The Lighter Side Co.® is a division of The Johnson Smith Company®, one of America’s oldest catalogers. Launched in 1979, Lighter Side offers lighthearted gifts and a wide selection of licensed and nostalgic collectibles. They now list is Canadian dollars and sell in Canada. They offer a great selection of gift ideas in Canada for the hard to buy for.

The Lighter Side catalog and website offers over 500 games and toys, apparel, housewares, personalized gifts and much more from such cultural icons as Betty Boop™, Wizard of Oz™, Coca-Cola® and Looney Tunes™. Canadian prices, Canadian Shipping and gift ideas in Canada.

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You don’t have to be creative to create this wonderful creative gift. We all have calendars and we all have wonderful digital photos of our loved ones.

Each year my daughter makes me an 8 1/2″ x 11″ calendar with photos of my grandchildren on each page for each month (you can have 1 to 5 photos per page) , I don’t peak until the new month and it is always a surprise to see how they have grown from the year before. Honestly it is the nicest gift I could receive as I never print my photos so the calendar becomes a photo album from the years before and stores away nicely.

This year we decided to try a different supplier as the calendars were getting a bit sameoh! sameoh! and I think my daughter was getting bored with making them. We decided to go with Mixbooks. I uploaded my favourite photos to help out a bit as uploading large image files does take quite a bit of time but once you pick the images you just let the computer do the work.

I found myself poking around in the flash program and it was so much fun I ended up making 4 calendars myself for friends and family. I don’t think you could find a more personalized keepsake gift for $19.99. I had three days of fun enlarging photos, moving photos to just where I wanted them, putting in customs saying, you name it, I did it.

Why not give it a shot, I believe there is still a week of regular post to Canada before time runs out and even if this gift is a bit late it will still be treasured. I have not seen the product yet but just for the entertainment value I have to rate them five stars. I am very excited to receive our calendars.

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Sears Canada often has an advantage over other online shopping sites as they have had catalogue shopping for years and have been able to fulfill orders in small urban centres with catalogue pick up centres eliminating shipping costs.

Their online catalogue offers unique gift ideas for pretty well everyone on your gift giving list, their prices are reasonable. Their product selection and descriptions are excellent and the shopping cart is virtually painless.

Sears even offers you the option to save your cart until later, meaning you don’t have to get everything done at once. You can log out and then log back in and return to your shopping cart and carry on at your convenience. Sears Canada also stocks most items and they arrive within days, not weeks of ordering. I would have to rate Sears 5 stars for their online shopping experience. Well done Sears Canada.

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