12.19.12 - Christmas/Holiday Card(s)

The "just in time for Christmas' version

In the past, the family Christmas Card has been something that I have taken a lot of pride in and have had fun being creative with it each year.

This past year, I started a board on Pinterest of Christmas Card ideas and uploaded some of my past work.  I was pleasantly surprised how many 'strangers' saw the designs and repinned them.  I was even contacted by several people asking who did the designs and how they could order their own!  It was very nice to have something creative I did validated in that way.

Yes, I just wrote about my Pinterest activity and some need the creative side of me apparently has to be validated...ugh... I didn't just forfeit my Man Card with that last paragraph; somewhere, someone is shredding it.

The post-Christmas/pre-New Year version

Anyways, the past couple years, I've let time get away from me and I've been a slacker.  Case in point, we're less than a week away from Christmas and we still haven't mailed our cards.  Furthermore, I'm so confident that a significant number of friends won't receive their cards in time for 'Mele Kalikimaka' to be appropriate, that we also had 'Happy Holidays' cards printed just in case some of them arrived after Christmas.  So, while this year may not be my most creative design - there's two different versions! So that's got to count for something!?

There I go, searching for Christmas Card validation again....



Christmas song of the Day

Happy Xmas (War is Over) by Sarah McLachlan