, Suspend. This website also includes a big list of MORE Melissa & Doug giveaways that I haven't mentioned here!





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In exchange for writing this blog post, Melissa & Doug provided me with one item from the Terrific Twenty list. All opinions are my own.