Perhaps it won’t surprise you to know that I was already thinking about and poking around for next year’s Christmas cards the day after Christmas.
Here’s the thing: I send out close to 100 cards, and buying that many letterpress cards is, well, expensive. So I usually buy them when they are on sale in January. But because I am such a paper junkie, I see more designs throughout the year that I have to buy too, and I end up with this giant mishmash of cards that I send out. I am wondering if I should be patient and wait to pick one design I like, rather than picking the best of what’s on sale. Or, maybe next year is the year I switch to photo cards from tiny prints or cardstore.com – I already have my eye on a couple of designs.
Decisions, decisions.
If money were no object, I would order 100 of these lovely lovely cards from Postal Press:
And package each and every one of them like this:
I also love this “cheers” card from Parrott Design Studio. I sent one of her calendars to a friend this year, and the January design was the same garland motif as this card. I am very taken with it.
I also like the idea of sending New Year’s cards instead of Christmas cards. Maybe next year.
Given my devotion to desserts, this card from Mr. Boddington’s Studio has my name written all over it.
And because I am completely bonkers, I’ve also spent a good chunk of time looking at Valentine’s Day cards. But I’ll save those favorites for another day.
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Out with the old and in with the new for the New Year, right? I’m ditching Yummy Tuesday in 2010, because, let’s face it, I don’t do most of the cooking in this house and there are too many other (far far superior) food blogs and recipes out there.
There are often things I want to write about that don’t fit neatly into one of my categories, so, starting next week, I’m introducing Surprise Tuesday, as in “Surprise! This is what I’m writing about today!”
I’ll do my best to bring you a good surprise each week. Ok?
