Need Adresses for Christmas Cards!

weatherlover427 · #61 Postby **weatherlover427** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:13 am

I will be buying my cards this week probably so if anyone wants to exchange addresses with me who has not done so already now would be a good time.

furluvcats · #62 Postby **furluvcats** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:39 am

Goody! I see cards are finding their way to everyone

. I love Christmas cards too...it's especially special to exchange them with online friends...you get to see them in real ink instead of type...lol.

Yeah Mary...I won...hee hee

Can't wait to see your family picture. Maybe next year thats what we'll do! How do you get everyone in the family to have the right look in the same frame? lol

Second batch of cards went out yesterday.

Josh, email me your address, yours will get there quickly!

Have fun shopping everyone...25 days left to shop!

ALSO...Happy END of Hurricane season 2004! Thank God this one is over.

Skywatch_NC · #63 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:44 am

furluvcats wrote:Goody! I see cards are finding their way to everyone . I love Christmas cards too...it's especially special to exchange them with online friends...you get to see them in real ink instead of type...lol.

Yeah Mary...I won...hee hee Can't wait to see your family picture. Maybe next year thats what we'll do! How do you get everyone in the family to have the right look in the same frame? lol

Second batch of cards went out yesterday.

Josh, email me your address, yours will get there quickly!

Have fun shopping everyone...25 days left to shop!

ALSO...Happy END of Hurricane season 2004! Thank God this one is over.

Shannon,

I was pleasantly surprised how FAST your's arrived out here to the Right Coast for California!!

Postmarked the 26th...arrived the 29th...not bad at all!!

Eric

#64 Postby **pojo** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:22 am

Skywatch_NC wrote:
pojo wrote:who had the speedo out! Oh my I need to delete that scene!!! (j/k)

eric... which shannon?

Furluvcats

ok... i was wondering. So that was VB in the speedo.... urgh! dude... keep the curtains closed!

#65 Postby **vbhoutex** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:57 pm

Got mine too!! Thanks Fur!! I may not even get cards out this year with family medical probs taking center stage right now(in-laws). I love to get cards and I love to send them but sometimes other things are more important. Know that if you send me one and I don't send one back it is not a slight on you, just other things we're worrying about a little more. BTW, feel free to pm or email me if you need my snail mail.

Miss Mary · #66 Postby **Miss Mary** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:15 am

furluvcats wrote:Yeah Mary...I won...hee hee Can't wait to see your family picture. Maybe next year thats what we'll do! How do you get everyone in the family to have the right look in the same frame? lol

Furry.....we started doing an all family photo card about 10 years ago. Our best one I think, is still the very first one. Took everyone by surprise! It all started with the kids Elementary's Gift Wrap fundraiser.....insert photo xmas cards were available. I ordered enough packs to mail to everyone on our list. Then for the actual pic....now that was hard. Jim said we should all be in it, most of the ones we got were of people's children only (not that there's anything wrong with that). We were coming back from church one Sunday in early December. A surprise 2 inch snowfall had fallen the night before. Several blocks from home was an historic home turned into a heritage center facility (renting it out for small receptions or parties). A new gazebo was on the grounds, so we stood inside it with snow on the rails and floor. A pine tree behind it was filled with snow too. We couldn't have planned that backdrop better, had we tried. We were all dressed up in our reds for Christmas anyway. Jim grabbed the tripod, I grabbed the real pointsettia off the dining room table. And out the door we went. Took about 8 pics and we were done. I'd send you a link for this card but it was taken the old fashioned way - on a 35 mm camera! Friends of ours have entire family pics taken too but go thru at least one roll of film each year, they're envious it only takes a dozen pics or less to catch everyone smiling. If it's an inside shot, remember to close other doors, put away that folded basket of laundry. In some I can see things in the background no one else would. And Jim never tells me - hey that stack of junk shows! Could clobber him for that. This year it's the piano lamp, we hurriedly put on a couch nearby. He was going to photoshop it out but said he can't. Men. So when you get it, look for it. Yes, I put lamps on couches all the time....he he. Forget trying to choose one from a vacation - someone is always looking pretty grungy on vacation! That never works for us. Then we got Hope almost 5 years ago. She HAS to be in every Christmas card pic - it's a tradition. So vacation pics would be out, she's at the kennel then. And oh, now I look at scenes or places and say - perfect family pic backdrop! There's a church nearby with a nice landscaped area out back - trails, creek, bridge, tables for picnics. I always say that should be our next spot (standing on the bridge, after a snowfall, of course!)! But now that our girls are older, it's usually hurry up, take this picture. The dog has to sit still for about 10 minutes. We still take about 8 to 10. But digitally now, so you can see the results right away. And now the cards are printed at Jim's office, no more gift wrap insert cards (which are sold just about everywhere now).

Since you like your cards done early, start thinking of spots in your home early next November. Even haul out some of your holiday decorations, for a backdrop. That's what we do some years if we've got our act together. Then I just put it back on a basement shelf, since it's coming out in a few weeks anyway.

One year a friend gave us a holiday type photo album to hold a dozen pictures. She intended it for our annual family photo pictures, since it's a tradition. Have I rounded them all up though and filled that album? Oh no! I should though....LOL

Mary

#67 Postby **Stephanie** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:32 pm

I received mine Furry!

Yours was the first one I received. I don't think I EVER received a Christmas card in November! :lol:

I'll probably start mine this weekend.

furluvcats · #68 Postby **furluvcats** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:14 pm

You guys! It's not unheard of you know...lol My ex mom in law got me started on getting things done early, because I used to wait so long on my cards, I'd just never send them, and she said I was sooo disorganized! So, I am constantly striving to be better organized....we decorate before TG, because we love the warm feel of the dining room with Christmas trees and all in it for our Thanksgiving dinner...it makes it more festive for us...plus I hate the color orange, so my Christmas centerpiece works much better for me! Red compliments me better than orange anyway, so why submit myself to pictures that will last a lifetime when orange looks so bad on/near me...lol every hostess must think of these things! All kidding aside, I just love Christmas, its always been a very happy time for me, so why not kick start the season early, and hope that my Christmas joy and spirit spreads into other homes as well!

breeze · #69 Postby **breeze** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:44 pm

Mine went out in the mail, this morning - look
out, next week, gang! :lol:

Skywatch_NC · #70 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:04 pm

breeze wrote:Mine went out in the mail, this morning - look
out, next week, gang!

You and Shannon have done good, Annette!!

I seriously need to set aside some S2K addiction and take time to get my prepped and posted!!

Skywatch_NC · #71 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:33 pm

Got your cute Angel girl squinting her eyes card and nice note yesterday, Annette!

Thank you very much, Wxbuddy!

I'll be putting a handful of cards tomorrow in the mail box!

Eric

breeze · #72 Postby **breeze** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:45 pm

LOL, so glad you got it, Eric! Merry Christmas, Wxbuddy!

Skywatch_NC · #73 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:48 pm

breeze wrote:LOL, so glad you got it, Eric! Merry Christmas, Wxbuddy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS ANNETTE!!

((((HUGS))))

weatherlover427 · #74 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:31 am

I got breeze's card in the mail yesterday, thanks for sending that out to me!

#75 Postby **wx247** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:37 am

Thanks Annette, Shannon, and Dennis for the cards. Mine are on the way tomorrow!

#76 Postby **alicia-w** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:39 pm

breeze wrote:Oh, my...! I don't even remember
anymore if I've been naughty or nice...

Well, that could be a problem.....

:wink:

#77 Postby **streetsoldier** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:35 pm

So far, I have received cards from azsnowman, breeze and furluvcats (THANKS!!)

I have cards to send, all made out and in envelopes; now, all I need are stamps to whisk them on their way! SOON, dear friends, SOON. :larrow:

breeze · #78 Postby **breeze** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:43 pm

alicia-w wrote:
breeze wrote:Oh, my...! I don't even remember
anymore if I've been naughty or nice...

Well, that could be a problem.....

Uh, these days, alicia, it usually is! :wink:

Glad those cards are getting out! This is FUN!

#79 Postby **wx247** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:13 pm

I actually got most of mine out today. I am going to finish the rest as soon as I get some more stamps.

isobar · #80 Postby **isobar** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:52 pm

Don't forget to get the beautiful cloud stamps at the post office. They're called "cloudscapes".

Donna,
aka The Broken Record

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