the santa video review and giveaway - 4 win! - CLOSED

See Santa? Yeah, he's standing in our living room. How cool is that?! When the folks over at The Santa Video asked me to do a review and giveaway of their customized in-home Santa videos, I was so excited! The holidays this year are more magical than they've been in some time thanks to Ethan's arrival and I couldn't deny what a great keepsake it would be to have a video of Santa coming to drop off Ethan's very first Christmas gifts!

Here's how it works:

All you do is upload a picture of your living room -- or wherever your tree is and where Santa will drop off the gifts. For example purposes, I used a picture of my living room in it's current state. For Ethan's actual Santa video, I plan on using a picture of our house in it's ransacked -- er, decorated -- state after our Christmas Eve party to give the video added authenticity. One of the many great pluses to The Santa Video is that you're able to snap and upload your living room photo and immediately receive your video by e-mail.

Once your photo is uploaded, you have the choice to select from various different Santas and scenarios, such as the direction from which Santa enters, where he looks, if he grabs a glass of milk (or not) and what the glass looks like. You can even go as far as to select gifts that are wrapped the most like yours. (I definitely went to Target and found a roll of wrapping paper that matches the one that the Santa we're choosing uses on his gifts in the video.) There's also the added feature to select music to play during your video. You can choose from a wide array of holiday songs or go music-less, whatever your preference is.

The Santa Video is just so cool and I know that I would have loved this as a child. When I was really young, our nextdoor neighbor would dress as Santa and come over to give us our gifts. These are certain things that you don't forget -- the validation that there totally is a Santa Claus -- and I know that Ethan will cherish his Santa video for years to come! How very exciting for him to see a movie that the Elves left behind of Santa in his very own home!





The Santa Video generously offered four of my readers the opportunity to make Santa videos of their own this holiday season!


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Giveaway closes on 12/20 at 11:59 EST! Good luck!



AND THE WINNERS ARE...